kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that Cossinia trifoliata trees endemic to New Caledonia have become vulnerable to extinction, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature 's 1998 assessment?
Did you know that in 1935, Ole Fahlin produced the Fahlin SF-2 Plymocoupe which was classified as a "flying automobile"?
Did you know that racing driver Jack Brabham and actor Bud Tingwell served with No. 5 Operational Training Unit RAAF as an engine mechanic and a flying instructor, respectively?
Did you know that Stanley Hudson Dodwell was awarded the Commander of the Order of the British Empire in June 1947 for his public services in Hong Kong?
Did you know that the ancient Assyrian Balawat Gates were discovered by the first Assyrian archaeologist, Hormuzd Rassam ?
Did you know that Michael Fenton was one of the "Patriotic Six" who resigned their seats in the Tasmanian Legislative Council to frustrate the financial policy of Governor John Eardley-Wilmot ?
Did you know that the two stars of TU Muscae are so close they are in contact with each other?
Did you know that the BBC First World War centenary season will include 130 newly commissioned programmes to mark the centenary of the First World War ?
Did you know that Doug Manchester , owner and publisher of U-T San Diego , built several of the tallest buildings in San Diego ?
Did you know that Rocky the Musical was written in English and later translated into German for its world premiere?
Did you know that in 2013, mayor of Chépica Rebeca Cofré was named one of the 100 Leading Women of Chile by El Mercurio newspaper?
Did you know that the Equestrian Statue of Viscount Combermere was the first major piece of open-air public sculpture to be erected in Cheshire?
Did you know that publication of The Diary of Malcolm X is being held up by a legal dispute between the publisher and some of Malcolm X's daughters?
Did you know that while pitcher Noodles Hahn was still playing baseball, he received a job offer to become the Dallas city veterinarian?
Did you know that in 1958, No. 486 Squadron became responsible for maintaining the Lockheed C-130 Hercules , the first turboprop aircraft operated by the RAAF ?
Did you know that Elizabeth Hussey allowed the first of the tracts by the anonymous satirist Martin Marprelate to be printed on a secret press at her home at East Molesey in October 1588?
Did you know that the Lydia Pinkham House , on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places since 2012, is being reviewed for selection as a National Historic Landmark for its association with the Pinkhams ?
Did you know that Randall Carver portrayed taxi driver John Burns in the television series Taxi for only the first season (1978–79)?
Did you know that Stoke sub Hamdon Priory is not, and never has been, a priory ?
Did you know that tilted block faulting can cause ductile lower crust of the Earth to ascend, creating domal mountain ranges?
Did you know that the Pakistan Army Chief Raheel Sharif is the brother of Major Shabbir Sharif who died in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 and received the Nishan-e-Haider ?
Did you know that Judith Pipher has been referred to as the "mother of infrared astronomy ?"
Did you know that students need to enter a lottery to attend Beaverton Health & Science School , a public school that was rated as below average by the state of Oregon ?
Did you know that William Wilkinson and Lincoln City teammates Arthur Hulme and William Ross were three of numerous new signings for Gravesend United in the 1898–99 Southern Football League season?
Did you know that Bach set Johann Gramann 's hymn " Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren " in a cantata reflecting the end of the year with praise?
Did you know that Henry William McKenney and Alex Taylor made the first long distance telephone call from Edmonton to St. Albert in 1885?
Did you know that the acidity load in Whiskey Run, a tributary of Drury Run , would need to be reduced by 99.5% to meet requirements set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ?
Did you know that Samuel Appleton 's defense of Hatfield, Massachusetts , was a turning point for the colonists during King Philip's War ?
Did you know that the Bath Assembly Rooms featured in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Persuasion and Charles Dickens' Pickwick Papers ?
Did you know that upon his appointment as Poet Laureate of New Jersey in 2002, provocative African-American poet Amiri Baraka told Governor Jim McGreevey , "You're gonna catch hell for this"?
Did you know that the asteroid 2011 XC2 missed the Earth by less than 1 lunar distance on 3 December 2011?
Did you know that Konstanze Vernon , prima ballerina in Munich remembered as Giselle , created and directed an academy in memory of her ballet partner Heinz Bosl ?
Did you know that HMS Crescent was present at Saldanha Bay in 1796 when the Dutch surrendered without a fight?
Did you know that in 1909, hemoglobin crystals from over 100 species were used to relate biological taxonomy to molecular properties?
Did you know that William Templeton died just days after his defeat for re-election as Mayor of Vancouver ?
Did you know that ten people died when Cyclone Alan struck French Polynesia in 1998, mostly as a result of landslides?
Did you know that Lloyd Cook was named to the Pacific Coast Hockey Association first all-star team three times?
Did you know that the fresh water from Waterfall Bay is said to have given Hong Kong its name?
Did you know that an Ace Spectrum release was among the first 12-inch singles to be issued?
Did you know that Australian inventor Myra Juliet Farrell dreamed of solutions to practical problems and wrote them in mirror writing on the wall while sleepwalking ?
Did you know that following the lifeboats disaster in 1886, memorials were erected in Southport Cemetery , in Southport Promenade , in St Annes Promenade , and in a Lytham churchyard ?
Did you know that a villanelle is used to "deal with one or another degree of obsession"?
Did you know that Virat Kohli is the fastest player to score 19 One Day International centuries , doing so in 124 innings ?
Did you know that Millennium 's " ...Thirteen Years Later " featured the members of Kiss in dual roles?
Did you know that parliamentarian Axel Jansson was removed from the Swedish Communist Party executive at the 1967 party congress?
Did you know that Conner Mertens was the first active college football player to publicly come out about his sexuality?
Did you know that the grey triggerfish has developed a feeding strategy for dealing with sand dollars ?
Did you know that Ezra Pound considered dumping his first poetry collection, A Lume Spento , into a Venetian canal?
Did you know that Bhagat Singh wrote Why I am an Atheist as a reply to a religious man who thought Singh had become an atheist because of his vanity?
Did you know that Rock Lawn , home of Hamilton Fish II and later of Patty Hearst , is Richard Upjohn 's only Italian villa -style house in the Hudson Highlands ?
Did you know that Mattias Moström is the foreign player with the most matches for the Norwegian football club Molde FK ?
Did you know that Omicron 1 Canis Majoris is a star 65,000 times as bright as our Sun, and has 530 times its diameter?
Did you know that in the 2004 Subway 400 , Joe Ruttman ran only one lap before being ordered to park his car by NASCAR ?
Did you know that the English Jesuit theologian Charles Davis caused a firestorm of controversy when he left the priesthood in 1966?
Did you know that in 1887 William Eakin 's residence served as a classroom for the community of Crescent Lake before a school was built the following year?
Did you know that according to tradition the Church of the Holy Archangels, Rogoz was built from two huge elm trees?
Did you know that in 2011, Johann Lamont became the first person to be elected as overall leader of the Scottish Labour Party ?
Did you know that the 1955 Indonesian comedy Tamu Agung is a critique of the corruption under Sukarno 's government?
Did you know that the Montana Race to the Sky is a long distance sled dog race known as "the Iditarod of the Lower 48"?
Did you know that the 2011-opened Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar Literature Museum Library in Istanbul is housed in a building, which once served for Ottoman sultans to accept salutes during a military parade?
Did you know that Kieran Evans won a BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer ?
Did you know that former Minister of Industries Keshab Prasad Badal was a leader of the Proletarian Revolutionary Organisation, Nepal in the 1970s?
Did you know that the Nokia Lumia Icon was the first Nokia Lumia released not using its model number as part of its branding and release name?
Did you know that " Tom & Gerri ", the third episode of Inside No. 9 , was based on a play Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith had written years earlier?
Did you know that the Surdulica massacre took the lives of 2,000–3,000 people?
Did you know that the cancellation of a Star Trek: Voyager tie-in video game led to the foundation of BioShock developer Irrational Games ?
Did you know that Firefly fans were developing their own video game based on the franchise before an official game, Firefly Online , was announced?
Did you know that Frederick G. Coan was told about 2,000 people who had dug their own graves?
Did you know that musician Rick Recht was inspired to create Jewish Rock Radio after seeing how Christian rock radio stations operated?
Did you know that Zimbabwe's gold-winning women's field hockey team from the 1980 Olympics were promised an ox each by the Prime Minister's wife , but got packages of meat instead?
Did you know that Ezra Pound published a translation of Chinese poetry despite not understanding the language?
Did you know that Marcellus Neal was the first African-American graduate of Indiana University ?
Did you know that San Francisco artists and craftspeople fought the police and city hall for years to bring about a Street Artists Program that lets them legally sell their work on the city's sidewalks?
Did you know that the music video for Kylie Minogue 's 2010 single " All the Lovers " was intended as homage to the singer's gay audience?
Did you know that a Mediterranean tropical cyclone in 1969 resulted in hundreds of deaths in Tunisia and Algeria ?
Did you know that although Monsanto 's Charles A. Thomas promised to return the Runnymede Playhouse intact, it became so contaminated with radioactivity from the Manhattan Project it was demolished and buried?
Did you know that former UCLA Bruins basketball player Joshua Smith became a fan of the university after his eighth-grade report on Bruins coach John Wooden ?
Did you know that the B. B. Moeur Activity Building is the largest WPA -built adobe structure in Arizona?
Did you know that both the Akoya pearl oyster and the penguin's wing oyster are used in the production of cultured pearls ?
Did you know that " Flatline ", a song by Mutya Keisha Siobhan , was co-written by British artist Dev Hynes ?
Did you know that the Missouri Department of Corrections believed that Cornealious Michael Anderson was in prison for 13 years, when he was actually living a normal life and raising a family?
Did you know that when four-year-old Philip I of Castile inherited Flanders , its cities staged a revolt to get rid of his guardian Maximilian I ?
Did you know that PopMatters compared Justin Timberlake 's " Not a Bad Thing " to 'N Sync 's 1999 " (God Must Have Spent) A Little More Time on You ", for sharing the same "emotional earnestness" and "heart-melter" characteristics?
Did you know that Lynne Owens is the first woman to become Chief Constable of Surrey Police ?
Did you know that the book The Emperor's New Drugs suggests that antidepressants may be nothing but a very powerful placebo ?
Did you know that the "ghost" of William Brooke Smith haunted the poet Ezra Pound in several of his works?
Did you know that a Kitkehahki Pawnee village in Nebraska is the site where Zebulon Pike convinced the Kitkehahki to remove a Spanish flag and display an American flag?
Did you know that Jordan Adams was the first freshman in UCLA Bruins men's basketball history to score 20 or more points in his first four games?
Did you know that the channeled basket snail can use its muscular foot to catapult itself through the air?
Did you know that former Turkish Minister of Customs and Monopolies, Tuncay Mataracı , was sentenced in 1982 to a 36-year term of imprisonment for bribery and abuse of power?
Did you know that a US congressman thought the ad campaign Stronger than the Storm "smelled"?
Did you know that Louis Braille 's reading system for the blind was inspired by methods developed by both Valentin Haüy and Charles Barbier ?
Did you know that Sophie Turner Laing , a managing director of BSkyB , originally trained as a secretary?
Did you know that Thomas Gold Appleton had a tablet placed at Appleton's Pulpit , where one of his ancestors was said to have made a speech denouncing the tyranny of Sir Edmund Andros ?
Did you know that in the 1929 split in the Swedish Communist Party, the brothers Oscar and Gunnar Öhman found themselves on opposite sides?
Did you know that Charles M. O'Brien once spoke before the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for five hours and 50 minutes, setting a record?
Did you know that E.W. Hornung based his characters A.J. Raffles and Bunny Manders on the partnerships of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson , and of Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas ?
Did you know that the 1984 general election in Gibraltar came to be known as the "dockyard election"?
Did you know that Ben Simons said that competing at the 2014 Winter Olympics "means the world to me"?
Did you know that Frederic Brewster Loomis uncovered vertebrate fossils that were still exhibited at Amherst College 's Beneski Museum of Natural History almost a century later?
Did you know that The Gentlewoman campaigned against " tight-lacing "?
Did you know that Vivienne Cassie Cooper is New Zealand 's "leading expert" on the microscopic algae diatom ?
Did you know that over 6.5 million users have watched, and sometimes partaken in, " playing " Pokémon Red on Twitch ?
Did you know that Honolulu City Councilmember Joey Manahan is the grandnephew of Manuel Manahan , a Filipino Senator ?
Did you know that the Banded Whiteface enters a state of torpor on winter nights?
Did you know that when Australian sprinter Arthur Postle lost the 1907 semi-final sprint at Kalgoorlie to J. Condon, he carried on running, hopping a fence, to a bookmaker to bet on Condon winning the final?
Did you know that Bruce Tasker , who is competing at the 2014 Winter Olympics , originally competed in the 400m?
Did you know that scrap metal dealers who took apart the remains of the Călan steel works sorted and sold the metal on the works' grounds?
Did you know that players on the 2000 Florida Marlins liked Rusty Kuntz ?
Did you know that although unsuccessful, the 1915 Chilembwe uprising changed the nature of British rule in Nyasaland ?
Did you know that when the leukemia researcher John M. Goldman was arrested by Iranian authorities, he drugged his guards with barbiturates in order to escape?
Did you know that Orlando Quevedo is the first cardinal from Mindanao , Philippines ?
Did you know that the first known person surnamed Lü was the first ruler of Qi who lived more than 3,000 years ago?
Did you know that Czech Olympic snowboarder Ester Ledecká is the granddaughter of two-time Olympic medallist Jan Klapáč ?
Did you know that Magnolia x thompsoniana (1808) was the first hybrid magnolia ?
Did you know that bobsledder Stuart Benson , who competes for Team GB today, is a Royal Air Force corporal?
Did you know that the male sheepshead minnow becomes much more colorful in the breeding season?
Did you know the 1982 North Yemen earthquake was the first shock in the region that resulted in fatalities since 1941?
Did you know that although Marquee Moon sold fewer than 80,000 copies in the US, Spin and NME ranked it among the ten greatest albums of all time?
Did you know that Titanoceratops was known from an almost complete skeleton that was assigned to Pentaceratops , and that the two were only distantly related?
Did you know that Paolo Isnardi was forbidden from performing his own compositions at his place of employment ?
Did you know that even though " Dibby Dibby Sound " chronologically follows " Earthquake ", DJ Fresh considers it the follow-up to " Gold Dust " due to it featuring Ms. Dynamite ?
Did you know that Robert Brode led the group that developed the fuses used in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ?
Did you know that Wyvern shipwrecked during the 2013 Tall Ships' Races ?
Did you know that baritone Franz Grundheber performed the title role in Alban Berg's Wozzeck in Paris and Berlin, staged by Patrice Chéreau and filmed in 1994?
Did you know that Lu , Lu , and Lu are different Chinese surnames ?
Did you know that Sverre Valen conducted his last concert in 2013, aged 88?
Did you know that one reviewer of Experimenting with Babies compared infant intellect to a "sentient grapefruit" on which parents can feed?
Did you know that the leaders of the new Ugandan opposition political party Freedom and Unity Front include David Sejusa , a former Ugandan general and parliament member who left the country in 2013?
Did you know that one of the accused assassins of Turkish former government minister Gün Sazak later hijacked an airplane to Bulgaria with accomplices?
Did you know that short track speed skater Kyle Carr plans to retire after the Olympics, saying, "I'd love to speedskate forever, but it doesn't pay the bills"?
Did you know that the star system RR Caeli consists of a red dwarf and white dwarf , with a planet orbiting around both of them?
Did you know that singer Kanako Momota performs a "shrimp jump" during live shows?
Did you know that Norwegian footballer Håkon Lorentzen is the youngest-ever goalscorer in Tippeligaen ?
Did you know that "Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment" from the Ramones 's Leave Home album was described as a "sing-along mental-illness ode"?
Did you know that termite-inspired robots may someday build a base for humans on Mars ?
Did you know that Armamalai Cave has cave paintings which are similar in technique to those of Sittanavasal ?
Did you know that the massive video game battle Bloodbath of B-R5RB from Eve Online involved over 7,500 players, making it potentially the largest player versus player battle ever?
Did you know that the fossil ant Aphaenogaster praerelicta is entombed in amber with three flies, two springtails, and a wasp?
Did you know that a 1991 Singapore court case quashed an order requiring a woman to rename her business for being too similar to J. C. Penney as the authorities had taken into account irrelevant considerations ?
Did you know that physicist Robert R. Wilson provided the Fermilab with a small herd of American Bison to roam its restored prairie?
Did you know that Lund's Tower is one of two Yorkshire follies collectively known as "The Salt and Pepper Pots"?
Did you know that following a high-profile " clone war" over a copy of their Ridiculous Fishing game, Vlambeer 's Luftrausers was beaten to market by a clone of its own?
Did you know that injured Bald Eagles at a bird sanctuary in northwestern New Mexico are ensured a view of a mesa from their cages?
Did you know that Henri Wald lost his job as a university professor because his government disliked his views?
Did you know that Simmons Bedding Company has dropped bowling balls on its mattresses in order to promote them?
Did you know that Wade Walton , the "blues barber" of Clarksdale, Mississippi , and early bandmate of Ike Turner , played a razor strop by striking it on beat with a razor?
Did you know that the author of Farmageddon travelled the world to investigate what happens when 300,000 laying hens are held or 10,000 cows are being milked on a single farm?
Did you know that Pensford Viaduct was offered for sale for £ 1, but no one bought it?
Did you know that the primary star of the binary system Theta Tucanae has absorbed much of the mass of its once-larger companion?
Did you know that the climax of the opera L'ultimo giorno di Pompei by Giovanni Pacini is the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 ?
Did you know that the Leverett Glacier in Antarctica , Leverett Glacier in Greenland , Lake Leverett in Washington, and plant species Sigillaria leveretti were all named after American geologist Frank Leverett ?
Did you know that Jan Matuszyński , who earned medical degrees in Tübingen and Paris, died of tuberculosis in the arms of Frédéric Chopin and George Sand ?
Did you know that choreographer Michael Kidd initially rejected working on his most famous movie, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954), saying "We'd be laughed out of the house"?
Did you know that alpine skier David Chodounsky was the only player to make the U.S. Ski Team after earning his college degree?
Did you know that Tamarack Swamp is home to the only species of deciduous conifer in Pennsylvania ?
Did you know that Eduard Scotland and Alfred Runge designed luxury ocean liner cabins before they created St Petrus House ?
Did you know that when Javier Silva Ruete was appointed Minister of Agriculture in the First Presidency of Fernando Belaúnde , he was the youngest person having occupied that post?
Did you know that in November 1985, a cold front and the remnants of Atlantic Hurricane Juan contributed to the costliest flooding on record in Virginia and West Virginia , causing about $1.4 billion in damage?
Did you know that Dylan Kwasniewski is the first driver to win both the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East and K&N Pro Series West championships?
Did you know that twenty years after the Armenian Genocide , William Saroyan challenged the world to destroy the Armenian people?
Did you know that the Iranian government executed teacher and poet Hashem Shabani for waging war on God , among other charges?
Did you know that earlier this month, members of the Anti-Vivisection Coalition gathered outside Senate House , Cambridge, to protest against primate testing at Cambridge University ?
Did you know that romance and thriller writer James Patterson was the top earning novelist of 2010, making $70 million?
Did you know that James Machon , competing at the 2014 Winter Olympics for Team GB , has been skiing since he was six?
Did you know that Millennium 's Brittany Tiplady credited the episode " The Fourth Horseman " with helping her to develop as an actress?
Did you know that college football All-American Michael Sam could become the first active National Football League player to have publicly come out as gay?
Did you know that after the Great Exhibition of 1851, Dorset buttons were no longer handmade?
Did you know that Olympic bobsledder Rebekah Wilson took odd jobs to pay for her training?
Did you know that four shots were fired at the house of Norwegian crime journalist Nina Johnsrud in 2006?
Did you know that the Leader of Alderney has historically been a hereditary Governor , a Judge and a non-politically elected President ?
Did you know that former college basketball player Fred Slaughter was called "the dean of black sports attorneys" by The New York Times ?
Did you know that RZ Gruis is a cataclysmic variable star , a type which the American Association of Variable Star Observers recommends be watched in case it becomes a nova ?
Did you know that the Arizona Fourth Amendment Protection Act would withdraw state support for collection of metadata and would ban the use of warrantless data in courts?
Did you know that Binnya Dala , the most trusted adviser and general of King Bayinnaung of Burma , translated Razadarit Ayedawbon , the earliest extant chronicle of the Mon people ?
Did you know that the film rights to the biography Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story were announced a week after the book was released?
Did you know that Roger McMurrin helped Ukrainian atheists to become Christians through their performance of Christian music in his orchestra?
Did you know that Richard Ambler discovered that horizontal gene transfer is central to the evolution of antibiotic-resistant bacteria ?
Did you know that " Hey Love " by Danish duo Quadron was the only song out of their album Avalanche to have been made with an outside producer?