kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that Gertrude Melville was nicknamed the "grand old lady of the Labor Party " despite serving only one term in parliament?
Did you know that the Ocala Star-Banner considered John Ritter 's comedy style in the 1983 film Sunset Limousine to be the "magic ingredient" for the film's success?
Did you know that Flemish separatists took the German occupation of Belgium during World War I as an opportunity to declare independence in 1918?
Did you know that Lindita Arapi 's first book of poetry, Am Meer, nachts ("By the sea, at night") was the first such work written by an Albanian poetess in German?
Did you know that the Venus of Savignano was found by a farmer who gave it to a sculptor in exchange for 200 kg (440 lb) of grapes?
Did you know that the Romanian communist Constantin Doncea made a well-publicized break from prison, finding his way to Moscow and then to the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War ?
Did you know that Narendra Modi got the idea for the Bharatiya Janata Party slogan for the 2014 Indian general election , Achhe din aane waale hain ("Good days are coming"), from his opposition leader, Manmohan Singh ?
Did you know that in his later career, Clifford Hall painted women covered almost head to toe and with their faces usually hidden?
Did you know that film titles like India Speaks , Africa Speaks! , and Mussolini Speaks gave Duke Ellington the idea to call his song "Harlem Speaks"?
Did you know that Stephen Phillips originally auditioned to play the Winners & Losers character Doug Graham , but was cast as Zach Armstrong instead?
Did you know that the penis in male canids contains a structure at the base which helps to create a copulatory tie during mating, locking the animals together for up to an hour?
Did you know that Corn Run was likely named for bushels of corn washed into it during a flood?
Did you know that Clarence N. Hickman , a developer of the bazooka , was also the "Father of Scientific Archery", and is an AMICA Hall-of-Famer for his improvements to player pianos ?
Did you know that burglars attacking a Barretville, Tennessee , bank vault with blowtorches in 1930 failed to steal any money, but burned down the adjacent general store?
Did you know that the French singer Christophe got the inspiration for the title of his 1965 hit song " Aline " during a visit to the dentist?
Did you know that part of Ashutosh Gowariker 's Everest has been filmed at over 17,000 feet (5,200 m) above sea level?
Did you know that the Swedish stand-up comedian Robin Paulsson became known for his imitations of footballer Zlatan Ibrahimović ?
Did you know that less than four months after Guatemala declared independence from the Spanish Empire , it was annexed by a different empire ?
Did you know that the social worker Pah Wongso turned an extortion charge into a 25-cent fine and a school for impoverished youth?
Did you know that the first Canadian Platinum Maple Leaf coin was struck by a Japanese ?
Did you know that German TV broadcaster ZDF used Dominik Kuhn 's (Dodokay's) fandub of a Romney-Obama debate to start reporting on the outcome of the 2012 U.S. presidential election ?
Did you know that the snail species Aegista diversifamilia was named in recognition of the same-sex marriage movement in Taiwan?
Did you know that in 1920 Louise Pearce tested a cure for the fatal epidemic of African sleeping sickness in the Belgian Congo ?
Did you know that the Nobel Banquet is held each 10 December, after the Nobel Prize ceremony?
Did you know that the composer Joseph Maria Wolfram became mayor of Teplice ?
Did you know that after his speech in the trial of Thomas Paine , a crowd unhitched Thomas Erskine 's horses and pulled his carriage home?
Did you know that certain crabs injected with calitoxin , found in the nematocysts of the sea anemone Calliactis parasitica , are paralysed within one minute?
Did you know that Cindy Smart knows five languages and basic mathematics, but is "a little creepy"?
Did you know that MacArthur Fellow Tami Bond , known for her study of black carbon , became interested in engineering after her car broke down?
Did you know that bowfins can survive up to five days' exposure to air because they can breathe both air and water?
Did you know that the logo of No-Li Brewhouse depicts the Skyride over Spokane Falls ?
Did you know that the Hasidic singer Yehuda Green , who performs in the style of Shlomo Carlebach , has been called "more Carlebach than Carlebach"?
Did you know that of the 26 named tributaries of Catawissa Creek, 11 are considered by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission to be Class A Wild Trout Waters?
Did you know that Arthur Drewry chose the England football team that lost 1–0 to the United States in a shock defeat?
Did you know that the first Wikipedia Monument in the world will be unveiled in Słubice , Poland, in late October 2014?
Did you know that when the gynecologist Thomas Ashby died in 1916, he was the only University of Maryland faculty member to have served in the Maryland State Legislature ?
Did you know that the parasitoid wasp Kollasmosoma sentum can deposit its egg within the abdomen of an ant in as little as 0.052 seconds?
Did you know that Florian Znaniecki was the founder of sociology in Poland ?
Did you know that The Fine Young Capitalists produced a series of videos about the achievements of female game developers at the request of 4chan members?
Did you know that even as Brian Kim was speaking on CNBC as a guest expert on the legality of dark pools , he was running an illegal Ponzi scheme ?
Did you know that at 1034 letters, Howard Bergerson 's poem "Edna Waterfall" was once recognized as the world's longest English palindrome ?
Did you know that Andrew Garfield has been described by the media as an LL Bean Boyfriend ?
Did you know that Paul Emile Diou , described as a "shy and timid" subaltern , fell while leading his troops as a brigade commander in the First World War?
Did you know that Illinois State Senator Lorenzo D. Whiting was the father of journalist Lilian Whiting ?
Did you know that the Japanese people who conserve Article 9 were among the favourites to win the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize , but lost to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai ?
Did you know that the tiered belltower of Tumauini Church resembles a wedding cake ?
Did you know that Bruce Mozert took underwater photographs in Silver Springs, Florida , as early as the 1940s?
Did you know that the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program has flown 96 student experiments into low Earth orbit since 2010?
Did you know that Harutyun Shahrikyan was tortured and killed during the Armenian Genocide ?
Did you know that the original Five Mile Point Lighthouse (1805) was a 30-foot (9 m) octagonal wooden tower, its fixed white light supplied by eight oil lamps with 13-inch (330 mm) parabolic reflectors ?
Did you know that the British fashion photographer John Cowan was known for his "high-octane image-making"?
Did you know that Du Xinwu 's opium habit led his teacher to dangle him by the hair from a bridge?
Did you know that poor education and an immature pension system are contributing to high levels of poverty in Cyprus ?
Did you know that after the construction business of 12-year-old Bill Walker 's family was ruined in the 1964 Alaska earthquake , he worked as a janitor?
Did you know that the Cemetery for North Korean and Chinese Soldiers in Paju , South Korea, contains the graves of North Korean agents killed on espionage missions in the South?
Did you know that the Armenian academic Levon Harutyunyan has authored over 400 research papers and some 400 essays?
Did you know that Hunkydory Creek has the lowest gradient of any tributary of Catawissa Creek, 5.2 meters per kilometer?
Did you know that the majority of the Mikea people live in and around the spiny Mikea Forest on the southwestern coast of Madagascar, between Morombe and Toliara ?
Did you know that the landscape painter Willis E. Davis was informed over the phone of his daughter's elopement?
Did you know that the closure-threatened Secombe Theatre was converted from a Christian Science church in 1984?
Did you know that in 1996 Jamie Nabozny sued school officials for failing to protect him from years of homophobic bullying ?
Did you know that Scottish religion in the seventeenth century included intense conflicts between Presbyterian Covenanters and government forces?
Did you know that Shloime Gertner has been called "the Hasidic Robbie Williams "?
Did you know that the Republic of Cuba 's silver certificates were designed and produced by the US Treasury 's Bureau of Engraving and Printing ?
Did you know that the 1967 sex-education film Helga – Vom Werden des menschlichen Lebens contained West Germany's first publicly shown scenes of childbirth?
Did you know that Chinese politician Zhang Xi was posthumously denounced as a traitor and his ashes were discarded?
Did you know that Mother 3 was in development for over a decade and then translated from Japanese into English by its fans ?
Did you know that a supercargo on an East Indiaman could take a sloop from Whampoa anchorage to Jack-ass Point at the Thirteen Factories ?
Did you know that Kiswe Mobile 's app for the WNBA 's Washington Mystics was the first where a U.S. professional sports team streamed live games to its local viewing area via a mobile application?
Did you know that there are two colour forms of the sharp-snouted rock lizard and both provide camouflage on the limestone cliffs on which they live?
Did you know that Uzo Aduba won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress as Orange Is the New Black 's " Crazy Eyes ", while Taylor Schilling was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress as Piper Chapman ?
Did you know that University of Santo Tomas Baybayin Documents are part of the biggest collection of extant baybayin scripts?
Did you know that although he was the leading Democratic candidate for most of the 1885 U.S. Senate election in Illinois , William Ralls Morrison only received one vote on the legislature's final ballot?
Did you know that the fairy lorikeet forages high in the forest canopy and is assumed to feed on pollen and nectar?
Did you know that a pharmacist, a newspaper publisher, an alcoholism counsellor, and the state Transportation Secretary were among those indicted in the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority kickback scandal ?
Did you know that although Cross Run is only 1.1 miles (1.8 km) long, it contains two reservoirs?
Did you know that despite a legislator's warning to refrain from mixing art with politics, Hong Kong 's upcoming M+ museum of visual culture has acquired 26 works by artist-activist Ai Weiwei ?
Did you know that anonymous music producer Sophie chose his name because he thought "it tastes good and it's like moisturizer"?
Did you know that Twitterature has been called a literary genre, but is more accurately an adaptation of various genres to social media ?
Did you know that the 1982 dungeon crawler Telengard began as a hobbyist game for the PDP-10 mainframe computer and later joined what Gamasutra called "The Silver Age" of computer role-playing games ?
Did you know that Todd Lake in the Deschutes National Forest of Oregon is well known for its summer wildflowers display?
Did you know that the 1989 film Masque of the Red Death , produced by Roger Corman , is a remake of the 1964 picture of the same name which was directed by him?
Did you know that Francis Henry Medcalf was Mayor of Toronto for five years – spread over a twelve-year period?
Did you know that umpires in German hobby horse polo force punitive sherries on non-galloping players?
Did you know that GamersGate was the result of Paradox Interactive 's decision to allow an Argentine fan to download a game?
Did you know that Lady Meng Jiang is one of the Four Great Folktales of China?
Did you know that the reed vole stores grain and pieces of grass in its burrow for winter use?
Did you know that public service trade union General Secretary Barry Reamsbottom refused to stand down after the election of his successor Mark Serwotka , until a high court judge forced him out?
Did you know that the Hofileña Ancestral House was the first ancestral house in Silay City to open its doors to the public?
Did you know that prior to becoming the film commissioner of Belize , Nigel Miguel spent seven years as the body double for Michael Jordan ?
Did you know that Hoylande Young was the first woman division head at the Argonne National Laboratory ?
Did you know that the speed of the red whip snake enables it to feed largely on lizards?
Did you know that Reginald's Tower in Ireland has served as a fortified tower, a mint , a prison, a military storehouse, an air raid shelter, and a museum?
Did you know that at the request of an encomendero to the rector of the Society of Jesus in Manila , the Jesuits were assigned to Silang Church in 1599?
Did you know that London's Endell Street was the site of a World War I military hospital staffed entirely by women?
Did you know that Anastasios Tsonis 's research has concluded that, as a result of natural processes, the Earth might have entered a new "climate state" in 2001 or 2002?
Did you know that Wan Laisheng 's teachings on martial arts pre-dated Bruce Lee 's by about 50 years?
Did you know that the first stone church of Cavinti in the Philippines, built in 1621, was severely damaged in a Chinese uprising?
Did you know that Winton Square in Stoke-on-Trent has been described as the best example of neo-Jacobean architecture in Staffordshire?
Did you know that the discovery of the fossil of Shenshou , a squirrel-like early mammal from the Tiaojishan Formation , pushed the origin of mammals back to the Late Triassic , 220 million to 200 million years ago?
Did you know that the Egyptian folklorist and writer Ahmed Taymour was educated by his feminist sister?
Did you know that in 1855 three passengers, believing they had arrived at their destination, fell to their deaths when they stepped from a train that had halted on Dinting Viaduct ?
Did you know that the Karnataka politician and former minister B.T. Lalitha Naik wrote dialogue for, and acted in, the Banjara film Zadero Pankheru ?
Did you know that the 966-foot (294 m) Callicoon Bridge connecting New York and Pennsylvania is the longest on the Upper Delaware River ?
Did you know that the Jungdeutsche Partei members of the German minority living in prewar Poland sent the call to the world: "We want to be Germans, and nothing but Germans"?
Did you know that 1 is a documentary film about Formula One 's progress from multiple fatalities per season in its early years to the 1994 death of Ayrton Senna , its most recent?
Did you know that Jovan Albanez was the first commander of the Serbian Hussar Regiment of the Imperial Russian Army ?
Did you know that in the 1990s, Little Crooked Run was considered to be Class A Wild Trout Waters, despite being infertile and acidic?
Did you know that Sidney L. Jones held the same senior position in the U.S. Department of the Treasury under Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush ?
Did you know that refunds for the two-day charity event PLDT HOME: The Last Home Stand were offered after the scheduled exhibition game between NBA players and Gilas Pilipinas was cancelled?
Did you know that the Prosphorion Harbour in Constantinople could have derived its name from the goddess Hecate ?
Did you know that Nelson Mandela chaired peace talks between Zaire's President Mobutu Sese Seko and rebel leader Laurent Kabila on board the SAS Outeniqua in May 1997?
Did you know that the BBC Young Musician of the Year was the inspiration for the inaugural Eurovision Young Musicians contest in 1982?
Did you know that Eloy Mestrelle , the man who introduced machine-struck coinage to England, was executed for coin counterfeiting?
Did you know that Franz Wolf was sentenced in the Sobibór trial to eight years in prison for taking part in the murder of "at least 39,000 Jews", an arbitrary number?
Did you know that the 1971 Salem, Illinois derailment was Amtrak 's first fatal accident?
Did you know that Electric Light Orchestra , Nina Simone , James Brown and John Barry all influenced Labrinth 's " Let It Be "?
Did you know that the Canadian para-athlete Robbi Weldon competed in both the Summer and Winter Paralympics?
Did you know that three of the eleven five-wicket hauls in the Asia Cup tournament were taken by Sri Lanka's Lasith Malinga , the most by any player?
Did you know that Miss Corner 's Historical Library raised many questions?
Did you know that Brian Brushwood walked away from his job designing computer systems to perform magic full-time?
Did you know that the Pyrenean frog breeds in mountain streams after the snow has melted?
Did you know that William W. Naismith founded the Scottish Mountaineering Club and invented a rule for estimating how long it will take to walk a given route?
Did you know that Gustav Mahler said that the Vertegrand – the same type of piano as used by The Beatles on " Lady Madonna " – could "satisfy a musician's requirements in every respect"?
Did you know that after College Football Hall of Fame inductee Buck Flowers returned two punts for touchdowns , a writer suggested that the opposition Auburn Tigers made a dying request: "Please omit Flowers"?
Did you know that the National Council of Women of Australia made Margaret Windeyer an honorary life president in 1918, though she had never been a member of the council's executive board?
Did you know that Sanath Jayasuriya 's six centuries at the Asia Cup are the most by any player in the tournament's history?
Did you know that Lia Olguța Vasilescu is the first female mayor of a county capital in Romanian history?
Did you know that the Zaisan mole vole uses its incisors and upward movements of its head to burrow through the soil?
Did you know that the Chinese immunologist Shu Hongbing went to school barefoot because he could not afford shoes?
Did you know that in the 2014 National League Wild Card Game , Brandon Crawford hit the first Major League Baseball postseason grand slam by a shortstop ?
Did you know that The Who 's album Tommy has sold in the order of 20 million copies since its release in 1969?
Did you know that Father Mapple in Herman Melville 's Moby-Dick preaches from a pulpit in the form of a ship's prow?
Did you know that for the first two decades of Knesset elections, Israeli Arabs were represented mainly by Arab satellite lists and communist parties?
Did you know that the American racehorse Bayern was named after soccer team Bayern Munich , and nicknamed "Little Dude" after fellow racehorse Game On Dude ?
Did you know that the results of a Royal Commission into the Torbanlea Colliery Disaster were shelved until a similar accident in which 75 workers were killed two decades later?
Did you know that the bio-hacker Heather Dewey-Hagborg collects discarded hair, gum, and cigarette butts, sequences the DNA, and turns it into a 3-D sculpture?
Did you know that the Pacific International was Amtrak 's first international passenger train ?
Did you know that the blind Canadian swimmer Brian Hill prepared for the 2008 Paralympics by swimming 120 km (75 mi) in two weeks?
Did you know that the slender head of the narrow-headed vole may have evolved to allow it to move more easily through crevices in frozen ground?
Did you know that the historian Jalmari Jaakkola , who was criticized for overtly nationalist assertions and extensive speculation, chose the words "The seer of early Finnish history" for his memorial medal?
Did you know that the South African cricketer Jacques Kallis was the first player to take a five-wicket haul in the ICC Champions Trophy ?
Did you know that at least six people turned down the job of Director of Research at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory before Alvin M. Weinberg accepted it in March 1948?
Did you know that the fatal crash of Aero Flight 217 occurred in poor visibility at Mariehamn Airport , Finland, where local land disputes had prevented the installation of an instrument landing system ?
Did you know that Amethi in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has been represented in the parliament by four members of the Nehru–Gandhi family since 1980?
Did you know that M. Stanley Livingston and Hans Bethe were the first to demonstrate that the neutron has a magnetic moment ?
Did you know that Chest Creek is the first major canoeable tributary of the West Branch Susquehanna River ?
Did you know that the second album of the Argentine band Kamikaze had low sales because of the 1989 Argentine hyperinflation ?
Did you know that Marcus Morris , the founder of the Eagle comic, was vicar of St James' Church, Birkdale in the 1940s?
Did you know that Nadav Ben Yehuda , an Israeli mountain climber, abandoned his attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest to rescue a fellow climber?
Did you know that one of the founders of Lemurs' Park near Antananarivo is the grandson of Pierre Boiteau , the Founding Director of the Tsimbazaza Zoo ?
Did you know that Johann Konrad Kern was a major author of Switzerland's first federal constitution in 1848?
Did you know that Mthatha Airport was turned into a military zone and no-fly zone to accommodate the body of Nelson Mandela and heads of state attending his funeral in the nearby village of Qunu ?
Did you know that the pro-Beijing Alliance for Peace and Democracy was established to counter the Occupy Central with Love and Peace movement?
Did you know that the commemorative stela of Nahr el-Kalb include inscriptions dedicated to Ramesses II in hieroglyphics , Esarhaddon in cuneiform , Caracalla in Latin, Barquq in Arabic and Napoleon III in French?
Did you know that due to local sensitivities, the North Stafford Hotel was the location for the inaugural meeting of the County Borough of Stoke-on-Trent council?
Did you know that wood from common alders is valued in turnery and carving, in making furniture, window frames, clogs, toys, blocks, pencils and bowls?
Did you know that the Mason County Sculpture Trail is a garden of public art with exhibition pieces located only outdoors?
Did you know that Enrique Zileri was praised by Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa as an "indefatigable defender of freedom and democracy" who could not be bribed or intimidated?
Did you know that the antagonists of the indie horror video game Five Nights at Freddy's drew comparisons to Chuck E. Cheese's and Weeping Angels ?
Did you know that the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad 's Merchants Limited was the last all- parlor car passenger train in the United States?
Did you know that David A. Randall obtained the typescripts of Ian Fleming 's James Bond novels for the Lilly Library ?
Did you know that when the Transcendentalist poet and banker Samuel Gray Ward became a merchant rather than a painter, it deeply disappointed his friends Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson ?
Did you know that despite the upper reaches of the Crooked Run being acidic due to acid rain , the creek is still considered Class A Wild Trout Waters?
Did you know that the Kray twins allegedly extorted Esmeralda's Barn from Peter Rachman ?
Did you know that the founder and executive director of KMG Ethiopia is credited with almost single-handedly eradicating the practice of female genital mutilation in Ethiopia?
Did you know that thirteen years after directing the first episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit , Jean de Segonzac returned to direct the 300th ?
Did you know that the Redmond–Bend Juniper State Scenic Corridor serves as a buffer of natural high desert habitat along U.S. Route 97 between the cities of Bend and Redmond in central Oregon ?
Did you know that J. Carson Mark wrote a paper dispelling the myth that reactor-grade plutonium could not be used for nuclear weapons?
Did you know that India and Sri Lanka were declared the joint winners of 2002 ICC Champions Trophy after the final was washed out twice?
Did you know that Philip Somerville designed hats for Queen Elizabeth , Diana, Princess of Wales , and two James Bond villainesses?
Did you know that the original type specimens of the Electrostephanus fossils may have been burned up during World War II?
Did you know that the entire length of Sugarloaf Creek is within 300 metres (980 ft) of a road?
Did you know that the diarist Teresa Wilms Montt attempted suicide before escaping from a convent ?