kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that according to a hadith by the Islamic prophet Muhammad , sadaqa removes seventy gates of evil?
Did you know that independent candidate Anadi Das defeated the incumbent assembly speaker in the 1962 West Bengal election ?
Did you know that White House sentries were abolished by Gerald Ford but reinstated by Ronald Reagan ?
Did you know that after part of the dome of the New Jersey State House was painted blue, George H. Barbour introduced legislation to ensure it would be restored to its traditional gold and white?
Did you know that one member of South Sudan's delegation to the 2016 Summer Olympics was informed by email eight days prior to the Games that he would not be competing?
Did you know that in the 1980s, the West Bengal Fisheries Minister Bhakti Bhushan Mandal declared himself to be an intermediary between the Government of India and exiled Naga leader Phizo ?
Did you know that in South Africa, fewer than 40% of African cuckoo eggs are successfully hatched and the chicks raised by their foster parents?
Did you know that New England expatriate Thomas Wright Everett became the last Royal Governor of Maui ?
Did you know that one critic described the novel Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks as starting a trend in the 1990s of British literature rethinking the legacy of the World Wars ?
Did you know that Alice Brock owned the restaurant that inspired both the song and the film named "Alice's Restaurant"?
Did you know that Hawaiian legislator Luther Aholo was compared to the Athenian statesman Solon ?
Did you know that the Revolutionary Communist Party of India general secretary Sudhindranath Kumar served two terms as Food Minister of West Bengal ?
Did you know that artwork at Othello station in Seattle, Washington, includes African dancers, an Asian-American " totem pole ", and stormwater channels?
Did you know that Alice Bota , who writes for Die Zeit and studied in Germany and Poland, won an award for young journalists ?
Did you know that after the Mataram conquest of the Duchy of Surabaya , the son of its last duke married the sister of the conqueror, Sultan Agung ?
Did you know that in 1980, newspaper editor Willis Tucker was elected the first county executive of Snohomish County, Washington ?
Did you know that Cheshire Cheese may be found in Essex ?
Did you know that the British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason signed his first record deal on a bus named in his honour?
Did you know that the Swarmjet system was a proposed short-range anti-ballistic missile that fired thousands of unguided rockets like a shotgun against incoming nuclear warheads ?
Did you know that U.S. Representative-elect Ted Budd won his first election with 20% of the vote in a 17-candidate field?
Did you know that the idea for Through the Wilderness , a Madonna tribute album , came in a dream to Paul Beahan ?
Did you know that a plot led by Joseph Harmatz to poison 12,000 SS officers, held as POWs after World War II , was part of a revenge effort "to kill six million Germans, one for every Jew slaughtered by the Germans"?
Did you know that the 1937 Tamil-language film Bhaktha Sri Thyagaraja is based on the life of the Carnatic musician Tyagaraja ?
Did you know that Becca Pizzi completed seven marathons on seven continents in seven days , and accepted a marriage proposal on the mound before throwing out the first pitch at Fenway Park?
Did you know that Kurile Lake is the site of the largest volcanic eruption of Holocene Kamchatka and one of the largest in the Holocene, spreading ash to a distance of 1,700 kilometres (1,100 mi)?
Did you know that pastry chef Carine Goren was the most googled person in Israel in 2015?
Did you know that aluminium triacetate is used to treat aphthous ulcers and otitis , to relieve the itch from poison ivy , and as an astringent with Mortellaro disease in hoofed animals?
Did you know that during her 1895 trial, Queen Liliuokalani was defended by her former attorney general and tried by a military tribunal led by another former attorney general ?
Did you know that the main hall of Shuri Castle was reused as the haiden of Okinawa Shrine before its destruction in the Battle of Okinawa ?
Did you know that Mary Barkas was the first female house physician at the Bethlem Royal Hospital in London?
Did you know that the Westboro Baptist Church called Houston's Montrose Center "an oozing, purulent sore of sodomite contagion?"
Did you know that Josh White is a NASCAR driver and a member of the United States Marine Corps Reserve ?
Did you know that Rudraveena (1988) was the second Telugu-language film to win the Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration ?
Did you know that Rhode Island ratified the United States constitution only after being threatened with a trade embargo by the rest of the United States?
Did you know that Jan Rippe became well known to the Swedish public in his role as Roger in the television comedy series Macken ?
Did you know that I Am Seven was released by Eleven9 Entertainment, a new agency in which South Korean singer Seven had invested six billion won (US$5.24 million)?
Did you know that when introducing actress Sharon Stone , Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Monroe Karmin attributed her "wellness, fitness, and positive attitude" to her choice of undergarments?
Did you know that the labour studies scholar Kendra Coulter calls for interspecies solidarity between human and animal workers?
Did you know that Christina Aguilera self-produced a 96-second music video for " Telepathy " as a gift to her fans as the song rose to number-one on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart?
Did you know that the Cretaceous snail Condonella was described in 1927, but not placed into a snail family until 2000?
Did you know that at age 22, Judith Hemmendinger helped rehabilitate nearly 100 child survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp , among them Elie Wiesel ?
Did you know that the pre-Islamic Arab chieftain Zuhayr ibn Janab destroyed a sanctuary that rivalled the Kaaba of Mecca?
Did you know that at Bexley Hospital , the patients looked after the farm animals, maintained the grounds, and did the cleaning?
Did you know that the princess Joan of Navarre had to renounce her inheritance and become a nun because her fiancé wanted to marry her younger sister Maria instead?
Did you know that El Progreso Department in Guatemala was dissolved 12 years after its creation, only to be recreated 14 years later?
Did you know that Hawaiian Colonel John Dominis Holt served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention with a prince ?
Did you know that under certain conditions, the woodland dormouse can enter a state of torpor ?
Did you know that the focus of Harvard Environmental Law Review was changed because the original format was "too ambitious"?
Did you know that art dealer and gallerist Robert Mnuchin , and his sons Steven and Alan, all worked for Goldman Sachs ?
Did you know that the World Health Organization says that a focus on reproductive health alone prevents progress in ensuring quality women's healthcare ?
Did you know that since it honors a notionally illegal cult , suburban Shanghai's Tianfei Palace is officially classified as a museum?
Did you know that Kingdom of Hawaii Attorney General Antone Rosa and Interior Minister John F. Colburn were detained for driving a carriage into a fish market?
Did you know that Solange Knowles performed a live cover of Nivea 's song " Laundromat " in an actual laundromat?
Did you know that Michael Lane , who served as Chief Engineer of the Great Western Railway , started out as a bricklayer but became one of Isambard Kingdom Brunel 's most trusted assistants?
Did you know that when its cheek pouches are full, the lesser spot-nosed monkey 's throat resembles a snowball?
Did you know that Dave Somers , the current executive of Snohomish County, Washington , was educated as a fisheries biologist ?
Did you know that there was no marker for the grave of theologian Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen at Elm Ridge Cemetery for more than a century after his burial?
Did you know that Steve Cooke and Beth Webster are the newest Eggheads ?
Did you know that Brigham Young University has a digitized collection of Mormon missionary diaries that includes the work of 115 diarists and 376 written volumes?
Did you know that Gonzalo Castellot Madrazo was the first announcer to appear on Mexican television ?
Did you know that low-level Schedule C political appointees in the United States sometimes attempt to "burrow in" by transferring to permanent merit-based positions ?
Did you know that Baxter Langley , who stood for the UK Parliament alongside William Gladstone , was later sentenced to hard labour ?
Did you know that despite charting at only 96, " To Build a Home " by The Cinematic Orchestra has been streamed more than 60 million times and featured in several TV shows?
Did you know that expulsion from the Senate did not prevent Gaius Antonius Hybrida from attaining the highest elected office in the Roman Republic?
Did you know that the Pu Songling short story " Stealing Peaches " describes the Indian rope trick ?
Did you know that Brett Smitheram won the 2016 World Scrabble Championship ?
Did you know that the 72nd , 86th , and 96th Street stations along the Second Avenue Subway are part of the New York City Subway 's first major expansion in over half a century?
Did you know that when he was growing up, U.S. Representative-elect Raja Krishnamoorthi lived in public housing and received food stamps ?
Did you know that destruction of ancient Assyrian sculpture by ISIL is reported to have increased in late 2016 with the Mosul offensive ?
Did you know that after becoming the first African-American to captain an athletic team at Notre Dame , Aubrey Lewis joined the first class to include blacks at the FBI Academy ?
Did you know that the mixed choir Kantorei Barmen-Gemarke , founded 70 years ago for sacred music , was a partner of the WDR from 1957, and performed in Israel and with Ian Anderson ?
Did you know that West Bengal Jails Minister Jiban Ratan Dhar had been jailed three times himself?
Did you know that the British-Hawaiian politician Ferdinand William Hutchison was influential in the development of the leper colony of Kalaupapa , to which his son Ambrose K. Hutchison was exiled in 1879?
Did you know that in the stratified social system of the African Zarma people , the lowest stratum inherited slavery ?
Did you know that Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath explores "shocking stories of abuse, heartbreak and harassment" of former members of the Church of Scientology ?
Did you know that Sam Manekshaw was the first Indian Army officer to be promoted to the rank of field marshal ?
Did you know that Neues Geistliches Lied , a genre of contemporary songs for use at church, was performed by around 1,895 choirs and bands in German dioceses according to a 2001 report?
Did you know that the third wife of Bohemond III of Antioch was described as a witch by William of Tyre , and as a whore by Michael the Syrian ?
Did you know that Merian C. Cooper , director of King Kong , destroyed nearly all 5,000 copies of his autobiography Things Men Die For ?
Did you know that the components of the TV Corvi system orbit each other every 90 minutes?
Did you know that Wilhelm von Debschitz founded an art school in Munich which provided a model for the Bauhaus ?
Did you know that Pharrell Williams wrote the song " Sexify " based on headlines from the women's fashion magazine Cosmopolitan ?
Did you know that journalist Shafiqa Habibi was one of only three women candidates in the 2004 Afghan presidential election ?
Did you know that the reliquary of the 11th-century Buddhist monk Miaoyuan was rediscovered in the 1970s during repairs to Songjiang 's Square Pagoda ?
Did you know that Raphael Demos taught Martin Luther King Jr. the philosophy of Plato and gave him an A for his work?
Did you know that XGRS was a Nazi -operated radio station in Shanghai during World War II ?
Did you know that despite his subjects' reluctance to accept him as king, Philip III of Navarre proved to be an effective and successful ruler?
Did you know that the European Commission ruled the Republic of Ireland's tax benefits to Apple were an illegal form of state aid , and the company would have to pay €13 billion in back tax as a result?
Did you know that Helen Boyle was the first female president of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association ?
Did you know that the multiplayer fan project developed for Just Cause 2 was recognized by Avalanche Studios as the game's official downloadable content ?
Did you know that an ace member of the Eagle Squadrons , Richard L. Alexander , was one of the first pilots of the P-47 Thunderbolt ?
Did you know that the male tantalus monkey has a bright blue scrotum surrounded by orange hairs?
Did you know that Thomas of Tolentino was martyred for insulting Muhammad during a medieval domestic violence case in India?
Did you know that the criollista novel Carazamba may be seen as an allegory of the incorporation of the remote Petén Department into the Guatemalan nation?
Did you know that U.S. Representative-elect Stephanie Murphy and her family left Vietnam when she was six months old, and were rescued by the U.S. Navy ?
Did you know that Guinea-Bissau's participation at the 2012 Summer Paralympics was the country's first at a Paralympic Games ?
Did you know that the philosopher Gary Varner has argued that all beings, including plants, have morally considerable interests?
Did you know that the future Roosevelt station in Seattle plans to incorporate a preserved Streamline Moderne facade from a music shop that was demolished for its construction?
Did you know that the hairy-breasted barbet has been observed to remove wings and legs from insects by bashing them on branches?
Did you know that Harvard philosopher Ralph Monroe Eaton wrote an unpublished memoir of his experiences during the First World War?
Did you know that " Zhang Hongjian ", a short story by Chinese writer Pu Songling, was adapted into two plays?
Did you know that the fossil ant genus Agastomyrma was described from a single queen?
Did you know that Hannah Dadds was the first female train driver on the London Underground ?
Did you know that during their conquest of Surabaya , Mataram forces dammed the Brantas River to limit water supply to the city of Surabaya ?
Did you know that Malian taekwondo practitioner Ismaël Coulibaly won a gold medal at the 2015 African Games ?
Did you know that George Washington's campaign distributed 160 US gallons (610 L) of alcoholic drink to voters on polling day at the 1758 Virginia House of Burgesses election?
Did you know that Michael Stevens , creator and host of Vsauce , uploaded his first YouTube videos under the username "pooplicker888"?
Did you know that Sound Transit 3 will nearly double the amount of light rail in the Seattle region to 112 miles (180 km) of track?
Did you know that males of the fossil ant Proceratium eocenicum have a hair fringe?
Did you know that the 1970 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games , held in Edinburgh , lacked day-to-day television coverage by British broadcasters?
Did you know that Tamar Halperin recorded music by Erik Satie , playing piano, harpsichord , Hammond organ , and Wurlitzer piano ?
Did you know that Asian Paints Ltd 's former mascot Gattu, a mischievous boy with a paint bucket, was created by Indian cartoonist R. K. Laxman ?
Did you know that fictional journalist Carl Diggler correctly predicted the results of more 2016 presidential primaries than Nate Silver 's statistics blog FiveThirtyEight ?
Did you know that 45-pound (20 kg) weight plates have been known to weigh as little as 38 pounds (17 kg) or as much as 59 pounds (27 kg)?
Did you know that President Lyndon B. Johnson credited Agnes E. Meyer with having the most influence over his education policy?
Did you know that in 2003, PSLV-C5 deployed the IRS-P6 satellite, then the heaviest and most sophisticated remote sensing satellite built by the Indian Space Research Organisation ?
Did you know that Beatriz de la Cueva , the first female colonial governor in the New World, died in a September 11 disaster two days after taking office?
Did you know that the New York State Insurance Fund once mistakenly categorized puppet making under rubber manufacturing instead of theatrical production?
Did you know that King Henry IV 's invasion of Scotland in 1400 has been described as "utterly futile"?
Did you know that the 1000-year-old Bishop Petros with Saint Peter the Apostle ended up in Poland after being saved from a watery grave?
Did you know that the Washington state 1960 gubernatorial election was the first in state history to include televised debates ?
Did you know that Wes McCauley has refereed the Stanley Cup Finals for the last four years?
Did you know that 10 of the military officers involved in the 1989 Panamanian coup d'état attempt were executed in what became known as the Albrook massacre?
Did you know that the positions of nonzero digits in two reciprocal irrational numbers , 1/3.30033000000000033... = 0.30300000303..., are given by the Moser–de Bruijn sequence and its double?
Did you know that Clarence Ditlow was recommended for a consumer advocacy job because he was a wrestler?
Did you know that Operation Game Warden sought to interdict Viet Cong use of the Mekong Delta during the Vietnam War and in so doing, patrolled over 3,800 miles (6,100 km) of natural and man-made waterways?
Did you know that to the speakers of the Ngan’gityemerri language , the flowering of the red-flowering kurrajong marks the time that freshwater crocodiles are laying eggs?
Did you know that in 1981 Bobbi Campbell became the first person to publicly identify as a person living with HIV/AIDS ?
Did you know that the joystick shipped with the Atari 2600 was described as "the pinnacle of home entertainment controllers in its day"?
Did you know that eleven publishers vied for the rights to Jessie Burton 's debut novel The Miniaturist ?
Did you know that Don Martina , former Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles, successfully campaigned for a slave leader to become a national hero?
Did you know that the eggs of Oberländer's ground thrush have yet to be described?
Did you know that the elected council of the Free City of Danzig Government in Exile was supposedly recognised in secret as the legal successor to the Danzig Senate by Danzig expatriates in 1951 and 1961?
Did you know that the first known specimen of the dinosaur Tongtianlong limosus , which may have died trapped in mud, was nearly blown up by Chinese workmen?
Did you know that the Sindh Mohajir Punjabi Pathan Muttahida Mahaz was the first Pakistani party to use the term " Muhajir " in a political context?
Did you know that according to popular legend, Edward William Purvis gave his nickname, meaning "jumping flea", to the ukulele ?
Did you know that less than 50 years after being discovered, Heterelmis stephani is now presumed extinct?
Did you know that Muzoon Almellehan has been called the " Malala of Syria" for her work to keep girls in school?
Did you know that the funeral of the author Lewis Carroll was held at St Mary's Church in Guildford ?
Did you know that in 1880, Stephen P. Moss and Charles A. Cogswell founded the Lake County Examiner to advocate their Democratic political views in southern Oregon ?
Did you know that although Egypt boycotted the 1956 Summer Olympics , it still sent three athletes to the Games ?
Did you know that Deicke and Millbrig bentonite layers in eastern United States were formed by huge volcanic eruptions?
Did you know that Thomas Ince: Hollywood's Independent Pioneer , is the first biography of the producer/director known as the "Father of the Western "?
Did you know that, during his 1903 campaign for Governor of Kentucky , Morris B. Belknap got to a speaking engagement on time by pumping a handcar ?
Did you know that a Parliament Square protest against a ban on depiction of certain sexual practices in streaming videos featured slogans such as "Urine for a shock if you expect us to stop"?
Did you know that in 1998 Eleanor Robinson set a world record of 13 days, 1 hour, 54 minutes for a woman to run 1,000 miles (1,600 km)?
Did you know that on parallel computers , processors can steal work from each other?
Did you know that "Operation Nine Connect" resulted in the July 2006 arrest of some sixty members of the Nine Trey Gangsters ?
Did you know that a former MP for Taunton, Edward Wickham , accompanied both the Shah of Persia and the King of Afghanistan on tours?
Did you know that Virgin Hotels Chicago ‍—‌the first of Richard Branson 's Virgin Hotels ‍—‌has no check-in desk and relies on a mobile app named Lucy to perform many services?
Did you know that the 2014 film The Theory of Everything received ten nominations from the British Academy Film Awards ?
Did you know that American chemical weapons researcher and oceanographer Thomas Gordon Thompson sold his stamp collection to pay for his private island ?
Did you know that Dollfus' stargazer lures little fishes to their doom?
Did you know that the scientist Lisa-Ann Gershwin , who has discovered 200 species of jellyfish , is related to George Gershwin ?
Did you know that the Broadway Limited was the only Pennsylvania Railroad train to be completely re-equipped with lightweight sleeping cars before World War II?
Did you know that the Kaivalya Upanishad exalts the one who sees without eyes and hears without ears?
Did you know that the rhythm parts for Steely Dan 's " Aja " were so long and complex that each player needed three music stands to hold the charts ?
Did you know that despite allegations that the vote was corrupt, the 1701 Taunton by-election result stood?
Did you know that properties in Jaywick have been on sale for as little as £20,000?
Did you know that the colour of the sea snail Simnia spelta varies, but when it grazes on the white gorgonian it mimics the twigs?
Did you know that the Main Central Thrust extends 2,200 kilometres (1,400 mi) along the Himalaya mountain belt?
Did you know that Gene Roddenberry blamed religious executives of Paramount Studios for its rejection of Star Trek: The God Thing ?
Did you know that Florentijn Hofman created a 30-foot (9 m) tall pink cat in Century Park , Shanghai ?
Did you know that a " big boned policy " is used to draft the Japanese budget?
Did you know that in describing the Battle of Malvern Hill , Confederate officer D.H. Hill wrote, "It wasn't war; it was murder"?
Did you know that ABC 's television film adaptation of Robert J. Serling 's The President's Plane Is Missing was completed in 1971 but postponed until one year after Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China ?
Did you know that Preity Zinta essayed the role of a prostitute hired as a surrogate mother in the 2001 film Chori Chori Chupke Chupke ?
Did you know that the 1982 Wimpy Operation marked the start of armed resistance against Israeli troops in Beirut ?
Did you know that while fullback Nick Bobeck lettered all four years at Central Oklahoma , he didn't carry the ball until his second-to-last game?
Did you know that Emeric, King of Hungary persuaded Pope Innocent III to excommunicate the Venetians and the crusaders of the Fourth Crusade after they captured the Dalmatian town of Zadar in 1202?
Did you know that the valley of Laurel Run is the only place in the USGS quadrangle of Elk Grove where Wisconsinan Flow- Till occurs?
Did you know that Danish retail billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen is the second largest private landowner in Scotland?
Did you know that the Chandos Glass Cone was used for pottery and brick manufacture for much longer than it was for glassmaking ?
Did you know that although the Greek Orthodox bishop of Korçë , Photios , took initiatives for the promotion of the local education, he was assassinated in 1906 for not supporting Albanian cultural activity?
Did you know that the Jiuduansha shoals off Pudong are the spawning ground for hairy crab , a Shanghainese delicacy ?
Did you know that the 2013 film Despicable Me 2 was predicted to be the most profitable film in the history of Universal Studios ?
Did you know that Saint Mary's Church in Jajce was the place of coronation of the last Bosnian king and later a mosque?
Did you know that although slavery in Korea has been abolished for over a century, modern slavery is still a concern?