kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that although Indian cassava mosaic virus does indeed infect cassava crops in India, the actual origin of the virus is unknown?
Did you know that a scientific paper by Thomas Wilkinson King about the thyroid gland fell into obscurity for nearly a century before being discussed by Sir Humphry Rolleston in a lecture in 1933?
Did you know that the Monrovia Church massacre was the worst single atrocity of the Liberian civil war ?
Did you know that the writer of the play Why We Have a Body was inspired by Harriet the Spy , whom she viewed as the first lesbian she had ever encountered?
Did you know that among the books produced by Georgian publisher James Stratford was one of 149 parts ?
Did you know that screenwriter and actress Vivian Schilling was inspired to write Soultaker by a car accident in which she had been involved?
Did you know that the first-class cricketer Jack Gannon was mentioned in dispatches twice in both the Anglo-Afghan War of 1919 and the Second World War?
Did you know that the French submarine Argonaute was designed with a diesel engine but was built with steam and electric motors instead?
Did you know that Georgetown University School of Medicine was founded during the presidency of James A. Ryder ?
Did you know that a documentary about the British band Coldplay sold more than 300,000 tickets for a single-night cinematic release, but was not viewed by the band's lead singer ?
Did you know that Nagammai organised women to picket the toddy shops in Erode during the temperance movement in India ?
Did you know that President Jozef Tiso argued in a 1942 speech that Slovakia's complicity in the Holocaust was consistent with Christian morality?
Did you know that Cornell University professor Walter LaFeber gave his farewell lecture on American diplomatic history before nearly 3,000 people at New York's Beacon Theatre ?
Did you know that the beech orchid was first scientifically described in The Sydney Morning Herald ?
Did you know that Melani Leimena Suharli , the daughter of the founder of the Indonesian Christian Party , is Muslim?
Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court delayed hearing oral arguments in Gamble v. United States due to a national day of mourning proclaimed following the death of George H. W. Bush ?
Did you know that photographer Lola Álvarez Bravo was described by Alfonso Michel as Mexico's most important painter?
Did you know that the Buddhist eight precepts allow lay people to lead a life similar to a monk for a day?
Did you know that Jim Siwy was a police officer before and after his career in Major League Baseball ?
Did you know that Yum Balam Flora and Fauna Protection Area , which provides a habitat for jaguars, is named for a Maya jaguar god of nature?
Did you know that William Gould Young was the first faculty member at UCLA to be inducted into the National Academy of Sciences , and the university's chemistry building was renamed in his honor?
Did you know that one of the poems in How to Be Drawn by Terrance Hayes was described as having "echoes of the cultural critique of race relations in America" in Ralph Ellison 's novel Invisible Man ?
Did you know that the whitespot ghost shark is known from only four specimens in the Galápagos Islands ?
Did you know that suspected hitwoman Joselyn Alejandra Niño had a nickname which referred to Our Lady of Holy Death ?
Did you know that Denmark won the 1971 Women's World Cup , an unofficial association football tournament, after 15-year-old Susanne Augustesen scored all three goals in the final?
Did you know that with the launch of PSLV-C42 the Indian Space Research Organisation has launched a total of 239 foreign satellites for 28 different countries?
Did you know that in 1933 Green Bay Packers president Lee Joannes personally loaned the organization $6,000 to keep it in operation?
Did you know that in 1960 Emil Paleček discovered that nucleic acids could be studied electrochemically , contradicting previous assumptions that DNA molecules were too large to have electrochemical properties?
Did you know that regolith-hosted rare earth element deposits are mostly low grade, but economic to mine?
Did you know that Second World War Jewish resistance fighter Sonia Orbuch was originally named Sarah, but was renamed to sound more Russian?
Did you know that actor Tom Hanks has claimed that the Hermes 3000 would be the luxury item he would take to a desert island ?
Did you know that Joseph Jenckes Jr. , the founder of Pawtucket, Rhode Island , was arrested and jailed for making threatening remarks about the king of England ?
Did you know that organic nuclear reactors , widely researched in the 1950s and 1960s, replaced the water normally used to cool the reactor core with various organic fluids?
Did you know that Björn Ambrosiani spent six years excavating at the Viking Age settlement Birka ?
Did you know that Peter Cornelius wrote poems and music for his song cycle Weihnachtslieder , which included a popular melody in the piano accompaniment for a song about the Three Kings ?
Did you know that in November 2018, Matthew Hedges received a pardon from his life sentence for spying in the United Arab Emirates ?
Did you know that Shekhar: Ek Jivani by Agyeya is considered the first psychoanalytical novel in Hindi literature ?
Did you know that in 2007, Peter Morris was "discovered" by Peter Morris ?
Did you know that Chinese writer Pu Songling may have written an anti-Manchu short story ?
Did you know that Trinidadian football player and coach Michael McComie died from a brain tumour 24 hours after being diagnosed?
Did you know that the Patagonian squid spawns among the stems of partially defoliated kelp Lessonia trabeculata ?
Did you know that the Country Hospital in Shanghai provided free treatment to Jewish refugees during World War II ?
Did you know that food writer Melissa Clark elicited disapproving tweets from President Barack Obama and former governor Jeb Bush for her recipe for guacamole with green peas?
Did you know that Howard J. Green 's screenplay for I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang led to the elimination of the chain gang system in the U.S. state of Georgia in 1937?
Did you know that Falcon 9 booster B1050 malfunctioned during re-entry and missed its landing target at LZ-1 , but still managed a soft landing just offshore?
Did you know that Roberto Tobar officiated the 2017 Segunda División final, in which only one team took part in the penalty shootout ?
Did you know that the Loch Maree Hotel poisoning of 1922 was the first recorded outbreak of botulism in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that while Bernard A. Maguire was a prefect at Georgetown University , a student uprising resulted in the dismissal of 70 students?
Did you know that the 1931 accident triangle theory proposed a link between the number of minor accidents and those that led to serious injury?
Did you know that Hazel Smith helped to popularize the term " outlaw country " by using it to describe the music of performers such as Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings ?
Did you know that the continental arc tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite rocks can be plutonic ?
Did you know that Jim Derrington is the youngest player to record a base hit in American League history?
Did you know that the Ospedale degli Incurabili in Venice, where Johann Adolph Hasse was maestro di cappella , was founded as a hospice for sufferers from syphilis and other incurable diseases of the time?
Did you know that Andrew L. Lewis flew more than 100 combat missions as a naval aviator before becoming commander of the United States Second Fleet ?
Did you know that " Dui Bigha Jomi ", a Bengali poem written by Rabindranath Tagore , inspired a story which was the basis for the 1953 Hindi film Do Bigha Zamin ?
Did you know that Dimyati Natakusumah is set to compete against two of his children in the 2019 Indonesian general election ?
Did you know that the money from the sale of Russell Crowe's jockstrap allowed the Australia Zoo to establish a koala chlamydia ward?
Did you know that David Long Jr. set the West Virginia Mountaineers football record for single-game tackles for a loss?
Did you know that Guêpe -class submarines were solely intended for use in harbor defense?
Did you know that Chief Minister Zeik-Bye of Hanthawaddy persuaded Prince Binnya Nwe to revolt by saying that his mother Princess Maha Dewi was planning to put her lover on the throne?
Did you know that, in the 1980s, the British physician John R. Seale advocated the now-discredited theory that HIV might have been created in a germ warfare laboratory?
Did you know that the namesake of the Brigadier General Thomas F. Barr Award served for just one day as Judge Advocate General of the United States Army ?
Did you know that during the filming of There She Goes , a programme based on series creator Shaun Pye 's learning-disabled daughter, he became so emotional that he had to leave the set?
Did you know that Scharwenzel is a card game , at least three centuries old, that is played today only on the German island of Fehmarn ?
Did you know that al-Barakah , a self-declared administrative district of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant , was moved about 200 kilometres (120 miles) south during its existence?
Did you know that Alphonsus J. Donlon became known as the "father of Georgetown athletics " for overseeing multiple victorious teams?
Did you know that when creating the television drama Butterfly , the playwright Tony Marchant aimed to dispel the myth that transgender children transition in order to be "trendy"?
Did you know that Wilmer Clemont Fields of the Southern Baptist Convention was a defender of freedom of the press ?
Did you know that the underwater mountain and former atoll Darwin Guyot is named after Charles Darwin ?
Did you know that Gujarati writer Geeta Parikh has written more than 900 poems?
Did you know that in the Battle of the Hatpins , women protestors repelled police officers with rolling pins and skillets?
Did you know that among the babies born at the Parsi Lying-in Hospital was the Indian politician Feroze Gandhi ?
Did you know that Wolfgang Unger was director of music at the University of Leipzig , where he founded two instrumental ensembles named after the original Paulinerkirche ?
Did you know that the Romanian destroyers Mărăști and Mărășești both changed owners three times and were renamed four times during their careers?
Did you know that the 1923 World Congress of Jewish Women in Vienna unanimously resolved to support the settlement of Jews in Palestine ?
Did you know that the year before he first played in baseball's National Association , Marty Swandell umpired the game that decided the league's championship?
Did you know that A Summer in a Sea Shell was the first Slovenian coming-of-age film to have popular music and dancing?
Did you know that Peng Shilu , the "father of China's nuclear submarines", was jailed at age eight?
Did you know that when the ground is not flooded, Humboldt's white-fronted capuchin monkey has been known to raid aquatic turtle nests to eat the eggs?
Did you know that Solrad 1 was the first satellite to successfully observe solar X-rays ?
Did you know that in the 2015 film Frankenstein vs. The Mummy , the director designed Frankenstein's monster to look like a muscular zombie with long black hair?
Did you know that Alberto Jorge is the only association football manager to have won the Liga MX title as caretaker , doing so with Toluca in 2003?
Did you know that Bach set the phrase "Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks" from Psalm 75 in German to begin a cantata , and in Latin in his Mass in B minor ?
Did you know that Chuang Shu-chi was the first licensed female practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine in Taiwan?
Did you know that Vaunda Micheaux Nelson , author of Bad News for Outlaws , asked that US black deputy marshal Bass Reeves appear unclothed in an illustration to ensure its historical accuracy?
Did you know that XTC 's Oranges & Lemons , released 30 years ago today, reinterpreted 1960s psychedelic music styles using 1980s instrumentation and technology?
Did you know that Chen Chao-long performed the first liver transplant in Asia, as well as Taiwan's first living donor liver transplantation?
Did you know that the 1945 Bierut Decree nationalized all land in the Polish capital of Warsaw after the city's destruction by the Nazis ?
Did you know that William McSherry arranged for the sale in 1838 of the slaves who worked the Jesuit province in Maryland ?
Did you know that Hintersche , a historical card game played by farmers, foresters and journeymen in the Principality of Fürstenberg , is still played in the Black Forest today?
Did you know that the soprano Julia Kleiter has appeared internationally in Mozart operas, as both Susanna and the Countess in Figaro , and both Papagena and Pamina in The Magic Flute ?
Did you know that the innkeeper worm catches its food with a net and then swallows the net?
Did you know that Reina Ueda voiced 18 sisters in the anime series Tesagure! Bukatsu-mono ?
Did you know that the first attempt of the British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company to lay a submarine telegraph cable to Ireland failed because the cable would not reach that far?
Did you know that Ambrosia Tønnesen is regarded as the first professional female sculptor in Norway?
Did you know that Cleitarchus 's History of Alexander , written in the fourth century BC, was criticized by contemporaries as being overly sensational?
Did you know that Karl Plagge 's efforts to rescue Jews during the Holocaust succeeded because he entered a "grey zone" of moral compromise?
Did you know that role-playing video game Dungeon Siege III has so many items with unexplained statistics that it left reviewers confused?
Did you know that quarterback Sammy Baugh was investigated by the National Football League after missing the 1942 NFL All-Star Game because he had the flu?
Did you know that Edris Allan , the first telephone operator for the Jamaica All Island Telephone Service, married Sir Harold Allan , the first Afro-Jamaican to be knighted?
Did you know that the main venue of the Landestheater Detmold was built from 1914–18, after the 1825 court theatre of the Principality of Lippe burnt down?
Did you know that Yu-chien Kuan fled China using a stolen Japanese passport, was jailed in Egypt, and then became a sinologist and advisor to the German chancellor?
Did you know that actor Michael Rennie and temperance activist Catherine Gurney are buried in Harlow Hill Cemetery ?
Did you know that Chinese soybean geneticist Wang Lianzheng was elected a foreign fellow of the Indian and Russian national academies of agricultural sciences?
Did you know that a Cleveland film critic said the acting in the 1923 film The Net "doesn't warrant complimentary adjectives"?
Did you know that in 1844 Thomas Barry sailed along the River Thames in a tub pulled by four geese?
Did you know that cardiac allograft vasculopathy is a complication of heart transplantation that affects up to half of recipients within ten years?
Did you know that Liang Weiyan and his team designed the water turbines of the world's largest power plant ?
Did you know that otters and seabirds seem to be able to detect when butter clams are toxic, but humans cannot?
Did you know that Nina Morrison was nominated for the 2019 AFL Women's Rising Star award on debut – but suffered a season-ending knee injury in training the next week?
Did you know that in 1407, Admiral Zheng He 's treasure fleet defeated the pirate force of Chen Zuyi , who had occupied Palembang in today's Indonesia, and sent him back to China for execution?
Did you know that the Payún Matrú volcano, last active about 500 years ago, is the source of the longest Quaternary lava flow on Earth?
Did you know that in 1832, sugar planter Hamilton Brown argued that slaves in Jamaica were better off than the poor in Britain?
Did you know that Joyce Sumbi , one of thirteen black librarians in the 242-librarian LA County Library system in 1971, charged her employer with discrimination against minorities?
Did you know that the "sleepy town" of Tarraville , Australia, with a population of around 80, was once the largest town in Gippsland ?
Did you know that Freeman Dyson used a result by Marian Pour-El on the mathematical undecidability of the wave equation as evidence for the superiority of analog to digital forms of life?
Did you know that St. John the Evangelist Church was the first Catholic church in Frederick County, Maryland , and the first church consecrated in the Archdiocese of Baltimore ?
Did you know that Isabel Chan is part of the singing trio MKB48, whose full name is Mega Karaoke Bitches 48?
Did you know that, in the United States, mobile field forces are used by police to deal with civil disorder by targeting "agitators"?
Did you know that British-Pakistani director Sarmad Masud describes his 2017 film My Pure Land as "a modern-day feminist Western set in Pakistan"?
Did you know that larvae of the red tube worm do not settle on bull kelp , probably because that seaweed inflates its float chambers with carbon monoxide ?
Did you know that professional world barrel-racing champion Hailey Kinsel won $433,333.33 in one day at the American Rodeo in February 2017?
Did you know that the economy of the Philippines under Ferdinand Marcos saw its first crisis in 1969 because of heavy borrowing in preparation for the Marcos re-election campaign ?
Did you know that Soni Sumarsono served as acting governor of three provinces of Indonesia without being elected?
Did you know that Portland's MAX Red Line light rail, initially planned decades into the future, was built ahead of other projects because of an unsolicited proposal by Bechtel ?
Did you know that Olympians Jacques and Philippe Lacarrière were the second father–son pair to be inducted into the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame ?
Did you know that a short story about a child raised without a gender served as an inspiration for a 1975 scientific experiment?
Did you know that Manchester City conceded only one goal in regular time en route to the 2019 EFL Cup Final against Chelsea today?
Did you know that on a 1932 visit to the Soviet Union, S. Ramanathan was not allowed to meet Joseph Stalin because the Indian politician had also met with Trotskyists ?
Did you know that Suoyang City , a major commercial and cultural center on the Silk Road for more than a millennium, was listed as a World Heritage Site in 2014?
Did you know that a bunker built by prisoners of Kaufering concentration camp is still in use by the German Air Force?
Did you know that Vincent Boussard staged Manon for Vilnius , San Francisco , and Seoul , and I puritani for Liège and Frankfurt ?
Did you know that in 2014, the Zoo Interchange in Milwaukee became the first place that orange pavement markings were tested in the United States?
Did you know that after informing on a drug cartel , José Manuel Garza Rendón may live the rest of his life like a "hunted rabbit"?
Did you know that Madame A. C. Bilbrew directed the choir that appeared as cotton pickers singing spirituals in Hearts in Dixie , one of the first all-black talkies ?
Did you know that ... sofferte onde serene ... ("serene waves suffered") is a composition for piano and tape written by Luigi Nono in collaboration with pianist Maurizio Pollini ?
Did you know that actor Carl Au shaved the back and sides of his head for the final arc of his Waterloo Road character Barry Barry , in a style he dubbed "The Ferret "?
Did you know that John Buddle Blyth and August Wilhelm von Hofmann were the first to report photopolymerisation ?
Did you know that the voice of the Erckel's francolin has been described as "an insane cackled laughter"?
Did you know that Gaspar Jiménez , who was indicted in 1981 for a bombing attack on radio newscaster Emilio Milián , was later convicted for plotting to assassinate Cuban president Fidel Castro ?
Did you know that the British Army's Deolali transit camp is the origin for the slang term "doolally", meaning mentally ill?
Did you know that Liang Jingkui designed an instrument to measure the temperature in nuclear tests ?
Did you know that the Neo-Bechstein was a pioneering electric grand piano in which the mechanics of the piano were no longer involved in the direct production of sound?
Did you know that before being appointed to the Supreme Court of Texas , William F. Ramsey served as president of three banks, in different cities, at the same time?
Did you know that the larger feeding tentacles of the sea gherkin carry food to its mouth, where two smaller ones help push food in?
Did you know  that during the Second World War , Rachel Dübendorfer received sensitive German military information, including plans for the German invasion of the USSR ?
Did you know that Thomas Forsyth stocked his cellar with wine until his wife cut the pipes and drained it all?
Did you know that Armenia's anthem is based on Mikayel Nalbandian 's poem, inspired by Italian unification ?
Did you know that Chinese director Ying Liang was exiled from Shanghai for filming When Night Falls ?
Did you know that a 12-hour hearing for Mexican businesswoman Rosalinda González Valencia was held behind closed doors because the government was presenting sensitive evidence about a drug cartel ?
Did you know that African-American rapper Leikeli47 always masks her face while performing, saying it makes her feel "free"?
Did you know that former prime minister of India Manmohan Singh called the events of the First War of Indian Independence in 1857 a testimony to Hindu–Muslim unity ?
Did you know that an engraving in 1500 by Master MZ shows a woman lifting her skirts to protect or hide an owl?
Did you know that the opening of the Submarine Telegraph Company 's first oceanic telegraph cable was marked by remotely firing a cannon in Calais from a telegraph station in Dover ?
Did you know that, influenced by the Harlem Renaissance , Los Angeles teacher Dorothy Vena Johnson wrote poems such as "Epitaph for a Bigot" and "Post War Ballad"?
Did you know that although Mulatschak has been called the card game of the state of Salzburg , its rules were almost certainly unpublished before 2004?
Did you know that New York City's Grand Central Terminal was built after a deadly crash between two trains in the Park Avenue Tunnel in 1902?
Did you know that Genia Kühmeier appeared as Mozart's Pamina at the Vienna State Opera and the Metropolitan Opera , and recorded the soprano solo in Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem with Nikolaus Harnoncourt ?
Did you know that changes in Earth's orbit around the Sun over 10,000 years ago led to the disappearance of the Sahara desert ?
Did you know that Marika Kouno was inspired to pursue a career in voice acting by Ikue Ōtani , who plays Pikachu in Pokémon ?
Did you know that during construction of New York City's Sixth Avenue subway line in the 1930s, workers had to build around various utilities and tunnels, including an existing railroad tunnel and an elevated line ?
Did you know that, playing in 1887, Emily Valentine is the first documented female rugby player?
Did you know that the springtail Orchesella cincta moults repeatedly throughout its life, with feeding and reproductive phases alternating?
Did you know that British Army officer Michael Magill was killed alongside his brigade commander after treading on a land mine during a training exercise in Yorkshire ?
Did you know that MT MOL FSRU Challenger is the world's largest floating storage and regasification vessel?
Did you know that despite a ban on Indonesian nationalist hymns during the Japanese occupation of Indonesia , a Japanese army propagandist wrote one and it debuted in an official event?
Did you know that Herbert Seddon 's textbook on nerve injuries took 30 years to write?
Did you know that Kyle Busch won the 2011 Food City 250 stock car race by 0.019 seconds over his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Joey Logano , the closest finish in a Nationwide Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway ?
Did you know that after being captured and imprisoned by British Major Lionel Bostock , the Nuer prophet Garluark was restored to his former position as ruler of a region of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan ?
Did you know that fares on Tacoma Link are covered by a subsidy from local businesses?