kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that the World Bank 's Open Knowledge Repository was called "one of the most important hubs for economic scholarship in the world" by Creative Commons ?
Did you know that reporter Bobbie Wygant got her first television show after filling in while its host was sick with the flu?
Did you know that the Space Launch System rocket will generate nearly nine million pounds of thrust at liftoff?
Did you know that David Arquette donated his earnings from his appearances in World Championship Wrestling to the families of dead and injured wrestlers?
Did you know that Didi Gregorius tweets after every game his baseball team wins, and has dedicated emojis for his teammates?
Did you know that the song " House Party " by Super Junior was praised by Tedros Adhanom , the director-general of the WHO ?
Did you know that John Carter started his career as an early American colonial printer working as the apprentice of Benjamin Franklin ?
Did you know that the sea slug Berthellina edwardsii secretes a white acidic fluid that is distasteful to fish?
Did you know that the new head coach for Washington State Cougars football once played in a football game two weeks after an appendectomy ?
Did you know that a wreck rediscovered in the former Royal Navy dockyard in Antigua in 2021 might be that of the French ship Beaumont , captured by the British in 1778?
Did you know that surgeon Margaret Louden developed a treatment for people crushed by rubble during the The Blitz , but her contribution was forgotten until the 1990s?
Did you know that when a ban on developing the Hotel Macklowe was revoked two years early, some New York City Council members said they did not realize that they had voted to rescind the ban?
Did you know that Ernie Ross , the Member of Parliament for Dundee West , was nicknamed "the MP for Nablus West" due to his support of Palestinian nationalism ?
Did you know that the 1979 German song " Selig seid ihr, wenn ihr einfach lebt " offers eight beatitudes which include a blessing for living simply, and another for daring to be kind?
Did you know that Myrtle Edwards 's family objected to Seattle's Gas Works Park being named after her?
Did you know that the protagonist of the novel Long Live the Post Horn! campaigns against a real European Union Directive ?
Did you know that the paddle steamer Keystone State was rumored to be carrying gold when she sank?
Did you know that Khin Maung Lat , a servant at the king's palace in Ratnagiri , India, eloped with Princess Myat Phaya Lat against the will of the king and queen?
Did you know that in 2017, the Hudson Theatre was both the newest Broadway theater and one of the oldest?
Did you know that the original name of the sidewheel steamer CSS Maurepas , Grosse Tete , means "big head" in French?
Did you know that the Russian Fort Raim was built in 1847 around the ruined mausoleum of Kazakh warrior Raiymbek Batyr ?
Did you know that after plans for the skyscraper Sutton 58 prompted a height limit for the surrounding area, construction went ahead anyway?
Did you know that Osman Çakmak won the European Amputee Football Championship as a player in 2017 and as a manager in 2021 with the Turkey national team ?
Did you know that Sherita Hill Golden demonstrated that diabetics were more likely to develop depression and that those with depression were more likely to become diabetic?
Did you know that the Japanese variety show Say You to Yo Asobi collaborated with the Japan Racing Association to create a special video about the Takarazuka Kinen horse race?
Did you know that prior to entering politics, Bonifasius Belawan Geh collected edible bird's nests from the jungle after dropping out of college?
Did you know that Luc Tardif Sr. gained French citizenship in order to further his ice hockey career?
Did you know that " Möge die Straße uns zusammenführen ", a German song based on Irish toasts , was ranked fourth in a recent survey of favourite hymns ?
Did you know that Kane Ioane finished his playing career at Montana State as the Big Sky Conference 's all-time tackles leader?
Did you know that IBM spent US$50 million to develop the PCradio and expected to sell 100,000 units, but ended up selling just under 10,000?
Did you know that Gerd Ruge received a twelve-year entry ban to the Soviet Union for having helped his friend Boris Pasternak financially?
Did you know that the 1905 monument to the King's Liverpool Regiment is inscribed with the words Nec Aspera Terrent ("Difficulties be Damned")?
Did you know that American evangelist J. Charles Jessup was called "The Great Gaspy"?
Did you know that even though Australian citizens are no longer British subjects , they can still vote in elections and stand for parliament in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that Samsi Sastrawidagda , Indonesia's first finance minister, once leased the veranda of future president Sukarno 's house for his accountant's office?
Did you know that the RADCAL satellite, designed to have a three-year lifespan, operated for almost twenty?
Did you know that the philosopher Emil Utitz , a classmate of Franz Kafka , became the head librarian of Theresienstadt Ghetto ?
Did you know that none of the six then-living CCNY players were interviewed for the 1998 documentary film City Dump: The Story of the 1951 CCNY Basketball Scandal ?
Did you know that New Zealand association football coach Olli Harder has worked in the US, China, Norway and England?
Did you know that Miller's Anatomy of the Dog , a textbook dedicated to canines, was found by a specialist feline publication to be bereft of information about cats?
Did you know that Lars Fause is the first governor of Svalbard to use the gender-neutral title Sysselmester ?
Did you know that the French animated film The Summit of the Gods is based on a Japanese manga series ?
Did you know that the Pixel 6 is the first smartphone to be powered by the Google Tensor system on a chip (SoC)?
Did you know that Broadway producer Richard Aldrich penned a biography on his wife, the actress Gertrude Lawrence ,  after her death from cancer?
Did you know that the 1996 song " Gott hat mir längst einen Engel gesandt ", with text by Eugen Eckert and music by Thomas Gabriel , began as part of a rock oratorio about Daniel ?
Did you know that Rise Bar 's management spent more than US$110,000 soundproofing the space, which holds just 74 patrons?
Did you know that despite not being an economist, Sunarjo Kolopaking became dean for the faculty of economics at the University of Indonesia ?
Did you know that to reflect the neighbourhood's heritage as a songbird-watching community, Singapore's Mayflower MRT station is decorated with 22 bird sculptures?
Did you know that Earl Old Person , lifetime honorary Chief of the Blackfeet Nation , inadvertently broke a 1000-year tradition in 1971 when he asked the Shah of Iran to stand up?
Did you know that the plant Dyssodia papposa was given to horses for coughs by the Dakota and smoked for epilepsy by the Keres ?
Did you know that the first pendulum clock was invented in 1657 by Christiaan Huygens ?
Did you know that Kursdorf is "the loudest village in Germany" and a "sound inferno"?
Did you know that Ed Beauvais co-founded the "darling of deregulation "?
Did you know that Andreas Reize assumed the post of Thomaskantor as the first Swiss and the first Catholic since the Reformation ?
Did you know that Johann Reinhold Forster 's 1778 book Observations Made During a Voyage Round the World has been described as "the beginning of modern geography"?
Did you know that Marguerite Dunlap sang in the first radio broadcast of WEAF in New York?
Did you know that David Whitaker has been called "the father of the ISBN "?
Did you know that for his appearance in the fourth-season finale of The Drew Carey Show , Hal Linden spoke with a German accent because he had trouble speaking with a Dutch accent?
Did you know that Indonesian historian Sartono Kartodirdjo 's father wanted him to be a doctor, but he refused as he claimed to be afraid of blood ?
Did you know that a complaint over an allegedly illegal transmitter move led to Texas radio station KFQX-FM being forced off the air for four hours in 1988?
Did you know that future rear admiral Robert Wertheim had a hand in the naming of the MIM-72 Chaparral ?
Did you know that Bagenal's Castle was originally thought to have been destroyed, but was rediscovered in 1996 in the premises of a bakery?
Did you know that David Kennedy , co-founder of the agency that came up with Nike 's Just Do It campaign, was once gifted 50 pairs of Levi's denims by his employees?
Did you know that White Lake Provincial Park is the only provincial park in Ontario , Canada, with an exceptional provision allowing hydroelectric activity as a non-conforming use?
Did you know that the painter and writer Hilda Vīka was involved in Latvian neopaganism and used Latvian mythology in her works?
Did you know that the non-fiction book Corvus: A Life with Birds focuses on a rook named after a drag queen called "Madame Chickeboumskaya"?
Did you know that there are three hydroelectric generating stations on the White River in Northern Ontario , Canada, all part-owned by First Nations ?
Did you know that Iranian-American aerospace engineer Joe Youssefi was posthumously awarded a gold medal for his collection of Persian stamps?
Did you know that actor Frankie Muniz praised the Blackstarkids for their track "Frankie Muniz"?
Did you know that the English botanists Jane Ingham and Joseph Hubert Priestley were the first to separate cell walls from meristematic tissues in broad beans ?
Did you know that KMXO near Abilene, Texas , aired the region's first Spanish-language radio program and later became its first full-time Spanish-language station?
Did you know that hinges on arch bridges were introduced in 1858 and remain popular in modern civil engineering?
Did you know that a branch line of the New Haven and Northampton Railroad was so difficult to build, the area was nicknamed " Satan's Kingdom "?
Did you know that some lawyers and privacy experts have questioned the constitutionality of reverse search warrants in the United States?
Did you know that Anne Makemie Holden bequeathed land to her male relatives so that they could vote?
Did you know that Julius Caesar 's portrayal of his actions in the Gallic Wars have led historians to call him one of history's first " spin doctors "?
Did you know that Lorenza Böttner , a mouth and foot painter , had both of her arms amputated following an electric shock?
Did you know that the 1992 book A Song for Arbonne is set in a fantasy world loosely based on 12th-century Provence ?
Did you know that former judge Steve Alm 's successful campaign to be elected Prosecuting Attorney of Honolulu was endorsed by the State of Hawaii Organization of Police Officers in 2019?
Did you know that after starring in several films directed by Umberto Lenzi , actor Me Me Lai later worked as a police officer who confiscated them as " video nasties "?
Did you know that the woman of the Chatti was allegedly a Germanic prophetess whose advice inspired Roman Emperor Vitellius to murder his own mother, Sextilia ?
Did you know that in October 2021, American wheelchair racer Yen Hoang came in the top three in marathons on consecutive days?
Did you know that the first East German embassy in Africa opened in Zanzibar in 1964?
Did you know that American Computer and Peripheral was the first company to offer a plug-in board for Intel 's 386 processor?
Did you know that thanks to the advocate general 's opinion, one is likely to know the outcome of a court case before the European Court of Justice before it even starts drafting the ruling?
Did you know that SpaceX 's reusable Starship launch vehicle has twice as much thrust as the Apollo program 's Saturn V ?
Did you know that Canadian politician Above Znoneofthe chose his name so as to be placed last on alphabetical ballots?
Did you know that the original release of Jason Shiga 's comic Demon included a four-page issue, a sixty-page issue, and an issue in which all the panels were black?
Did you know that 125 years ago today, the lifeboat Henry Ramey Upcher rescued the fourteen-man crew of the SS Commodore and three fishermen who had been stranded aboard her?
Did you know that the women's race at today's New York City Marathon will feature two of the medalists from this year's Olympic marathon ?
Did you know that Osa Maliki opposed the introduction of the Guided Democracy , and as a result was removed from his position?
Did you know that Cwmhiraeth 's name roughly translates to "valley of longing"?
Did you know that Citizens Square was almost named after Fort Wayne 's Harry Baals ?
Did you know that Colombian-born Susan Bernal is developing new cements that can reduce the substantial CO 2 emissions currently caused by concrete?
Did you know that the Columbus was a disposable ship , built from large quantities of North American timber and intended to be sailed to London where she would be dismantled to avoid cargo import duties?
Did you know that deleted articles on Wikipedia may be " salted " so that they cannot be recreated?
Did you know that Cher Scarlett is one of the leaders of #AppleToo , a workers' rights movement at Apple Inc. ?
Did you know that flowers of the arctic dandelion do not need to be pollinated in order to set seed?
Did you know that British Turk Hüseyin Er won world and European championships with the Turkey national deaf football team?
Did you know that a U.S. Supreme Court case had "odd bedfellows"?
Did you know that landscape architect Harriet Pattison collaborated with her lover Louis Kahn on the design of Four Freedoms Park and the grounds of the Kimbell Art Museum ?
Did you know that climate change in Malaysia may cause its mangroves to be inundated by sea level rise by 2060?
Did you know that Małgorzata Kalinowska-Iszkowska was awarded a Polish Gold Cross of Merit for her work in information technology ?
Did you know that the Nashua, Acton and Boston Railroad was also known as the "Red Line" because it was consistently unprofitable?
Did you know that the railway network in Lithuania will have its first high-speed line by 2026?
Did you know that a mock funeral was held outside company headquarters during the 1986–1987 John Deere strike in which 700 union workers ceremoniously burned a coffin and a Christmas tree covered in company hats?
Did you know that in 1776 Robert Bell was commissioned by Thomas Paine to print Common Sense , considered the most inciteful work of the American Revolution?
Did you know that the Raytheon 704 , which cost more than $10,000 in 1970, was the first computer used for playing games by mail?
Did you know that Marie Surcouf was the president of Stella, a club for French women aeronauts ?
Did you know that investment fund Engine No. 1 waged a successful proxy battle against ExxonMobil despite owning only 0.02 percent of the oil company's shares?
Did you know that Hans Haselböck , later an international concert organist and professor at the Vienna Music Academy , began 65 years as organist at the Dominican Church, Vienna , on 4 November 1949?
Did you know that for more than six decades no federal supreme court existed in the German territories until the Reichsoberhandelsgericht was formed in 1869?
Did you know that a reviewer said that Richard Osman 's The Man Who Died Twice has "more holes than a dodgy knitting pattern" but he "enjoyed every minute"?
Did you know that Arkansas linebacker Grant Morgan , originally a walk-on himself, signed a personality rights deal with Walk-On's Bistreaux and Bar?
Did you know that melodies by Guillaume Franc , composed to French psalms published in Geneva in 1542, are still in use in the 21st century?
Did you know that Reply Corporation went from competing against IBM with clones of the PS/2 to selling upgrade motherboards for them?
Did you know that a group of farmers discovered The Young Woman of Amajac while preparing to till a citrus field?
Did you know that Nintendo constructed a special retail box for The Incredible Hulk that features a comic strip built into its cover?
Did you know that Grey Gowrie , while holding office under Margaret Thatcher , described himself as "Irishman with a Scots name and a German wife, working, somewhat to his surprise, for a very English government"?
Did you know that the type specimen of the icefish Pagetodes , a synonym of Cryodraco , was stolen and eaten by a cat before it could be preserved?
Did you know that the 1936 Northeastern United States Flood directly led to the passage of the Flood Control Act of 1936 by the United States Congress?
Did you know that with a force of just 3,500 men, French lieutenant colonel Natalis Constant Darche was able to hold up the advance of the German 5th Army for three weeks at Longwy in August 1914?
Did you know that Piecemeal , who appeared in The Incredible Hulk: The Pantheon Saga , was considered one of the strangest characters to appear in a Marvel video game?
Did you know that according to science fiction essayist Jacques Van Herp , the novella The End of Illa caused the temporary decline of French science fiction?
Did you know that Mother Teresa defended Jesuit priest and child molester Donald McGuire against sexual abuse allegations?
Did you know that in 1987, fans of C.D. Guadalajara attempted to dress the statue of Minerva in the team's shirt?
Did you know that Lieutenant Colonel Richard John Andrews survived the Second Boer War , the First World War , the Russian Civil War and the Irish War of Independence only to be killed by a defective tool in his garage?
Did you know that at one point in its political history , the Philippines was represented in the Spanish Cortes Generales ?
Did you know that Johannes Schröder composed an oratorio honouring Katharina Kaspar , who became a new saint in 2018?
Did you know that HMS Cicala was commanded at the 1941 Battle of Hong Kong by a one-armed veteran of the 1916 Battle of Jutland ?
Did you know that Robert Weiner taught AP English Literature while coaching football at Henry B. Plant High School ?
Did you know that it took five years of observations to find the planet orbiting the star HD 175167 ?
Did you know that manuscript illuminator Gioacchino de' Gigantibus worked for six different popes during his lifetime?
Did you know that Hogwarts School of Prayer and Miracles rewrote Harry Potter to replace magic with prayer and supernatural phenomena?
Did you know that the account of the Haliurunas in the 6th century history of the Goths, the Getica , is a precursor to later Christian traditions that wise women had sex and orgies with demons and the Devil?
Did you know that the New Amsterdam Theatre , once described as "a vision of gorgeousness", later had dead cats in the basement and mushrooms growing through the floor?
Did you know that from 1960 to 1981, executions in East Germany took place in Leipzig Prison in the middle of a residential area?
Did you know that the Battle of Saint Charles featured what is known as the deadliest shot of the American Civil War ?
Did you know that the Germanic seeress Waluburg is only known from a pot shard found on the island Elephantine in southern Egypt?
Did you know that the opera The Devil and Daniel Webster features a jury of ghosts made up of famous historical American figures who are now residents of Hell; including the pirate Blackbeard ?
Did you know that Re'quan Boyette was named to the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Good Works Team in 2008, making him the second Duke player to receive the honor?
Did you know that a group of self-employed women on the island of Cikobia-i-Ra donate 10 percent of their earnings to combat climate change?
Did you know that George Mackaness showed that by infecting mice with intracellular bacteria, macrophages could be activated to attack other bacteria?
Did you know that Ingeborg Beugel left Greece following death threats and reported attacks after she questioned the prime minister about pushbacks ?
Did you know that Chninkel , a Franco-Belgian comic mixing Tolkien-like fantasy with Biblical themes, has been translated into several languages?
Did you know that trade negotiator Michael Smith 's negotiating style was summarized by a sign at his office door that read "This is not Burger King "?
Did you know that among the traditions of the University of Texas at Arlington are bed racing and oozeball ?
Did you know that Brazilian student Bruno Borges disappeared , leaving fourteen handwritten encrypted books and a statue over two metres (6.6 ft) tall in his bedroom?
Did you know that the Austro-Hungarian yacht Dalmat carried Archduke Franz Ferdinand on his journey to Sarajevo in 1914 and returned with his body?
Did you know that in the 1880s Joseph T. Wilson wrote the "most comprehensive study of African American military service" of the era?
Did you know that consuming the vitamin riboflavin in large amounts will cause urine to have a bright yellow color?
Did you know that the leaders of Nazi Germany believed that Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin were puppets of an international Jewish conspiracy ?
Did you know that Indonesian politician Iskandar Ramis had to be hospitalized after attempting to make juice?
Did you know that an incident at Bridle Trails State Park resulted in a horse being euthanized?
Did you know that cricketer Kekhashru Mistry , an all-rounder in the first all-Indian cricket team that toured England in 1911 , had to return after three games because he was also the aide-de-camp to the maharaja of Patiala ?
Did you know that contestants in the Financial Modeling World Cup solve problems in Microsoft Excel ?
Did you know that Nicholas Horsfall published five commentaries on Vergil 's Aeneid after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis ?
Did you know that a strike by uranium miners in 1974 in Ontario led to the creation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act?
Did you know that impressionist Paul Boland has imitated over 100 voices during his performances including Frank Sinatra , Elvis Presley , and the Beatles ?
Did you know that a ghostly figure can be seen at the legendary home of King Arthur ?
Did you know that Herrscher des Himmels, erhöre das Lallen , a Bach cantata for the Third Day of Christmas , contains the only aria that he newly composed for the oratorio ?
Did you know that the bridge from which James Bond leapt in No Time to Die is actually an aqueduct ?
Did you know that despite the support of the British authorities, the multi-racial United Tanganyika Party was unsuccessful, with the African-nationalist TANU winning a majority in the 1958–59 election ?
Did you know that Maine state legislator Tracy Quint introduced a bill that would have banned all COVID-19 vaccination mandates in Maine until 2024?
Did you know that in 1874, thousands of Russian students " [went] to the people " to agitate the peasantry towards socialism ?
Did you know that a 1939 thesis by Nathaniel Fadipe , The Sociology of the Yoruba , was the first sociological study by a black African?
Did you know  that the original author of Half-Life: Full Life Consequences wanted it to be so bad that "it stands the test of time as one of the worst things ever written"?
Did you know that theatre critic Günther Rühle 's books cover the history of theatre in Germany, its events and its people, from 1887 to 1966?
Did you know that Hypericum aegypticum exhibits a rare form of heterostyly ?
Did you know that the home of civil rights activist Lottie B. Scott is a stop on Norwich 's Freedom Trail?
Did you know that despite the governor-general being advised not to employ him, Darmawan Mangunkusumo kept his colonial government job?
Did you know that three unsuccessful attempts were made to destroy the offices of The Union Flag ?
Did you know that mountaineer Edmund Hillary asked Canadian doctor Joan Ford to take her "Adidas runners, a stethoscope and an umbrella" and get to the Himalayas ?
Did you know that the Christmas Special Honda minibike , which struggled to sell upon release in 1986, is now worth nearly $10,000 as a collector's item?
Did you know that the song " Meri Kuri " by BoA has been dubbed Japan's " All I Want for Christmas Is You "?
Did you know that in 1897, Francis Pharcellus Church wrote " Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus "?