kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 's call for Israel to be "wiped off the map" has been described as incitement to genocide ?
Did you know that Rupert Bunny gained an honourable mention at the Paris Salon of 1890 with his painting Tritons ?
Did you know that one of the factors affecting the future of the Huanchaca mouse is the increased cultivation of biofuels ?
Did you know that the World Hockey Summit debated the age at which to introduce body checking at the minor ice hockey level, or whether to eliminate it altogether?
Did you know that American law professor Harry Bigelow sat on President Harry S. Truman's National Loyalty Review Board during the Second Red Scare ?
Did you know that on the Lycian Way , a hiker can experience all four seasons in one day?
Did you know that George Brian Sinclair worked on British thermonuclear weapons tests , the Channel Tunnel , and a Korean sewer system?
Did you know that for generations, black parents in the United States have felt compelled to instruct their children about how to de-escalate encounters with the police?
Did you know that the Central Asian riparian woodlands ecoregion features shrubby vegetation known as tugai , which adapts to the region's extremely hot summers and cold winters?
Did you know that former GlaxoSmithKline executive Moncef Slaoui is chief adviser to Operation Warp Speed , which aims to deliver 300 million doses of a vaccine for COVID-19 by January 2021?
Did you know that over ground workers act as the "eyes and ears of the underground militants" in Jammu and Kashmir ?
Did you know that Günther Massenkeil , editor of an eight-volume music encyclopedia, initiated the restoration of the village organ he had played as a prisoner of war in Alsace decades earlier?
Did you know that production of Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story was delayed by a monsoon and the director having a heart attack, then sped up following an extortion attempt by the Chinese mafia ?
Did you know that St Mary's Church, Rolleston on Dove , is unusual in having the public entrance on its north side, the southern entrance being reserved for the Mosley family ?
Did you know that professional Super Smash Bros. player Samsora performed a runway walk while cosplaying as the character he competes with, Princess Peach , at a tournament in 2019?
Did you know that an eruption in the Hakkōda Mountains could create volcanic mudflows that might inundate large sections of the Japanese cities of Aomori and Towada ?
Did you know that after Joanna Jordan left her job at the Late Show with David Letterman to start a talent agency , the show became her first client?
Did you know that in A World Without Jews , Alon Confino argues that "the messianic struggle to create a Nazi civilization depended on the extermination of the Jews"?
Did you know that Northern Irish goalkeeper Alan Mannus refused to face the flag of the Republic of Ireland at the 2019 FAI Cup Final because he is not Irish?
Did you know that during a 1977 blackout , crews filming Superman: The Movie at the Daily News Building lent their Klieg lights to Daily News editors so that the next day's issue could be published?
Did you know that Megacephalosaurus was one of the last known pliosaurs and coexisted with some of the earliest mosasaurs ?
Did you know that when the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba discussed the speed limit, Toby Sexsmith remarked that nobody, with the possible exception of the premier , needed to travel faster than 50 mph (80 km/h)?
Did you know that The Cincinnati Enquirer commended makers of the 1950 film Again Pioneers for basically telling the Protestant churches that sponsored the production that they "are not doing their jobs"?
Did you know that the Corn Exchange in Chichester has also been used as a cinema and a McDonald's ?
Did you know that after a 2016 prison break by suspected terrorists , the government of Madhya Pradesh called on the Central Industrial Security Force to review the security of its jails?
Did you know that the titular antagonist in the Chinese short story " Hu Dagu " is based on a toilet spirit?
Did you know that a reviewer praised child star Jane Withers 's expressiveness in the title role of Paddy O'Day , saying that she "talks with eyes, hands, feet and hair"?
Did you know that Munster Technological University , scheduled to open in 2021, will be only the second university of its type in Ireland ?
Did you know that excavations for the Steinway Tunnel expanded a reef in the East River into an island ?
Did you know that Swedish ballerina Nikisha Fogo 's parents owned the first hip-hop dance school in Sweden?
Did you know that a state representative called Boston's Silver Line buses "discrimination against people of color", owing to their poor service compared to the elevated metro line they replaced?
Did you know that the election of Giacomo dalla Torre as the grand master of the Order of Malta in 2018 marked the first time that female members participated in the vote for a new leader?
Did you know that the Unicode characters ☕, ☔, and ⚡ were originally proposed by North Korea ?
Did you know that Sir Hereward Wake, 13th Baronet , preserved the keep of Dover Castle from possible loss to fire by giving it to the Office of Works ?
Did you know that Fonner Park in Grand Island, Nebraska , was described as having become "the center of the horse racing world" during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Did you know that in Nepal, it is against the law to beg ?
Did you know that motorsport champion Ashley Freiberg does cyclo-cross , hiking, rock climbing, and skate skiing in the mountains of Vermont to prepare for auto racing events?
Did you know that before the passage of India's anti-defection law , an estimated 550 out of 3,500 legislators elected in 1967 defected from their parent parties, some crossing the floor more than once?
Did you know that Layla Saad 's 2020 book Me and White Supremacy originated from an Instagram challenge?
Did you know that an American politics podcast has said that "if you sleep on a mattress on the floor and fuck in a sleeping bag, then you just might be the dirtbag left "?
Did you know that professional Super Smash Bros. player Maister went from being unranked to being considered the sixth-best Super Smash Bros. Ultimate player in only six months?
Did you know that Barracuda is home to the longest-running bar show in New York City, which may have inspired RuPaul's Drag Race ?
Did you know that Jem Bendell 's paper Deep Adaptation argues that neither a complete halt in emissions nor geoengineering can prevent what he sees as an impending climate apocalypse ?
Did you know that Brad Ashford described the film Forrest Gump as "a travelogue of my early life"?
Did you know that the Space Shuttle used autogenous pressurization to keep its external fuel tank pressurized after engine ignition?
Did you know that Polish philosopher Bronisław Bandrowski was trapped in the Tatra Mountains for days, but had already hurled himself into an abyss when rescuers arrived?
Did you know that NATO has its own anthem ?
Did you know that St Anselm's Church, Pembury , a Catholic church for former Anglicans, once used an altar on wheels?
Did you know that North Texas was invited to play in the 2016 Heart of Dallas Bowl despite having a losing record?
Did you know that Monita Rajpal , whose first job out of college was as a receptionist , has interviewed Mikhail Gorbachev , Vicente Fox , Al Gore , Tom Ford , and I. M. Pei ?
Did you know that the male giant glass frog has a hooked spur on his upper arm which is used when fighting rivals?
Did you know that the 1980s American manufacturer Parallel Computers, Inc. , was part of a wave of new companies trying to make fault-tolerant systems?
Did you know that Abu Said Faraj instigated Ceuta to declare independence from the Marinid Sultanate in 1304, only to conquer the city for Granada two years later?
Did you know that future government minister Alistair Burt attended the A Question of Europe debate wearing a beret, a striped shirt, and a string of onions?
Did you know that a group of escaped German prisoners established a short-lived Nazi state in the Dutch East Indies ?
Did you know that in the 1980s, textile conservator Martand Singh organized a series of exhibitions to rekindle interest in the weaving and dyeing traditions of India?
Did you know that the Laguna Creek watershed debouches into the San Francisco Bay near the site of the ghost town of Drawbridge ?
Did you know that the board of directors of Canadian cooperative television station CFVO-TV refused to accept the resignation of its president so that he could negotiate a loan?
Did you know that the abduction of the Georgian demoness Samdzimari and her subsequent conversion to goddess may have been derived from the Christian story of Saint George and the Dragon ?
Did you know that the composition of the 1st Wyoming Territorial Legislature was entirely Democratic ?
Did you know that the Soviet Union women's national rugby union team bartered smuggled vodka and caviar to cover their living expenses at the 1991 Women's Rugby World Cup?
Did you know that a member of the U.S. Congress referred to the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act as "one of the worst pieces of legislation Congress has passed in a generation"?
Did you know that Gérard de Nerval thought his poems from the cycle The Chimeras would "lose their charm" if they were explained?
Did you know that the All India Conference of Indian Christians was opposed to the partition of India ?
Did you know that in the early years of Montana radio station KGHL , some musical groups had to perform on the roof of the studio building?
Did you know that coal from Turkey fuelled the first submarine in history to fire a torpedo while submerged?
Did you know that the Film Development Board of Nepal refused to issue a production license to Gaja Baja because the title alluded to marijuana?
Did you know that a former school band teacher became the Archbishop of Winnipeg ?
Did you know that Joseph M. Carey lost reelection to the United States Senate with zero votes to Francis E. Warren due to his opposition to the free silver movement?
Did you know that Road Rash II is reportedly "the first game in which you could actually beat, and get beaten by, a cop"?
Did you know that the drama The Undivine Comedy has been recognized as one of the most significant works of literature of the Polish Romantic period ?
Did you know that Swedish composer Harald Fryklöf , "who had hardly ever known a day's illness in his life", died from the Spanish flu at the age of 36?
Did you know that the Keweenaw Brewing Company 's most popular beer gets its "widow maker" nickname from a dangerous drill once used to mine copper?
Did you know that both the white-bellied woolly mouse opossum and the Fernando Po swift are named after the British architectural historian and philanthropist Constance Sladen ?
Did you know that the East York Lyndhursts ' loss to the Russians in ice hockey was "a national calamity, a national humiliation, and a mortifying experience"?
Did you know that Ján Vojtaššák , deputy chairman of the Slovak parliament when it approved the deportation of Jews from Slovakia, is being considered for beatification ?
Did you know that The Little Players performed invitation-only puppet shows out of a New York City living room for over 25 years?
Did you know that after the king of Kachar died whilst invading the Pratapgarh Kingdom , his widow Kamala commanded its conquest herself to avenge him?
Did you know that the #VivaTaiwan campaign started when a letter to Brazilian parliamentarians from the Chinese embassy in Brasília was leaked online?
Did you know that Jitse Groen founded Takeaway.com while still a student, after being unable to get a takeaway delivered to North Holland?
Did you know that the 1925 FA Cup Final was the first in the competition's history to feature a Welsh team?
Did you know that a well-preserved ghost town lies intact at the bottom of an Arizona lake ?
Did you know that the former seal of Zion, Illinois , was ruled unconstitutional because it contained the phrase "God reigns"?
Did you know that Chelsea F.C. 's loss in the 1988 Football League Second Division play-off Final triggered football hooliganism that injured 45 people?
Did you know that Olga Yurievskaya , a daughter of Alexander II of Russia and Princess Catherine Dolgorukova , was legitimated by her parents' morganatic marriage ?
Did you know that in a promotional stunt, staff at Cincinnati -area radio station WIZF demanded a 40-percent raise, which turned out to refer to a 40-foot (12 m) increase in the height of the station's antenna?
Did you know that while lente insulin is no longer approved for use in humans in the United States, it is still used commonly in cats and dogs with diabetes ?
Did you know that Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman developed the plot of their 1936 play Stage Door while cycling side by side?
Did you know that the hymn " Praise, my soul, the King of heaven ", sung at the wedding of Princess Elizabeth, now Queen Elizabeth II , was written by Henry Francis Lyte , who also wrote the well-known " Abide with Me "?
Did you know that Hungarian émigré Frank Varga followed in his father 's footsteps to become a noted sculptor ?
Did you know that Singaporean authorities hope that the Mandai Wildlife Bridge will reduce the risk of animals such as Sunda pangolins and leopard cats becoming roadkill ?
Did you know that Arlington State College left the Texas A&M University System after 48 years to join the University of Texas System ?
Did you know that the annual film festival in Kigali is known as "Hillywood"?
Did you know that William Jefferson Hardin was the first black member of the Wyoming House of Representatives ?
Did you know that the small frog Cochranella nola has yellow intestines, a green tongue, and dark green bones?
Did you know that during the COVID-19 pandemic , United Nations secretary-general António Guterres called for a global domestic violence "ceasefire" ?
Did you know that when sports journalist Andy O'Brien discovered John Landy bleeding in the locker room at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games , the runner swore him to secrecy?
Did you know that Rob Wiethoff 's work as John Marston in Red Dead Redemption lasted almost two years?
Did you know that after logging their 199th win, Hendrick Motorsports had to wait for seven months and sixteen races before they won their 200th NASCAR Cup Series , with Jimmie Johnson at the wheel?
Did you know that Casualty struggled to portray the open-air scenes from Episode 1067 as winter because passers-by were wearing summer clothing?
Did you know that Susan Benesch , founder of the Dangerous Speech Project, advocates the use of "counterspeech" and humor against hate speech?
Did you know that the 2018 Nepali comedy-drama Mr. Virgin was criticised for its title?
Did you know that Luis Ocaña won the Orcières-Merlette stage of the 1971 Tour de France , beating the 1970 champion , Eddy Merckx , by more than eight minutes?
Did you know that Roland Tan , the most-wanted fugitive in Singapore, remained at large for 50 years until his death in April 2020 in Denmark?
Did you know that Massachusetts 's Question 3 was the first U.S. ballot measure to ban the sale of animal products such as eggs and pork from intensively confined animals ?
Did you know that the history of nursing's pinning ceremony dates back to the Knights Hospitaller in the 12th century?
Did you know that Fumio Tajima published a paper described as among the "founding papers of modern population genetics " the same year he submitted his doctoral dissertation ?
Did you know that the text of the hymn " Was mein Gott will, das g'scheh allzeit " was written by Albert, Duke of Prussia , while the tune came from a secular French song?
Did you know that when the National City Bank of New York moved to 55 Wall Street in 1908, messengers carried the bank's $500 million holdings across the street in leather satchels?
Did you know that Systime Computers , based in Leeds , was once Britain's second largest computer manufacturer?
Did you know that in qualifying for the 1987 World Snooker Championship , Jimmy van Rensberg had a suspected heart attack, but returned to win his match?
Did you know that Jim Lander graduated from Lander University ?
Did you know that the Elected Authorities (Northern Ireland) Act 1989 requires Northern Irish election candidates to sign a declaration that they will not support terrorism in word or deed?
Did you know that Homo ergaster may have been the first species of archaic humans to control fire?
Did you know that Jane Bell, one of the original occupants of Bell Cottage , was found guilty of concealing a birth and became the first European woman to be incarcerated on Rottnest Island ?
Did you know that " Ode to the Mets " is not actually an ode to the Mets , despite being written following a Mets game ?
Did you know that Gisele Bündchen thinks that the reason she was audited by the Internal Revenue Service was because of her regular top placing on a Forbes magazine high-earners list?
Did you know that a proposed Jewish unit in the Polish Armed Forces in the Soviet Union was described as a "moral victory" for Nazism?
Did you know that a song from the Kris Kristofferson album The Silver Tongued Devil and I is referenced in the film Taxi Driver ?
Did you know that British educator Thomas Lucas created an embossed shorthand to teach the blind to read by touch around 1830–1832, before the introduction of braille in the UK?
Did you know that Siamosaurus , a large bipedal carnivore from the Early Cretaceous of Thailand, is the first crocodilian-like dinosaur named from Asia?
Did you know that legislation for a Hong Kong national security law was attempted during both the SARS and COVID-19 epidemics ?
Did you know that Irene Triplett , who died in May 2020, was the last recipient of a pension from the American Civil War of 1861–1865?
Did you know that H. M. Hook , the first mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming , drowned while searching for silver mines?
Did you know that Fannie Flagg set her 2010 comedy-mystery novel I Still Dream About You in Birmingham, Alabama , because she wanted "to write a Valentine to my hometown"?
Did you know that Temple Memorial Park , named after Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple , was given to the people of South Shields in recognition of their military contributions at sea in World War II?
Did you know that Martin Luther King Jr. used the phrase " justice too long delayed is justice denied " in his Letter from Birmingham Jail ?
Did you know that the song " Running ", which was set to represent Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 , was sung by a German-born singer of Greek and American ancestry?
Did you know that the Northern Irish historian A. T. Q. Stewart once said that Irish history was "too short, too narrow, upside down and it leans all over to one side"?
Did you know that the recording of the Bon Iver song " iMi " took five years and nearly 30 collaborators to complete?
Did you know that the University of Cologne awards an annual gender equality prize in honor of Jenny Gusyk , who became the school's first female and first foreign student when it was re-established in 1919?
Did you know that fever hospitals , for infectious patients, were once the most common type of hospital in England and Wales?
Did you know that a room in the Nebuta Museum in Aomori , Japan, is darkened so the floats on display can be illuminated as they are during the city's annual summer festival ?
Did you know that missionary and author Lucy Goodale Thurston survived a mastectomy without anaesthetic in 1855?
Did you know that one Labour MP said that the result of the 2016 Sleaford and North Hykeham by-election could foreshadow an "electoral disaster" for the party ?
Did you know that Biff Pocoroba endeared himself with Atlanta Braves fans despite the team's poor performance, partly because they liked "the sound of his name"?
Did you know that in medieval Tutbury , Staffordshire, minstrels chased a bull that, if caught, could be eaten or exchanged for forty pennies?
Did you know that William G. King Jr. explored and surveyed islands where downrange stations were subsequently established as part of the Eastern Test Range ?
Did you know that the hills of Hárshegy offer commanding views of Budapest ?
Did you know that some types of incitement to terrorism are constitutionally protected in the United States?
Did you know that Béla Bartók mixed and matched selections from his Eight Hungarian Folksongs in performance?
Did you know that President Ulysses S. Grant planned but failed to annex the Dominican Republic from his summer cottage ?
Did you know that the railings on Santa Cruz de Tenerife 's Galcerán Bridge were replaced in 1954 to reduce the number of suicides?
Did you know that Héctor D. Abruña 's outreach efforts resulted in 15 out of 55 graduates of his Cornell University electrochemistry research group coming from Puerto Rico , like Abruña himself?
Did you know that during the Paris Peace Conference , Czechoslovak politicians claimed that their country was tolerant, even as anti-Jewish violence was ongoing?
Did you know that the Portland Streetcar 's Loop Service enabled the production of the first U.S.-built streetcars in nearly 60 years?
Did you know that there has been a Galleon inn on the same site as the current Spanish Galleon in Greenwich, England, since the 17th century?
Did you know that the Taungtha , an unrecognized ethnic group of Myanmar , claim descent from the Pyu during the reign of the legendary King Thamoddarit of Pagan ?
Did you know that a June 2015 performance of the 1999 Smash Mouth song " All Star " went awry when audience members began throwing loaves of bread onto the stage?
Did you know that New York City's Equitable Building , completed just before the 1916 Zoning Resolution , was described as being "more famous for what it caused than what it is"?
Did you know that Ottilie Baader was one of the founders of the first trade union organization for women in Germany?
Did you know that after the former church of San Sebastiano in Verona was bombed in 1945, its façade was relocated to San Nicolò all'Arena ?
Did you know that the opera The Devil in Love by Alexander Vustin took 15 years to be completed and 30 more years to be premiered, debuting at the centenary of a Moscow theatre ?
Did you know that the Church of England expected to distribute a few hundred millennium yews , but ended up sending out 8,000?
Did you know that the Hotel Adams , Phoenix 's first luxury hotel, burned to the ground in 1910, leaving the territorial governor homeless?
Did you know that more than 3 million people have downloaded the COVID Symptom Study app in the UK and the US?
Did you know that mezzo-soprano Grace Hoffman from Cleveland appeared as Brangäne in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde at the Bayreuth Festival in 1957 and 1970?
Did you know that defending champion Francisco Bustamante was reportedly distracted by a press photographer at the 2011 WPA World Nine-ball Championship and lost in a knockout round?
Did you know that despite suffering from vertigo , actor Bob Barrett performed his own stunt on the hospital rooftop in the Holby City episode " Man Down "?
Did you know that the Besser Museum for Northeast Michigan houses the Katherine V , believed to be the last intact wooden fishing tug built to harvest the freshwater fish of the Great Lakes ?
Did you know that the Old Church of Siġġiewi was used for agricultural purposes until 2007?
Did you know that despite being shortsighted and nearly deaf, Rodger Young saved his platoon from an enemy ambush , for which he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor ?
Did you know that the name "Hashub", mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in the Book of Nehemiah , was found on a piece of pottery contemporary to Nehemiah at the archaeological site of Tel Zeton , Israel?
Did you know that a version of Alexander Calder 's hanging mobile Snow Flurry sold for more than $10 million in 2012?
Did you know that Cliff Wilson won his first professional snooker title at the age of 57?
Did you know that during World War II, the Fremantle Fortress protected the second-most important Allied submarine base in the Pacific Theatre ?