kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that Cliona orientalis is a bioeroding sponge that tunnels into such corals as Goniopora tenuidens , Dipsastraea pallida , and Astreopora listeri ?
Did you know that Liamani Segura , who sang the US national anthem before 1,300 high school basketball fans at age six, taught herself by watching music videos on YouTube ?
Did you know that Tania Tetlow is the first female president of Loyola University New Orleans ?
Did you know that Greenwich pensioners played one-armed versus one-legged cricket ?
Did you know that the Dutch playwright Lucretia Wilhelmina van Merken wrote very popular classicist tragedies, and sent an ode in French to George Washington , for which he thanked her?
Did you know that under the Byzantine Empire, the Arab Christian tribe of Bahra' were tasked with guarding the Syrian holy city of Rusafa ?
Did you know that Puisand Lai represented the Canada women's national wheelchair basketball team in 2018, and was also rated the world's seventh overall in girls' wheelchair tennis in 2017?
Did you know that David Benedictus dedicated his 1963 satirical novel You're a Big Boy Now to "the only girl I've ever loved—wherever they may be"?
Did you know that the northern striped dogwinkle lays around 550 eggs in a capsule, most of which are eaten by the 10 to 20 juveniles that eventually hatch?
Did you know that former First Lady of Slovenia Barbara Miklič Türk met her husband and former Slovenian president Danilo Türk while working as a librarian at the United Nations ?
Did you know that the first official baseball game in Germany took place under the Nazi regime at the 1936 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that the novella Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts was translated as Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing several times, the first in 1866 by Charles Godfrey Leland ?
Did you know that footballer Bob Jones was signed by Everton as a goalkeeper, despite originally playing as a left half , after the original goalkeeper failed to arrive at a trial?
Did you know that the attacks on civilian villages by Soviet partisans in Finland were a forbidden topic in Finland until the 1990s?
Did you know that Welsh footballer Stan Griffiths was given a medical discharge during World War II due to injuries suffered during his playing career?
Did you know that Barbara P. McCarthy disagreed with philologist Rudolf Helm about whether or not Lucian originated a particular form of satiric dialog?
Did you know that Edward John Granet proposed a successful World War I air raid on a German hydrogen factory and Zeppelin depot using planes shipped in crates from England to Southern France?
Did you know that the First World War memorial at Woodvale Park in Belfast is cut to resemble a stone from Giant's Causeway ?
Did you know that after first-class cricketer Noel Phillips rejoined his regiment during the First World War, he received the Military Cross for gallantry on the battlefield?
Did you know that the BBC first televised the National Service of Remembrance from The Cenotaph in 1937?
Did you know that when the O'Byrne -class submarines were seized by France before their sale to Romania, the Romanian Navy had to wait 15 more years to get its first submarine?
Did you know that Leslie Joy Whitehead , a Canadian woman, enlisted in the Serbian Army as a man so that she might get closer to the front lines in World War I ?
Did you know that during the First World War, the British Ministry of Munitions proposed trading rubber for German binoculars ?
Did you know that the lake at the bottom of Kauhakō Crater has a greater depth-to-surface-area ratio than any other lake in the world?
Did you know that the Mexican Army leaked a picture of Misael Torres Urrea that ended up popularizing several drug ballads ?
Did you know that despite the coral Stylophora pistillata being a common species with a wide distribution, and Stylophora madagascarensis being common around the coast of Madagascar, the IUCN has assessed one as " near threatened " and the other as " endangered "?
Did you know that Anne Ratna Mustika , her husband , and her uncle all served as regents of Purwakarta, Indonesia ?
Did you know that despite clear orders to fire only if fired upon, the German torpedo boat Albatros crippled the Norwegian ship Pol III after being rammed, thus firing the first shot of the Norwegian Campaign ?
Did you know that Gary Wiren is estimated to have taught golf to more than a quarter of a million people in 32 countries?
Did you know that in 1976, the Gilling sword was found in a river by a nine-year old boy, and was subsequently awarded its own Blue Peter badge ?
Did you know that Ann Thomas Callahan was one of the first indigenous graduates of the Winnipeg General Hospital 's nursing school?
Did you know that in the fairy-tale opera Der Schuhu und die fliegende Prinzessin by Udo Zimmermann , two orchestras play on stage, representing two empires in conflict?
Did you know that Brigadier Leonard Cuthbert Lucas was decorated for his part in the construction of facilities for the British Operation Totem nuclear tests at Emu Field, South Australia ?
Did you know that despite opposition from within his resistance group , Andrej Steiner orchestrated the arrest of Jewish collaborator Karol Hochberg ?
Did you know that Changchun Dafangshen Airport was controlled by four different armed forces between August 1945 and May 1946?
Did you know that as an adult, Marcy Tigner sold more than two million albums featuring her natural child-like voice?
Did you know that during storms on 1–2 July 1968 , hailstones the size of tennis balls fell in Cardiff and blood-red rain covered Southern England?
Did you know that Donald Trump "accidentally" contributed to a children's book ?
Did you know that Frisian poet Cynthia Lenige died in 1780 at age 24, her work being published two years after her death?
Did you know that Seattle's replica of the Statue of Liberty stands at around five percent of the original's height?
Did you know that in the UEFA matches played by Athletic Bilbao in European football , the club used only one player who was a full international for a country other than Spain ?
Did you know that activist Andy Stapp joined the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War to build an anti-war movement within the military?
Did you know that one of the earliest accounts of the use of cocaine for spinal anaesthesia was given by William Keiller , anatomy professor at Galveston, Texas?
Did you know that the Lonely Tree was named Welsh Tree of the Year in 2014 despite having been blown over during a storm?
Did you know that drag racer Roberta Leighton was the first woman licensed by the National Hot Rod Association to race in a Gas class?
Did you know that the Sanskrit grammarian Pāṇini provided a phonetic theory of voicing around 350 BCE?
Did you know that Wen Fong co-founded the first Ph.D. program in Chinese art and archaeology in the United States, at Princeton University ?
Did you know that the crab Zebrida adamsii lives among the spines of a sea urchin ?
Did you know that Roman Twardy conducted the Wiesbadener Knabenchor in the first recording of a rediscovered Passion oratorio by Johann Mattheson ?
Did you know that 65 percent of internees at the Topaz War Relocation Center were American-born citizens of Japanese descent ?
Did you know that Indian Medical Service officer Arthur Francis Hamilton was affectionately nicknamed "Alu", the Hindi word for potato?
Did you know that the French video game developer Quantic Dream would consider moving to Canada if its tax breaks were taken away?
Did you know that in 1997, the annual Children's Book Award for children's fiction was renamed in honor of Josette Frank ?
Did you know that the assassination of John F. Kennedy overshadowed the launch of the first season of Doctor Who ?
Did you know that Maurice Rossel 's report on Theresienstadt concentration camp has been described as emblematic of the failure of the Red Cross during the Holocaust ?
Did you know that subscription-based airline Wheels Up provides a "Same Day Game Day" airline service to college football games?
Did you know that the 1227 Gothic church of the Cistercian Marienstatt Abbey escaped demolition because it became a parish church in 1831?
Did you know that the custom cars built by Dick Megugorac were described as having "bomb-proof reliability" and "could be driven anywhere, anytime"?
Did you know that despite being only 8 miles (13 km) long, Washington State Route 546 is considered a major freight highway due to its connections to Interstate 5 and the Canadian border ?
Did you know that the name of the theropod dinosaur Cristatusaurus means "crested reptile", in reference to a thin sagittal crest located on top of its snout?
Did you know that Greg Fitzgerald , the CEO of Bovis Homes , started his career in construction as a tea boy?
Did you know that a ruling by the European Court of Justice allowing employers to ban staff from wearing the hijab has been described as a normalization of hijabophobia ?
Did you know that despite playing as a defender , Ildefons Lima is the leading goalscorer in the history of the Andorra national football team ?
Did you know that the complete Psalm 131 and the first verse of Psalm 133 in Hebrew comprise the text of the last movement of Chichester Psalms by Leonard Bernstein ?
Did you know that Chicago alderman Dorsey Crowe survived falling 800 feet (240 m) from a plane and being thrown through the roof of a car?
Did you know that Jobst Oetzmann directed the film The Loneliness of the Crocodiles , presented at international film festivals, and the award-winning 484th episode of the police crime drama Tatort ?
Did you know that Nanchang Qingyunpu Airport , once China's largest airport, was destroyed during the Second Sino-Japanese War ?
Did you know that in 1931, William Robins carried a colour of Barrell's Regiment in a ceremony to unite it with that of Clan Stewart of Appin , their adversaries at the 1746 Battle of Culloden ?
Did you know that Rock and Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Lou Reed considered the guitar-playing on Neil Young 's " Danger Bird " to be the best he had ever heard?
Did you know that because the court described him as a "simpleton", Stefan Baretzki 's admission that he knew the Holocaust was a crime was used to convict other defendants at the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials ?
Did you know that Mexican drug lord Martín Arzola Ortega complained about the increase in price of potato chips in prison?
Did you know that in 1958, Preben von Magnus was the first to describe monkeypox in monkeys?
Did you know that the Wisconsin School is a school of thought that uses economic interpretations to explain much of American diplomatic history ?
Did you know that footballer Óscar Sonejee scored the goal that won the Andorra national football team their first-ever point in an international fixture?
Did you know that most Germans who committed war crimes in Italy during World War II never faced justice ?
Did you know that on her hundredth birthday, British soprano Carrie Tubb was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Music ?
Did you know that the Brooklyn Naval Hospital treated almost a quarter of Union casualties during the American Civil War ?
Did you know that women brewsters were the primary producers of beer before commercialization of the industry?
Did you know that after the withdrawal of German forces, left-wing partisans defeated and summarily executed some 400 to 2,500 Nazi collaborators in Meligalas , Greece?
Did you know that Oded Muhammad Danial , as the deputy mayor of Bandung , Indonesia, established a program for dakwah in city buses?
Did you know that small female Patagonian octopuses often choose an empty mollusc shell to lay their eggs in?
Did you know that Akshay Nanavati is a US Marine Corps veteran who overcame drug abuse and alcoholism to publish a book endorsed by the Dalai Lama ?
Did you know that the inter-governmental Working Definition of Antisemitism has generated controversy over its inclusion of examples of criticism of Israel ?
Did you know that John Lennon and Yoko Ono were heckled for not riding in a hot air balloon ?
Did you know that Praeludium , a 1992 composition by Graham Waterhouse , has been described as a "dramatic concert piece"?
Did you know that Mary Paton Ramsay argued for the influence of medieval mysticism on the poetry of John Donne ?
Did you know that decorative patterns using isosceles triangles date back to the Early Neolithic ?
Did you know that the Indonesian actor Adipati Dolken adopted his stage name from the owner of the villa where he stayed on vacation in Puncak ?
Did you know that a reviewer came to like John Rutter 's anthem O clap your hands better, many years after he first found the jollity of its beginning "a bit relentless"?
Did you know that Carl J. Seiberlich was the first naval aviator qualified to land airships, airplanes, and helicopters on an aircraft carrier?
Did you know that a sociophonetic study found that young boys lower the pitch of their voice even before puberty to seem more masculine?
Did you know that by pushing a glass tube into his ear, pioneering biotremologist Frej Ossiannilsson discovered that the leafhopper inside the tube produced faint vibrations ?
Did you know that the citizens of Târgoviște , Romania, put a jinx on boyar Emanoil Băleanu , which was seen as being fulfilled when his wife died in childbirth?
Did you know that The Hexer , the first attempt to portray The Witcher universe in film, was "crushed by the reviewers and laughed out by fans", and has since been described as "the film we all want to forget"?
Did you know that the sponge Oscarella lobularis can multiply by forming drips and bubbles?
Did you know that between 1933 and 1936, Max Troll betrayed hundreds of fellow communists to the Bavarian Political Police , a forerunner of the Gestapo ?
Did you know that the rock band XTC were a key influence on Britpop and later power pop acts?
Did you know that following the July Revolution in France, Heinrich Heine wrote a history of emancipation in Germany , beginning with Luther's Reformation ?
Did you know that Donald Liebenberg experienced 74 minutes of totality aboard a Concorde during the solar eclipse of June 30, 1973 ?
Did you know that the mantis shrimp Acanthosquilla derijardi has a junior synonym named after Princess Sirindhorn of Thailand in reference to a childen's book she wrote?
Did you know that elderly members of Knesseth Israel Congregation of Birmingham, Alabama , were featured in the 1990 music video for " Minyan Man "?
Did you know that pharmacologist Li Lianda won a national science award for his research on the traditional Chinese medical concept of blood stasis ?
Did you know that in 2010, the US Supreme Court heard an original jurisdiction case in which four states sued North Carolina for refusing to return the money they had invested in a failed waste facility?
Did you know that actress Yume Miyamoto voiced Lilo in the Japanese dub of Lilo & Stitch: The Series ?
Did you know that the epitaph Known unto God , which appears on more than 212,000 Commonwealth war graves , was selected by the poet Rudyard Kipling , whose own son was killed during the First World War ?
Did you know that when golfer Annie Park won her first career LPGA Tour tournament in 2018, she was ranked 236th in the world?
Did you know that Windmill Hill Cavern , which provided the first scientifically accepted proof that humans and now-extinct animal species coexisted in Britain, was found accidentally while searching for a lost pickaxe?
Did you know that despite being persecuted as a convert to Judaism in Nazi Germany, Ernst von Manstein was given a full military funeral with uniformed SS pallbearers?
Did you know that after its defeat in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 , Pakistan formulated a military doctrine designed to " Bleed India with a Thousand Cuts "?
Did you know that before Zhang Ting became a government minister, he was disabled by injuries suffered during a weapons test?
Did you know that the Amazon basin ranges of the bristly mice Neacomys minutus and Neacomys spinosus overlap?
Did you know that deposits of rock salt are mechanically weak, and may flow under stress ?
Did you know that hall of fame barrel racer Wanda Harper Bush rode her horse 3 miles (4.8 km) to catch the bus for school?
Did you know that Sakura-Variationen , a trio for saxophone, piano, and percussion by Helmut Lachenmann , was composed for a children's concert?
Did you know that the followers of Abu Sa'id al-Jannabi , the founder of the Qarmatian state in Bahrayn , believed that he would return after his death, and kept a saddled horse at the entrance of his tomb?
Did you know that the Poplar Hill mansion on Long Island was reportedly used to spy on the neighboring Killenworth mansion, which housed the Soviet delegation to the United Nations ?
Did you know that Pat Marsh was described as "the first lady of British ice hockey "?
Did you know that the Slovak Jewish Center , set up by the Nazis, was taken over by a resistance group ?
Did you know that in 1909 Mamie Garvin Fields became one of the first African-American public school teachers in Charleston County, South Carolina ?
Did you know that the ending of Avengers: Infinity War inspired the largest user ban in Reddit 's history?
Did you know that Dorothée Munyaneza , who moved to London as a girl because of the Rwandan genocide , has choreographed two works about her experiences?
Did you know that the worms Dipolydora commensalis and Neanthes fucata have a commensal relationship with their hermit crab hosts and are not attacked by them?
Did you know that Mary Jane Odell was inducted into the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame in 1979, the year before her appointment as Secretary of State of Iowa ?
Did you know that prior to a Red Cross inspection of Theresienstadt ghetto , a "beautification" program there included the transfer of 7,500 prisoners to Auschwitz ?
Did you know that after initially committing to Stanford , David Long agreed to play for Michigan Wolverines football after Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh climbed a tree on a recruiting visit?
Did you know that the cantata Kündlich groß ist das gottselige Geheimnis was written by Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel for the Third Day of Christmas at the court of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen ?
Did you know that a woman once threw a dead cat at James Comyn while he was cross-examining her in court?
Did you know that the saliva of the common clubhook squid contains a toxin which helps subdue its prey?
Did you know that baseball player Kyle Regnault signed with the New York Mets after meeting one of their coaches on a golf course?
Did you know that an angry artist walked into the SoHo Weekly News offices and chopped off two of his fingers as a "protest"?
Did you know that Z was ordered as France's first diesel-powered submarine, but lost this distinction because Aigrette was launched before her?
Did you know that " Sozusagen grundlos vergnügt " ("Call it causelessly merry") was one of about 40 poems by Mascha Kaléko set to music on a 2011 album?
Did you know that Clare Faulds , the first woman admitted to the Manx bar , later served as the Vicar General of Sodor and Man ?
Did you know that Lord Byron was called a "melancholy rat" for writing the Hebrew Melodies ?
Did you know that the John Steele House has an unusual floor plan, but does not show it?
Did you know that Lisa Buckwitz and Mariama Jamanka , who were nicknamed the "Berlin Bob", won the two-woman bobsleigh event at the 2018 Winter Olympics ?
Did you know that " Cozy Little Christmas " is Katy Perry 's second Christmas song after " Every Day Is a Holiday "?
Did you know that Hanifan Yudani Kusumah 's hug of Joko Widodo and Prabowo Subianto during the 2018 Asian Games was seen as a gesture of national unity?
Did you know that the Penney-Missouri Awards for women's page journalism were described as the " Pulitzer Prize of feature writing"?
Did you know that the ground plum was used as medicine for horses by the Lakota people ?
Did you know that the " Shepherd's Pipe Carol " was reportedly sung by choirs in the Baltic states as a sign of resistance to Soviet control?
Did you know that historian and educator Tomas Fonacier had the longest public service record in the Philippines , spanning more than six decades?
Did you know that the choir sings Jauchzet, frohlocket! (Shout for joy, exult!), the beginning of Part I of Bach's Christmas Oratorio , first imitating kettledrums due to its secular model ?
Did you know that the footballer Owen McNally scored eight goals in a single match, which remains a joint record for the Scottish Football League ?
Did you know that the submarine HMS P48 is thought to have been sunk by an Italian torpedo boat on Christmas Day 1942?
Did you know that the cucumber orchid and straggly pencil orchid can hybridize when they grow together?
Did you know that a bracelet lost by Josephine Heffernan during the First World War was found in 2002, and returned to her family in 2017?
Did you know that the Christmas carol " Green Groweth the Holly " was composed and written by King Henry VIII ?
Did you know that while serving in the British Army in 19th-century Afghanistan, Milo Talbot carried out a survey of the Buddhas of Bamiyan ?
Did you know that the German Christmas hymn " Fröhlich soll mein Herze springen " (Merrily my heart shall leap) by Paul Gerhardt was published by Johann Crüger , who also wrote the melody?
Did you know that baseball pitcher Henry Mathewson and his brothers, among them Hall of Famer Christy Mathewson , were said to have been taught to throw by their mother?
Did you know that the larva of Mantispa styriaca spins a cocoon inside a spider's egg sac ?
Did you know that Rosalie Housman composed Pieces of Jade for violin, viola, flute, gong, harp, and soprano?
Did you know that the study of intergroup relations has led to the development of psychological interventions to reduce group conflict and prejudice ?
Did you know that Venezuelan director Román Chalbaud became interested in camera angles after playing an angel in a Nativity play and seeing the stage and the audience from on high?
Did you know that Ant-Man and the Wasp was the first Marvel Cinematic Universe film to feature a female character in its title?
Did you know that in the 1860s, Charles Hunter added a needle to the design of the syringe and coined the name " hypodermic "?
Did you know that with more than 120 kilometres (75 mi) of passages, Bullita Cave is one of the longest known caves in Australia?
Did you know that Stephen L. Dubuisson served in the French Army before becoming the President of Georgetown College in 1825?
Did you know that the editors of the Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos found that the Nazis and their allies had imprisoned and murdered people at 42,500 locations, far more than previously thought?
Did you know that Clémentine Touré coached the Ivory Coast women's national football team in their first matches outside Africa at the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup ?
Did you know that the leopard eel is neither a leopard nor an eel ?
Did you know that the St. Bonifatius church in Kassel , completed in 1957 on a design by Josef Bieling , has been regarded as one of the city's most striking buildings from the postwar period ?
Did you know that Russian scientist Natan Yavlinsky was credited as the inventor and developer of the world's first working tokamak ?
Did you know that "Lift up your heads, O ye gates" from David 's Psalm 24 has been paraphrased in Advent songs such as " Macht hoch die Tür ", and was set in Handel's Messiah to represent the Ascension ?
Did you know that Broadway producer Jerry Frankel sometimes named racehorses after his shows, their songs and actors?
Did you know that the male spotted predatory katydid uses acoustic mimicry to attract male cicadas on which to feed?
Did you know that Heather Spears practiced drawing premature and critically-ill infants at night in a neonatal intensive care unit ?
Did you know that around 1920, a Yorkshire miner grafted three beech trees together to form a letter "N" to impress his girlfriend Nellie?
Did you know that Ottoman parliament member Shukri al-Asali galvanized Syrian-Arab opposition to the empire’s Turkish-centric policies and was in 1916 executed by the government?