kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that following the death of Nicole van den Hurk , her stepbrother falsely confessed to killing her to get her body exhumed for DNA testing ?
Did you know that in 1963, over 200,000 students of the Chicago Public Schools boycotted class to protest segregation and poor conditions?
Did you know that Mahant Chandnath , a Member of the Indian Parliament , is also the head of the Nath sect of Hinduism?
Did you know that the decorator worm lives in a tube adorned with shell fragments and tiny pebbles?
Did you know that Foreign Minister Nicolae Petrescu-Comnen promised that Romania would only "take a few badly aimed potshots" at Soviet planes entering its airspace during the Munich Crisis ?
Did you know that Céleste Mogador may have been the inspiration for the title character in Georges Bizet's opera Carmen ?
Did you know that Darren Sammy took seven wickets for 66 runs in his debut Test for the West Indies in 2007?
Did you know that the extinct ant species Cephalotes hispaniolicus was first described from a single Miocene fossil found in amber on Hispaniola ?
Did you know that beer ice cream has been served at the Great American Beer Festival ?
Did you know that the Guilden Morden boar may have adorned a helmet like those worn by the poetical warrior Beowulf ?
Did you know that René Morax founded the Thêatre du Jorat, where his play Le Roi David premiered with dramatic music by Arthur Honegger ?
Did you know that the extinct Nicarao people of pre-Columbian Nicaragua shared many cultural traits with the Aztecs of Mexico , including their calendar, screenfold books, and human sacrifice?
Did you know that a clinical pharmaceutical scientist is both a practicing pharmacist and a scientist ?
Did you know that the specimen from which the blind snake Typhlops meszoelyi was described had a diameter of 3 millimeters (0.12 in)?
Did you know that the 2017 comics series X-Men Gold and X-Men Blue take their titles from a storyline from the early 1990s?
Did you know that Bart Sawyer 's pro wrestling gimmick was inspired by Bart Simpson ?
Did you know that Melusine , the second opera by Aribert Reimann , premiered at the Schlosstheater Schwetzingen in 1971 and was revived in 2016 by students in Berlin for the composer's 80th birthday?
Did you know that Typhoon Caitlin provided drought relief to Okinawa , where reservoir levels rose from 35% to over 80% capacity?
Did you know that the family of Pulitzer Prize -winning journalist Alex Tizon kept a slave for 56 years ?
Did you know that Matthew Pottinger , a member of the U.S. National Security Council , was a journalist in China for seven years before becoming a U.S. Marine ?
Did you know that both the adult and fledgling of the moustached hawk-cuckoo have a moustache?
Did you know that pianist Abdullah Ibrahim recorded the Cape jazz instrumental " Mannenberg " in response to the forced relocation of Coloured families by the South African government during apartheid ?
Did you know that CUBRIC at Cardiff University can create a map of someone's brain ?
Did you know that Typhoon Hattie was the fifth of a record six tropical cyclones to hit Japan in 1990 ?
Did you know that the East Asian holiday White Day served as the basis for the horror game White Day: A Labyrinth Named School ?
Did you know that Clementina Anstruther-Thomson and Vernon Lee openly lived together as a lesbian couple during the Victorian era ?
Did you know that consistent misrepresentation of a frequently-cited 1980 letter to the editor in The New England Journal of Medicine has been blamed for contributing to the U.S. opioid epidemic ?
Did you know that Sekondi MP Andrew Mercer helped repay the debt owed to the Ghana Football Association by Sekondi Eleven Wise , a Division 1 league club in his constituency?
Did you know that cargo had to be loaded and unloaded by hand onto the SS John Sherman , the first freight ship used on Lake Michigan ?
Did you know that Ariana Grande said she wanted her " Baby I " music video to emulate the "breeziness" of early 1990s music videos by TLC and Will Smith ?
Did you know that Poland's National Council of the Judiciary has been criticized for including only 6 women among its 25 members?
Did you know that the Life sculpture was designed by Joseph Drapell shortly after landing in Halifax, Nova Scotia , as a refugee?
Did you know that around the shores of Long Island , the ghost anemone can cause "clam diggers' itch", while the lined anemone is responsible for "seabather's eruption"?
Did you know that freedom fighter K. E. Mammen was expelled from Madras Christian College for participating in the Quit India Movement ?
Did you know that male serpentine leafminers sometimes feed at leaf wounds made by females, as they are unable to puncture the leaves themselves?
Did you know that Michael Boder conducted new operas, including Penderecki's Ubu Rex for the Munich Opera Festival , Henze's Phaedra in Berlin, and Reimann's Medea in Vienna?
Did you know that the Rabbitkettle Hot Springs in the Northwest Territories are both the largest tufa mounds in Canada and the only known tufa mounds on permafrost ?
Did you know that as you progress through your 90-minute sleep cycle , your brainwaves change and your body secretes different hormones ?
Did you know that the 1963 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game was the first NCAA title game to feature a majority of black starters?
Did you know that the call of the dusky long-tailed cuckoo is faster in Lower Guinea than it is in Upper Guinea ?
Did you know that Prince Știrbei , the Romanian arts patron, buried sculptor Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux in Courbevoie , then fought over the remains with Carpeaux's widow?
Did you know that " Denes nad Makedonija " was chosen to be the national anthem of the Republic of Macedonia , even though it finished runner-up in a contest held soon after independence in 1991?
Did you know that in a pioneering study, American pedagogue Florence E. Bamberger quantified the effects of book design on stimulating a child's interest in reading?
Did you know that the United States Marine Corps tiara was designed by the New York fashion house Mainbocher ?
Did you know that those implicated in the 1957 alleged coup attempt against King Hussein of Jordan were later pardoned and given senior posts in the government?
Did you know that at age 18, Daniel Schiebeler wrote the libretto for an opera by Telemann based on an episode from Cervantes' Don Quixote , which he could read in Spanish?
Did you know that people may be fined US$250,000 for importing monkey meat into the United States ?
Did you know that Daniel Tilton , one of the first three judges of the Mississippi Territory , lacked any legal experience prior to his appointment?
Did you know that the stag beetle Geodorcus servandus is unable to fly, and is known to occur only on a single mountaintop in New Zealand ?
Did you know that Seattle 's International District/Chinatown station is located under a large concrete lid that supports several office towers and a public plaza?
Did you know that Angelo De Donatis is the first non- cardinal to be appointed Vicar General of Rome since the sixteenth century?
Did you know that the 2008 film Dostana inspired several fashion trends in India, with Priyanka Chopra 's silver sari , worn in the song "Desi Girl", becoming very popular?
Did you know that the various versions of Titian 's Venus and Musician include organists, lute -players, Cupids , and dogs, but always a nude Venus ?
Did you know that Mitali Madhumita is the first female officer in the Indian Army to receive a gallantry award?
Did you know that despite living in complete darkness at bathyal depths , the sea anemone Allantactis parasitica synchronises its breeding activity with the phases of the moon?
Did you know that George Huebner is known as the "father of the automotive gas turbine engine"?
Did you know that Typhoon Phyllis and Typhoon Rita were responsible for the majority of Japan tropical cyclone casualties in the 1975 Pacific typhoon season ?
Did you know that an ultra-Orthodox mother of eleven runs the office of the President of Israel ?
Did you know that in 2017, the Brooklyn Street Circuit hosted the New York City ePrix , the city's first automobile race since 1896?
Did you know that Ghanaian highlife musician Paapa Yankson was first signed to a band while performing at his mother's funeral?
Did you know that Christoph Bock , the 2017 Overton Prize recipient, is a leading scientist in the International Human Epigenome Consortium ?
Did you know that " Kum-A-Kye " was the regimental march of the British South Africa Police in Rhodesia ?
Did you know that the relationship of manga character Boruto Uzumaki with his father Naruto was based on the artist Masashi Kishimoto 's own relationship with his children?
Did you know that the white anemone has been found growing in grooves in the shell of a loggerhead sea turtle ?
Did you know that David Asante-Apeatu , acting Inspector General of Police of Ghana, once oversaw a police operation that led to the seizure of 588 kg (1,296 lb) of cocaine worth US$38 million?
Did you know that episode 5276 of the BBC soap opera EastEnders features a transgender character being rejected by his mother?
Did you know that during the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany , Arpad Weixlgärtner refused to hand over the keys to the Imperial Treasury to the SS ?
Did you know that William Tassie thought parents would send their children to private schools if other schools did not provide the opportunity to learn Latin at an early age?
Did you know that the proposed Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act has been criticized for weakening Section 230 safe harbors?
Did you know that the future of clinafloxacin as a new drug is less bright due to its risk of drug-induced light sensitivity ?
Did you know that 15 policemen were killed in a 2015 ambush in Jalisco , Mexico?
Did you know that after baritone Johannes Martin Kränzle recovered from MDS , he made his debut at the Bayreuth Festival in 2017 as Beckmesser , staged by the festival's first Jewish director ?
Did you know that although the Smith's red rock hare is a nocturnal species, it occasionally comes out during early mornings or late afternoons in places where it is not hunted?
Did you know that the Yarkand hare is hunted as game and, between 1958 and 1981, about 10,000 furs annually were produced from the species?
Did you know that American soprano Pamela Coburn appeared as Mozart's Countess in Vienna and New York, and as Ellen, the friend of Peter Grimes , in Munich and at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino ?
Did you know that Farrakhan v Home Secretary was the first court case to successfully overturn a client's ban on entry to the United Kingdom —only to be overturned itself on appeal?
Did you know that illustrator Ida Waugh met her life partner Amy Ella Blanchard when the latter was hired as a tutor for her younger brother, future painter Frederick Judd Waugh ?
Did you know that in 1989, the Institute of Party History of the Communist Party of Estonia denounced the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact ?
Did you know that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has been accused of plagiarizing his PhD thesis ?
Did you know that the Delaware Railroad was sued in 1863 because it did not have enough freight cars to transport a bumper crop of peaches?
Did you know that Ada Bell Maescher produced Night Life in Hollywood as a propaganda film to depict Hollywood as a model city populated by home-loving people?
Did you know that Titian intended his painting of the Pietà to hang over his grave, but it never did?
Did you know that before working with Bob Crewe and Dusty Springfield , folk singer Norma Tanega performed at summer camps and a mental hospital?
Did you know that Saunders' embiids live in silken tubes and camouflage their eggs, perhaps to prevent cannibalism?
Did you know that Ursula K. Le Guin 's 2006 novel Voices has been compared to Ray Bradbury 's Fahrenheit 451 , which also prominently features the destruction of books?
Did you know that during the Rhine Campaign of 1796 , the French troops were hampered by having to steal their supplies, which turned the local populations against them?
Did you know that the 1992 New Delhi by-election included the candidacies of two Bollywood stars and a " Bandit Queen "?
Did you know that Sergeant Ömer Halisdemir was killed on the spot after he shot dead a general who had tried to take over the Special Forces Command HQ during the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt ?
Did you know that the comic book Ultimate End was made by Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley , who had created the Ultimate Marvel imprint 15 years before?
Did you know that Tre Canti di Leopardi , three orchestral songs by Wilhelm Killmayer , are based on poems from Canti , addressing the infinite, the self, and the moon?
Did you know that the anti-illegal immigration bill Georgia House Bill 87 , which was signed into law in 2011, was partly based on Arizona 's SB 1070 immigration bill?
Did you know that the Martian dunes of Ogygis Undae consist of two different sand types, and look similar to the dunes in Grand Falls, Arizona ?
Did you know that Shirley Pitts was trained by the Forty Elephants and became the "queen of shoplifters"?
Did you know that Alex Virot is the only journalist to have died whilst covering the Tour de France ?
Did you know that the dark, organic setting of the graphic adventure video game Oxenfree was designed to contrast with its bright, geometric, supernatural elements?
Did you know that two years after Henry Ferrers, 4th Baron Ferrers of Groby , fought alongside King Richard II in the 1385 invasion of Scotland, the king and queen stayed the night in Ferrers' castle?
Did you know that Xafecopy Trojan attacked at least 4,800 Android users in just a month?
Did you know that in 1948, Oreste Pucciani , champion of the " direct method " of language teaching, banned English from his classroom at UCLA ?
Did you know that British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan described the 1958 US–UK Mutual Defence Agreement as the "great prize"?
Did you know that astronomer Alan Duffy is constructing a dark matter detector 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) underground in a gold mine?
Did you know that the Glover's pika was at different times treated as a subspecies of the Turkestan red pika and the Chinese red pika , but is now accepted as an independent species?
Did you know that carbon-carrying minerals are known as organic minerals , except for some that were considered inorganic before 1828?
Did you know that Dua Lipa said that her song " New Rules " talks about setting rules to keep "your distance from someone who's bad for you"?
Did you know that while working on the representations of the Lorentz group , an encounter with Dirac convinced Harish-Chandra that he did not have "the mysterious sixth sense which one needs in order to succeed in physics"?
Did you know that residents of Uttan aided Gilbert Mendonca 's candidacy in the 2009 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election by refusing to allow other candidates to campaign in their town?
Did you know that in Women's One Day International cricket , India has the fourth highest number of victories?
Did you know that the 1896 novel The Courage of Her Convictions by Caroline Augusta Huling is the story of a woman who is artificially inseminated ?
Did you know that the St. Collins Lane luxury shopping centre replaced a building considered one of Melbourne 's worst?
Did you know that the bluffs near where Hiram Scott died in 1828 bear his name?
Did you know that a canoeist bore the São Tomé and Príncipe flag at the opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics, but at the closing ceremony it was carried by an unnamed volunteer?
Did you know that Maryam Mirzakhani won the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize for women in mathematics a year before she won the Fields Medal for the same work?
Did you know that the acorn worm Saccoglossus bromophenolosus is named after a chemical found in its tissues?
Did you know that as part of her journalism degree, sportscaster Kelly Crull worked at KOMU-TV ?
Did you know that while many people think " Trapped " is a Bruce Springsteen song from the 1980s, it was written and recorded by Jimmy Cliff in 1972?
Did you know that Slovenian architect Jože Plečnik used concrete sewer pipes for construction of the Church of St. Michael ?
Did you know that, in 1895, Orelia Key Bell dedicated a collection of poems to her "Heavenly Muse" Ida Jane Ash, next to whom she is now buried in Atlanta ?
Did you know that after the Stadt Zürich collided with another ship in Lindau Harbour, a Bavarian correspondent sarcastically commented that it had sunk more German ships than the entire Royal Danish Navy ?
Did you know that Hippopotamus is Sparks ' first UK top-ten album in over 40 years?
Did you know that architect Mikhail Eisenstein and his film-director son Sergei fought on opposite sides of the Russian Civil War?
Did you know that the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor raised money for New York's Neponsit Beach Hospital by distributing pictures of "Smiling Joe", a boy with spinal tuberculosis ?
Did you know that Tubulanus superbus and Tubulanus annulatus are both known as "football jersey worms"?
Did you know that Nannie C. Dunsmoor , a Los Angeles pioneer woman physician practicing into her 80s, was the oldest United States active member of the Soroptimist Club ?
Did you know that the call of the slaty-backed forktail can easily be mistaken for that of the Blyth's kingfisher ?
Did you know that the Massachusetts Convention of Towns in 1768 created a war scare, causing prices to drop on the London Stock Exchange ?
Did you know that in order to accurately portray her character Kirsty Clements ' domestic violence storyline, actress Lucy Gaskell spoke to women affected by domestic abuse?
Did you know that when the Pass A L'Outre Light began to sink into the ground, its floor was raised and a new door cut in its side to compensate?
Did you know that Frederick Brundrett , the UK's Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence , was one of Britain's oldest first-class field hockey players?
Did you know that the Cup of Solid Gold , China's first national anthem , was never performed publicly?
Did you know that cowboy Little Joe Monahan ' s gender became a national news story in 1904?
Did you know that the Hashemite dynasty, Jordan 's royal family, claims custodianship over Jerusalem's holy sites ?
Did you know that one year ago today Chapel Hill, North Carolina , police released an image of a suspect in the Faith Hedgepeth homicide based purely on DNA left at the crime scene?
Did you know that South African footballer Lorenzo Gordinho joined the Kaizer Chiefs academy at the age of 15?
Did you know that the Yunnan hare was formerly considered a subspecies of the woolly hare but is now treated as a separate species?
Did you know that when the jazz pianist Michael Wollny was artist in residence of the Rheingau Musik Festival , he played a concert with Andreas Schaerer , Émile Parisien and Vincent Peirani ?
Did you know that during the tug of war at the 1900 Olympics , a journalist was drafted into the gold medal winning team?
Did you know that Two Songs to be sung of a summer night on the water by Frederick Delius are wordless songs for an a cappella choir, described as being amongst the composer's "most transcendently ecstatic moments"?
Did you know that when Kyrgyz politician Bakyt Torobayev stood as candidate for speaker of the Supreme Council of Kyrgyzstan in 2016 along with Kanat Isayev, the result was a tie?
Did you know that software pirates created an unofficial port of Sega 's 1991 video game Sonic the Hedgehog for the Nintendo Entertainment System that features Mario instead of Sonic ?
Did you know that Lebanese singer Layal Abboud worked as a police officer before becoming a pop star?
Did you know that Younis Khan holds the records for most runs and centuries for Pakistan in Test cricket ?
Did you know that scholar Rupert Bruce-Mitford funded his education by burning a book?
Did you know that schoolmaster Elijah Corlet helped Cotton Mather correct his stammer?
Did you know that the season two premiere of the Canadian television series 19-2 featured an uninterrupted, 13-minute single-camera sequence of a school shooting, based on the 2006 Dawson College shooting in Montreal?
Did you know that last month, Kirti Kumari , a sitting member of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly , died of an H1N1 infection?
Did you know that some of the mounds of the Martian formation of Abalos Colles are similar to volcanoes in Iceland ?
Did you know that in Telemaco , one of Alessandro Scarlatti 's last operas, Minerva enters in a chariot which holds a string orchestra with trumpets?
Did you know that German Jewish architect Ludwig Levy designed many synagogues across Germany in the late 19th century?
Did you know that USS Omaha (CL-4) was the last United States Navy ship to be awarded prize money?
Did you know that 14-year-old Lai Ning died fighting a forest fire in China in 1988 and was subsequently declared a revolutionary martyr?
Did you know that Vince Lombardi began his football coaching career at New Jersey 's St. Cecilia High School , where he taught algebra, chemistry, physics and Latin, in addition to his coaching duties?
Did you know that the Martian wedge-shaped mound Abalos Mensa has been described as "an enigmatic wedge of material"?
Did you know that Anette Hosoi designed a robot snail that moved by rippling over artificial snail slime ?
Did you know that the 2017 Washington wildfires caused ash to fall "like snow" on Seattle?
Did you know that Ōrora Satoshi is the heaviest ever wrestler in professional sumo ?
Did you know that television showings and online streaming of the documentary Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence were stopped after a blogger discredited its key photograph?
Did you know that Nancy Coonsman sculpted Victory , the war memorial erected in Cheppy , France, to honor the men from Missouri in the 35th Infantry Division killed during World War I?
Did you know that the creator of the popular YouTube channel Ali-A has been called a "YouTube megastar" by the BBC ?
Did you know that Jiva Pandu Gavit is the only Communist Party of India member of the 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly ?
Did you know that during his presidency, Ronald Reagan appeared on the covers of records by the Ramones , Fela Kuti , Bootsy Collins , and The Clash ?
Did you know that heavy rainfall from Tropical Storm Lidia left a sinkhole engulfing a street in central Mexico City ?
Did you know that King Hussein responded to the 1989 Jordanian protests by lifting martial law and reintroducing parliamentary elections ?
Did you know that Irene Clennell was deported from the UK, despite having a British husband, because she had spent too long abroad?
Did you know that Raymond Leane was described as the "foremost fighting leader" in the Australian Imperial Force during World War I?
Did you know that in the American West from the 1860s to the 1880s, nearly 25% of cowboys were black ?
Did you know that Paolo and Francesca , the second work "for Reader with Piano accompaniment" by pianist and composer Berenice Wyer , was performed in New York and Chicago?
Did you know that the Martian dunes of Aspledon Undae may have formed due to erosion of part of the Planum Boreum ?
Did you know that the house of Judith Ellen Foster , the "Iowa lawyer" of the temperance movement , was burnt down, presumably by her opponents?
Did you know that the absurdist Twitter writer known as dril continues to insist that he is not owned , even as he slowly shrinks and transforms into a corncob ?
Did you know that the Swiss mezzo-soprano Elisabeth Glauser performed in the Jahrhundertring in Bayreuth, and created the role of Babette in Henze's The English Cat ?
Did you know that the Cook Islands flashlightfish produces light with the help of bioluminescent bacteria?
Did you know that the French Football Federation issued a reversal of a league win after Amiens SC disputed Olympique Noisy-le-Sec player Frédéric Boniface 's eligibility to play in the match?
Did you know that the common loon used to be known as call-up-a-storm in New England , because its noisy cries supposedly foretold stormy weather?