kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that Animerica , launched in 1993, was one of the first American professional anime and manga magazines, and was one of the most popular throughout the 1990s?
Did you know that discontinuous gas exchange is a respiratory system used by over 50 species of insect ?
Did you know that Rabbi Stephen Wise founded New York City 's Free Synagogue in 1907 after turning down a position at Temple Emanu-El because its trustees would review his sermons?
Did you know that the Division of Altenburg in Saxony led to a war between two brothers in 1446 known as the Bruderkrieg , or Saxon Brother War?
Did you know that Coolio 's 1995 song " Gangsta's Paradise " was nominated at the Grammy Awards in 1996 for Record of the Year and received the award for Best Rap Solo Performance ?
Did you know that three Nobel laureates affiliated with the City University of New York graduated together from the City College of New York in 1937?
Did you know that William Shay, a ragman in New Hamburg, New York , built a duplex and warehouse/stable that were unusually ornamented for their time and region?
Did you know that Addison Road was the first debut Christian music act to receive a special Napster website stream of their self-titled debut album ?
Did you know that Vasilissa ergo gaude , the first known motet by Guillaume Dufay was to celebrate the marriage of princess Cleofa Malatesta to the Byzantine lord of Mistras ?
Did you know that M-69 , a state trunkline highway in Michigan , was truncated in 1960 to one-fifth of its length for 33 years?
Did you know that Baard Iversen , a businessman based in Trondheim, Norway , was nicknamed "the father of the Dovre Line "?
Did you know that former Major League Baseball pitcher Kevin Appier made six consecutive Opening Day starts for the Kansas City Royals from 1992 through 1997?
Did you know that Beth Groundwater 's A Real Basket Case was nominated for the Best First Novel Agatha Award in 2007?
Did you know that prior to the First Liberian Civil War the Mount Coffee Hydropower Project produced 35 percent of Liberia 's electricity?
Did you know that Admiral Henry Wolsey Bayfield had joined the Royal Navy by the age of eleven?
Did you know that the United States Department of War was once headquartered in the Munitions Building , a temporary structure built on the National Mall (Potomac Park) in Washington, D.C. ?
Did you know that P. Munuswamy Naidu , senior leader of the Justice Party in Madras Presidency , British India , supported the inclusion of Brahmins in the party?
Did you know that Fiji has been contributing troops to United Nations peacekeeping operations around the world since 1978?
Did you know that The Notorious B.I.G. , who was killed in 1997 from a drive-by shooting , received three Grammy Award nominations posthumously?
Did you know that the Goldenface is a small bird with bright plumage that is endemic to the hills and mountains of New Guinea ?
Did you know that Bulgarian television director Hacho Boyadzhiev once worked as a stoker on a Beirut – Marseille steamship ?
Did you know that only three novels catering to soldiers' sexual proclivities during the American Civil War are known to still exist?
Did you know that Cockle Creek in Tasmania is the furthest point one can drive south in Australia ?
Did you know that Red Corridor is a term used to describe an impoverished region in the east of India that experiences considerable Naxalite communist militant activity?
Did you know that of the twenty-two Nobel laureates affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis , seventeen won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ?
Did you know that Barenaked Ladies has received six Juno Awards from nine nominations , including Group of the Year in 1992?
Did you know that Lyceum-The Circle Historic District is where James Meredith 's enrolment on October 1, 1962 integrated Ole Miss and led to riots?
Did you know that legend describes Fleance , a minor character in Shakespeare's Macbeth , as an ancestor of King James II of England connecting him to King Arthur ?
Did you know that the Newfoundland Butter Company of Newfoundland manufactured only margarine , and was the first margarine manufacturing plant allowed in Canada ?
Did you know that Milwaukee Brewers starting pitcher Steve Woodard received a no-decision when a 2000 game against the Cincinnati Reds was called due to rain, making it the first Opening Day tie game since 1965?
Did you know that Alexander M. Thompson , a socialist journalist beginning in the 1880s, became the author of lighthearted Edwardian musical comedies in the early years of the 20th century?
Did you know that Horatio Nelson 's legacy has been celebrated in books, paintings and monuments ?
Did you know that the Bulgarian village and architectural reserve Brashlyan was referenced in the " Strandzha Marseillaise ", the song The Clear Moon is Already Rising ?
Did you know that Phoebe Ann Patten , wife of early LDS church leader David W. Patten , served a mission to Tennessee with her husband, an assignment almost unheard of at the time?
Did you know that the 1997 Qayen earthquake leveled 700 homes in the village of Abiz alone?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty general Tian Xu designated his youngest son Tian Ji'an as his heir because his sonless wife adopted Tian Ji'an, born of a concubine , as her own?
Did you know that the re-education through labor penal system in the People's Republic of China was overhauled in 2007?
Did you know that by the time of the 1918 Meuse-Argonne Offensive , none of the soldiers of the American 1st Gas Regiment had fired chemical weapons in combat?
Did you know that Alfonsina Strada , nicknamed the devil in a dress , was the only female ever to compete in the Giro d'Italia ?
Did you know that of the thirty-two Nobel laureates affiliated with Princeton University , seventeen have won the Nobel Prize in Physics ?
Did you know that Hesaraghatta Lake is a freshwater lake created from the Arkavathy River in 1894 to produce drinking water for Bangalore ?
Did you know that Katy Perry 's song " I Kissed a Girl " was nominated for five awards at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2008?
Did you know that William Ernest Cooke was Western Australia 's first government astronomer?
Did you know that George M. Keller added US$ 1 per share at the last minute to his company's bid for Gulf Oil , providing the margin needed to win a 1984 bidding war to buy Gulf in a deal valued at US$13.3 billion?
Did you know that 2008 Swedish film Let the Right One In was marked for an English language remake to be directed by Matt Reeves before it was even released in U.S. cinemas?
Did you know that the bells of Altgeld Hall of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign play a short daily concert at 12:50pm despite not having a complete musical scale ?
Did you know that the name of Operation Defensive Shield , launched by the Israel Defense Forces in 2002, was taken from a song written in 1948 by Palmach songwriter Haim Hefer ?
Did you know that The Californians , an NBC western which aired from 1957 to 1959, featured later Jeopardy! host Art Fleming as an ambitious lawyer?
Did you know that some species of starfish that live in tide pools have the ability to regenerate lost arms and can regrow entire new arms in time?
Did you know that Julia Morton was the "poison plant center in south Florida "?
Did you know that rock band Guns N' Roses has been nominated for the Best Hard Rock Performance award from the Grammy Awards three times but has never won it?
Did you know that in 2007, archaeologists discovered that the Stonehenge Cursus is even older than Stonehenge ?
Did you know that in the only inning he pitched in Major League Baseball , Cal Cooper gave up five hits , a walk and five runs for a lifetime ERA of 45.0?
Did you know that the Ohio Solicitor General is appointed by the Ohio Attorney General to handle the office's U.S. Supreme Court , Ohio Supreme Court and 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals appellate work?
Did you knowthat many battles were fought between the Croatian medieval cities of Kaptol and Gradec over ownership of Medveščak creek?
Did you know that Arizona Territorial Governor Frederick A. Tritle presented Nevada 's silver spike at the ceremony celebrating completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad ?
Did you know that only the hero Sigurd could remove the sword that the god Odin plunged into the huge tree Barnstokkr , which stood in King Völsung 's hall?
Did you know that Chuck Riley 's original opponent for the November 2008 election was disqualified for living in the wrong Oregon House District ?
Did you know that Jens Boyesen , who in his early twenties was a secretary in the Norwegian resistance movement , later went on to become a top diplomat?
Did you know that motivational speaker and self-help author Shiv Khera has started a political party that opposes caste and religion-based reservation in India ?
Did you know that the biography My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru recounts a child's experiences growing up in Bhagwah Shree Rajneesh 's Osho movement ?
Did you know that modern experts estimate that around 90% of the natural gas discovered in the Indiana Gas Boom was wasted in flambeau displays?
Did you know that Sinop Fortress Prison in Turkey , abandoned in 1997, hosts hundreds of thousands tourists yearly thanks to its featuring in popular literature , music and film?
Did you know that screenwriter Oliver Crawford worked to remove an anti-Communist loyalty oath from the membership application of the Writers Guild of America , a relic of the Hollywood blacklist era?
Did you know that the Vanuatu Labour Party first gained parliamentary representation in 2005, as the Minister for Ni-Vanuatu Business Joshua Kalsakau joined the party?
Did you know that Johan Christian Tandberg Castberg , father of Johan Castberg , served three terms in the Norwegian Parliament and was the first editor-in-chief of Varden ?
Did you know that Ne-Yo received four nominations at the Grammy Awards in 2008, winning the award for Best Contemporary R&B Album for his album Because of You ?
Did you know that three different emperors ruled over the German Empire during 1888, the Year of the Three Emperors ?
Did you know that the 15th-century Guillaume Dufay wrote a Lament of the Holy Mother Church of Constantinople for a political show banquet to propagate a crusade against the Ottoman Turks ?
Did you know that Robert Van Lierop is an American film director who became one of Vanuatu 's senior diplomats in the 1980s?
Did you know that out of the sixteen metropolitan regions of Norway , only one contains more than half a million inhabitants?
Did you know that the Kennedy Administration positioned John R. Reilly on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial ready to cut off Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 's I Have a Dream speech if the rhetoric got too inflammatory?
Did you know that Beck has received four nominations for Best Alternative Music Performance at the Grammy Awards but only won it once, in 1997 for the album Odelay ?
Did you know that the first keeper of the South Bass Island Light was picked up and committed as insane on the same day that his assistant's suicide was reported in the newspaper?
Did you know that all of the known hurricanes in the 1854 Atlantic hurricane season made landfall?
Did you know that the 19th-century periodical The Eclectic Review gave its profits to the British and Foreign Bible Society ?
Did you know that the first speeding ticket in Norway was given to a tram driver in 1894 on the Briskeby Line ?
Did you know that Antonín Dvořák conducted the first performance of his oratorio Saint Ludmila at the Music Festival in Leeds ?
Did you know that R. J. Reynolds marketing executive Ralph Seagraves facilitated using red and white paint on American short track's walls to give the illusion of greater speed?
Did you know that 3-MCPD , a food contaminant sometimes found in soy sauce and oyster sauce , has male antifertility effects and may be used as a rat chemosterilant ?
Did you know that Sir Walter Balfour Barttelot , who was killed in action in World War I , lost his father, Sir Walter George Barttelot in the Boer War , while his son, Sir Walter de Stopham Barttelot was KIA in World War II ?
Did you know that Google purchased in-game advertising company Adscape for US$23 million, only five years after the company was founded?
Did you know that Norwegian football goalkeeper Jon Knudsen made his national team debut one month before turning 34?
Did you know that Window on the Plains Museum in Dumas, Texas , which preserves Panhandle history and culture, was relocated in 2001 from a former hotel to a new building?
Did you know that Max Blouw was chosen unanimously by Wilfrid Laurier University 's selection committee to become its seventh president?
Did you know that the cable channel Z Music Television was a Christian version of MTV until it closed in 2000?
Did you know that Avraham Herzfeld , one of the founders of the Ahdut HaAvoda party and the Histadrut , was known for his habit of bursting into song, sometimes in the middle of his speeches?
Did you know that Wilfrid Laurier University 's senate voted unanimously in favor of instating John A. Pollack as the university's seventh chancellor?
Did you know that HMS Swiftsure fought at the Nile for the British , and at Trafalgar for the French ?
Did you know that BuzzTracker was acquired by Yahoo! to complement its Yahoo! News product, and compete with other news aggregators including Google News and Digg ?
Did you know that Todd Friel performed over 1,500 times on stage as a stand-up comedian , mostly in venues in the Minneapolis – Saint Paul area in Minnesota?
Did you know that Tropical Storm Rosa was the first eastern North Pacific tropical storm to develop during the month of November since 2000?
Did you know that, when Tang Dynasty general Zhang Xiaozhong turned against the warlord Li Weiyue whom he had served and joined the imperial cause, Li killed Zhang's brothers and sons?
Did you know that while attempting to produce malleable platinum , Pierre-François Chabaneau lost his temper and smashed all of his laboratory equipment?
Did you know that towards the end of World War II , British Air Marshal Douglas Evill advocated the bombing of eastern German cities to disrupt Wehrmacht reinforcements moving to the Eastern Front ?
Did you know that although the Round scad is considered a good food fish , it is mostly caught for use as bait ?
Did you know that mathematician Brian Bowditch wrote a paper solving the angel problem of John Conway , proving that the angel can win and evade the devil in the "angel game"?
Did you know that Robert Falcon Scott 's ill-fated 1910–13 Antarctic expedition was the inspiration for two of Doris Lessing 's novels, The Sirian Experiments and The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 ?
Did you know that the fourth president of Wilfrid Laurier University , John Angus Weir , helped form the university's undergraduate music therapy program?
Did you know that Johan Castberg became the first Norwegian Minister of Social Affairs , only to leave office after one year due to disagreements with Prime Minister Gunnar Knudsen ?
Did you know that the Ashtamudi Lake is the second largest and deepest wetland ecosystem in Kerala , India ?
Did you know that the Laughing Baby , a YouTube viral video which has expanded into a worldwide internet phenomenon , has been viewed by over 65 million people including Queen Elizabeth II ?
Did you know that a siruv is a contempt of court order issued by a Jewish rabbinical court that can exclude people who do not observe the court's orders from participation in religious services?
Did you know that The Golden Fleece , written in 1628 by Sir William Vaughan while at his colony New Cambriol , was a fanciful attempt to galvanise his colonists into hard work?
Did you know that ImageAmerica provided Google Earth with high resolution black and white images of New Orleans immediately after the events of Hurricane Katrina ?
Did you know that the arrival of Cuban doctors to Kiribati is credited with reducing the child mortality rate in Kiribati by 80%?
Did you know that the houses built by Abraham and Adolph Brower in New Hamburg, New York have matching porch columns and front doorways?
Did you know that Richard Marson , former chief editor of the BBC 's Blue Peter also worked freelance for such companies as Disney , Planet 24 and LWT ?
Did you know that the 1937 Tamil film Ambikapathy starring M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar was made by American director Ellis R. Dungan ?
Did you know that one of sculptor Paul Manship 's earliest public works, "The Four Elements", is at the former AT&T corporate headquarters at 195 Broadway in Manhattan ?
Did you know that Saint Vigilius of Trent , stoned to death for overturning a statue of Saturn , was the first martyr canonized by a pope ?
Did you know that Ohio State Treasurer Richard Cordray is a five-time undefeated Jeopardy! champion and carried the Olympic Torch in 1996?
Did you know that Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss donated US$ 125 million to Harvard University , the school's largest gift?
Did you know that Mary Ann Müller has been described as " New Zealand 's pioneer suffragist "?
Did you know that the Local Void is an empty region of space , devoid of matter , lying adjacent to our own Milky Way galaxy ?
Did you know that during a storm in the Dolomites , Mo Anthoine probably saved the life of Al Alvarez , who later wrote his biography ?
Did you know that the worst ever tram accident in the United Kingdom occurred on the Dover Corporation Tramways system in 1917?
Did you know that Willard L. Boyd , President Emeritus of The University of Iowa and The Field Museum , was one of the first recipients of the National Humanities Medal ?
Did you know that Łaski's Statute of 1505 was the first codification of Polish law ?
Did you know that University of Notre Dame basketball player Luke Harangody and his brother were banned from playing basketball in their backyard as children because their games regularly ended in fights?
Did you know that after they both appeared in the 1951 film Sailor Beware , Richard Clayton became a talent agent and represented James Dean ?
Did you know that the congenital disorder fibrochondrogenesis may result in dwarfism , shortened ribs with a concave appearance, a severely underdeveloped jaw , an enlarged head , and even death during infancy?
Did you know that Yamamoto Tatsuo , former head of the Bank of Japan , was the first businessman to become a cabinet minister in Japan ?
Did you know that Jingning County , in Gansu , People's Republic of China , is one of the seats of Chinese civilization , with a history dating back to the Neolithic era ?
Did you know that in 1913, baseball player Jim Viox set a rookie record for batting average by a second baseman that was not matched until 2007 ?
Did you know that for both his tenures as Norwegian Minister of Finance (1905–1906 and 1920–1921), Edvard Hagerup Bull was both preceded and succeeded by persons who at one point were Prime Ministers ?
Did you know that Maine produced more Union soldiers in proportion to its population than any other Union state in the American Civil War ?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty general Ma Sui was removed from his command due to his disastrous proposal to make peace with Tufan ?
Did you know that Jean-Claude Latombe 's motion planning algorithm Probabilistic Roadmap Method not only applies to robotic motion planning, but can also be used in protein trajectories simulations ?
Did you know that the planned community of Albany, Alabama existed for 40 years (1887 to 1927) and formed a major population center before merging with the modern city of Decatur, Alabama ?
Did you know that Nini Stoltenberg , the little sister of the Norwegian Prime Minister, has spoken openly about her past heroin addiction and has become an advocate for drug policy reform in Norway?
Did you know that Hungarian painter Béla Iványi-Grünwald was influenced by many French artistic movements including Symbolism , Fauvism and Impressionism , and in particular the work of Paul Gauguin ?
Did you know that Yitzhak Tabenkin , one of the founders of the socialist Kibbutz Movement , joined the Movement for Greater Israel after the Six-Day War ?
Did you know that in Shinto , yorishiro , such as sacred trees, attract spirits , give them a physical space to occupy and make them accessible to people for religious ceremonies?
Did you know that the 73 class were the first New South Wales Government Railways locomotives built in Queensland ?
Did you know that American wheelchair racer Jean Driscoll won the Boston Marathon eight times, more than any other person?
Did you know that STAR radio was named Liberian radio station of the year in 2008, winning a tape deck ?
Did you know that Tropical Storm Arlene of the 1959 Atlantic hurricane season was the earliest storm to ever make landfall in Louisiana ?
Did you know that Marcellus A. Stovall left West Point after one year but later became a general ?
Did you know that painter Sydney Curnow Vosper 's most famous work, Salem , gained widespread popularity in Britain when it was used to promote Lever Brothers ' Sunlight soap ?
Did you know that the Waterford Covered Bridge , in Erie County, Pennsylvania , is nicknamed the "Old Kissing Bridge?"
Did you know that after his ship was captured by the French, Captain Thomas Thompson complained that his captors stole his surgeon's instruments whilst he was trying to operate on the wounded?
Did you know that in 1962, politicians Robin Bailie and Bob Cooper launched a journal entitled Review , even though they were only able to publish a single issue?
Did you know that Navagunjara is a beast in Hindu mythology , composed of parts of nine different animals?
Did you know that Clemson University coach William "Dabo" Swinney got his nickname as an infant, when his 15-month older brother tried to enunciate "that boy"?
Did you know that Porlock Bay in England contains a submerged forest ?
Did you know that Joseph Baptista coined the phrase " Swaraj is my Birthright" that was made popular by Lokmanya Tilak during the Indian independence movement ?
Did you know that Dave Matthews Band received two Grammy Awards , one in 1997 for the song " So Much to Say " and another in 2004 for the song " Gravedigger "?
Did you know that when the Polish Eddie Borysewicz became coach of the US cycling team in 1977, he used a 12-year-old to translate his commands?
Did you know that the historic Slipper Chapel in Norfolk , England was used as a cow-shed and barn for almost 400 years before being rededicated as a chapel in 1934?
Did you know that the 1993 appointment of Bjørn Skogstad Aamo as director of the Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway drew criticism from the opposition parties?
Did you know that Joe Hatten was the Brooklyn Dodgers ' Opening Day starting pitcher when Jackie Robinson broke the color line in Major League Baseball on April 15, 1947?
Did you know that Alastair Borthwick 's adventures ranged from hitchhiking to Ben Nevis in a lorry full of dead sheep to leading 600 men behind enemy lines during World War II ?
Did you know that in the Canary Islands , palm syrup is made from sap collected laboriously from the crown of a date palm ?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty general Hun Zhen was pleased that his requests to Emperor Dezong were sometimes rejected, believing that it showed the emperor trusted him?
Did you know that the song " Gubben Noak " ( Songs of Fredman no 35) offended the Swedish church so much that Lund chapter attempted to collect all prints and transcripts in circulation, in 1768?
Did you know that United States Army officer James H. Trapier graduated one position below P. G. T. Beauregard in his class at the U.S. Military Academy and later served under him in the American Civil War ?
Did you know that Ronnie Boon scored all the match points for Wales when their rugby team finally broke the "Twickenham bogey", beating England at Twickenham after 21 years and ten failed attempts?
Did you know that Clarin Mustad , a co-heir of the industrial corporation O. Mustad & Son , was also involved in the early automotive industry ?