kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that the Oscar Award-nominated film The Final Inch , a documentary about efforts to eradicate the poliovirus , is the first film project from Google 's philanthropic division Google.org ?
Did you know that surform tools can shape materials as diverse as automobile repair plastic body filler and elephants ' hooves ?
Did you know that the beard of Greek cardinal Basilios Bessarion was partly responsible for the defeat of his candidacy in the papal conclave, 1455 ?
Did you know that Katie Jarvis was cast in the film Fish Tank , after a casting agent spotted her having an argument with her boyfriend at Tilbury Town railway station ?
Did you know that the original radio studio building of KOBB (then called KBMN) in northern Bozeman, Montana , now serves as a small casino ?
Did you know that when classicist Bernard Knox was selected for the 1992 Jefferson Lecture (the U.S.'s highest humanities honor), he gave his speech the "provocative" title "The Oldest Dead White European Males"?
Did you know that a critic reviewing country music artist Ronnie Milsap 's 2006 album My Life observed that Milsap's voice remained "virtually unchanged" since his debut in the early 1970s?
Did you know that the Sopwith Bulldog , a prototype British World War I fighter plane, was so unreliable that one test pilot said "I never remember being able to get all cylinders to fire at the same time"?
Did you know that in 1895, the husband of English actress Amy Roselle shot her dead and then killed himself, leaving behind a suicide note censuring the acting profession?
Did you know that in the U.S. Supreme Court case of Ashcroft v. Iqbal , a prisoner sued Federal prison guards and their superiors alleging physical abuse?
Did you know that As'ad Pasha al-Azm , governor of Damascus under the Ottoman Empire for 14 years, ordered the construction of the Azm Palace and Khan As'ad Pasha ?
Did you know that John Wick , who passed on information that led to an ongoing scandal about expenses of Members of the United Kingdom Parliament , once commanded the Royal Army Ordnance Corps 's Mobile Bath Unit?
Did you know that the Fossil Cabin in Wyoming was built of dinosaur bones and was billed by its builder as "the building that used to walk"?
Did you know that music producer Bill Szymczyk got started in music engineering while working on SONAR for the United States Navy ?
Did you know that Mushet steel was the first tool steel and later led to the discovery of high speed steel ?
Did you know that driving for Polestar Racing Group , Katherine Legge became the first woman to win an open-wheel race in North America?
Did you know that San Pedro Atocpan hosts a festival every year devoted to mole sauce ?
Did you know that Henri Pinault , the last Roman Catholic bishop of Chengdu , was imprisoned and expelled from China by the Communist Party of China in 1952, but retained his title until 1983?
Did you know that Hannah Tracy Cutler wrote an advice column for farm girls before she became president of the American Woman Suffrage Association in 1870?
Did you know that human skin flora includes roughly 1,000 species of bacteria ?
Did you know that Donald G. Fink , later to become a prominent electrical engineer , was selected as the best orator in his county at a high school competition?
Did you know that the 1927 British AJW Summit v-twin motorcycle was capable of 161 kilometres per hour (100 mph)?
Did you know that in the 2009 Indian parliamentary election , Bangshi Badan Barman of the Greater Cooch Behar Democratic Party became the first undertrial prisoner to file candidate nomination papers in West Bengal ?
Did you know that The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills , established in 1967, carries more than 500 varieties of cheese ?
Did you know that the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site in Derbyshire , which includes a mixture of mills and workers' housing, is considered the birthplace of the factory system ?
Did you know that Terrence Wheatley and teammate Sammy Joseph were the first two freshman cornerbacks to start at the same time in Colorado Buffaloes history?
Did you know that her controversial publication of The Woman's Bible in the 1890s effectively ended Elizabeth Cady Stanton 's further influence in the women's suffrage movement?
Did you know that King Cnut the Great ordered the murder of Eadric Streona and Northman , the eldest son of Leofwine, Ealdorman of the Hwicce , in 1017?
Did you know that Greg Golson stole over 100 bases in his five years as a Philadelphia Phillies minor leaguer ?
Did you know that the Virginia Tech Hokies , winners of the 1995 Sugar Bowl , were selected for the game only after sanctions were levied against the Miami Hurricanes ?
Did you know that the Old Log Theater is reputedly the oldest professional theater in the state of Minnesota and is the oldest continuously operating professional theater in the United States?
Did you know that Daphne Anderson has played Father William, the Walrus, and the Red Queen in various productions of Alice in Wonderland ?
Did you know that in a defined contribution plan , a type of retirement plan , the contributions to the account are guaranteed but the future benefits are not?
Did you know that Arsenal won the 1988–89 English Football League Championship title thanks to a goal scored in the last minute of the very last game ?
Did you know that the Helmerich Award , an annual literary award that pays US$40,000 to an "internationally acclaimed" author, is named after the actress who played "Nurse Kelly" in the 1950 film Harvey ?
Did you know that the Indian Star Tortoise , Sri Lanka Junglefowl , Sri Lankan Elephant , Sri Lanka Leopard and Rusty-spotted Cat are among the endangered species of the Hurulu Forest Reserve ?
Did you know that the last train to run on the Port Whitby and Port Perry Railway was a special passenger service to Toronto to visit the Royal Tour of 1939 ?
Did you know that the Northwestern Wildcats women's lacrosse team has won the NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championship five consecutive times since 2005?
Did you know that approximately 37,500 Local and Personal Acts have been passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom since 1539?
Did you know that the many optical effects apparent in Johannes Vermeer 's The Lacemaker indicate that he made use of the camera obscura ; an early photographical device?
Did you know that Ralph Alswang designed the Westport, Connecticut , home of actor Paul Newman ?
Did you know that the Benner House is the sole surviving German -style vernacular home built to a one-room plan in Rhinebeck, New York ?
Did you know that the comic strip character Pupung was based on the creator's nephew Jeff Young?
Did you know that the country music quartet The Oak Ridge Boys reached their highest ranking in 26 years on the Billboard 200 with the release of their 2009 album The Boys Are Back ?
Did you know that Han dynasty politician Zhang Tang once tried and executed a rat ?
Did you know that in 1987, the Elk Creek Dam's construction on Elk Creek was halted due to a court injunction issued over a lawsuit designed to protect salmon and other migratory fish from the effects of the dam on the river?
Did you know that Jared C. Monti is only the second person to be awarded the Medal of Honor for actions during the War in Afghanistan ?
Did you know that in 2008 one of Jamaica 's most wanted fugitives evaded police capture when a motorist flashed his headlights to warn of police activity ahead?
Did you know that Wyoming newspaper publisher Charles E. Richardson won a Sharpshooter Medal for his skill with a .38 caliber pistol while serving in the Army in the late 1950s?
Did you know that during the Japanese conquest of Burma in 1942, the heavily defended Taukkyan Roadblock was unexpectedly abandoned overnight, allowing the Allied forces to escape safely from Rangoon ?
Did you know that Snorri Thorfinnsson , son of explorers Thorfinn Karlsefni and Guðríðr Þorbjarnardóttir , is said to be the first European born in North America?
Did you know that Agaricus albolutescens , unlike other species of Agaricus , turns tawny-brown rather than yellow when bruised?
Did you know that Canadian professional wrestler Billy Two Rivers decided to move to the United Kingdom because of a coin toss ?
Did you know that after a massive expansion program in the 1980s, Lavalin 's corporate bankers forced it to merge with the rival SNC Group , forming one of the largest civil engineering firms in the world?
Did you know that Kjell Fjalsett , Arnold Børud , Ivar Skippervold and Rune Larsen constitute the gospel group Frisk Luft , called the first Christian supergroup in Norway ?
Did you know that T.H.E. Fox , drawn on a C64 KoalaPad and published on CompuServe , Q-Link and GEnie , is among the earliest online comics?
Did you know that "Calexico Kid" Primo Villanueva led UCLA to the NCAA football championship in 1954 and was inducted into the British Columbia Restaurant Hall of Fame in 2009?
Did you know that during June 1976 protests in Poland , the biggest demonstrations took place in Radom , where workers burned the local office of the Polish Communist party ?
Did you know that the clubhouse of the Royal Findhorn Yacht Club was originally the home of its first Commodore, James Chadwick?
Did you know that Sir William Cheyne has been described as one of the most obscure Chief Justices of the King's Bench in the late medieval period ?
Did you know that both Margot Marsh's Mouse Lemur and Arnhold's Mouse Lemur are separated from their closest relatives by species barriers ?
Did you know that the French won a victory over the Royal Navy in a naval battle off Cape Breton during the American Revolutionary War ?
Did you know that in the mid-1880s, Nelson's Greenbrier Distillery dwarfed Jack Daniel's in its output of Tennessee whiskey ?
Did you know that Elizabeth Fox, Baroness Holland was a political hostess who introduced the dahlia to the United Kingdom in 1804?
Did you know that the New Jersey version of the NWA United States Tag Team Championship is one of at least five championships that share the same name?
Did you know that the Habeas Corpus Act 1862 was passed to prevent Britain's courts from issuing writs of habeas corpus in British colonies and dominions ?
Did you know that psychologist Sidney W. Bijou would not punish his 15-year old son for a joyriding arrest as he "had punishment enough", his son recalling that "it can pay off to have a psychologist for a father"?
Did you know that the German battleship SMS König sank the Russian battleship Slava during Operation Albion in 1917?
Did you know that Samuel Taylor Coleridge was accused of plagiarism over his poem " Hymn Before Sunrise "?
Did you know that the 1973 parliamentary election was the last to be held under imperial rule in Ethiopia ?
Did you know that the distinctive foliage of Hydrangea radiata , a shrub of the southern Appalachians , is dark green on one side but silvery white on the other?
Did you know that Irish-born journalist and poet Daniel O'Connell worked for a number of newspapers in San Francisco and was one of the co-founders of the Bohemian Club ?
Did you know that three conclavists —personal aides to cardinals during a papal conclave —have gone on to be elected Pope ?
Did you know that French philosopher Denis Diderot posed naked for a Berlin innkeeper's wife ?
Did you know that the Southern sennet , a member of the Barracuda family , has been linked to ciguatera poisoning?
Did you know that an Australian football player was banned for life for umpire abuse ?
Did you know that Ziegfield Girl Susan Fleming found Harpo Marx , despite his non-speaking film persona, to be "a warm, fun, darling man to talk to", and they married in 1936 after she had proposed to him three times?
Did you know that the Hunt-class destroyer HMS Badsworth was named after a fox-hunt in Yorkshire and adopted by the town of Batley , following a Warship Week campaign in March 1942?
Did you know that Immigration Equality has been the main advocate for the Uniting American Families Act to give same-sex couples the same status as heterosexuals under the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act ?
Did you know that the cam follower , which is a specialized type of roller bearing designed to follow cams , was invented in 1937 by the McGill corporation?
Did you know that one mixed martial arts fight at the Insomnia Summer Show in Satu Mare , Romania , lasted only seven seconds?
Did you know that the St. Johns River was Florida 's first tourist attraction and the primary travel route to the more remote parts of the territory before it was developed?
Did you know that when the Four Mile uranium mine commences operations in 2010, it will be the first new uranium mine in Australia for nearly ten years?
Did you know that mayors elected in the 1900 Cuban local elections had to swear an oath of allegiance to the U.S. Military Government before taking office?
Did you know that pocket neighborhood developments have included smaller homes around a landscaped common area to promote neighborly contact while keeping parking out of view?
Did you know that of the 13 named storms in the 1996 Atlantic hurricane season , 6 were major hurricanes (Category 3 or higher on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale )?
Did you know that Felix Hathaway helped construct the first American-built ship in what is now the state of Oregon ?
Did you know that bottlenose dolphin Moko rescued two pygmy sperm whales from possible death?
Did you know that Congregation B'nai Israel is the oldest synagogue in Bridgeport , and the third oldest in the U.S. state of Connecticut ?
Did you know that Czech children's writer Ondřej Sekora was also one of the first propagators of rugby in Czechoslovakia ?
Did you know that the Grutas de Cacahuamilpa National Park in Mexico includes one of the largest cave systems in the world, with some openings wide enough to be used as concert halls?
Did you know that Walter O. Bigby , who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives during the 1970s, was called the "Dean of the House" because of his reputation for integrity, fairness, and hard work?
Did you know that the Chichester to Silchester Way was discovered when the boundary banks of a mansio were seen by Ordnance Survey archaeologists on an aerial photograph ?
Did you know that the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel lost an estimated $2.4 to $7 million because the owner donated $125,000 to help California Proposition 8 ?
Did you know that Tekno Team 2000 , a "futuristic" professional wrestling tag team , was said to have the goal of bringing the World Wrestling Federation "into the 21st century"?
Did you know that Saint Ninian , the subject of Ailred of Rievaulx 's Life of Saint Ninian , is an "unhistorical doppelgänger " of the real-life British churchman Finnian ?
Did you know that in partnership with McIlwraith, McEacharn & Co. , the Adelaide Steamship Company developed the world's first purpose built container ship , MV Kooringa ?
Did you know that the Renfrew County Courthouse was described as "one of the finest in Canada" by the County Atlas of 1881?
Did you know that after helping Werner von Braun publish a book in post-war Germany, Heinz-Hermann Koelle joined von Braun's team at the U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency , where he worked on Saturn rockets ?
Did you know that the papal conclave, October 1503 was the shortest papal conclave in history due to the lack of a conclave capitulation ?
Did you know that only one aircraft, a Bombardier Dash 8 of Amakusa Airlines , uses Amakusa Airfield ?
Did you know that Gordon Brown 's independent advisor on ministerial conduct, Sir Philip Mawer who was given a knighthood in 2002, has also been a dame ?
Did you know that the Shanta Creek fire has burned over 13,000 acres (53 km 2 ; 20 sq mi) on Alaska 's Kenai Peninsula since it was started by lightning on June 29, 2009?
Did you know that in 1904, the whitewash was removed from the west wall of St. George's church, Trotton , leading to the discovery of an unprecedented 600-year-old wall painting?
Did you know that the first newspaper in Hawaii was printed by students of Lorrin Andrews in 1834, on a printing press brought to the islands in 1820?
Did you know that in 1901, two former political adversaries in Cuba , the Cuban National Party and the Republican Party of Havana , united behind the presidential candidature of Tomás Estrada Palma ?
Did you know that the marbleized appearance of the granite siding on the Gerard Crane House in Somers, New York , is a naturally occurring feature of the locally quarried stone?
Did you know that in each Summer Olympic Games since 1992 , the women's singles gold medalist in table tennis has also won gold in either the doubles or team competition?
Did you know that Pink Dot is a Los Angeles –based chain of grocery stores that offers delivery service of groceries, deli food, cigarettes, and alcohol?
Did you know that Kenneth W. Winters , a member of the Kentucky State Senate from Murray , did not begin his legislative service until he was 70 years old?
Did you know that no footballer has scored a hat-trick against England since Marco van Basten in 1988?
Did you know that during the 1700s, businesswoman Anna Krefting operated the largest ironworks in Norway ?
Did you know that the westernmost and easternmost points in the United States by travel , in Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands , are both named "Point Udall," after brothers Mo and Stewart Udall ?"
Did you know that Weston Dressler of the Saskatchewan Roughriders set 19 school records in football at the University of North Dakota ?
Did you know that Bob Dylan sang his 1964 song " Chimes of Freedom " at Bill Clinton 's 1993 presidential inauguration?
Did you know that professional poker player Ilari Sahamies lost over US$3 million playing online poker while drunk, including more than $700,000 in a single day?
Did you know that Barbara Margolis , creator of a Rikers Island restaurant training program, was held in such regard by inmates that her car was returned after prisoners learned it was stolen from a prison lot?
Did you know that astronomer William Herschel was the first organist at the Octagon Chapel in Bath ?
Did you know that the Central Economic Intelligence Bureau serves as the secretariat of the Economic Intelligence Council of India ?
Did you know that the first Hof's Hut was opened in Belmont Shore by Harold Hofman on September 16, 1951, the same day that his son was born?
Did you know that due to a violent intimidation campaign of the Federal Republican Party , no other political groups dared to contest the 1900 municipal elections in Las Villas , Cuba ?
Did you know that Morgan Henry Chrysler was one of only four men who rose from private to major general during the American Civil War ?
Did you know that John Ruskin 's " wretched rant " influenced architects, artists and ecclesiologists ?
Did you know that Rocketdyne 's E-1 rocket engine never saw production, but gave NASA confidence to develop the F-1 that powered the Saturn V to the Moon?
Did you know that in Bishop Lloyd's House , Chester , Cheshire , is a fireplace with an overmantle containing a carving of Cupid riding on a lion?
Did you know that 21-year-old professional poker player Sami Kelopuro experiences daily swings of up to one million dollars when playing online poker ?
Did you know that many of the world's pelagic fish species are threatened with extinction , including the devil fish ?
Did you know that the Cuban People's Party was barred from contesting the 1901 elections, as the government demanded the party produce a register of thousands of members in just two hours?
Did you know that National Football League All-Pro linebacker and Super Bowl champion Cato June was co- class president , salutatorian and a member of the National Honor Society in high school?
Did you know that the Battle of the Oranges is the largest organized food fight in Italy ?
Did you know that Homer Paine was one of several college football players that Oklahoma Sooners head coach Jim Tatum lured away from the school's rivals after World War II ?
Did you know that Nazi German regulation of Polish forced laborers intentionally created and supported discrimination on the basis of ethnicity ?
Did you know that in baseball , no Gold Glove Award-winning catcher posted an errorless season until Charles Johnson and Mike Matheny accomplished the feat twice in six years?
Did you know that Killiniq , an abandoned settlement on the Hudson Strait , was formerly a part of Labrador , and then the Northwest Territories , but is now on the Nunavut side of Killiniq Island ?
Did you know that ornithologist Robert Thomas Moore , who is credited with discovering more than 30 bird species and subspecies, also founded the 29-volume series of Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards ?
Did you know that All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma , is one of the largest Unitarian Universalist congregations in the world?
Did you know that giant Daniel Cajanus appeared in pantomime on the London stage in 1734?
Did you know that French singer Georges Guétary , who played the "older man" in a romantic triangle with Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron in the film An American in Paris , was nearly three years younger than Kelly?
Did you know that William Blake 's poem " The Mental Traveller " went unpublished during Blake's lifetime but was translated multiple times after his death?
Did you know that Jack Hennemier , head coach of the Calgary Stampeders , was sued by the Washington Redskins for attempting to sign two of their players?
Did you know that an inscription from Korba, Tunisia , records the town's fortification by Pompeian generals during the Roman civil war ?
Did you know that Meridian Baptist Seminary was the first school in Mississippi to offer high school diplomas to African-American students?
Did you know that Czech composer Jan Rychlík played the drums in the jazz orchestra of Karel Vlach ?
Did you know that the fruit of the pondberry , an endangered wetland shrub, was used by children in the rural Southern United States as ammunition in toy pop guns made from hollowed-out elderberry stems?
Did you know that as a variable-pitch turbofan aircraft engine, the Turbomeca Astafan could generate reverse thrust in midair without the use of a thrust reverser ?
Did you know that the Chicago Tribune claimed that hundreds of applicants to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign between 2005 and 2009 had received " special consideration "?
Did you know that the document known as the Remonstrances was presented in 1297, as England was on the brink of civil war ?
Did you know that a colony of sex offenders forced to live under a highway bridge in Miami, Florida , numbered approximately 140 members as of July 2009?
Did you know that A Vision of the Last Judgment is a painting by William Blake that disappeared after an exhibition was cancelled in 1810?
Did you know that Bridgecorp Holdings , a former Australian real estate development group, collapsed in 2007 owing 14,500 investors a total of A$ 467 million?
Did you know that Robert V. Decareau was known as "Mr. Microwave" for his research on microwaves in food that led to the development of the microwave oven ?
Did you know that Felix Salten 's novel Bambi, A Life in the Woods , originally published in Austria in 1923, is considered the first environmental fiction novel to be published?
Did you know that Poh Ling Yeow , the runner-up of MasterChef Australia , has appeared in four films?
Did you know that the 1969 Jefferson Airplane psychedelic folk-rock song " Good Shepherd " is derived from an early 1800s hymn from a backwoods preacher and a 1930s gospel blues recording by a blind axe murderer?
Did you know that the earliest activities of the Port of Amsterdam , today the Netherlands ' second largest port, date back to the 13th century?
Did you know that when hired as CEO of Rocket Chemical Company, John Barry changed its name to WD-40 to match its primary product, whose name came from "water displacement, formulation successful in 40th attempt"?
Did you know that three armies surrounded the papal conclave, September 1503 , held during the Italian Wars ?
Did you know that Xavier Petulengro , known as " The King of the Gypsies ", led traditional Romany weddings in Yorkshire where he mingled the blood of the couple and bound their wrists with a silk cord?