kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that the systematics of snowfinches is quite straightforward, while their taxonomy was, and still is, subject to extreme confusion?
Did you know that Orange County, California , has an unincorporated area popularly known as the Gaza Strip ?
Did you know that country music singer George Strait discovered his backup band , the Ace in the Hole , after responding to a flyer posted around the Southwest Texas State University campus?
Did you know that Governor of Indiana Warren T. McCray resigned from office and served three years in prison after being convicted of mail fraud ?
Did you know that Oregon linebacker Casey Matthews is the son , grandson , brother , and nephew of National Football League players?
Did you know that Aurangzeb , apart from imprisoning his brother Murad Baksh, had the dubious credit of incarcerating his eldest daughter Zebunnisa in the Salimgarh Fort in Delhi for 21 years till her death?
Did you know that many female portraits by Jeremiah Theus share identical poses and costumes, down to the folds and shadows of the sitters' dresses?
Did you know that Lemar is the most successful Fame Academy graduate with six top ten singles in the UK singles chart ?
Did you know that Danuta Siedzikówna , a Polish nurse in anti-Nazi and anti-Communist resistance was only seventeen years old when she was sentenced to death and executed by the communist government of Poland in 1946?
Did you know that the winner of the 1996 Olympic air pistol competition , Italian Roberto Di Donna , also competes in the Bundesliga for the current German champions, SV Kelheim-Gmünd?
Did you know that Puerto Rican poet Francisco Matos Paolí was arrested in 1950 because he made four speeches in favor of Puerto Rico's independence and he had a Puerto Rican Flag in his house?
Did you know that the former Union Chapel , Brighton 's oldest Nonconformist place of worship, was converted into a pub after 300 years of religious use?
Did you know that catcher Alicia Seegert set Big Ten Conference records for batting average , hits , total bases and RBIs while playing softball for the University of Michigan from 1984 to 1987?
Did you know that video games with isometric graphics were regarded as the second-most cloned piece of software after WordStar ?
Did you know that Rwenzururu , a region in the Rwenzori Mountains of Uganda , was recognized as having a kingdom 40 years after one was declared?
Did you know that future governor of Mississippi and Mexican-American War general John A. Quitman was born at the parsonage of the Old Stone Church in Rhinebeck, New York ?
Did you know that one of Mooney 's Blue Tits laid six eggs in the gardens of Irish President Mary McAleese ?
Did you know that Swedish modernist painter Torsten Andersson sometimes destroyed hundreds of sketches leading up to his finished works?
Did you know that Tom Green is the winningest men's basketball coach in Fairleigh Dickinson University history and led the team to its first NCAA Tournament berth in 1985 , losing 59–55 to top-seeded Michigan ?
Did you know that Byzantine official Peter the Patrician may have been responsible for the murder of Ostrogothic queen Amalasuntha , despite being instructed to secure her safety by emperor Justinian I ?
Did you know that Super Mario Galaxy 2 will mark the first time a second full-3D Mario franchise title has been made for a single Nintendo system?
Did you know that despite a 26 minute length, the 1965 album The Return of Roger Miller won the Grammy award for best country album, and five additional Grammys for its track " King of the Road "?
Did you know that President Barack Obama has appointed two former Presidents of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to positions in his administration ?
Did you know that St Mark's Church, Brighton was originally planned as a school's private chapel, but served as a public church for nearly 150 years before the school took it over?
Did you know that " Dahil Sa Iyo " , a song with Tagalog and English lyrics, is so popular that it has been suggested as a replacement for the Filipino anthem?
Did you know that the Baudette Fire of 1910 burned down the twin towns of Spooner and Baudette , Minnesota , on October 7, 1910?
Did you know that before the Quarter Horse Barbara L became a racehorse , she demonstrated horse trailers for her owner, a trailer salesman?
Did you know that Adrienne Beames , the daughter of Australian rules footballer , first-class cricketer , and journalist Percy Beames , was the first woman to break the 3-hour barrier in the marathon ?
Did you know that the first Governor of colonial Maryland , Leonard Calvert , appointed his successor Thomas Greene only hours before Calvert's death?
Did you know that  remnants of terracotta piping used in public baths during Roman times in Morocco are on display at the Rabat Archaeological Museum ?
Did you know that Sara Northrup Hollister , the second wife of L. Ron Hubbard , was a noted member of an occult society in Pasadena, California , who went on to play an important role in the development of Dianetics ?
Did you know that editor-in-chief Andreas Norland left Norway's largest newspaper Verdens Gang to edit Osloavisen , which lasted less than a year?
Did you know that a sex scandal in Boise, Idaho , in 1955 resulted in almost 1,500 people being interviewed and a list of 500 suspected homosexuals?
Did you know that as Adam Best , David Proud will be the first visibly disabled adult actor to appear in the British soap opera EastEnders ?
Did you know that as part of preparations for 1984's Tropical Storm Isidore , some citrus farmers burned seedlings potentially infected with canker to prevent heavy rains from spreading the disease?
Did you know that, covering 19 ha (47 acres), Maiden Castle in Dorset is the largest hill fort in Britain and one of the biggest in Europe?
Did you know that Michael Jackson was unsuccessfully sued over allegations he plagiarized the song " Dangerous "?
Did you know that Calcutta Polo Club , established in 1862, is considered the world's oldest polo club in existence?
Did you know that during five years of college football , E. J. Kuale played at three different colleges?
Did you know that Islamic prophet Muhammad is said to have forbidden his followers to collect his sayings, and there is considerable criticism of such collections which have been said to form the basis of Islamic law ?
Did you know that Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again will allow players to create custom-made levels and send them wirelessly to players on other Nintendo DSi devices?
Did you know that the presenter of The Marian Finucane Show has been compared to Jay Leno , Michael Parkinson and Jonathan Ross ?
Did you know that Daniel P. Mannix spent a year studying foxes before penning his 1967 novel The Fox and the Hound to ensure he portrayed vulpine behavior realistically?
Did you know that Evelyn Scotney , an Australian coloratura soprano, sang opposite Enrico Caruso in his final appearance on the opera stage?
Did you know that Iowa -based Gomaco Trolley Company , founded in 1982, makes replicas of 1902 streetcars ?
Did you know that Ivory Williams competed against Usain Bolt in a 150-metre street race as part of the Great City Games in Manchester , England ?
Did you know that even though the band Memphis May Fire formed in December 2006, it was not until February 2007 that the group decided on their name?
Did you know that Scottish actress Rona Anderson married fellow actor Gordon Jackson after appearing with him in the romantic drama Floodtide ?
Did you know that the Abelardo L. Rodriguez Market in Mexico City has about 1,500 square meters of mural work done by students of Diego Rivera ?
Did you know that a schoolbag is the only known trace of 13 year-old Irish schoolboy Philip Cairns , who disappeared in October 1986?
Did you know that the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode " Zebras " earned higher ratings than an NBC special about Barack Obama , which aired the same night?
Did you know that Anna Goldfeder , a pioneer in the fields of radiology and cancer treatment , worked as a research scientist in an abandoned building for two years before she secured enough grant money to move her laboratory?
Did you know that Lithuanian writer and educator Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė , as the oldest representative, chaired the first session of the Constituent Assembly of Lithuania in 1920?
Did you know that the pendulum in the Hornsby Water Clock has the same four-second time cycle as the one in Big Ben , but a heavier counterweight ?
Did you know that Maryland's Catholic colonial Governor William Joseph fled the colony after serving only a year in office when Protestant colonists rebelled?
Did you know that 95% of cases of hypertension are of the essential hypertension type, and that essential hypertension has many established risk factors ?
Did you know that DNC Chairman Stephen A. Mitchell was mentioned in Richard Nixon 's Checkers speech after he called for Nixon to resign from his ticket?
Did you know that a former brother-in-law to Barack Obama might stand at the next Bracknell parliamentary election in the UK?
Did you know that Stefan Knapp , a Polish artist working in Great Britain , used his experiences in the Gulag and as a RAF pilot as a basis for his artwork?
Did you know that Lost Forest in Lake County , Oregon , is an isolated stand of Ponderosa pine separated from the nearest pine forest by forty miles of arid high desert ?
Did you know that Buttrum's Mill , Woodbridge , is the tallest surviving windmill in Suffolk ?
Did you know that Robert Yates, assistant editor for The Observer first coined the term " grief porn " at a 2005 news conference to denote a "gratuitous indulgence of tangential association with tragedy"?
Did you know that Gotjawal Forest , a naturally formed forest on Jeju Island in South Korea , consists of a rocky area of aa lava ?
Did you know that following the Grue Church fire on Pentecost 1822 in Solør , Norway , in which at least 113 people perished, a law was passed prescribing that all doors of public buildings must swing outwards?
Did you know that Holden Bowler , the namesake of J.D. Salinger's character Holden Caulfield , was also the godfather of singer Judy Collins ?
Did you know that seed swaps , potluck -style events where gardeners exchange seeds, help maintain biodiversity and preserve cultural and regional traditions?
Did you know that the early homophile organization NACHO adopted the slogan "Gay is Good", modeled on the African American slogan "Black is Beautiful" ?
Did you know that the antebellum Stoney Creek Presbyterian Chapel in McPhersonville, South Carolina , was built by lowcountry rice planters as a summer chapel?
Did you know that jolly boats were carried on practically all types of warships of the Royal Navy during the age of sail , from ships of the line down to brigs ?
Did you know that Alysa Stanton is the first African American female rabbi ?
Did you know that Scottish actor J. Grant Anderson served in both World Wars , founded a theatre in India , and played a clown in a Burmese circus?
Did you know that The Heartbreak Express ' first and second FIP Tag Team Championship reigns hold the record for most, and fewest title defences respectively?
Did you know that actress and television announcer Barbara Matera is a candidate for the centre-right The People of Freedom (PdL) party in the 2009 European Parliament elections ?
Did you know that the Goa Liberation Movement , which sought freedom from Portuguese colonial rule , achieved its aim only when the India Army invaded Goa in 1961 ?
Did you know that venture capitalist Frank Legacki set American records in the 50-yard freestyle and 100-yard butterfly while attending the University of Michigan in 1961?
Did you know that the fine of £175,000 handed to Arsenal F.C. in 2003 after the Battle of Old Trafford was a record for English football ?
Did you know that one-time Nickelodeon star Jason Zimbler ( Clarissa Explains It All ) founded the Portland, Oregon theatre company 'The Re-Theatre Instrument' in late 2007?
Did you know that Fine Gael politician George Lee used The Week in Politics – broadcast by his former employer – to criticise a round of golf played by several Irish senators ?
Did you know that Sofia, New Mexico , was founded in 1911 as the first Bulgarian agricultural colony in the United States , and was named after the Bulgarian capital Sofia ?
Did you know that in 1975, Eugeniusz Knapik became known as a member of a group of Polish composers who rejected the previous generation for seeking the destruction of musical tradition?
Did you know that despite being a World Series of Poker bracelet event, the Casino Employee Championship receives little attention?
Did you know that the small parrot known as the Guaiabero is so named in its native Philippines for its penchant for guavas ?
Did you know that Norwegian physicist Gabriel Gabrielsen Holtsmark had two brothers who were Norwegian Parliament members?
Did you know that Rowen House School in Derbyshire was an "Educational experiment" that used the power of the childhood group in the same way as Summerhill School ?
Did you know that two American bands named themselves after the same 1960 Japanese Sun Tribe film The Warped Ones ?
Did you know that after facing 2009 All-American softball pitcher Nikki Nemitz 's fastball, a sports writer for the Detroit Free Press wrote that he "actually felt a breeze" and his "knees buckled"?
Did you know that during World War I , a British propaganda claim that Germans converted the bodies of their dead soldiers into various products, was based on a mistranslation of the German word Kadaver ?
Did you know that the jazz singer Eva Olmerová was persecuted by the State Security service of the Czechoslovak communist regime ?
Did you know that the medieval lituus , a musical instrument that hasn't been seen or heard for 300 years and for which Johann Sebastian Bach composed music, has been recreated by a team of scientists from Switzerland and the United Kingdom ?
Did you know that Lazdynų Pelėda ( Hazelnut Owl ) was a common pen name used by two Lithuanian sister writers, Sofija Pšibiliauskienė and Marija Lastauskienė ?
Did you know that the Ice Hotel in Québec , Canada , is the first ice hotel in North America ?
Did you know that before winning the third series of Britain's Got Talent , dance troupe Diversity won the UK National Street Dance competition?
Did you know that the recently-announced video game Metroid: Other M is being co-developed by both Team Ninja and Nintendo ?
Did you know that political boss Tom Pendergast made future DNC chair William M. Boyle a precinct captain even though he was too young to vote?
Did you know that Anthracite, Alberta , now a ghost town , was once a hotspot for illegal activities?
Did you know that the BMW R80G/S —launched in 1980—was the first motorcycle in the BMW GS family, of which half a million examples have now been built?
Did you know that Jerry Rosenberg , New York's longest-incarcerated inmate , was the first to earn a law degree in a New York prison and served as a jailhouse lawyer to the leaders of the Attica prison riot ?
Did you know that after the collapse of the Broughton Suspension Bridge in 1831, the British military introduced the order to "break step" when soldiers were crossing a bridge?
Did you know that cookbook Seduced by Bacon by Joanna Pruess not only includes a recipe for pecan , brown sugar, and bacon ice cream, but also writings by Mark Twain ?
Did you know that the collapse of Australia's largest managed investment scheme agribusiness , Great Southern Group , is being examined by two separate Australian parliamentary committee inquiries?
Did you know that the Pyne and Harrison Opera Company paid composer William Vincent Wallace only 10 shillings for the rights to his opera Lurline and later made £ 50,000 from its performances?
Did you know that Hal Lubarsky outlasted 6,300 other players at the World Series of Poker despite playing blind?
Did you know that Barry Wood , who played quarterback at Harvard and became a physician and microbiologist , was elected to both the College Football Hall of Fame and the National Academy of Sciences ?
Did you know that the BBC Radio 4 sitcom Newfangle has been described by different sources as being set in either 100,000 B.C. or two million years ago?
Did you know that the Financial News competed with its rival the Financial Times by attacking companies which advertised there?
Did you know that in a US study almost all surgeons indicated that they experienced needlestick injuries during their training?
Did you know that in the Canadian film Public Domain the producers of a reality TV game show install cameras in dysfunctional contestants' homes without their knowledge or permission?
Did you know that the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct was disbanded in 1999 despite only having started work in April 1991?
Did you know that there has been a demand for a separate Tulu Nadu state from Karnataka , India since the 1990s?
Did you know that law professor Paul Steven Miller , who has a type of dwarfism , was one of the longest serving Commissioners of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ?
Did you know that despite the word "heavyweight" in the title of the CZW World Heavyweight Championship , multiple non-heavyweight wrestlers have held the championship?
Did you know that according to the 2000 United States Census , Guttenberg , New Jersey , is the most densely populated incorporated place in the U.S. ?
Did you know that Mabel Philipson became the third woman to sit in the British House of Commons after winning the Berwick-upon-Tweed by-election in 1923?
Did you know that after the Poland–Czechoslovakia war , January 23 – January 30, 1919, a new border was agreed to on Feb. 3, 1919, at the signing of the Polish-Czech border agreement, in Paris?
Did you know that, measuring a mere 8.6 cm (3.4 in) long, the Buff-faced Pygmy-parrot is the world's smallest species of parrot ?
Did you know that the sale of alcohol was banned for three days during the 2003 Salvadoran legislative election ?
Did you know that in the advent of war with Great Britain, Adolf Hitler 's Plan Z stipulated that the O class battlecruisers would be tasked with destroying convoys before they could deliver their cargo to the British?
Did you know that Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned takes place in the universe of the Pirates of the Caribbean film series but its story is not connected to the series at all?
Did you know that the Driver's Privacy Protection Act , which protects the privacy of driver's license information in the United States , was upheld by unanimous decision of the United States Supreme Court in Reno v. Condon ?
Did you know that Stanford Keglar was coached by ex- Purdue defensive back Ken Coudret in high school, before going on to play at Purdue himself?
Did you know that Karatsu ware is a style of Japanese pottery which is considered one of the top choices for implements used in the Japanese tea ceremony ?
Did you know that the longest and shortest state highways in Washington are located in Pend Oreille County ?
Did you know that Donald Duck talk , the voice used by Clarence Nash for Donald Duck , is one of three forms of alaryngeal speech ?
Did you know that PokerTracker 3 , the leading poker tool for online poker , uses a HUD analogous to the head-up display that Arnold Schwarzenegger 's Terminator character used?
Did you know that the audio series The Dongle of Donald Trefusis by Stephen Fry went to No. 2 on the UK Albums Chart when it was released for download in 2009?
Did you know that Irish architect Frederick Clarendon designed the Dublin museum known as the Dead Zoo ?
Did you know that Newington Green Unitarian Church has strong ties to political radicalism stretching over 300 years, with Richard Price in the pulpit and Mary Wollstonecraft in the pews?
Did you know that the 1960 Velocette Viper British motorcycle was one of the first to have glass fibre enclosure panels?
Did you know that despite winning 37.3% of the vote the opposition coalition won no seats in the 2003 Djiboutian parliamentary election ?
Did you know that former RNC chairman Guy Gabrielson was one of the few Republican politicians not to support Richard Nixon after the Checkers speech ?
Did you know that the tollbooths of the 19th-century turnpike that followed Pennsylvania Route 171 were torn down by citizens?
Did you know that the Lurgi-Ruhrgas process for oil shale extraction was originally developed for the liquefaction of lignite ?
Did you know that Shakespeare Cliff Halt , a private railway station on a cliff ledge near Dover , England, has been used by miners, the British Army , and railway employees, but never by the public?
Did you know that from 1936 to 1939 , Alexander Monkman led a volunteer effort to build a road through the Monkman Pass into British Columbia ?
Did you know that the Hindu temple Swaminaryan Mandir in Colonia , New Jersey , USA, was originally a synagogue ?
Did you know that Poland 's Antoni Gawryłkiewicz , a recipient of the Righteous among the Nations medal, signed his Yad Vashem deposition in Hebrew , a language he did not understand?
Did you know that the Byzantine court title of protospatharios had such high prestige that an aged cleric once purchased it for over 19 kilograms (42 lb) of gold ?
Did you know that modern radars use frequency agility to reduce the effects of intentional interference , or jamming?
Did you know that German-Italian Marxist political scientist Johannes Agnoli was, in his youth, an enthusiastic fascist and Wehrmacht volunteer?
Did you know that angels on horseback was featured in the New York Times in 1896 as a "dish for sultry weather"?
Did you know that in the 2003 Cypriot presidential election , Costas Kyriacou called for free love and claimed that he won 73 percent of the vote?
Did you know that a new government was not formed in Cambodia for almost a year after the 2003 Cambodian parliamentary election ?
Did you know that Stegt Flæsk , a popular bacon dish in Danish cuisine , has been described as "a dish of pork fat , and only pork fat, in parsley sauce"?
Did you know that Mar Abba I , the Nestorian Catholicos of Seleucia-Ctesiphon from 540 to 552, was a convert from Zoroastrianism ?
Did you know that after ruling Japan for 135 years, the Hōjō clan set its family temple on fire before committing mass suicide within, and were enshrined en masse in the temple of Hōkai-ji ?
Did you know that the debut single of Romanian singer Corina entitled Noi Doi reached fourth place in the Romanian Top 100 ?
Did you know that soprano Deborah Voigt lost over 100 pounds (45 kg) by means of gastric bypass surgery after she was fired in the " Covent Garden incident"?
Did you know that the Olympic ice hockey tournament was nearly canceled when two hockey teams from the United States arrived in St. Moritz , Switzerland , to compete in the 1948 Winter Olympic Games ?
Did you know that Peter Symonds , an English mercer , founded an almshouse in Winchester that was to become Peter Symonds College ?
Did you know that National Pig Day is included in a handbook for first-year teachers as a day for activities including cooking bacon , making BLTs , and discussing where pork chops come from?
Did you know that Torvald Tu ' s musical comedy Kjærleik på Lykteland from 1923 was one of the greatest stage successes at Det Norske Teatret ?
Did you know that some of the elements of the adventure pack Neverwinter Nights 2: Mysteries of Westgate were released so that they could be used for free by the Neverwinter Nights 2 community?
Did you know that Bruce Springsteen 's song " For You " is about a woman who has attempted suicide ?
Did you know that although the report of the Benson Commission led to the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 , the report and Act disagreed in many ways?
Did you know that in only his second mixed martial arts fight, the 2006 World Champion in Greco-Roman wrestling , Joe Warren , defeated former champion Norifumi "Kid" Yamamoto ?
Did you know that Jan Piekałkiewicz , a leading Polish statistician , became the Polish Underground State 's Government Delegate , and died at the hands of Nazi Germany ?