kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that the Pakistan -based Institute of Sindhology is a research institution working on the history , culture , and literature of Sindh ?
Did you know that when Peter Perez Burdett went to Karlsruhe , leaving his wife and debts behind, he took his portrait by Joseph Wright of Derby ?
Did you know that improving Indo-South African relations have led to phenomenal growth in bilateral trade , rising from US$ 3 million in 1992-93 to US$4 billion in 2005-06 and targeting US$12 billion by 2010?
Did you know that the Sir John Maynard who used Elize Hele 's money to create The Maynard School for girls in 1658 is not the same Sir John Maynard — Henry Maynard 's son—who attended Charles I 's trial?
Did you know that in his book In Defense of Anarchism , anarchist Robert Paul Wolff argues that the incompatibility of state authority and individual autonomy means that all states are morally illegitimate ?
Did you know that near the summit of Sir Lowry's Pass in South Africa , you can still see the ruts left by ox-wagons being dragged over the Hottentots-Holland mountains before the current pass was built?
Did you know that the Engkanto , a Philippine mythical creature , might be based on early encounters with European friars ?
Did you know that the South Presbyterian Church in Dobbs Ferry, New York , is the only known work of architect Julius Munckowitz, despite his later career with New York City's parks ?
Did you know that had the Endeavour Strait not prevented the Dutch from proceeding further southward, they might have found the eastern coast of Australia 150 years before James Cook did?
Did you know that In All Languages is the first and only compilation album released by industrial metal band Godflesh ?
Did you know that Burkina Faso contains the most elephants in West Africa, with Deux Balés National Park containing 400?
Did you know that Ferrante Pallavicino was the anonymous author of Il Divortio celeste (1643), a satire wherein Jesus Christ asks God for a divorce from his eternal bride , the Roman Catholic Church ?
Did you know that fans at the UEFA Euro 2008 reportedly prefer The White Stripes ' " Seven Nation Army " to the official anthem, Enrique Iglesias ' " Can You Hear Me "?
Did you know that M. P. T. Acharya is associated with Indian Nationalism and communism , as well as the anarchist movement?
Did you know that an estimated 73 percent of what and how much all children eat is determined by nutritional gatekeepers ?
Did you know that Sir John Hussey , Chief Butler of England under King Henry VIII , was executed for treason ?
Did you know that in Norse mythology , the goddesses Þorgerðr Hölgabrúðr and Irpa defeated a Danish fleet by shooting arrows from their fingertips?
Did you know that Bristol and South Wales Union Railway was actually two separate railway lines with a ferry crossing of the River Severn between?
Did you know that Matsuura Takanobu was an early host and patron to the Jesuits , whom he hoped would influence an increase in trade between European traders and Japan ?
Did you know that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger , who played Conan the Barbarian in the 1982 film , proposed a law in 2007 for regulating the sales of violent video games such as Conan ?
Did you know that John Paul, Sr. and his son became the first father-son duo to win an IMSA Camel GT race, hours after the former was married on the track infield?
Did you know that Major League Baseball player Alex Rodriguez led the entire 2007 all-star game voting ballot with 1,404,001 votes?
Did you know that average people use subpersonalities to allow them to cope with certain types of psychosocial situations?
Did you know that India and Pakistan have expanded cross-border road and rail transport links , including across the disputed region of Kashmir ?
Did you know that Bette Midler 's back-up trio The Harlettes once included the actress Katey Sagal , better known for her role as Peggy Bundy on the television series Married...with Children ?
Did you know that Scotland 's Lothian, Borders & Angus Co-operative Society was founded in 1839, five years before the Rochdale Pioneers ?
Did you know that Gray Barker 's 1956 book They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers introduced the concept of the Men in Black to UFO lore?
Did you know that the historic floodplains of Oregon 's Willamette Valley ecoregion rarely function today, due to dams in the Upper Willamette Basin?
Did you know that all eleven stories in Australian Patrick White 's The Burnt Ones have a real or metaphorical reference to burning?
Did you know that though Captain Edward Mallory was wounded by shot, saber , and bayonet , he and his men forced the enemy to retreat at the Skirmish at Waters Creek ?
Did you know that between 1861 and 1869, Wolfgang Wenzel Haffner was Norwegian Minister of the Navy and Postal Affairs on three non-consecutive occasions?
Did you know that growing Indo-Singaporean relations include extensive military cooperation and diverse bilateral trade , which is expected to rise from USD 9–10 billion in 2006 to USD 50 billion by 2010?
Did you know that April FitzLyon 's biography of Mozart 's librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte debunked his unreliable memoirs?
Did you know that the Pythagorean theorem can be proven without words ?
Did you know that human rights activist Chiang Peng-chien was the first chairperson of the Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan ?
Did you know that the girls of St Mary's School, Calne , are divided into five Companies, each named after local bishops ?
Did you know that after his Major League Baseball career, Baseball Hall of Famer Dan Brouthers once led the Hudson River League in batting average at the age of 46?
Did you know that the Minkébé National Park in Gabon is believed by the WWF to have one of the largest forest elephant populations in Africa ?
Did you know that George E. Johnson, Sr. , who was born in a Mississippi shack and dropped out of high school, founded the first Black -owned company ever traded on the American Stock Exchange ?
Did you know that Christopher Smart 's The Hop-Garden is a long 18th century georgic poem that teaches how to farm hops in order to produce alcohol ?
Did you know that Haim Yosef Zadok was Israel 's first secular Minister of Religious Affairs?
Did you know that Richard Lenski 's long-term evolution experiment with E. coli has been tracking genetic changes in bacteria for over 20 years?
Did you know that Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen described China as his country's " most trustworthy friend "?
Did you know that an early record of the insult "I have forgotten more than you will ever know" attaches to Salathiel Lovell , a Recorder of London who became known as the "Obliviscor" (forgetter)?
Did you know that the 2008 Georgia sugar refinery explosion resulted in thirteen deaths and the first major shutdown of a US sugar refinery since Hurricane Katrina ?
Did you know that Indian film director Mohan Krishna Indraganti won eleven awards including the National Film Award and Nandi Award for his first directorial venture?
Did you know that the Mormon practice of polygamy was first inspired in 1831 when Joseph Smith said Jesus wished his followers to marry Native Americans to make their descendants white?
Did you know that residents of Changureh, Iran threw stones at the car of a government minister in anger following the 2002 Iran earthquake ?
Did you know that Murphy Bell , a civil rights attorney in Baton Rouge , represented the since imprisoned black radical H. Rap Brown on gun violation charges in 1972?
Did you know that the medieval Battle of Sparrsätra is held to have deeply changed Swedish society ?
Did you know that Linda Finch is the first person to complete Amelia Earhart 's unfinished final flight using the same aircraft type, a Lockheed L-10 Electra ?
Did you know that the murder of Celia Douty was the first murder in Australia to be solved using DNA profiling , after remaining unsolved for 18 years?
Did you know that Frank W. Preston invented the furnace which made Corelle glassware possible and worked to establish Moraine State Park in Pennsylvania ?
Did you know that the collapse of more than 7,000 schools in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake , while nearby buildings stood, has led to allegations of corruption involving contractors and government officials?
Did you know that in 2003, Church of Scientology board member and Office of Special Affairs executive Kurt Weiland accompanied actor Tom Cruise in a private meeting with the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State ?
Did you know that the Groffdale Conference Mennonite Church , whose members still use horse-drawn carriages , was formed when another Mennonite church split after a 17-year dispute over the use of automobiles ?
Did you know that Fred Forman scored two goals in England's 13–2 win over Ireland in 1899—the highest-scoring match involving England in international football history ?
Did you know that several years after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow published " The Village Blacksmith ", a chestnut tree mentioned in the poem was made into a chair for the poet?
Did you know that Rick Rhodes won six Emmy Awards for his work on Santa Barbara , Another World and The Guiding Light ?
Did you know that shukr is the Islamic virtue of gratitude ?
Did you know that of the major historic Snake River salmon stocks in the Blue Mountains ecoregion , the coho and sockeye are extinct , the chinook are threatened, and the summer steelhead are in decline?
Did you know that American singer Elly Stone was Barbra Streisand ’s understudy in the 1962 Broadway musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale ?
Did you know that the Brigham Young University Museum of Art contains more than 170 images of Jesus , showing how his portrayal in Christian art has changed?
Did you know that Dr. Maressa Orzack at Harvard Medical School stated that 40 percent of World of Warcraft players were addicted ?
Did you know that Dizzy Gillespie may have been inspired to write the jazz standard " Groovin' High " by a film serial he saw as a child?
Did you know that Pakistani model Vaneeza Ahmad was one of the select few celebrities to carry the Olympic torch at the relay in Islamabad ?
Did you know that Nguyen Van Linh , General Secretary of the Communist Party touted as the "Vietnamese Gorbachev " for reforming Vietnam 's communist economy , later regretted many of the effects of his policies?
Did you know that plants in some parts of the Klamath Mountains ecoregion in Southern Oregon and Northern California have evolved to grow in potentially toxic and nutrient-poor serpentine soils ?
Did you know that oudist Ali Sriti 's first public performance was at age eleven, when he sang Ya chiraan waraa dajla yajri by Mohamed Abdel Wahab ?
Did you know that The New York Times said the 1944 Laurel and Hardy film The Big Noise "has as much humor in it as a six-foot hole in the ground"?
Did you know that one of Russian President Vladimir Putin 's first state visits was to Mongolia , aimed at rebuilding their bilateral relations in the post- Cold War era?
Did you know that John Boylan , who won an acting award in the play On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco , eventually died of lung cancer ?
Did you know that the Japanese visual novel Sakura Sakura allows the player to navigate in a profile side-view perspective similar to a two-dimensional platform game ?
Did you know that irrigation canals in the Treasure Valley and Magic Valley have dramatically transformed the Snake River Plain ecoregion in southern Idaho ?
Did you know that in 1984, during the internal conflict in Peru , members of the Peruvian Army massacred 123 men, women and children in the town of Putis ?
Did you know that zooming in from satellite view, one can see the outlines of Wilcox Octagon House and most of the 82 octagon houses listed on the U.S. National Register ?
Did you know that Norwegian politician Jacob Aall described Hans Eleonardus Møller, Sr. as "one of Norway's most active and skillful merchants"?
Did you know that the Pumice Plateau in the Eastern Cascades Slopes and Foothills ecoregion of Southern Oregon is covered by a thick layer of volcanic ash from Mt. Mazama ?
Did you know that the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad Bus runs across the Line of Control to connect the capitals of the Indian and Pakistani parts of the disputed region of Kashmir ?
Did you know that C. W. Thornthwaite , an expert in the field of climatology , wrote his doctoral thesis in an unrelated topic in urban geography ?
Did you know that WayForward Technologies developed a video game remake of the 1951 Warner Bros cartoon Duck Amuck ?
Did you know that Khalid bin Barghash fought a 38-minute war with the British during his two-day rule as Sultan of Zanzibar ?
Did you know that Norwegian merchant and banker Simon Karenius Høegh was also mayor of both Brevig and later Porsgrund ?
Did you know that the public library system in Riverside County, California was the first in the US to turn over its entire operation to a private company?
Did you know that when Test cricket twins Mark and Steve Waugh played together in their first ever match , they both scored ducks ?
Did you know that since normalizing Sino-Mongolian relations , bilateral trade has risen to US$ 1.13 billion and China has become the largest trading partner and foreign investor in Mongolia ?
Did you know that after George Lansbury lost the Bow and Bromley by-election, 1912 , where he stood for re-election on a platform of women's suffrage , he declared "Never Resign!"?
Did you know that Norwegian philology professor Peter Olrog Schjøtt interrupted his academic career in 1888 in favor of a fifteen-month career in politics ?
Did you know that the Air Combat Group contingent of the RAAF was created when the Tactical Fighter Group and Strike Reconnaissance Group were merged?
Did you know that Orange County Route 9 in New York is, by itself, longer than five of the county's state highways ?
Did you know that Otto Zobel described a method of using prototype filters that does not use the frequency domain to represent their transfer function ?
Did you know that the Canadian television series The John Allan Cameron Show featured different traditions of folk music from Celtic to blues ?
Did you know that India and Vietnam plan to sign a free trade agreement to bolster bilateral relations and further expand trade , which is expected to reach US$ 2 billion in 2008?
Did you know that Hurricane Charley was the first storm that made landfall in South Carolina at hurricane intensity since Hurricane Hugo in 1989?
Did you know that Hamburg 's Rotherbaum quarter is the site of the Am Rothenbaum tennis stadium ?
Did you know that, angry that he had been accused of treason, the Tang Dynasty general Pugu Huai'en submitted a complaint to the emperor sarcastically referring to his major contributions as crimes?
Did you know that the oil and gas exploration company WAPET struck Australia 's first flowing oil in 1953, and Western Australia 's first commercial natural gas field in 1964?
Did you know that American doctor George E. Moore discovered the link between chewing tobacco and mouth cancer ?
Did you know that the Spanish Leopard 2E is the most expensive Leopard 2 tank built to date?
Did you know that Kieran Prendergast was the British Ambassador to Turkey before serving as United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs ?
Did you know that spring soup is popular largely because it includes fresh ingredients not seen for a while by the consumer?
Did you know that Francis Howard was an unpopular Crown Governor of Virginia in the 17th century despite brokering a peace treaty with Iroquois tribes?
Did you know that extinguishment is one way to get out of a legal contract ?
Did you know that the Orloff breed of chicken is named for a Russian count , but in fact originated in Persia ?
Did you know that during World War II , Ferdynand Arczyński produced hundreds of false IDs, work cards, service attestations, birth, and marriage certificates, distributed free to Jews hiding outside the Ghetto ?
Did you know that the Living Planet Index is one of the indices used in sustainability accounting ?
Did you know that Charlotte Badger , despite being from Great Britain , is widely considered the first Australian female pirate ?
Did you know that in Treasure Valley , on the borders of Oregon and Idaho , is the largest community of Basques outside of Europe?
Did you know that as Speaker of the House of Commons , John Puckering was heavily involved in the decision to execute Mary, Queen of Scots ?
Did you know that, when completed, a relocated JCPenney at Ashland Town Center in Ashland, Kentucky will be the largest department store in Kentucky, and one of three prototypes in the U.S.?
Did you know that the Dana Nature Reserve is the largest nature reserve in Jordan ?
Did you know that Vincenz Priessnitz established a hydrotherapy spa town in Jeseník (then Austrian Empire , now Czech Republic ) where Nikolai Gogol was a guest twice?
Did you know that the basalt underlying the Columbia Plateau ecoregion in Washington and Oregon can be up to 2 miles (3 km) thick?
Did you know that the Flying Super Saturator was the world's first roller coaster allowing riders to dump payloads of water on other amusement park attendees?
Did you know that Lloyd E. Lenard , a Shreveport businessman and author , was a leader in the fight to establish a two-party system in his native Louisiana ?
Did you know that although building India 's first overseas military base in Tajikistan strengthened Indo-Tajik relations , bilateral trade remained low at USD 12.09 million in 2005?
Did you know that 1801 California Street , a 709-foot (216 m) skyscraper in Denver , Colorado , was once home to the world's brightest signs on a high-rise building?
Did you know that Kermit the Frog was named after Kermit Scott , a childhood friend of Muppets creator Jim Henson ?
Did you know that after paying £500 in 1623 for a pardon, John Nutt was arrested in England and convicted for piracy regardless?
Did you know that the anti-communist Indonesian killings of 1965–66 resulted in more deaths than any other event in Indonesian history ?
Did you know that most of the Sitka spruce in the Coast Range ecoregion of Washington and Oregon has been logged and replaced with Douglas-fir plantations?
Did you know that Ulrik Frederik Cappelen was County Governor of both Finnmark and Vestfold , and was elected to the Norwegian Parliament once from each district?
Did you know that the Millennium Stadium Charitable Trust's income comes from a levy that is paid on every ticket that is purchased for public events at the Millennium Stadium in Wales ?
Did you know that one of the first recorded Japanese-Siamese contacts occurred in 1593?
Did you know that Genevieve R. Cline was the first American woman to be appointed as a federal judge , despite objections based on her gender from many members of the Senate ?
Did you know that the Hindu Munnani is a Hindu nationalist organization based in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu ?
Did you know that Colt Wynn won his first bodybuilding tournament as a wheelchair athlete less than three years after breaking his back in an accident?
Did you know that the Battle of Yellow House Canyon in 1876 marked the last battle between Texans and hostile Native Americans on the High Plains of Texas ?
Did you know that the Anif declaration , issued by the Bavarian King Ludwig III on 12 November 1918 , ended the 738-year rule of the House of Wittelsbach over Bavaria ?
Did you know that jazz bassist Esperanza Spalding became one of the youngest faculty members in the history of Berklee College of Music almost immediately after her graduation?
Did you know that the original East End Light was the first lighthouse erected in the Cayman Islands ?
Did you know that Rhipsime and her companions are venerated as the first Christian martyrs in Armenian history?
Did you know that Andrew Johnson National Cemetery , part of Andrew Johnson National Historic Site , was bequeathed to the public by Andrew Johnson 's daughter?
Did you know that Jan Willems was present at Roatan in 1683 for one of the largest " Brethren of the Coast " pirate gatherings?
Did you know that tracheobronchial injury was considered fatal until a survivor was reported in 1927?
Did you know that the Pitchfork Ranch , established east of Lubbock , Texas in 1883, is one of the few modern ranches larger than it was at the time of its founding?
Did you know that the Nazi leader Theodor Habicht was briefly involved with the communists after World War I before joining the Nazi Party in 1926?
Did you know that the Alvarado Terrace Historic District includes a church built in 1912 that was the LA home of Jim Jones ' Peoples Temple before the group's 1977 mass suicide in Jonestown ?
Did you know that the stones at Nuits in Ardsley-on-Hudson, New York are so finely cut that a penknife cannot fit between them?
Did you know that Sergeants Jose and Francisco Diaz were two brothers in the Puerto Rican Militia who helped defeat Sir Ralph Abercromby and defend Puerto Rico from a British invasion in 1797?
Did you know that the real-life Hollywood Tower is often cited as the inspiration for the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror attractions at Disney themeparks in California, Florida, and France?
Did you know that the president of Żegota , Julian Grobelny , was famous for saving Jewish children from the Holocaust by entering the Warsaw Ghetto from the Aryan side and walking out with them?
Did you know that Daniel Chester French was never fully paid for his work on the Washington Irving Memorial in Irvington, New York ?
Did you know that the list of bills sponsored by Barack Obama (131 items) includes measures for biofuels and synthetic fuels , veterans' health bills, divestiture from Iran , and tariff exemptions for herbicides ?
Did you know that in 1909 at the age of 17, New Zealand pianist Frank Hutchens became the youngest-ever subprofessor appointed to London 's Royal Academy of Music ?
Did you know that the affair known in Israel as " the dirty trick " included the only successful vote of no confidence issued against an Israeli government to date?
Did you know that Japanese Governor Murayama Tōan led a failed invasion of Taiwan in 1616?
Did you know that the North West Shelf Venture liquefied natural gas project is Australia 's largest resource development?
Did you know that former Executive Director of the American Jewish Congress Henry Siegman served as a chaplain in the Korean War , where he was awarded a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart ?
Did you know that despite facing a bankrupt family business and the loss of both parents at the age of fifteen, Norwegian Jørgen Wright Cappelen went on to found an enduring publishing company ?
Did you know that Strike , directed by Sergei Eisenstein and acted by the Proletcult Theatre , was intended to be one part of a seven-part series?
Did you know that 894 of the 5,000 recorded aftershocks of the 1983 Coalinga, California earthquake had a magnitude of 2.5 or larger?
Did you know that Anton Reinthaller , the first leader of the post- World War II Freedom Party of Austria , had been a Nazi politician and Undersecretary in Nazi Germany 's Ministry of Food and Agriculture?
Did you know that a Chicago championship basketball team from Wendell Phillips Academy High School was drafted to form the nucleus of the original Harlem Globetrotters ?
Did you know that the British government commissioned a report on the British West Indian labour unrest of 1934–1939 , but its findings were so damaging that they were suppressed until 1945?
Did you know that five thousand people went to Eugene V. Debs' home to attend his funeral sermon in 1926?
Did you know that the Tagish Lake meteorite that impacted Canada on January 18 , 2000 may be a broken off piece of the 773 Irmintraud asteroid that orbits between the planets Mars and Jupiter ?
Did you know that despite being set in New York , All Good Things has been filmed mostly in Connecticut , partly because of the state's "scenic and period locations"?
Did you know that Jabal Amman is one of the seven original hills that Amman , Jordan was built on during the Neolithic period?
Did you know that it was largely the zeal of Bishop Russell McVinney of Providence that reestablished the American College of the Immaculate Conception in Belgium in 1952?