kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that excavations at Alba Cathedral uncovered an ancient baptistery redesigned as a burial place?
Did you know that the Pied Crested Cuckoo , which is considered as a harbinger of the monsoon season due to the timing of its arrival, is frequently spotted at Hyderabad's Sanjeevaiah Park ?
Did you know that Maria Esperanza de Bianchini , a Venezuelan Servant of God , was reportedly witnessed levitating during mass and engaging in bilocation ?
Did you know that after Julius Caesar 's civil war military campaign , he planned to distribute land to about 15,000 of his veterans?
Did you know that professional baseball player Erasmo Ramírez was named the pitcher of the year for the Seattle Mariners minor league organization in 2009?
Did you know that the majority of the inhabitants of Saint-Augustin in Quebec , Canada , are Métis – descendants of Inuit and Europeans?
Did you know that although the competition for designing Old Christ Church, Waterloo , Merseyside , was won by a different firm of architects, Paley, Austin and Paley were commissioned to build it?
Did you know that Bhutan was one of the first countries in the world to recognize the independence of Bangladesh in 1971?
Did you know that St Mary's Church, Elsing has, according to Nikolaus Pevsner , "the most sumptuous of all English church brasses "?
Did you know that Oregon cattle baron Bill Hanley died in 1935 after attending Bill Hanley Day at the Pendleton Round-Up ?
Did you know that an anti-abortion movement commercial, featuring a depiction of President Barack Obama , was CatholicVote.org 's first advertisement and recorded over 700,000 hits?
Did you know that Noosa National Park in Australia receives more than 1 million visitors a year?
Did you know that Robert Twycross was a pioneer of the hospice movement during the 1970s ?
Did you know that Benwick's High Street in Cambridgeshire is built on a rodham—another way of spelling roddon , an East Anglia term for an old watercourse ?
Did you know that coffee production in Papua New Guinea slumped by 23 percent in 2000?
Did you know that the spider Tetragnatha extensa can walk on water, where it can move faster than it can on land?
Did you know that black South African footballer Darius Dhlomo went missing on his debut for Dutch club Heracles Almelo because he was unaware that blacks and whites were allowed in the same changing room ?
Did you know that the Former Residence of Soong Ching-ling was once used by Zaifeng , the father of Puyi , the last emperor of China ?
Did you know that in the 1966 movie Hold On! , the children of American astronauts choose to name a NASA space capsule after the British band Herman's Hermits ?
Did you know that writer and broadcaster Clive James made a guest appearance in the Australian soap opera Neighbours as a postman?
Did you know that girl group Sophia Fresh ' s debut single, "What It Is", impressed Rihanna so much that she said she wished the song was hers?
Did you know that the Kirklees Priory in West Yorkshire is the supposed site of Robin Hood 's grave?
Did you know that bass-baritone Stephen Varcoe recorded Bach cantatas with the Monteverdi Choir , including Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140 ?
Did you know that The Battle of Waterloo , made in five days in 1913 at a cost of £ 1,800 by British and Colonial Films , has been called "the first British epic film "?
Did you know that U.S. Army officer Dan Tyler Moore , an aide to and sparring partner of Theodore Roosevelt , struck the President in the eye, causing him to lose sight in that eye?
Did you know that Bach scored a sopranino recorder to illustrate the morning star in the opening chorus of his cantata Herr Christ, der einge Gottessohn, BWV 96 ?
Did you know that Jim Cardwell gave up his engineering business to become full-time secretary for Melbourne Football Club , a post he held for 25 years?
Did you know that Wat Pasantidhamma was the first Thai Buddhist temple in the Tidewater (southeastern) region of Virginia ?
Did you know that a fortune made as a merchant in Gothenburg enabled Thomas Erskine (later 9th Earl of Kellie) to buy back Cambo House , a property forfeited because of his family's Jacobite sympathies?
Did you know that U2 wrote the song " Mothers of the Disappeared " about the Madres de Plaza de Mayo , whose children disappeared during the Dirty War ?
Did you know that James Eccles made the first ascent of the second-highest summit in the Alps ninety years after the first ascent of the highest ?
Did you know that the four statues of saints on the tower of St Andrew's Church, East Heslerton were originally intended for Bristol Cathedral , but were rejected because the dean said they were papist ?
Did you know that at age 25, Julius Caesar was captured by pirates, but after being ransomed, chased them, captured them, and had them crucified ?
Did you know that in the documentary television series about South American serial killers , Instinto Asesino ( Killer Instinct ), the death toll of the six criminals exceeds one hundred victims, mostly women and children?
Did you know that eight gymnasts from the Norwegian club Bergens TF won medals at the 1912 Summer Olympics as part of the rare Men's team, free system event?
Did you know that the NASDA satellite ADEOS I malfunctioned less than a year in orbit – a fate repeated by its successor six years later?
Did you know that Commanding General Kristian Laake warned that war might reach Norway in a sudden manner, but when the invasion actually came, he was removed from his command for being too passive?
Did you know that the Windhoek Show was first held in 1899, when South-West Africa was still a colony of Imperial Germany ?
Did you know that the suggestion of repressed sexuality in Thomas Eakins ' Portrait of Maud Cook has been seen as both intriguing and disturbing?
Did you know that during the Newfoundland expedition of 1796, French and Spanish forces destroyed over 100 merchant vessels?
Did you know that the "Parasol Protectorate" steampunk books Soulless , Changeless , and Blameless by Gail Carriger will be adapted as graphic novels by Yen Press ?
Did you know that Clarence River Light , a lighthouse in Yamba, New South Wales , Australia , was built in 1955, replacing a previous lighthouse built in 1880?
Did you know that Marty Amsler was the first University of Evansville graduate to be drafted into the National Football League ?
Did you know that mezzo-soprano Petra Noskaiová recorded alto parts with La Petite Bande in Bach cantatas such as Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12 ?
Did you know that historian David Bushnell introduced the study of the history of Colombia in American academic circles?
Did you know that the Battle of Nui Le was the last major battle fought by the Australian army during the Vietnam War ?
Did you know that George Munroe is a retired American professional basketball player, Navy veteran, Rhodes scholar , lawyer, and former CEO of Phelps Dodge Corporation ?
Did you know that British architect Charles Fitzroy Doll 's design for the dining room for the Hotel Russell in London was also later used on the RMS Titanic ?
Did you know that Richard Cantillon 's treatise, Essai , was considered by economist William Stanley Jevons to be the "cradle of political economy "?
Did you know that one of the best-preserved Viking settlements in Europe, Linn Duachaill , was founded at the same time as Dublin , in the 840s, and was unearthed and identified in September 2010 ?
Did you know that when Father Scott Pilarz became President of the University of Scranton he brought Georgetown University 's mascot , Jack the Bulldog , with him?
Did you know that according to a local legend, the medieval Church of St Demetrius in Patalenitsa , Bulgaria , was rediscovered thanks to a thunderbolt striking a cherry tree?
Did you know that actor and musician Chord Overstreet was named after the musical term of the same name ?
Did you know that the word " constable " derives from the Byzantine office of comes stabuli or Count of the Stable , responsible for the horses and pack animals intended for use by the army and the imperial court?
Did you know that professional baseball player Ji-Man Choi won the Arizona League Most Valuable Player Award after the 2010 season?
Did you know that Oprah Winfrey completed the America's Finest City Half Marathon in 1993, running under a pseudonym and accompanied by a bodyguard, a trainer, and a video crew?
Did you know that Ned Sutton was the Melbourne Football Club 's inaugural captain in the Victorian Football League in 1897?
Did you know that Brooke Fraser described her third album, Flags , as "a graduation"?
Did you know that contralto Hildegard Laurich performed in Bach's cantata for Ratswahl (inauguration of the Leipzig town council) Gott, man lobet dich in der Stille, BWV 120 ?
Did you know that because of its height, the Gaza Baptist Church was commandeered by both Fatah and Hamas troops as an observation post during the Fatah–Hamas conflict ?
Did you know that according to local legend Dead Timber State Recreation Area in Nebraska is named for the "dead timbers" that were left over after a wildfire ?
Did you know that President Obama called the Paycheck Fairness Act "a common-sense bill" that would help end persistent male–female income disparity in which American women earn 77 cents for every dollar men earn?
Did you know that Nagesh Kukunoor 's 3 Deewarein was filmed at the then defunct and now demolished Musheerabad Jail in Hyderabad, India ?
Did you know that Leona Helmsley hired Joyce Beber to promote her hotels and fired her four times, including once after Helmsley was convicted for income tax evasion and blamed Beber for having raised her profile?
Did you know that the only Christian bookstore in Gaza closed after its owner was beaten and murdered by armed extremists?
Did you know that the Nazis claimed the successful Blitzkrieg against France in 1940 saved the Soviet Union from an allied strategic bombing campaign called Operation Pike ?
Did you know that The Butcher, the Chef and the Swordsman was the first Chinese film to premiere at Midnight Madness at the Toronto International Film Festival ?
Did you know that Australian Murray Sayle , known for his "rat-like cunning", was a war correspondent in Vietnam , tracked Che Guevara through the Bolivian jungle, climbed Mt. Everest and sailed solo across the Atlantic ?
Did you know that HIP Petrohemija is the largest petrochemical company in Serbia ?
Did you know that the British ironclad HMS Hector was assigned as Queen Victoria's guard ship nearly every summer between 1868 and 1886 when she was in residence at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight ?
Did you know that Canadian charity Actua , which delivers educational programs to young people, received the 2009 Ontario Trillium Foundation Minister's Award?
Did you know that virologist John R. Paul blamed better hygiene for polio 's spread in the 20th century, saying early exposure to poliovirus would have given immunity?
Did you know that Clarence Seamans was the president of the largest typewriter manufacturer in the world?
Did you know that Kenneth Strong was Britain's first Director General of Intelligence ?
Did you know that the Church of St Pothinus in Lyon holds a 17th century painting depicting St Paul in front of the Areopagus that was previously kept at the Notre Dame de Paris ?
Did you know that sound engineer and record producer Paul De Villiers has worked with Yes , Marc Jordan , King Crimson and Mr. Mister , whose number-one hits " Kyrie " and " Broken Wings " he co-produced?
Did you know that in the mid-1970s, the Star Trek Concordance and The Making of Star Trek were the only references used by writers of the Star Trek: Phase II television show?
Did you know that Fathi Osman 's 1997 book Concepts of the Quran: A Topical Reading , in which he explained concepts in Islam for non-Muslims, was nearly 1,000 pages long?
Did you know that the SweeTango is a new variety of apple, not a romantic dance ?
Did you know that in the extremely rare 1983 video game Mangia , the player controls a boy whose mother attempts to feed him so much pasta that his stomach will explode?
Did you know that Texas State Rep. Byron Cook is a leading supporter of maintaining the scenic Texas State Railroad from Rusk to Palestine ?
Did you know that there are several alternative explanations of Frédéric Chopin's illness ?
Did you know that the six movements of a Missa of Bach , a short mass consisting of Kyrie and Gloria , are parodies of his cantata music?
Did you know that Brett Beavers was the bandleader and bass player for both Martina McBride and Lee Ann Womack ?
Did you know that the Miss Albany Diner , an Albany, New York, architectural landmark , was used as a set for the 1987 film Ironweed ?
Did you know that there is a border dispute between Canada and the United States over a part of the Beaufort Sea ?
Did you know that the parish churches of Ormskirk , Purton and Wanborough are the only churches in England to have both a western tower and a central spire ?
Did you know that Padilla, Bolivia , is named in honor of Manuel Ascencio Padilla who was referred to as "a hero with the soul of a child and the heart of a lion"?
Did you know that as CEO of Stanley Works , Donald W. Davis helped bring the do it yourself home improvement trend to the U.S. and coined the company slogan "Stanley helps you do things right"?
Did you know that the Anina mine supplied Crivina Power Station with oil shale ?
Did you know that American history researcher Ann Dexter Gordon leads a project at Rutgers University which has cataloged more than 14,000 papers related to Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony ?
Did you know that the British ironclad HMS Defence damaged her propeller and rudder when she was nearly blown ashore during a gale off Pantelleria in March 1872?
Did you know that when someone called to complain about a dead animal in front of a residence, Laredo City Councilman Joe A. Guerra grabbed a shovel and went to take care of the problem himself?
Did you know that once completed, the Fântânele-Cogealac Wind Farm will be the largest onshore wind farm in Europe ?
Did you know that the band OK Go 's music video for " White Knuckles " is a one-shot take of the band interacting with twelve trained dogs and a goat?
Did you know that the Sun and Pluto are only 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) apart on the Somerset Space Walk ?
Did you know that during the Ottoman–Mamluk War of 1485–1491 , the Ottomans prevailed at sea, but the Mamluks consistently resisted them on land?
Did you know that Gene Swick was the first college quarterback to amass more than 8,000 career yards, but was cut by the Cleveland Browns during camp and never played professional football ?
Did you know that in 2010, the Swiss based Alpiq became the largest open market electricity trader in Romania ?
Did you know that Paul S. Martin and Paul Sidney Martin both worked as anthropologists at the University of Arizona in the early 1970s?
Did you know that Arthur's Quest: Battle for the Kingdom was nominated for GameSpot 's Worst PC Game of 2002 award?
Did you know that the Çubuk-1 Dam was the first concrete dam constructed in Turkey and is recognized as one of the country's top 50 engineering feats ?
Did you know that oral historian Alessandro Portelli has compared the stories of industrial workers in his hometown of Terni , Italy , with those of coal miners in Harlan County, Kentucky ?
Did you know that Mecklenburg's Garden in Cincinnati used a ship model to inform patrons whether alcohol could be sold safely during Prohibition in the United States ?
Did you know that percussionist Ollie E. Brown has produced or performed on over 100 singles and albums, including Ray Parker, Jr. 's Ghostbusters , Michael Jackson 's Bad , and the theme from Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo ?
Did you know that a Pawnee creation account centered on Pahuk , a bluff overlooking the Platte River in Nebraska ?
Did you know that former Texas State Senator David Sibley lost the 2000 Senate vote for lieutenant governor by a single ballot?
Did you know that Cape Parry 's Thick-billed Murre colony, located in Northwest Territories , Canada , is more isolated than any other murre colony in the world?
Did you know that the true source of New York 's official nickname , The Empire State , is not known?
Did you know that Monte Robbins holds the Michigan Wolverines football records for longest punt at 82 yards and the highest career average for a punter ?
Did you know that Lucernaria janetae has eight lance -shaped gonads ?
Did you know that as an attorney, William Coblentz represented Patty Hearst , Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead , and once called Ronald Reagan "a menopausal Cary Grant "?
Did you know that radar detector millionaire Dodge Morgan at age 54 sailed solo around the globe without stops in 150 days, shattering the prior record of 292 days?
Did you know that gravediggers working within the ruins of northern Albania 's Shirgj Monastery would often encounter mosaics from the old church?
Did you know that despite being eliminated from The Ultimate Fighter just weeks prior, Pablo Garza was signed by World Extreme Cagefighting to appear tonight at WEC 51 ?
Did you know that in Thomas Eakins ' Self-portrait , the contrast between his formal attire and his unkempt grooming alludes to a rebellious nature restrained by cultural mores?
Did you know that an early use of pascalization in the United States was the treatment of guacamole , extending its shelf life tenfold?
Did you know that the work of "animation God" Bill Littlejohn includes Tom and Jerry , A Charlie Brown Christmas and an Oscar-winning short with Dizzy Gillespie debating the possibility of nuclear war?
Did you know that after the Nazi invasion of Norway , former naval officer Olaf Kullmann bicycled around Norway to agitate for pacifism ?
Did you know that tensile testing is a fundamental materials science test used to find a material 's ultimate tensile strength and maximum elongation before fracture ?
Did you know that the 2007–08 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team included Ekpe Udoh who led both the Big Ten Conference and Big 12 Conference in blocked shots ?
Did you know that the remains of the San Juan de Silicia , a Spanish Armada ship which sank off the coast of Scotland , were mistaken for those of a treasure ship and destroyed by countless searches for gold?
Did you know that, hoping to cut off the Dalmatian coast from Croatia , Yugoslav and Serbian forces attacked the city of Šibenik for six days in 1991?
Did you know that the album Amar la Trama by Uruguayan singer-songwriter Jorge Drexler was recorded in just four days?
Did you know that a practice in Afghanistan , where a daughter in a family without sons is dressed in male clothing and acts as a boy, allowing her to do things she could not do as a girl, is called bacha posh ?
Did you know that the seventh season of The West Wing featured a live television episode that was broadcast twice for the East and West Coasts of the United States?
Did you know that the Canadian Air-Sea Transportable Brigade Group , formed to rapidly reinforce Norway in wartime, disbanded after it took two years of planning and 21 days to cross the Atlantic ?
Did you know that Hudson's Bay Company officials learned of the 1709 Franco-Indian attack on their company's trading post at Fort Albany from uninvolved Mohawks who were visiting London ?
Did you know that despite being less than 1 mile (1.6 km) long, Washington State Route 433 is considered a Highway of Statewide Significance by the Washington State Department of Transportation ?
Did you know that the eleven Hindu deities, the Rudras , are associated with the ten vital energies of the body and the soul , and their departure is said to cause death and tears?
Did you know that Louisiana Tech University sociologist Robert O. Trout was his state's delegate to the 1961 White House Conference on Aging ?
Did you know that due to the Scottish football referee strike , foreign officials from Israel , Luxembourg and Malta were used as replacements?
Did you know that Tom the Great Sebastian , founded in 1950, was one of the first Jamaican sound systems ?
Did you know that schoolteacher Justus H. Rathbone developed the idea for founding the Knights of Pythias while reading the play, " Damon and Pythias " in the Eagle Harbor Schoolhouse ?
Did you know that all but one of the 1984 Winter Olympic venues were damaged during the Bosnian War and the Siege of Sarajevo ?
Did you know that the British Member of Parliament Percy Jewson was chairman of the Lawn Tennis Association ?
Did you know that a spring in the town of Tedef al-Yahud , Syria , is said to have been used by Ezra the Scribe 2,400 years ago?
Did you know that racing wins by the American racehorse Luke McLuke , including the Belmont Stakes , made owner John Schorr the leading owner for 1914 and his son, J.F. Schorr, the leading trainer?
Did you know that Major-General Robert Fanshawe was sacked after his successful defence in the 1918 Battle of Asiago , because his commander objected to his use of a defence in depth strategy?
Did you know that three of the four largest power stations in the world are in South America ?
Did you know that Aquila bullockensis , an extinct species of bird , is the oldest known true eagle from Australia ?
Did you know that the second single by French punk rock band Marie et les Garçons was produced in New York by John Cale , formerly of the Velvet Underground ?
Did you know that a 1953 strike organized by the plantation workers trade union Sarbupri forced the Indonesian government to raise wages of estate labourers by 30%?
Did you know that the Armadillo , an armoured fighting vehicle extemporised by the British in 1940, used a layer of gravel to protect its crew?
Did you know that former Palauan Senate President Peter Sugiyama 's wife Akiko Sugiyama was the first woman ever elected to the Palau National Congress ?
Did you know that Trawscoed fort was explored using fluxgate gradiometer surveys?
Did you know that while staying at their estate near the Black Sea , George Maximilianovich, 6th Duke of Leuchtenberg and his family witnessed the 1905 battleship Potemkin revolt?
Did you know that pitcher Danny McDevitt shutout the Pittsburgh Pirates on September 24, 1957, in the final game the Dodgers played in Brooklyn before owner Walter O'Malley moved the team to Los Angeles ?
Did you know that Speedway Motorsports president Marcus G. Smith started working by picking up trash at Charlotte Motor Speedway ?
Did you know that the Kriegsmarine attributed the sinking of U-168 in the Java Sea to the presence of the crew's Indonesian girlfriends on board for a party ?
Did you know that an amendment to the Malian Family Code seeking to increase women's rights was sent back to the parliament of Mali amidst a storm of protest?
Did you know that after the collapse of American cotton exports in the 1860s, Azerbaijan became a large-scale cotton producer , often planting it rather than food crops ?
Did you know that Charles Gonthier, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen , and his brother Prince Leopold caused a national scandal when Charles suggested that Leopold marry a commoner?
Did you know that the lift jets on the Hawker Siddeley HS.141 airliner were expected to provide a safety margin in case the V/STOL aircraft's main engines failed?
Did you know that West Indian batsman Brian Lara came out of retirement to play in the 2010–11 Stanbic Bank 20 Series , a Twenty20 cricket tournament in Zimbabwe?
Did you know that fortune telling fraud is a confidence game that involves persuading victims that they suffer from a curse ?
Did you know that Tom McMillan became the first alumnus of Jacksonville University to play in a Major League Baseball game when he made his debut with the Seattle Mariners in 1977?
Did you know that the exterior decoration of the medieval Church of Christ Pantocrator in Nesebar on the Bulgarian coast prominently features swastikas ?
Did you know that Nathan Witt , U.S. National Labor Relations Board Secretary from 1937 to 1940, drove a taxicab for two years so he could earn enough money to attend Harvard Law School ?