kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that Lewis Strong Clarke established his innovative sugar plantation Lagonda in St. Mary Parish , Louisiana , and named it for a creek in Ohio ?
Did you know that the dentist Pauls Dauge translated several works of Friedrich Engels into Latvian ?
Did you know that the death of Aristotelis Goumas led to public demonstrations in the predominantly ethnic Greek region of Himarë in Albania?
Did you know that in the United States some defendants chose to appear pro se because of the Perry Mason syndrome ?
Did you know that the People's Republic of China is the world's second largest consumer market for luxury goods , next only to Japan ?
Did you know that college football coach Doug Dashiell resigned in 1938 after his football players and the University of Nevada student president went into "open rebellion"?
Did you know that the hairless half-meter parasite Helixanthera schizocalyx was discovered by lepidopterist Colin Congdon on the lookout for loranths near the summit of Mozambique 's Mount Mabu ?
Did you know that the rectory at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in McCartyville, Ohio , was named a historic site in 1979, just two years after it was deemed ineligible for that designation ?
Did you know that the Wedgwood scale was used to determine the temperature in pottery kilns ?
Did you know that former Georgia State Senator Nancy Schaefer died in what police concluded was a murder–suicide perpetrated by her husband?
Did you know that the award-winning novel Gould's Book of Fish is based on the life of English painter William Buelow Gould , who was transported as a convict to the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land for stealing a coat?
Did you know that according to legend, Battlegore Burial Chamber is the site of a conflict between the devil and a giant?
Did you know that the Wagtail missile , upon being launched, fired retrorockets to allow the carrier aircraft to escape the effects of its own weapon?
Did you know that the Molasses Reef Wreck in the Turks and Caicos Islands is the earliest wreck of a European ship in the Americas to be scientifically excavated ?
Did you know that Clare Maguire has been nominated by the BBC Sound of 2011 list as one of the top 15 most promising new artists and is one of MTV's Brand New: For 2011 acts?
Did you know that the development of the Chengdu J-20 fighter aircraft may have been assisted by cyberespionage ?
Did you know that Gramoz Palushi was murdered while he was celebrating the football victory of Albania over Greece ?
Did you know that Enid A. Haupt has been described as "the greatest patron American horticulture has ever known"?
Did you know that the Japanese air attacks on the Mariana Islands between November 1944 and January 1945 sought to disrupt the bombing of Japan by United States Army Air Forces aircraft based on the islands?
Did you know that although the little brown mouse Monticolomys koopmani was first collected in 1929, it was not formally described until 1996?
Did you know that the Museum of Mosaics in Devnya , Bulgaria , exhibits a mosaic of the gorgon Medusa which was supposed to turn away evil?
Did you know that the Indonesian pioneer movement Fadjar Harapan was merged into the national scouting organization on a presidential order in 1961?
Did you know that the Stripsenjochhaus is a club hut in the Northern Alps that has been a base for some of the most famous rock climbing in the Alps ?
Did you know that the Louisiana State Rep. Cliff Ammons was the "father of Toledo Bend Lake ," the largest lake both within and along the borders of Texas ?
Did you know that The Bakersfield Californian 's 1926 building gave women a public restroom in downtown Bakersfield, California ?
Did you know that Sy Mah , who held a Guinness World Record for the most lifetime marathons , completed his first marathon in the same race in which he coached 13-year-old Maureen Wilton to a women's world record ?
Did you know that the Leviathan gas field – discovered in 2010 and located 130 kilometres (81 mi) west of Haifa , Israel , in the eastern Mediterranean Sea – is one of the world’s largest offshore gas finds of the past decade?
Did you know that J. Howell Flournoy , the longest serving sheriff in the history of Caddo Parish , Louisiana , was the son and grandson of earlier sheriffs?
Did you know that the First Baptist Church complex in Bakersfield, California , was the only religious structure of its era to survive the massive 1952 Kern County earthquake ?
Did you know that the number of known major lineages of bacteria has more than quadrupled in the past 20 years but many of them cannot be grown in a lab ?
Did you know that the German battleship SMS Prinzregent Luitpold was the only ship of her class designed to mount a diesel engine, though it was never fitted?
Did you know that Charles Coolidge Parlin , the founder of the field of market research , was once a schoolteacher in the state of Wisconsin ?
Did you know that the Hopi missile could carry a nuclear warhead of up to 400 kilotons yield?
Did you know that pilgrims came to St. Mary's Abbey in Trim from all over Ireland to see the miraculous statue of the Blessed Virgin until it was burned in the Reformation ?
Did you know that Roberto de la Madrid , the first American-born governor of a Mexican state, earlier appeared in the 1959 Dennis Hopper film The Young Land , playing a character named Don Roberto de la Madrid?
Did you know that Aporo, Michoacán , is part of the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve , but tourism is not part of its economy?
Did you know that Channel 4 music presenter Jameela Jamil was struck by a car at the age of 17 and was told she might never walk again?
Did you know that the Missouri Fur Company , founded in 1809, was one of the earliest American fur trade companies in St. Louis, Missouri ?
Did you know that Al Burris was a Major League Baseball player, a college baseball coach, and a college athletic director at the age of 20?
Did you know that Bob Dylan did not perform his song " Drifter's Escape " live in concert until almost 25 years after it was released?
Did you know that in The Empathic Civilization , author Jeremy Rifkin argues that extending empathy to subsequently larger groups is paid for with increasing entropy in terms of environmental problems?
Did you know that in 1964, R. B. Walden , director of the Louisiana Department of Hospitals, ordered the desegregation of his state's charity hospitals?
Did you know that the English clergyman George Edmundson worked for the British Government on the Boundary Arbitration between British Guiana and Venezuela ?
Did you know that Kota tribe shows M haplogroup frequency of 97%, which is one of the highest in India ?
Did you know that the 1503 Challenge of Barletta was sparked by a French knight who insulted the Italians, having consumed too much of their local wine ?
Did you know that the Bold Orion air-launched ballistic missile was the first missile ever to intercept an artificial satellite ?
Did you know that, after his rookie season in Major League Baseball , Sam Moffet and his brother extracted over US$ 200,000 worth of gold and silver from a mine in Butte, Montana ?
Did you know that in 1975, former Texas lawmaker E L Short urged that citizens be warned door-to-door of the hazards of hydrogen sulfide after the gas exploded in Denver City ?
Did you know that almost 30 percent of Soviet prisoners of war in the Continuation War died?
Did you know that during recent renovations to the former Batavia Club building in Batavia, New York , an old safe was found that so far no one has been able to open?
Did you know that German aircraft designer Gottlob Espenlaub began testing his rocket-propelled gliders in as early as 1929?
Did you know that the crest of the Blauberge , a mountain range in the Bavarian Alps , forms part of the border between Austria and Germany ?
Did you know that naturally occurring quasicrystals can be found in the rare minerals khatyrkite and cupalite ?
Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Green Tree Financial Corp.-Ala. v. Randolph that arbitration agreements do not need to discuss the costs of arbitration?
Did you know that after the Cornfield Bomber landed in a field, one of the members of the 71st Fighter-Interceptor Squadron received a call from a sheriff who got excited when the plane started moving?
Did you know that the Biham-Middleton-Levine model may be the simplest model of traffic flow that has both phase transitions and self-organization ?
Did you know that Frank Baldino, Jr. is founder and CEO of a company seeking to market its narcolepsy medication to treat jet lag ?
Did you know that there were multiple V-2 rocket facilities in World War II ?
Did you know that the song " When We Die As Martyrs " is performed by the Arab children's choir Birds of Paradise?
Did you know that minuscules 2276 , 2277 and 2278 were classified twice by Gregory under numbers 815, 816 and 812 (in 1886 in Greece), and under numbers 2276, 2277 and 2278 (in 1904 in London)?
Did you know that t'aenghwa is a characteristic type of Korean Buddhist visual arts ?
Did you know that The Double Sunrise was a non-stop, approximately 30-hour airline flight, crossing over 3,500 nautical miles (6,500 km; 4,000 mi) above the Indian Ocean during World War II ?
Did you know that Mr. Kay of Manhattan 's Upper West Side donated his barbershop interior to the Museum of the City of New York ?
Did you know that the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is assisting 5pb. with the development of Robotics;Notes , their upcoming visual novel and latest entry in their science adventure series?
Did you know that the first recorded case of dognapping in Britain was that of a racing Greyhound named Hi Joe in 1965?
Did you know that Humphrey Dacre fought for Lancaster at the Battle of Towton and was attainted afterwards?
Did you know that Murray Farm Public School in Australia teaches various subjects bilingually in English and Japanese ?
Did you know that after the crash of a U.S. Air Force C-5 Galaxy near Saigon , Robert Macauley mortgaged his house so he could charter a Boeing 747 from Pan Am to evacuate orphans from South Vietnam ?
Did you know that a candidate in the 1981 Philippine presidential election who advocated that the country become the 51st U.S. state received almost 4% of the vote?
Did you know that Greek Idol winner Valanto Trifonos failed the audition for the rival Greek talent competition The X Factor ?
Did you know that the mushroom Gymnopilus maritimus is known only from collections in a very localised area of Sardinia , Italy ?
Did you know that erythropoietin became a billion dollar business for Amgen , though its discoverer Eugene Goldwasser at the University of Chicago never profited from its development?
Did you know that the first production at the Prince's Theatre in Manchester was Shakespeare 's The Tempest , on 15 October 1864?
Did you know that the Louisiana educator John Keeny was a promoter of the New York -based Chautauqua movement?
Did you know that the United States Supreme Court ruled in Legal Services Corp. v. Velazquez that the First Amendment protects against free speech viewpoint discrimination?
Did you know that the first patient in whom Sir Robert Jones described his eponymous fracture was himself?
Did you know that, by the age of fourteen, each of the three orphaned daughters of Thomas Dacre married one of the three sons of their stepfather ?
Did you know that Lee Emmett Thomas , as mayor of Shreveport , Louisiana , pushed for construction of his city's Municipal Auditorium , which hosted the Louisiana Hayride between 1948 and 1960?
Did you know that Bach began the fifth cantata of his first Christmas season in Leipzig, Schau, lieber Gott, wie meine Feind, BWV 153 , first performed on 2 January 1724, with a chorale ?
Did you know that a match at the World Wrestling Federations ' 1999 Fully Loaded event was fought in a parking garage?
Did you know that, for the 80th birthday of King Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga , Adrienne Kaeppler , curator of Oceanic Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution , set up a special exhibition at the Tongan National Museum?
Did you know that there are no prisons for women in Wales ?
Did you know that Moses Bloom was the first Jewish settler and mayor of Iowa City (1873–1875), and the first Jewish member of the Iowa Senate ?
Did you know that Australian writer Kaaron Warren won two national awards for her debut novel, Slights , a horror story about near death experiences ?
Did you know that the membership of the Japanese trade union centre Sanbetsu dropped from 1.5 million in 1946 to 13,000 in 1953?
Did you know that Steven W. Fisher presided over the trial in the Wendy's massacre and became the last judge in New York to impose the death penalty ?
Did you know that members of the Philippine political party Lapiang Malaya , armed with amulets and bolo knives , tried to overthrow President Ferdinand Marcos in 1967?
Did you know that Evgenia Obraztsova , who appeared as a ballerina in the film The Russian Dolls , really is a First Soloist at the prestigious Russian Mariinsky Theatre ?
Did you know that the United States Supreme Court ruled in Illinois v. McArthur that police do not need a warrant when they have probable cause to complete a search ?
Did you know that the Austrian mycologist Meinhard Moser interrupted his degree after only three terms of study, resuming it several years later upon his release from a prisoner-of-war camp ?
Did you know that the Louisiana State Rep. Allen C. Gremillion pushed for passage of a bill creating the community college known as Louisiana State University at Eunice ?
Did you know that between 1799 and 1804, warships of the Royal Navy captured one French frigate and five different French privateers all with the name Egyptienne ?
Did you know that Georg Carl Amdrup's 1900 expedition included traveling 730 km by open boat along the Greenland coast, returning to Copenhagen with a live muskox and lemmings ?
Did you know that physical education teacher Mary Pratt pitched a no-hitter in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League ?
Did you know that Tsa Yig refers to the legal code enacted by the founder of Bhutan , Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal , around 1629?
Did you know that John S. Kyser pioneered the first graduate programs at a state college in Louisiana , beyond those already available at LSU ?
Did you know that the Saynor & Bell Canadian Club biplane was constructed in a Montreal basement?
Did you know that David Shirk, owner of the historic David L. Shirk Ranch in southeastern Oregon, killed an employee of cattle baron Peter French over a land claim?
Did you know that the opening chorus of Bach 's cantata for New Year's Day , Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 190 , combines verses of two psalms and Luther 's Te Deum ?
Did you know that in the past, Arubans used the caves of Aruba for performing sacrificial services and holding assemblies, and sometimes also to hide in during enemy attacks?
Did you know that territory now included in the Quetzaltenango Department of Guatemala was the scene of a decisive battle between Spanish conquistadors and the army of the K'iche' Kingdom of Q'umarkaj ?
Did you know that baseball manager Roarin' Nick Allen "baited" and argued with umpires on the field because he wanted to increase attendance?
Did you know that the Seal of the Federal Bureau of Investigation was first used on January 1, 1941 and represents the values, standards and history of the FBI and its agents?
Did you know that the premiere of W. S. Gilbert 's pantomime , Harlequin Cock Robin and Jenny Wren , was marred by "the want of sufficient preparation"?
Did you know that Lewis "Snake" Wiltse once pitched a shutout and collected four extra base hits in the same Major League Baseball game?
Did you know that a divided wartime control system forced the leader of RAAF Command , Air Vice Marshal Bill Bostock , to serve two masters, one for operational tasking and another for supplies and equipment?
Did you know that before his death, John Warhola 's father told him to take care of John's younger brother, Andy Warhol , and "make sure he goes to school, because he's going to be successful someday"?
Did you know that Leo Fishel was the first Jewish pitcher in Major League Baseball ?
Did you know that in the late 1950s and 1960s , E. W. Gravolet , a member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature , joined his political ally Leander Perez in opposing school desegregation ?
Did you know that the German dreadnought battleship SMS König Albert was the only German dreadnought active at the time to miss the Battle of Jutland , due to engine problems?
Did you know that although Sulphurdale was established due to nearby sulfur deposits, it was abandoned and the area is now exploited for its geothermal power ?
Did you know that the Lemnia wine described by Aristotle was likely made from the Greek wine grape Limnio , which is still being grown today?
Did you know that Morris L. Cohen , described by The New York Times as "one of the nation's most influential legal librarians ", wrote a six-volume summary of all law sources published in the U.S. before 1860?
Did you know that the Waveney was the first class of lifeboats built for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution capable of speeds in excess of 10 knots (19 km/h)?
Did you know that Welsh novelist Ron Berry once wrote a book about his observations of Peregrine Falcons ?
Did you know that Vikings may have navigated using a light- polarizing mineral they called a sunstone to locate the sun in cloudy skies?
Did you know that in 1959, Baton Rouge mayor Jack Christian moved Halloween to October 30 to accommodate the LSU Tigers football game against the Ole Miss Rebels ?
Did you know that a prehistoric chamber tomb is located in Avielochan in Highland , Scotland ?
Did you know that Kararname was the name of the book of decisions of the first assembly of the Prizren League held on June 10 , 1878?
Did you know that British Lieutenant General James Bucknall is currently deputy commander of 130,000 troops from 48 countries in his role with ISAF in Afghanistan ?
Did you know that Letran Knights captain Fernando Libed scored the title-clinching shot in the 1987 Philippine NCAA basketball championship despite being on medication for hepatitis days before Game 3?
Did you know that Gross Barmen , the first Rhenish mission station to the Herero in South-West Africa , was established in 1844 by Carl Hugo Hahn and Franz Heinrich Kleinschmidt ?
Did you know that, according to Bede , Dryhthelm the monk died, was given a tour of hell and heaven , and came back to tell the tale?
Did you know that when the Puerto Rican mint tree Cornutia obovata was listed as endangered in 1988, there were only seven growing in the wild?
Did you know that N. D. Cocea ' s republican activism in the Kingdom of Romania involved fabricating rumors about a peasant revolt , supporting Soviet Russia , and being tried for lèse majesté ?
Did you know that Jeff Krogh was credited with winning a NASCAR Winston West Series race even though he finished 35th in the event ?
Did you know that Japanese wrestler Maunakea Mossman made his wrestling debut in the United States at the Gary Albright Memorial Show ?
Did you know that John F. Kennedy's foreign policy experts were dubbed "the best and the brightest"?
Did you know that the Spooks episode " On the Brink " is based on the financial crisis of the bank Northern Rock ?
Did you know that the long strap fern was one of the subjects of pteridomania ?
Did you know that, while commanding the Desert Rats in Iraq , Patrick Marriott kept a large silver rat on his desk?
Did you know that the Limon Railroad Depot is one of three remaining Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad stations in Colorado ?
Did you know that although the composer Arnold Elston studied with Anton Webern in Vienna, he did not employ the twelve-tone technique ?
Did you know that in 1914, the Greeks living in southern Albania declared independence for Northern Epirus ?
Did you know that Pulney Andy was the first Indian to receive a British medical degree when he received his degree of Doctor of Medicine from the University of St. Andrews in 1860?
Did you know that Swiss -born U.S. soldier Rudolph Stauffer was one of 22 Medal of Honor winners from Lieutenant Colonel George Crook 's 1872–73 "winter campaign" against renegade Apaches in the Arizona Territory ?
Did you know that Bach used a four-note trumpet signal throughout the first movement of his chorale cantata , Erhalt uns, Herr, bei deinem Wort, BWV 126 , for Sexagesima ?
Did you know that Cincinnati 's Scarlet Oaks was once the only known extant house designed by James Keys Wilson ?
Did you know that Eduardo Iturrizaga became Venezuela 's first and only chess grandmaster , at the age of 19?
Did you know that comedians Matt Besser and Nick Kroll appeared in the Parks and Recreation episode " Media Blitz " as morning zoo -style radio hosts named Crazy Ira and The Douche?
Did you know that George Samuel Sewell was the first civilian to be awarded a bar to the George Medal , for fighting fires at a petrol refinery during the Hull Blitz ?
Did you know that Ralph LaPointe , namesake of the field house at the University of Vermont 's Centennial Field , committed a league-record six errors in a baseball game for the International League 's Baltimore Orioles ?
Did you know that the tribute act Zappa Plays Zappa , led by Frank Zappa 's son Dweezil , won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance for their performance of Frank's song " Peaches en Regalia "?
Did you know that Lieutenant George C. Kimble , commander of the Gonzales Ranging Company, led 32 men from Gonzales, Texas , to reinforce the surrounded Alamo garrison ?
Did you know that the guidance system of the AA.20 air-to-air missile was based on that of missiles intended for use against tanks ?
Did you know that three of the five Moreton Island lighthouses , on Moreton Island , Queensland , Australia , had to be relocated because of coastal erosion ?
Did you know that the Croatian Museum of Naïve Art , established in 1952, is deemed to be the world's first museum of naïve art ?
Did you know that the two-letter Russian word щи is transliterated with eight letters in German?
Did you know that in his works, Czech photographer Viktor Kolář focuses on documenting his native region, Ostrava ?
Did you know that after winning both halves of the elimination round, the San Sebastian Stags were named outright champions of the 1988 Philippine NCAA basketball tournament ?
Did you know that Jordan 's new justice minister , Hussein Mjali, called for the early release of Ahmed Daqamseh, the attacker responsible for killing seven Israeli schoolgirls in the 1997 Island of Peace massacre ?
Did you know that although the graceful fern is native to the tropics, it can survive temperatures as low as −7 °C (19 °F)?
Did you know that the Louisiana State Rep. Simone B. Champagne of Iberia Parish lost a state Senate race in January 2011 despite having the support of U.S. Senator David Vitter ?
Did you know that bass opera singer Richard Watson was given so many roles in the operas by Gilbert and Sullivan that his colleague Richard Walker left D'Oyly Carte Opera Company ?
Did you know that Luftwaffe group commander Alois Lindmayr led a formation of Dornier Do 17 bombers on a bombing raid into the heart of London on 15 September 1940, the climax of the Battle of Britain ?
Did you know that the Cass County Courthouse served as a pattern for at least two other Iowa county courthouses?
Did you know that former England cricketer David Gower scored nine centuries in Ashes series , the fourth most by any batsman ?
Did you know that the Black Society for Salvation was a secret Albanian nationalistic society that staged uprisings in 1911–1912?
Did you know that both the Adena and the Hopewell left artifacts at southwestern Ohio 's Beam Farm ?
Did you know that the election on February 19, 2011, of Jonathan W. Perry to the Louisiana State Senate gives that body its first Republican majority, 20–19, since Reconstruction ?
Did you know that future Australian conductor and record producer James Walker was lauded as a " child wonder " after his performance on piano , organ and violin at age seven?