kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that nephrotoxic djenkolic acid , found in the raw djenkol bean, can form needle-like crystals in the urine of people who eat the bean?
Did you know that football player Michael Liddle made his international debut for Republic of Ireland under-19s although he was born in London , England ?
Did you know that the metabolic disorder Schindler disease may be caused by mutations in the NAGA gene on chromosome 22 ?
Did you know that as Director of the Voice of America , Henry Loomis oversaw the introduction of Special English , in which news is read slowly with a limited vocabulary of about 1,500 words and a simplified grammar?
Did you know that the small bright-blue mushroom Entoloma hochstetteri is featured on the reverse side of the New Zealand $50 bank note ?
Did you know that remnants of the pre-Columbian aqueduct carrying water from springs at Chapultepec can still be found in Mexico City today?
Did you know that in 1899, Chinese immigration to Puerto Rico was prohibited by the United States Chinese Exclusion Act ?
Did you know that Imperial Japanese Navy submarine Commander Takakazu Kinashi was awarded the Iron Cross by Adolf Hitler for his role in the sinking of the American aircraft carrier Wasp ?
Did you know that actor Don Collier , who co-starred on NBC 's western series Outlaws and The High Chaparral , played football for the Brigham Young Cougars ?
Did you know that in the Ofira Air Battle , at the outset of the Yom Kippur War , two Israeli F-4 Phantom IIs shot down seven Egyptian MiGs ?
Did you know that film directors Sidney Meyers and Jay Leyda used pseudonyms for their screen credits on the 1937 production People of the Cumberland ?
Did you know that throughout his lifetime, cyclist Reggie McNamara broke his collarbone 17 times, broke his skull, nose, jaw, and leg once, had 500 stitches, and accumulated 47 scars?
Did you know that NASDA 's ETS-VII was the world's first satellite to be equipped with a robotic arm and to conduct autonomous rendezvous docking operations successfully?
Did you know that the 14th-century Hungarian occupation of the Bulgarian city of Vidin was described by contemporaries as a "great pain for the people"?
Did you know that the white suckerfish responds to a touch on its belly by forcefully erecting its pelvic fins?
Did you know that most of the world's population of Northern Bald Ibis , an endangered species of birds, are found at Souss-Massa National Park in Morocco ?
Did you know that the World Charter for Prostitutes' Rights , adopted in 1985, calls for the right to unemployment insurance and decriminalization of adult prostitution ?
Did you know that oil company Idemitsu Kosan is exploring the potential for geothermal power in Japan ?
Did you know that Bert Olmstead played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) and appeared in 11 Stanley Cup finals ?
Did you know that the Semitic triliteral Q-D-S meaning "holy" has been used in ancient and modern Semitic languages since at least the 3rd millennium BCE?
Did you know that when asked what the most beautiful place he had ever seen in all his travels was, Gore Vidal chose the view from the belvedere at Villa Cimbrone ?
Did you know that the symptoms of exposure to the blister agent methyldichloroarsine clinically resemble poison ivy ?
Did you know that ancient Greek klismos chairs became fashionable again in the late 18th century?
Did you know that other than visits to other institutions as a guest lecturer, James Feast lectured at the University of Durham for over 35 years?
Did you know that Greenville Presbyterian Church was the first non- Dutch church established in New York 's Catskill region?
Did you know that species from the underground-dwelling mushroom genus Gautieria are the preferred food source of the Northern flying squirrel ?
Did you know that after testing the biological Brucella cluster bomb on 11,000 guinea pigs , a U.S. general remarked "Now we know what to do if we ever go to war against guinea pigs"?
Did you know that the Flekkefjord Line was built to be part of the main line from Stavanger to Oslo , but a change of plans made it only a branch line ?
Did you know that the National Guard Militia Museum of New Jersey has on display the Intelligent Whale , an experimental Civil War -era submarine propelled by a hand crank operated by its four-man crew?
Did you know that pre-operative transsexual Miki Mizuasa was nominated for the Best Actress award at the 2007 Adult Broadcasting Awards even though she was born a male?
Did you know that Sanctus Real was the most-played artist on American Christian radio in 2006?
Did you know that Hugo Bettauer , author of a satire depicting Vienna after expulsion of its Jews, was shot and killed in 1925 after Nazis branded him a "Red poet" and "corruptor of youth"?
Did you know that the M143 bomblet held the equivalent of 300 million lethal doses of anthrax ?
Did you know that Lionel Baker is the first cricketer from Montserrat to represent the West Indies senior side at international level?
Did you know that most of the place names in Palestine are Arabised words with ancient Semitic roots that were preserved by the local indigenous population, facilitating their identification with biblical sites?
Did you know that John Daly , a New York City criminal, was rumored to be paying $100,000 a week in protection money to the New York Police Department in the late 1800s?
Did you know that in Norse mythology , Sinmara is a female companion of Surtr , a fire jötunn ?
Did you know that veteran LGBT rights activist Hank Wilson started or co-founded at least ten LGBT organizations in the San Francisco area?
Did you know that the soil-dwelling nematode -killing fungus Paecilomyces lilacinus has been known to cause human eye infections?
Did you know that " Still Alive ", the theme to action-adventure video game Mirror's Edge , was written by Rami Yacoub , who has also written material for Britney Spears ?
Did you know that according to British wine critic Jancis Robinson , only certain wines can improve significantly with age , and most wine is consumed too late rather than too early?
Did you know that the graphical plot of the Sabatier principle , a concept used in chemical catalysis , is often called a "volcano plot" because of its distinctive shape?
Did you know that before she was disassembled for scrap in 1932, USS Holland , the first submarine commissioned by the U.S. Navy , spent many years as an attraction in Starlight amusement park in New York City ?
Did you know that at one time, the Sneath Glass Company produced almost 90 percent of the glassware used in consumer refrigerators in the United States?
Did you know that Beijing Communist Party chief Li Ximing was a leading supporter of military action against the Tiananmen Square protests that resulted in the deaths of hundreds, possibly thousands, of people?
Did you know that Glen Ord is the only remaining single malt scotch whisky distillery on the Black Isle in the Highlands of Scotland ?
Did you know that the wide variety of people who have been deported from the United States includes Jamaican boxer Trevor Berbick , political activist Emma Goldman , and Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh ?
Did you know that prehistoric ridgeway trails, though often steep, were usually the firmest and safest cart tracks before the advent of paved roads in western Europe ?
Did you know that Mike Davis envisioned making recreational boats available on the Hudson River in New York City after seeing how boats could be rented in Istanbul and rowed on the Bosporus ?
Did you know that James John Skinner was the only White member of the Zambian cabinet when that nation gained independence in 1964?
Did you know that Loyola College in Maryland , a Jesuit college with "little athletic tradition,"  has had 13 first-team All American honorees from the men's lacrosse team ?
Did you know that Terence Mitford , who spent his whole academic career as an archaeologist at the University of St Andrews , was a member of the Special Air Service during the Second World War ?
Did you know that the historic Wayne Morse Farm in Eugene, Oregon , was the home of Wayne Morse who represented Oregon in the United States Senate from 1944 until 1968?
Did you know that Rob Epstein , Academy Award-winning director of The Times of Harvey Milk , also directed Paragraph 175 chronicling the treatment of homosexuals in Nazi Germany ?
Did you know that the first railroad depot in Stanford, Kentucky , was built due to a compromise between Union general Ambrose Burnside and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad ?
Did you know that as part of Operation Large Area Coverage the U.S. Army sprayed much of the eastern United States with zinc cadmium sulfide particles?
Did you know that Operation Steel Box moved 100,000 American chemical weapons from Clausen , West Germany , to Johnston Atoll in the South Pacific Ocean ?
Did you know that Hedley Howarth helped lead New Zealand to its first ever test cricket win on the Indian subcontinent with a five-wicket bag against India in 1969?
Did you know that in a baseball match held at the Capitoline Grounds on June 14, 1870, the Brooklyn Atlantics defeated the Cincinnati Red Stockings , ending their 84 game winning streak?
Did you know that the acquisition of the Corus Group in October 2006 has made Tata Steel India's second largest company in the private sector?
Did you know that the Confederate Memorial in Nicholasville, Kentucky , took sixteen years to fund, and was originally a statue of a Union soldier ?
Did you know that German entrepreneur, race driver and yacht skipper Udo Schütz won the 1000 km Nürburgring in 1967, the Targa Florio in 1969, and the Admiral's Cup in 1993?
Did you know that Louis Dicken Wilson left Edgecombe County US$40,000 upon his death in 1847, but US$28,000 of it was wasted?
Did you know that the Survival of the Shawangunks is a Hudson Valley triathlon which requires competitors to carry their running shoes as they swim?
Did you know that Turkish poet Süleyman Nazif witnessed first hand the decaying corpses of persecuted Christians in his home town of Diyarbakır in July 1915?
Did you know that Frank Filchock , Jack Faulkner , Mac Speedie , Jerry Smith , John Ralston , and Red Miller have all spent their entire coaching careers with the Broncos ?
Did you know that the habitat of the rare West Virginia land snail Triodopsis platysayoides is protected by a fence?
Did you know that Anarchy Alive! , a 2007 book by Oxford -educated academic and anti-authoritarian activist Uri Gordon , has been cited as a "defining text" of the contemporary anarchist movement?
Did you know that Joe Hyams ' first celebrity interview, with Humphrey Bogart , came after a chance meeting with Bogart's press agent at the pool of The Beverly Hills Hotel ?
Did you know that Leverett Candee became the first person in the world to manufacture rubber footwear ?
Did you know that Erie County voters elected Antoine Thompson to the New York State Senate after he defeated cousins Marc Coppola and Al Coppola during the 2006 Democratic primary election ?
Did you know that French anarchist and writer Charles Malato had a Neapolitan grandfather who suppressed a popular insurrection as commander-in-chief of the army of the last King of Naples ?
Did you know that after first taking the Fifth Amendment in 1951, director Robert Rossen named 57 people as Communists to the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1953 to escape the Hollywood blacklist ?
Did you know that the turnout in the 1997 Pakistani general election was the lowest ever in Pakistan ?
Did you know that Florence Wald , former Dean of Yale School of Nursing , has been credited as "the mother of the American hospice movement"?
Did you know that the 1916 film Cenere contains the only cinematic performance by the Italian theater star Eleanora Duse ?
Did you know that the Honolulu High-Capacity Transit Corridor Project led to Honolulu 's 2008 mayoral elections being referred to as a "referendum on rail transit"?
Did you know that James-Younger Gang member "Dick" Liddil surrendered to authorities after killing Jesse James ' cousin, reportedly out of fear of that James would seek revenge?
Did you know that despite being captured during the Battle of the Philippines , the Nurse Corps regiment known as the Angels of Bataan continued to serve as a nursing unit throughout their internment?
Did you know that the term battery in baseball was first used by Henry Chadwick in reference to the firepower of a team's pitching staff, inspired by artillery batteries then in use in the American Civil War ?
Did you know that wine writer Malcolm Gluck has been involved in a row with Salman Rushdie over who is the quicker book-signer?
Did you know that Bridgwater Bay is the location of the last mudhorse fisherman in England ?
Did you know that Paul Callaway was so short a hydraulically-operated pedalboard was custom-made for the Washington National Cathedral 's organ, so he could reach the pedals comfortably?
Did you know that Eduard August von Regel , a 19th-century German botanist , named and described over 3,000 new plant species?
Did you know that the day after his birthday, General Archibald Gracie III was looking out at the Union lines through his telescope when an artillery shell exploded in front of him killing him instantly?
Did you know that Sir Philip Cohen has written over 470 peer-reviewed papers, and was the third most cited academic in the UK during the 1990s?
Did you know that anthropologist Richard Price was one of the first to show that Maroons , previously considered largely "without history," possessed rich and deep historical consciousness ?
Did you know that author Tom De Haven attended Catholic school in Bayonne, New Jersey with fellow writer George R. R. Martin ?
Did you know that Zeno Vendler 's model of lexical aspect , first proposed in 1959, is still widely used in multiple areas of linguistic research today?
Did you know that physician William Beierwaltes , a pioneer in nuclear medicine , was one of five attendees at the first course for doctors offered by the Atomic Energy Commission on the medical use of radioisotopes ?
Did you know that John Trudeau established the Britt Festival in Oregon in 1962, the first of its kind in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S., and now a four-month long celebration of music and musical theater?
Did you know that the walls of Peter the Great 's first "palace" in the nascent St Petersburg , a 60 m 2 (650 sq ft) log cabin , were painted to resemble brickwork ?
Did you know that Michael Higgins prepared himself for a career in the theater by working to rid himself of his Brooklyn accent as a teenager?
Did you know that the fungus Albatrellus subrubescens was first collected from Florida and Czechoslovakia ?
Did you know that Caterpillar Inc. employs 4,000 Central Illinois workers at its Peoria headquarters?
Did you know that English mathematician and geographer Robert Hues served his master Thomas Grey, the last Baron Grey de Wilton , while Grey was imprisoned in the Tower of London ?
Did you know that Columbia Park in Torrance, California served as the home field for U.S. Women's soccer players Joy Fawcett and Carin Jennings-Gabarra ?
Did you know that Gwilym Davies was the first person to broadcast in Welsh, on Saint David's Day in 1923?
Did you know that French opera singer Gustave Huberdeau performed roles ranging from lead roles to character roles to mute roles?
Did you know that the bacterium Propionibacterium freudenreichii is responsible for forming the holes in Swiss cheese by releasing carbon dioxide ?
Did you know that the intricate rococo decoration of the Grand Church of the Winter Palace was recreated in papier-mâché after a fire destroyed most of the original interiors of the Winter Palace in 1837?
Did you know that the proposed Bigeye bomb was designed to spray VX nerve agent over a target area by gliding through the air over it?
Did you know that Jewish immigration to Puerto Rico began in the 15th century and that Puerto Rico has the largest and richest Jewish community in the Caribbean ?
Did you know that the first journal articles written by the entomologist Robert Perkins were published when he was a classics student with no scientific education?
Did you know that U.S. federal judge Malcolm Marsh 's father and uncle both served as presidents of the Oregon State Bar ?
Did you know that when the SS Mahratta ran aground on the Goodwin Sands in 1939, it settled on top of a ship that had sunk thirty years earlier and was also named Mahratta ?
Did you know that a 30-metre (98 ft) tsunami was created when Broke Off Cliff fell into Western Brook Pond , which is a fjord in Canada ?
Did you know that the members of Montreal -based electronic music duo Beast first met while working for a video game company?
Did you know that protests by Rev. Abraham Woods about the 1990 PGA Championship at the Shoal Creek country club led the club to admit its first black member?
Did you know that " There's No One As Irish As Barack O'Bama " is a folk song first performed in the village where Barack Obama 's great-great-great grandfather was born?
Did you know that early childhood educator Barbara T. Bowman co-founded the Erikson Institute , a graduate school in child development , with the support of philanthropist Irving Harris ?
Did you know that Taishō Baseball Girls is a light novel series about an all-girl baseball team set in Taishō era Japan?
Did you know that Thirumangai Alvar , considered one of the most learned Alvar saint-poets in Hinduism , was a robber before becoming a saint?
Did you know that Henry Cornelius Burnett is one of only five members in history to be expelled from the United States Congress ?
Did you know that Austro-Hungarian submarine SM U-16 , which sank two ships and captured a third during World War I , was the only boat of the U-10 -class to sink during the war?
Did you know that the largest earthquake ever recorded in the U.S. state of Illinois took place at approximately 11:02 a.m. on November 9 1968 ?
Did you know that the Jadad scale is the world's most widely used means of assessing the methodological quality of clinical trials ?
Did you know that when Veronica Mars was cancelled after its third season , fans sent more than 10,000 Mars Bars to the CW television network , hoping to persuade it to renew the series ?
Did you know that following In re Bilski , a decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit , the legal validity of many business method patents is now uncertain?
Did you know that Norwegian mathematician Bernt Michael Holmboe played an important role in the career of Niels Henrik Abel ?
Did you know that the Mucking excavation ,  one of the largest archaeological digs of its time in Europe , uncovered artifacts spanning a period of some 3,000 years?
Did you know that overseas revenues rose tenfold during the decade that Richard Rompala helped to lead the paint and coatings manufacturer Valspar ?
Did you know that " Hindu Taliban " is a pejorative term used by some tolerant or "secular" Hindus to describe the supporters of the Hindutva movement?
Did you know that Juniper Networks has updated its JUNOS software every 90 days since its creation in 1998?
Did you know that after endangering himself to control the imperial horse, Qi Ying was made an imperial attendant by Emperor Dezong of Tang ?
Did you know that one poetic focus in William Wordsworth's early life , especially in the "Lucy" poems , the "Matthew" poems , We are Seven , and Lucy Gray , is man's relationship with death and nature?
Did you know that Japan and India signed a peace treaty and established diplomatic relations in April 1952, one of the first such treaties by Japan after World War II ?
Did you know that Vânia Fernandes , who represented Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 , was Portugal's first entrant to qualify for the Contest's final from its semi-final round?
Did you know that the President of Colombia's administrative department has an annual budget of over COL$ 16 billion?
Did you know that after a federal jury in Portland, Oregon decided against the defendant in Byron v. Rajneesh Foundation International , an inner circle of Rajneesh followers plotted to murder the plaintiff?
Did you know that Japanese admiral Ogasawara Naganari , close confidant and biographer of Fleet Admiral Togo Heihachiro , was tutor to Emperor Hirohito on naval matters?
Did you know that, due to his support of Kentucky 's efforts to secede from the Union , Henry Cornelius Burnett is one of only five members in history to be expelled from the United States Congress ?
Did you know that SOE officer Joachim Rønneberg was a leader of the Norwegian team attempting to sabotage the German nuclear energy project during WWII ?
Did you know that legend has it that Nainital Lake in Uttarakhand , India , was created when three pilgrims dug a hole which filled from the sacred Tibetan Lake Manasarovar ?
Did you know that the growth of Astragalus brauntonii , a species of milkvetch , is spurred by fire?
Did you know that Beninese political figure Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin remained under house arrest from 1972 to 1981 after being overthrown in a coup d'état ?
Did you know that St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Troy, New York , was originally built as a replica of a Church in New Haven, Connecticut ?
Did you know that Norwegian Constituent Assembly member Nicolai Wergeland was father of feminist writer Camilla Collett and poet Henrik Wergeland ?
Did you know that, when amateur club TSV Vestenbergsgreuth beat German champions FC Bayern Munich 1–0 in the 1994-95 DFB Cup , a memorial stone was later erected to commemorate the event?
Did you know that Ranulf le Meschin ruled Cumberland before becoming Earl of Chester in 1120?
Did you know that Rheinmetall 's 120mm gun L/55 tank gun can attain muzzle velocities of up to 1,750 meters per second (5,700 ft/s) with new kinetic energy penetrators ?
Did you know that Izzat Darwaza , the Arab nationalist leader of al-Fatat , was a principal organizer of the 1936-1939 Arab revolt in Palestine ?
Did you know that the U.S. Marine Corps celebrates its birthday on the anniversary of the day that the 2nd Continental Congress authorized the creation of the Continental Marines ?
Did you know that Beast vocalist Béatrice Bonifassi sang on Champion 's album Chill'em All , and also provided the singing voices for Les Triplettes de Belleville ?
Did you know that the football rivalry between ASV Herzogenaurach and FC Herzogenaurach can be traced back to the rivalry between the clubs' sponsors, Adidas and Puma ?
Did you know that Mike Tompkins , the Natural Law Party vice-presidential candidate in the 1992 and 1996 U.S. elections, is a direct descendant of U.S. presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams ?
Did you know that Lucy of Bolingbroke paid King Henry I of England 500 marks after the death of her third husband, Ranulf le Meschin , for the right not to remarry?
Did you know that the ataaba is a traditional Arabic music form in which oral folk poetry is melodically improvised by a solo vocalist ?
Did you know that the Sheffield Iris newspaper's first editor fled the UK when troops tried to arrest him, and its second was imprisoned for six months on charges of malicious libel ?
Did you know that Andreas Lauritz Thune , who took over the manufacturing company Thune at the age of 23, was among the founders of the Federation of Norwegian Manufacturing Industries in 1889?
Did you know that Jack Bruce 's 1969 LP Songs for a Tailor was titled in tribute to the wardrobe designer for Bruce's former band, Cream ?
Did you know that Joe Wendryhoski , an inaugural member of the New Orleans Saints , played every offensive snap as the starting center for the team's first two seasons?
Did you know that the successful escape from the multi-ship mutiny at the Nore by Royal Navy Captain Charles Cunningham in 1797 led to that mutiny's failure?
Did you know that in 1969, Toyota Motor Corporation imported McLaren M12s and installed their own V8 engines in a bid to better compete against Nissan in Japanese Group 7 races?
Did you know that Amy Peterson competed in the first five Olympics in which short track speed skating was a sport?