kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that the Temporary Protection Directive went unused until the Ukrainian refugee crisis ?
Did you know that Stephan MacLeod ' s 2021 recording of Bach's Mass in B minor with ten singers was said to be "characterised by swift momentum, crisp articulation and benevolent attention to detail"?
Did you know that the faster version of the Mac Studio is 2 pounds (910 g) heavier than the slower one?
Did you know that British alpine skier Shona Brownlee , who competed at the 2022 Winter Paralympics , plays the French horn and the piano in the Central Band of the Royal Air Force ?
Did you know that Moondog was released 13 years after Moondog 's previous Moondog ?
Did you know that Peter Walker choreographed an Oklahoma! -inspired dream ballet for the film I'm Thinking of Ending Things ?
Did you know that Ukrainian parties obtained only a fifth of the votes in the 1917 Kiev City Duma election ?
Did you know that when Oprah Winfrey was honored at the 2018 Golden Globes , the first person she thanked was Dennis Swanson , the Chicago TV station manager who hired her?
Did you know that the women's wheelchair race at the 2021 Tokyo Marathon featured just two competitors?
Did you know that Angel Joy Chavis Rocker , a guidance counselor with no political experience, was the first black woman to run for President of the United States as a Republican ?
Did you know that the Hittite plague in the 14th century BC was the first documented use of a disease as a biological weapon ?
Did you know that Jane Cakebread 's 277 court appearances for drunkenness helped bring about the Inebriates Act of 1898 ?
Did you know that, for the Space 220 Restaurant , Disney reached out to NASA engineers to understand what a space elevator might look like?
Did you know that Stsiapan Putsila faces criminal charges in Belarus—as does the Polish judge who refused to extradite him?
Did you know that North Carolina television station WNAO-TV operated from a converted supper club ?
Did you know that Alois Wyrsch , the first member of colour of the Swiss parliament, was born to a mercenary in the Dutch Indies in 1825?
Did you know that copper thieves started a fire at Dalton Mills in 2011 while trying to burn off the insulation?
Did you know that legal activist Carrie Campbell Severino , who co-authored a book about Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination , was once a law clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas ?
Did you know that the Spanish city of Oviedo only repairs Woody Allen's glasses once a year?
Did you know that sponsors were asked to buy planks for the restoration of Shotley Pier in Suffolk, England, at £100 each?
Did you know that John C. Young served as president of Centre College for nearly 27 years, longer than any other president in the school's history?
Did you know that Comtal Corporation 's products were used by NASA to process digital images of the surface of Mars and flybys of Jupiter in the 1970s?
Did you know that David Gee Cheng was appointed as a member of the Indonesian cabinet just three years after he became an Indonesian citizen?
Did you know that Dutch arachnologist Father Chrysanthus was the only person to make the International Society of Arachnology 's first congress "international"?
Did you know that at the Guild Theatre , the higher an actor ascended, the farther they were from stardom?
Did you know that Nick Goiran , a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council , proposed 357 amendments to a voluntary assisted dying bill ?
Did you know that even though many fans died after falling onto a furnace at a college football game, the event continued?
Did you know that Jonas Mohammed Bath was only able to obtain his freedom from slavery by purchasing another enslaved person to replace himself?
Did you know that the Cavillargues medallion depicts a Roman gladiatorial combat and possibly an official giving the signal for mercy?
Did you know that Rut Castillo was the only out LGBTQ rhythmic gymnast at the 2020 Olympics ?
Did you know that the Confederate States Navy ordered six Squib -class torpedo boats from England, but they were never delivered?
Did you know that the 13th-century Austrian chronicler Jans der Enikel characterized Richard the Lionheart as a "noble goose-roaster"?
Did you know that Evelyn Wood called off the Zungwini Mountain skirmishes after learning of the Zulu victory over the British at the Battle of Isandlwana ?
Did you know that the Metropolitan main line was the first electrified revenue rapid transit in the United States?
Did you know that the only ever hijacking of a Royal Australian Air Force aircraft began at Baucau Airport , East Timor, in 1975?
Did you know that Wisconsin farmer-lawmaker Joseph Mleziva refused to run for a fifth term in 1948, saying, "I can't afford to continue and, besides, I'm tired of taking the abuse that comes with the job"?
Did you know that those who toppled the Monumento a los Constructores said that it was "a symbol of subordination, representation of slavery and an emblem of the Spanish genocide"?
Did you know that Red Blanchard , the owner of Iowa radio station KSMN , commuted 800 miles (1280 km) by plane from Mason City each week to host a radio show in Chicago ?
Did you know that one of Josquin des Prez 's most popular works is about the cricket ?
Did you know that the Miao art of balancing on a bamboo log has been described as "water ballet"?
Did you know that after surviving D-Day , former quarterback Mike Koken wrote that playing American football for Notre Dame left one "prepared for the toughest stuff the Jerries can throw at you"?
Did you know that bartender Gary Regan said Takumi's Aviation was the best he had ever encountered?
Did you know that James Clark was the second graduate of West Point to convert to Catholicism ?
Did you know that when the Mass in D major by Antonín Dvořák was first performed in 1887 at the chapel of a summer residence, his wife was a solo singer?
Did you know that due to variable endings of the ballet Swan Lake , Bolshoi Ballet dancer Anna Nikulina has been killed in Moscow , married to the prince in Kazan , and left alone on the lake in Chelyabinsk ?
Did you know that the entrance to 229 West 43rd Street was not locked for 32 years, and The New York Times could not find the key?
Did you know that in the 1970s, Coors Brewing Company owned Television News Inc. , which provided newsfilm to North American TV stations?
Did you know that Hal Sigurdson was described as "the thinking man's sportswriter"?
Did you know that the discovery of Bianchengichthys may shed new light on the evolution of all jawed vertebrates ?
Did you know that in 1958, Virginia Ali and her husband Ben Ali founded Ben's Chili Bowl , a landmark Washington, D.C. restaurant where Martin Luther King Jr. , Jesse Jackson , and Stokely Carmichael would often eat?
Did you know that prior to the third session of the United Nations General Assembly , while the Cold War was ongoing, prayers were conducted in various parts of the world?
Did you know that London's Greenwell Street is part of a trapezoid , not a triangle?
Did you know that before the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza Manhattan opened, its workers were sent to Walt Disney World for training?
Did you know that Franz Grave , the first bishop of Essen born in Essen , focused on intercultural dialogue with Latin America?
Did you know that Britain's first heart transplant was carried out in London's Westmoreland Street ?
Did you know that Pennsylvania state representative Marty Flynn engaged in a shootout with attempted burglars near the state capitol ?
Did you know that British singer Hope Tala turned down an opportunity to pursue a master's degree at the University of Cambridge in favour of pursuing a career in music?
Did you know that while the United States Armed Forces are forbidden from using flamethrowers by an international treaty, there are no restrictions on civilian use in 48 states and the District of Columbia ?
Did you know that Argentine sculptor Alberto Heredia protested censorship through his art and was forced into exile by a right-wing death squad ?
Did you know that Morgan Stanley acquired 750 Seventh Avenue and 1585 Broadway after both buildings went bankrupt and their respective tenants refused to pay rent?
Did you know that the Dar al-Kiswa in Egypt made ornamental curtains for the Kaaba in Mecca ?
Did you know that prior to becoming West Virginia 's first African-American judge, Leon P. Miller was McDowell County 's assistant prosecuting attorney, a Welch city councilman, and U.S. Attorney for the Virgin Islands ?
Did you know that the identities of Subwoolfer , who are set to represent Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 , remain unknown to date?
Did you know that André Delvaux was a magic-realist filmmaker who was made a baron by the king of Belgium?
Did you know that Iowa radio station KFQC was said to change programming and ownership "almost as regularly as dental check-ups are recommended"?
Did you know that Rüdiger Huzmann , Bishop of Speyer , granted a protective charter to the city's Jewish community in 1084?
Did you know that as a result of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Smiley v. Holm , the 1932 general election ballot in Minnesota contained 30 candidates for Congress?
Did you know that in 2022, Frida Westman was the first Swedish ski jumper to compete at an Olympic Games since 1994, when her father competed?
Did you know that the southwestern North American megadrought that began in 2000 is the driest 22-year period in the region since 800?
Did you know that the 2019 collapse of Welsh construction company Dawnus caused gridlock in part of Manchester as equipment was left in the highway?
Did you know that after the British Army captured New York City in 1776, Samuel Loudon fled to the village of Fishkill , where he founded the state's first post office?
Did you know that the gonads of the banded bullfrog remain ripe during dry periods so that it can mate soon after rainfall?
Did you know that the Japanese manga Space Family Carlvinson is likely named after an aircraft carrier that is itself named after U.S. congressman Carl Vinson ?
Did you know that American cardiologist Michael L. Hess chose to work in that field in exchange for a reduction in his tuition fees?
Did you know that in 1969, the first women's strike for equal pay in the Netherlands was called in a cigar factory in Nieuwe Pekela ?
Did you know that Indian politician Pushpaben Mehta was the first speaker of the Saurashtra Legislative Assembly ?
Did you know that the Dearborn Street Subway had skip-stop service in 1951 for one morning before it was discontinued?
Did you know that the motet Inviolata, integra et casta es Maria by Josquin des Prez has 144 breves —a reference to the "woman of the apocalypse" in the Book of Revelation ?
Did you know that teenager Jack Sweeney uses Twitter bots to track the private jets of Elon Musk , Drake , and Russian oligarchs ?
Did you know that the height of the Ganesh idol at Khairatabad in India increased by one foot (0.3 m) every year between 1954 and 2014?
Did you know that the Warwick Railway successfully operated independently for decades despite having just three employees, two locomotives, and less than a mile (1.6 km) of track?
Did you know that Abd al-Rahim ibn Ilyas , heir apparent of the Fatimid Caliphate , was arrested after the caliph's death and died in captivity under unclear circumstances?
Did you know that the first player can win a game of Fibonacci nim unless it starts with a Fibonacci number of coins?
Did you know that out of desperation, Pennsylvania radio station WMAJ took its call letters from the scrambled initials of its first program director?
Did you know that efficient and professional torture is found only in fiction ?
Did you know that as chancellor of the University of Victoria , Ronald Lou-Poy conferred degrees in Iqaluit and the Great Hall of the People ?
Did you know that while playing a ghost in the mystery film Lekin... , Dimple Kapadia was forbidden to blink because director Gulzar believed it would make her feel surreal?
Did you know that " Nahe wollt der Herr uns sein " (The Lord wanted to be close to us), first written in Dutch by Huub Oosterhuis in 1964, was included in the 1975 German hymnal Gotteslob ?
Did you know that the colour of the markings on Nesticus cellulanus can vary depending on the light level of the habitat, with darker habitats causing lighter markings?
Did you know that a urinal at Rothesay's Victorian Toilets commemorates Prince Charles' personal patronage?
Did you know that American lawyer and politician Armistead Abraham Lilly was also a principal owner of Ruffner Hotel in Charleston, West Virginia , and resided in its penthouse?
Did you know that almost everyone and everything that travels to Antarctica has to travel through one of five gateway cities ?
Did you know that Jonas Grethlein turned down chaired professorships at the universities of St Andrews and Cambridge ?
Did you know that in addition to creating milkshake products, Keventers Milkshake was also a major supplier of various milk products to the Indian Army for several decades up until the 1970s?
Did you know that author Harriet Connor Brown testified to the United States Congress in 1921 and 1922 to eliminate funding for the Chemical Warfare Service ?
Did you know that the 1711 Missa Sanctae Caeciliae , the first composition by Jan Dismas Zelenka , who had come from Prague to play in the Dresden court orchestra , is a 45-minute mass ?
Did you know that the interactive cartoon Cat Burglar takes about 15 minutes to watch, but features 90 minutes of animation?
Did you know that American president Calvin Coolidge wrote his statement " I do not choose to run " at Rapid City High School ?
Did you know that women's-rights activist Khairunnisa Ash'ari was appointed to the Legislative Council of Brunei as its youngest member?
Did you know that the site of Longacres has been home to a dairy farm, a horse racetrack, headquarters of a Boeing division, and a potential new facility for Seattle Sounders FC ?
Did you know that before she became a Mexican federal deputy , Celeste Sánchez Romero was a dental researcher with more than 40 published articles?
Did you know that Anderson Stadium in Austin, Texas , is the last high-school football stadium in the state built exclusively for African-American students?
Did you know that Anna Korsun , a composer who studied in Kyiv and Munich, and teaches in Amsterdam, was awarded a scholarship at the Villa Massimo in Rome in 2018?
Did you know that according to a Schiphol Airport official, installing pictures of flies in urinals reduced "spillage" by 80 per cent?
Did you know that in 2002, Georg Christoph Biller and others conceived the Forum Thomanum as a new music educational campus for the Thomanerchor , Bach 's choir dating back to 1212?
Did you know that multiple youth sports programs in Winnipeg were established by Uncle Vince ?
Did you know that the Tuttle Capital Short Innovation ETF is the first in the US to bet against another exchange-traded fund ?
Did you know that Miles Hadfield ensured supplies of food to Coventry during the Second World War Blitz ?
Did you know that The Flash episode " Welcome to Earth-2 " featured many actors portraying doppelgängers of their roles from the series?
Did you know that the Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation has argued that octopuses should be considered sentient?
Did you know that Jennifer Bates led thousands of Amazon warehouse workers to petition a vote for a union in Bessemer, Alabama ?
Did you know that a 35-second Blue Angels shot in To Fly! took more than four months to prepare?
Did you know that United States Army captain John L. Chapin 's company once boycotted a burger restaurant in El Paso, Texas , for discrimination?
Did you know that although the Kepler triangle has similar proportions to the Great Pyramid of Giza , the triangle's connection to the golden ratio makes it unlikely to have been used in ancient Egypt?
Did you know that Loski 's mixtape Call Me Loose was named as an inspiration for Scorpion by Drake ?
Did you know that the Sallie House in Atchison, Kansas , is said to be haunted by “The Man Hating Ghost”?
Did you know that H. Radclyffe Roberts once used a parachute, pulleys, and an "insect bomb" to collect grasshoppers from treetops?
Did you know that Joan G. Robinson felt that through writing the novel When Marnie Was There , she "faced the truth and found understanding" about her emotionally distant relationship with her mother?
Did you know that as the first licensed architect in Oklahoma, Leon B. Senter held "License Number 1" for forty years, from 1925 until his death?
Did you know that Selling Mother's Milk is a book which discusses the 18th-century practice of some parents in France giving their children to wet nurses for a year or more?
Did you know that Helen Steven shared the Gandhi International Peace Award for her opposition to the nuclear submarine base in Scotland ?
Did you know that Chicony , known primarily as a keyboard manufacturer, entered the computer-manufacturing business with the Rabbit 286 in 1988?
Did you know that The Beijinger had an advertisement for renting foreigners ?
Did you know that Jaz Brisack , leader of the movement to unionize Starbucks , was the first woman Rhodes Scholar at the University of Mississippi ?
Did you know that Dimple Kapadia won the National Film Award for Best Actress for playing a professional mourner in the film Rudaali ?
Did you know that a Forever 21 store at 1540 Broadway was expected to attract more daily visitors than the Statue of Liberty ?
Did you know that in a kishu ryūritan story a hero is exiled from their society, faces a variety of ordeals, and either returns in triumph or dies in exile?
Did you know that Dianna Agron auditioned for Glee using a high voice because she interpreted her character as a perfectionist who would not want a deep voice, something for which Agron had been teased at school?
Did you know that the developer Jack King-Spooner claimed that the people of Beeswing seemed to be supportive of his creation of his semi-autobiographical indie game Beeswing ?
Did you know that the Invisible Wind Factory will not be hosting Futurama ?
Did you know that many of the traditional Lakota ceremonies performed at the Sitting Bull Crystal Cavern Dance Pavilion were still illegal under federal law during the show's first years?
Did you know that John Harvey Rainier had the distinction of commanding troops from six different countries in action?
Did you know that community opposition to the routing of Interstate 40 through Memphis, Tennessee , led to a landmark United States Supreme Court ruling in Citizens to Preserve Overton Park v. Volpe ?
Did you know that as a child, Nayantara Sahgal associated the words Prison and Chocolate Cake with her memory of the police taking her father to jail while the family were having tea ?
Did you know that Leonard Bernstein composed the piano suite Bridal Suite for the wedding of Adolph Green and Phyllis Newman , with the couple meant to play it three-hands ?
Did you know that the film Panta Rhei is about the rhythms of clouds and water because the director Bert Haanstra did not feel ready to deal with people?
Did you know that in the UK, your remains can shelter baby lobsters ?
Did you know that the route of the former Waycross Air Line Railroad is now an important CSX Transportation line?
Did you know that the mathematical infinity symbol ∞ may be derived from the Roman numerals for 1000 or for 100 million?
Did you know that the Sunset Park Material Recovery Facility in Brooklyn is the largest commingled recycling facility in the United States?
Did you know that Tatiana Saunders is now goalkeeper for the equal pay team Lewes Football Club Women after playing for U.S., Icelandic and French teams?
Did you know that John Berry Meachum anchored the Floating Freedom School in the Mississippi River under federal government protection?
Did you know that the day employees of Boston television station WLVI received new business cards, they learned the station would be sold and they would lose their jobs?
Did you know that more young girls in Hamdallaye in Niger could go to school after a local councillor arranged to buy eight grinding machines?
Did you know that Andreas Rechnitzer helped devise the first scuba diving training program for scientists?
Did you know that Arithmetic was the first mathematics text book written in the Russian language ?
Did you know that gender-swapped drawings of Finn the Human , the main character of Adventure Time , inspired their own spin-off series ?
Did you know that journalist Maurice Smith helped establish a national curling championship for high school students in Canada?
Did you know that the source material for Curtis Roads 's electronic composition nscor was realized at six studios for a period of five years?
Did you know that for a Murad Takla , writing "reminds me of you" might be interpreted as "mind farts in you"?
Did you know that operatic soprano Elena Tsallagova has been described as a natural actress who can make even looking around a corner interesting?
Did you know that the 1976 manga series Kaze to Ki no Uta is credited with widely popularizing the male–male romance genre ?
Did you know that in 2007, Jeremiah Moss started Jeremiah's Vanishing New York , a blog that functions as a "digital obituary column" for old New York City small businesses lost to gentrification ?
Did you know that kausheya was an ancient Indian silk mentioned in epics including the Ramayana and the Mahabharata ?
Did you know that physical copies of Nintendo Switch Sports include the Leg Strap accessory from Ring Fit Adventure ?
Did you know that Richard J. Ferris , CEO of United Airlines , worked a financing plan with Boeing to prevent hostile takeovers of his company?
Did you know that the nature documentary The Green Planet , narrated by David Attenborough , has been compared to both horror films and a "plant porno"?
Did you know that Matilda Allison , blinded aged seven, "devoted her time instructing the blind" throughout America, thanks to a "wonderful education"?
Did you know that British animal-welfare activist Shirley McGreal founded the International Primate Protection League , after seeing trafficked monkeys in cages at an airport in Thailand?
Did you know that three former top-ranking Central Intelligence Agency officials appeared on ABC News Nightline to condemn the agency's treatment of Janine Brookner ?
Did you know that, between the ages of six and ten, Dorthe Emilie Røssell helped smuggle weapons and propaganda for the Danish resistance movement in her doll's pram?
Did you know that Julie Croteau is credited as being the first woman to play National Collegiate Athletic Association men's college baseball?
Did you know that South African nurse Stella Madzimbamuto filed an appeal in 1968 with the Privy Council of the United Kingdom that resulted in the Rhodesian government being declared illegal?
Did you know that the popular artist's model Margaret Lemon tried to bite Anthony van Dyck 's thumb off?
Did you know that the director of Only Fools Rush In said motorcycles are harder to film than cars?
Did you know that vaccine coverage at schools around the Disneyland Resort was too low for herd immunity when measles broke out in 2014 ?
Did you know that the adoption of all-steel percussion by Alexander's Ragtime Band in 1939 was widely copied, and prompted the development of the steelpan ?
Did you know that a 1982 composition by David Sampson is based on a 1931 poem inspired by the ancient Greek Eleusinian Mysteries ?
Did you know that al-Muqallad ibn al-Musayyab , the Uqaylid emir of Mosul, was assassinated by his own soldiers while plotting to capture Baghdad from the Buyids ?
Did you know that a spokesperson for the American Library Association told ABC News in late 2021 that she had "never seen such a widespread effort to remove books on racial and gender diversity"?
Did you know that at the Dow's Hill Interpretation Centre in Antigua , one can enjoy rum cocktails whilst touring historic ruins?
Did you know that the aesthetic expression of clothing might entail emotions like "excitement, calmness, strength, and delicacy"?