kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that when Charles T. Gulick was tried for treason in 1895, his lawyer Paul Neumann had served in the cabinet of the Kingdom of Hawaii with him?
Did you know that although the Montana Fish and Game Board, the predecessor to the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks , was established in 1895, the first game warden was not hired until 1898?
Did you know that Palacký University in Olomouc was established in 1573 to help re-Catholicize predominantly Protestant Czech lands ?
Did you know that, when asked why he opened his studio in Tropico rather than nearby Los Angeles , photographer Edward Weston replied, "I'm going to make my name so famous that it won't matter where I live"?
Did you know that Elizabeth Dickens , the mother of novelist Charles Dickens , was the model for Mrs. Nickleby in Nicholas Nickleby and Mrs. Micawber in David Copperfield ?
Did you know that seven months after the reported execution in Budapest of Sári Petráss as a spy, she debuted on Broadway ?
Did you know that in the mass literacy campaign during Grenada 's New Jewel Movement revolution, 65% of volunteer teachers were mobilized from the National Youth Organization ?
Did you know that Henry Schoellkopf , selected as an All-American fullback while attending Harvard Law School , later shot himself in the head at his Milwaukee law office?
Did you know that James Morris Blaut 's death prevented him from finishing his trilogy of books criticizing Eurocentrism ?
Did you know that the Bumblebee model , first used by Alan Kostelecký , is the simplest case of a theory with spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking ?
Did you know that Zachariah T. Woodall was awarded the Medal of Honor for his participation in what was later known as the Battle of Buffalo Wallow?
Did you know that pitcher Héctor Wagner was one of the youngest players in Major League Baseball in 1990?
Did you know that according to Andreas Grünschloß , members of UFO religions derive an enhanced sense of self-worth from their membership, believing they are part of those chosen to prepare a new age ?
Did you know that Frank Girardi ' s Lycoming football team wore shoes borrowed from Joe Paterno in the 1990 NCAA football tournament ?
Did you know that the highly influential jurist Sir Matthew Hale once said that lawyers were "a barbarous set of people unfit for anything but their own trade"?
Did you know that Fr. John Willms once stood in the way of a locomotive in order to allow his congregation to hear a sermon in silence?
Did you know that former Ohio State football coach Larry Catuzzi served on the Flight 93 Federal Advisory Commission after his daughter died on United Airlines Flight 93 ?
Did you know that the wife and children of Idaho Territorial Governor Edward A. Stevenson were killed during an Indian attack?
Did you know that Amon Henry Wilds ' s Italianate Park Crescent development in Brighton was the scene of the infamous "trunk murder" of July 1934 ?
Did you know that the Utina were one of the most powerful Timucua tribes during the early days of European settlement in Florida , but appear to have fragmented into at least three chiefdoms by the 17th century?
Did you know that a Los Angeles Times music critic credited Los Angeles Philharmonic director Ernest Fleischmann with having "transformed a provincial second-rank orchestra into one of the world's best"?
Did you know that the communist -led Left Front won all seats elected in the 2010 Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council election ?
Did you know that soprano Siri Thornhill performed a Bach cantata for the fourth Sunday after Trinity , Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 177 , at the Rheingau Musik Festival in the Eibingen Abbey ?
Did you know that the GreenWheel is an electric-powered assist module designed by the MIT Media Lab than can be added in the rear hub of any existing bicycle, providing added power for hills and acceleration?
Did you know that according to sociology professor Lorne L. Dawson , Internet sites like YouTube have in recent years been used to spread religious hate propaganda ?
Did you know that the SS Cedarville sank in 1965 after colliding with another ship near the Mackinac Bridge , killing ten people?
Did you know that Gerbrand Bakker played a tape recording of 1994 Dutch Eurovision entry " Waar is de zon? " as he was given the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for The Twin ?
Did you know that Hillsboro, Oregon -based ClearEdge Power used to be known as Quantum Leap Technology?
Did you know that physician-ethnographer Hiram M. Hiller, Jr. made two trips to the fabled Dyak headhunters of Borneo ?
Did you know that Jay Handlan set the NCAA college basketball record of 71 field goal attempts in a single game while playing for Washington and Lee University ?
Did you know that The Volcano in northwestern British Columbia is the youngest known volcano in Canada and its last eruption likely took place only 150 years ago?
Did you know that Mendocino, California , artist Bill Zacha learned to paint left-handed after injuring his right hand in a fall?
Did you know that in response to the Hajong communist peasants' uprising , Pakistani authorities forced the majority of the Hajong people into exile in India ?
Did you know that "Lord" George Sanger was a 19th century circus proprietor who, at the age of 85, was murdered with a hatchet ?
Did you know that convicted murderer Ronnie Lee Gardner watched The Lord of the Rings film trilogy before being executed by firing squad ?
Did you know that the cargo ship Jan Steen collided with and sank the Caritas I in the River Scheldt in 1947?
Did you know that Carlos Monsiváis , who was a Mexican political activist and journalist , won more than 33 awards during his lifetime?
Did you know that the first two cookbooks by Deborah Madison won James Beard Foundation awards as well as Julia Child Cookbook of the Year?
Did you know that the current head of the Security Service of Ukraine Valeriy Khoroshkovsky is one of Ukraine 's richest businessmen?
Did you know that a high concentration of anthracene in the liver can kill the African Clariid Catfish ?
Did you know that the opening scene of the first episode of BBC Three sitcom Mongrels features cats eating the corpse of their dead owner?
Did you know that only 1000 copies of each issue of Portfolio: An Intercontinental Quarterly were printed on loose-leaf paper, bound in a folio , and featured avant-garde authors, poets, artists, and even architects?
Did you know that Wimbledon tennis player and IOC honorary member Jan Staubo was an inmate of the camp Stalag Luft III shortly before The Great Escape ?
Did you know that Princeton 's "Whoop" Snively , known as "the best forward-passer in the East," later coached lacrosse and ice hockey at Williams College and New Hampshire ?
Did you know that sitcom writer and producer Martin Cohan co-created Silver Spoons and Who's the Boss?
Did you know that Richard Shephard wrote a piece commemorating Henry Purcell 's 350th birthday for 500 school children which was performed in the Royal Albert Hall with Howard Goodall in 2009?
Did you know that although his father was director of industrial relations at Ford Motor Company , Bob King joined the union at Ford and was elected president of the United Auto Workers of America in June 2010?
Did you know that the career of the 400-meter world junior record holder Darrell Robinson ended after he accused Carl Lewis and Flo-Jo of using performance-enhancing drugs ?
Did you know that W. I. M. Seneviratne and Chaminda Ruwan Yakandawala were Sri Lankan soldiers who sacrificed their lives to prevent female Tamil Tiger suicide bombers from assassinating Sri Lankan VIPs ?
Did you know that the National Penitentiary Institute of Peru is the government agency that operates the prison where Joran van der Sloot is being held?
Did you know that the $2.4 million spent by both candidates in the 2003 New Jersey Senate race between Stephen M. Sweeney and Raymond Zane set a record for the most expensive legislative race in state history?
Did you know that high levels of chlorides have been found in some of Serra de Na Burguesa's aquifers ?
Did you know that PCC , one of Brazil's most notorious gangs, is said to have been formed in response to commanding colonel Ubiratan Guimarães ' mishandling of the prison riot leading to the Carandiru massacre ?
Did you know that the 1986 Goodwill Games , created by Ted Turner , featured a type of polo competition with motorcycles called motoball ?
Did you know that psychologist Steve Eichel was an expert witness in the 2003 criminal trial of Lee Boyd Malvo ?
Did you know that Kermit Roosevelt 's co-brother-in-law Mervyn Herbert played first-class cricket for Somerset County Cricket Club and died in the British Embassy in Rome , Italy ?
Did you know that Ambondro , which lived in Madagascar about 167 million years ago, is the oldest known mammal with modern, tribosphenic molars ?
Did you know that Vangjel Meksi was the first to translate the New Testament into the Albanian language ?
Did you know that the 2010 Central Canada earthquake was felt as far away as New York City ?
Did you know that Karen Fladset , team handball player and former coach for the Norwegian women's national handball team , was also national champion in discus throw ?
Did you know that a village in Pennsylvania got its name from an incident involving nitroglycerin torpedoes ?
Did you know that the Becton, Dickinson headquarters were designed in the style of a country house ?
Did you know that the annual Berg River Canoe Marathon ends at the Port Owen marina in Velddrif , Western Cape , South Africa ?
Did you know that the Cretaceous Malagasy mammal Lavanify is most closely related to a species from India ?
Did you know that 11 Dyke Road , Brighton —latterly a nightclub with names such as Sloopy's, Fozzies, The Shrine and New Hero—was built in 1867 in an "inventive" Gothic style as a school for poor girls?
Did you know that Thomas S. Buechner became one of the youngest museum directors in the United States when he was named to head the Brooklyn Museum at age 33?
Did you know that in the Treaty of Kiel , Swedish Pomerania was promised to Denmark as compensation for Norway ?
Did you know that the University of Texas fired their women's basketball coach in 1976, during a season in which the Texas Longhorns women's basketball team went 21–7, because he couldn't coach volleyball ?
Did you know that the Journal of Contemporary Religion , covering new religious movements and trends in mainstream religion, was founded in 1985 as Religion Today , with Peter B. Clarke as its founding editor?
Did you know that the old Rouen tramway was once the largest electric tramway in France , with 70 km (43 mi) of route?
Did you know that D. Bennett Mazur was elected in 1991 to serve a sixth term in the New Jersey General Assembly representing the 37th Legislative District , but resigned after suffering a stroke on Election Day?
Did you know that some Anglo-Saxon churches, such as St Peter's Church, Barton-upon-Humber , were originally built with towers for naves ?
Did you know that the LTV L450F spyplane was developed from a sailplane , and was then further developed into a drone ?
Did you know that much of the information that reaches Chinese media is published in the limited-circulation reports for government officials , not in the regular press?
Did you know that in 1612 Jewish teacher Jacob Barnet was arrested and imprisoned by officials of the University of Oxford for changing his mind about being baptized ?
Did you know that Europe's largest golf course was built on the island of Veliki Brijun in the early 1910s?
Did you know that Memphis, Tennessee's Temple Israel , one of the largest Reform synagogues in the United States, insisted in its early years on separate seating for men and women ?
Did you know that after his professional baseball career was over, Jerry Harrington became the assistant chief of police in Keokuk, Iowa ?
Did you know that in 1969, Mahathir Mohamad , the future Prime Minister of Malaysia , lost his seat in Parliament to future Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party President, Yusof Rawa ?
Did you know that while he was manager of the Milwaukee Brewers , Rip Egan once served alcohol to the opposing pitcher late into the night to keep him from playing at his full potential the next day?
Did you know that Norwegian MP Børre Rognlien was also the organizational leader of short track speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics ?
Did you know that, after the rape and murder of an 11-year-old boy selling candy for a fundraiser, New Jersey Assemblyman John A. Rocco introduced a bill to ban door-to-door sales by public school students?
Did you know that, in 2007, American track and field athlete Jake Arnold became the first man in 22 years to win back-to-back NCAA Championships in the decathlon ?
Did you know that, although the Sind United Party emerged as the largest party in the 1937 Sind assembly election , it failed to get its main leaders elected?
Did you know that Lavaca Bay in Texas has been classified as a superfund site due to mercury contamination by Alcoa ?
Did you know that an inmate of the Dóchas Centre women's prison was arrested for trying to break into the facility at Mountjoy Prison , Dublin ?
Did you know that the town of Carancahua on Carancahua Bay in Texas avoided growth because of the site's propensity for flooding and malaria ?
Did you know that the rainforest tree Flindersia xanthoxyla , used for making coaches and cabinets, is a member of the citrus family Rutaceae ?
Did you know that the MIT Car , a two-seat urban concept car propelled by motors in its wheels, was a project developed by William J. Mitchell at the MIT Media Lab ?
Did you know that wine writer André Jullien classified the wines of Bordeaux nearly 40 years before the official 1855 classification , including naming the exact same four First Growths ?
Did you know that two major bridges in Croatia , carrying two major roads only one mile apart, are both officially called Maslenica Bridge ?
Did you know that the leaves of the button grass Gymnoschoenus sphaerocephalus have the lowest recorded phosphorus content of any plant species?
Did you know that, in 2005, the Vietnamese company Vinacafe controlled half of the instant coffee market in Vietnam, and Nestlé another third?
Did you know that Chey Chettha II 's cooperation with the Nguyễn Lords of Vietnam led to the Vietnamese annexation of the Mekong Delta , including the town Vietnamese settlers referred to as Sài Gòn ?
Did you know that TriBeCa 's St. John's Park was a farm, a private park , and a freight depot on the West Side Line before being used for exits of the Holland Tunnel ?
Did you knowthat the Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessel Helix Producer 1 servicing at the Deepwater Horizon site was formerly a RORO ferry ?
Did you know that Norwegian MP Arne Haukvik was a founder of the Bislett Games ?
Did you know that Fred K. Nielsen , a legal official of the U.S. State Department , served as the part-time head football coach at four different Washington, D.C. colleges?
Did you know that a 1946 trial against the newspaper Morgenposten also had implications for the treatment of other Norwegian newspapers which had cooperated with the Nazi authorities during World War II ?
Did you know that before becoming a professional footballer , Bob Jefferson had deserted from the Royal Navy ?
Did you know that the plaza in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park designed by Kenzo Tange allows 50,000 people to gather at the peace monument in the centre?
Did you know that Knob Noster State Park in Missouri was built by the CCC and WPA as Montserrat National Recreational Demonstration Area ?
Did you know that the Venezuelan historian Lucía Raynero Morales holds a Visiting Fellowship at St Antony's College, Oxford , that is named after the Venezuelan humanist Andrés Bello ?
Did you know that the Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden at the Bohemian Citizens' Benevolent Society has a lime tree that was planted by former Czechoslovakia president Václav Havel ?
Did you know that the "Grandfather of Eastern Wilderness", Ernie Dickerman , was instrumental in promoting the 1975 Eastern Wilderness Act , which designated 16 new wilderness areas in the eastern United States?
Did you know that Pope Vigilius refused to attend the Second Council of Constantinople even though he had been living in the city for seven years?
Did you know that Williams College football coach Joseph Brooks served in a machine gun battalion in World War I and survived a plane crash in 1931?
Did you know that Tobelo is the capital of the North Halmahera Regency in Indonesia ?
Did you know that The Vampire Diaries actress Katerina Graham makes a cameo appearance in Justin Bieber 's latest music video, " Somebody to Love ", which features his mentor Usher ?
Did you know that Robert B. Radnitz produced the 1972 film Sounder , which became his best known work, despite advice that the movie would never find an audience?
Did you know that, prior to appearing as Summer Hoyland in the soap opera Neighbours , Jordy Lucas was a finalist for Victoria , Australia , in the 2008 The Dolly Big Star competition?
Did you know that St Stephen and All Martyrs' Church, Lever Bridge , Bolton , Greater Manchester , was the first of three "pot churches" designed by Edmund Sharpe ?
Did you know that Tav HaYosher is a certification mark offered to kosher dining establishments that attests that the business meets legal and ethical standards for all of its employees?
Did you know that in January 1942, British agents and commandos raided the neutral Spanish island of Fernando Po and stole three ships ?
Did you know that John Tillman , recently hired as the Maryland men's lacrosse head coach, led Harvard to victory over Princeton for the first time in two decades?
Did you know that " Turn Ahead the Clock " was a promotion originated by the Seattle Mariners Major League Baseball franchise in 1998 where the team wore futuristic uniforms that outfielder Ken Griffey, Jr. helped design?
Did you know that when interned by Nazi Germany in World War II , Sofka Skipwith and a friend smuggled a Jewish baby out of the camp in a Red Cross box and so saved its life?
Did you know that Accordia became the first housing development to win the
Did you know that Jihad satire , comedy that makes terrorists look silly, is thought to be an effective way of undermining support for terrorist organizations like Al Qaeda ?
Did you know that George H. Sutton was renowned as the "handless billiard player", but his cigarette card depicts him with hands?
Did you know that Norm Daniels , Frank Hauser and Bill MacDermott achieved the most wins among the football coaches in Wesleyan history, and Daniels led the team to four consecutive undefeated seasons?
Did you know that XellOs plays on a professional StarCraft team called Air Force ACE, sponsored by the South Korean Air Force ?
Did you know that in addition to some isolated teeth and a jaw fragment, the Mesozoic mammals of Madagascar include the most complete mammalian skeleton known from the Mesozoic of Gondwana ?
Did you know that during the 1960s two militant groups, the Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen (FLOSY) and the National Liberation Front (NLF) , fought each other and the British in what is now Yemen ?
Did you know that 1997 British and Irish Lions captain Martin Johnson regarded Paul Wallace as the player of the series?
Did you know that the underground station at Vienna's Stephansplatz has a foul smell caused by organic material used to stabilise the soil?
Did you know that United States Ambassador to Cyprus Taylor G. Belcher was awarded the Distinguished Service Award because of his peace-keeping abilities during the eruption of violence between Greek and Turkish Cypriots?
Did you know that the MIT Media Lab 's RoboScooter is a foldable electric scooter, designed to be one-third the weight and have 10% of the parts of traditional gasoline-powered scooters?
Did you know that according to James A. Beckford , the refusal of many French prisons to provide halal meat and religious services to Muslims leads to increased radicalisation in the Muslim community?
Did you know that roughly 1% of all star formation occurs within tidal tails ?
Did you know that when Fr. Jeremiah Callahan was appointed president of Duquesne University in 1931, he used the opportunity to tell reporters about his personal critique of Einstein 's theory of relativity ?
Did you know that Australian cricket all-rounder Sarah Elliott only took her first wicket in senior cricket eight years after her debut?
Did you know that despite helping arrange the engagement of Princess Feodora with the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach , German Emperor Wilhelm II refused to attend their wedding?
Did you know that jet engine turbine blades can face temperatures of 2,900 °F (1,590 °C)?
Did you know that Ditmar Meidell founded and edited Norway's first satirical magazine ?
Did you know that the wreck of the SS Francisco Morazan is now owned by the State of Michigan ?
Did you know that the church dedicated to St Cwyllog in Llangwyllog, Anglesey , Wales , has a rare surviving Georgian triple-decker pulpit ?
Did you know that the 1927 Gulang earthquake was caused by thrust faulting at a restraining bend along the Haiyuan fault, the same fault that caused the 1920 Haiyuan earthquake ?
Did you know that Assembly member Gerald H. Zecker justified higher car insurance rates for drivers in New Jersey 's largest cities because "cars in Newark are stolen and wrecked in far greater numbers"?
Did you know that the Arabat Spit is 112 km long and only a few kilometers wide?
Did you know that John Momis , a former Catholic priest and ambassador to China , defeated Autonomous Region of Bougainville 's incumbent President James Tanis in the 2010 Bougainvillean presidential election ?
Did you know that Eurythmic was a versatile Australian -bred Thoroughbred racehorse who won over distances ranging from 5 furlongs (1,000 metres) to 2 miles (3,200 metres)?
Did you know that Dr. Edgar Fauver , a football and baseball player in the 1890s, became a pioneer in women's athletics coaching women's basketball and baseball at Barnard College in the 1900s?
Did you know that the land for the first Holy Trinity Church in Morecambe , Lancashire , was bequeathed by the village blacksmith ?
Did you know that the translations by Princess Anka Obrenović in 1836 were the first literary works compiled by a female to be published in Serbia?
Did you know that Amos Horev , appointed to the Israeli Turkel Commission of Inquiry into the Gaza flotilla raid of May 2010, is a former President of Technion University ?
Did you know that Nazi German leaders, including Heinrich Himmler , briefly fell for Heinz Kurschildgen 's claims to be able to make petrol from water?
Did you know that the guard on the train involved in a derailment at Falls of Cruachan in 2010 was also the guard on a train derailed at the same location in 1997?
Did you know that at 5,821 metres (19,098 ft) long, the Mala Kapela Tunnel is the longest tunnel in Croatia ?
Did you know that in 2008 the Korean e-Sports Players Association worried that it would be required to pay royalties to Blizzard Entertainment to broadcast Starcraft II ?
Did you know that former New Jersey Assembly member Gerald Luongo wrote Surviving Federal Prison Camp: An Informative and Helpful Guide for Prospective Inmates after spending almost a year in prison?
Did you know that Ludwig Schwarz , the Roman Catholic bishop of Linz , Austria , has a doctorate in classical philology and archeology from the University of Vienna ?
Did you know that Pabuji Ki Phad , a religious painting of folk deities, is the only surviving ancient traditional folk art form in the world of the epic of Pabuji , the Rajput of Rajasthan in India?
Did you know that architect Amon Henry Wilds built the Hindoo-style Western Pavilion as his own home in Brighton , and installed an igloo -shaped bathroom in its dome?
Did you know that William King , who beat incumbent Thomas King , never represented his electorate because he was killed before the first session of the 3rd New Zealand Parliament ?