kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that the 51st Defense Battalion , formed during World War II, was the first African-American unit in the United States Marine Corps ?
Did you know that Kaʻelepulu Pond , formerly a 200-to-400-acre (81 to 162 ha) Hawaiian fish pond , is now about 95 acres (38 ha) and polluted after having been partially filled in for a housing development?
Did you know that Brazil has extended its FM broadcasting band to allow more AM radio stations to migrate to FM?
Did you know that between 1979 and 1994 the Gilbert Islands in Kiribati were a full day ahead of the country's eastern Phoenix and Line Islands ?
Did you know that despite not identifying as Jewish, Michael George Levy was denied a Military Cross due to his commanding officer's antisemitic views?
Did you know that Japanese manga artist Riyoko Ikeda was awarded the Legion of Honour by the French government for her manga series The Rose of Versailles ?
Did you know that Clark Gable and Carole Lombard were married at Saint John's Methodist Episcopal Church after eloping in 1939?
Did you know that in his debut first-class cricket season, Jack Carson took the most wickets of any Sussex player in the 2020 Bob Willis Trophy ?
Did you know that radio station WDOV missed its own sign-on date because a boiler failure cut power to the entire city of Dover, Delaware ?
Did you know that John Coster-Mullen discovered that the Little Boy was actually a girl?
Did you know that French West African poet David Diop was among 63 people killed when Air France Flight 343 crashed in 1960?
Did you know that the post office for Wises Landing, Kentucky , was established in June 1878 but did not receive a postmaster until January 1879?
Did you know that Robert Ward was the longest-serving caucus leader in the history of the Connecticut General Assembly ?
Did you know that Brentford were promoted via the English Football League play-offs for the first time in ten attempts when they won the 2021 EFL Championship play-off Final ?
Did you know that in April 2021, the body of the founder of the new religious movement Love Has Won was found mummified and wrapped in Christmas lights?
Did you know that Thomas Flatley compared closing WNHT television in Concord, New Hampshire , to putting down his dog?
Did you know that it is compulsory for educational providers of international students to register with CRICOS in Australia?
Did you know that Brown Lake is of cultural and spiritual significance to the Quandamooka people?
Did you know that after the 2020 Summer Olympics were postponed, South African artistic gymnast Caitlin Rooskrantz livestreamed the routine she was going to perform?
Did you know that the houses at 5 , 7 , 11 , 13 and 15 West 54th Street form the only remaining "real strip of mansions" in Midtown Manhattan ?
Did you know that WMEB-FM had to move its transmitter because its signal was interfering with equipment in physics laboratories at the University of Maine ?
Did you know that Presbyterian football head coach Kevin Kelley won nine state championships as a high school coach by rarely punting and almost always attempting fourth down conversions ?
Did you know that Macclesfield F.C. was founded as a phoenix club after their stadium was purchased from a property website?
Did you know that Barrackpore Trunk Road , the oldest metalled road in India, was built in 1775 to connect the first British cantonment in India with Calcutta , then the country's capital?
Did you know that after police beat, choked, pepper-sprayed , and dragged Ronald Greene face down while shackled, saying "that shit hurts, doesn't it?", a trooper was initially reprimanded for violating courtesy rules?
Did you know that Kai Cheng Thom wrote Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars not as a memoir to educate cisgender people about transgender issues, but as the book she had wanted to read as a teenager?
Did you know that a recent Jersey court case found that the usage of an ancient Norman Clameur de Haro , which includes a recitation of the Lord's Prayer in French to legally apply an injunction, was used incorrectly?
Did you know that Massachusetts radio station WAAF pulled off an "unprecedented radio concert promotion coup" by organizing a concert by the Rolling Stones for 300 locals?
Did you know that the rock band Blur were the wedding band for the reception of journalists Jane Suiter and Leo Finlay in Dublin in 1990?
Did you know that the 2019 establishment of No. 13 Air Experience Flight RAF marked the return of cadet powered-flight experiences to Northern Ireland after more than 22 years?
Did you know that Raimund Hoghe , who was awarded the German Dance Prize in 2020, made a self-portrait documentary film Der Buckel ( The Hunchback )?
Did you know that the 66-room C. Ledyard Blair House on New York City's Fifth Avenue was sold and demolished barely a decade after its completion?
Did you know that South Korean boy band Shinee 's song " View " (2015) is regarded as K-pop 's first foray into deep house ?
Did you know that saxophonist Jerry Jumonville was usually part of any band featured in the 1970s television series Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley ?
Did you know that the consumption of poppy seeds, known as the " poppy seed defence ", is a recognised medical defence for failing a drug test?
Did you know that the spiny bamboo is one of the main sources of bamboo pulp for paper-making?
Did you know that the Line 3 oil spill was the largest inland oil spill in United States history?
Did you know that radio station WADK debuted its first talk show after a local businessman told the owner that "the great pastime of Rhode Island ... is talking politics"?
Did you know that the Wilder Brigade Monument , which honors the Lightning Brigade , was damaged by a lightning strike?
Did you know that the two elliptical roofs of Singapore's Expo MRT station reflect sunlight into the station while cooling it?
Did you know that Kate Nicholl is the first lord mayor of Belfast in recent times not to be born in the United Kingdom or Ireland?
Did you know that Peter Swan became only the third Englishman to be sent off at Wembley Stadium when he was dismissed in the 1993 Second Division play-off final ?
Did you know that as part of the type certification process, aircraft manufacturers routinely fire dead chickens at windshields with a chicken gun in order to simulate bird strikes ?
Did you know that " Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues ", a humorous account of a real-life event in which more than 20 people were injured on a boat trip, was one of Bob Dylan 's first popular songs?
Did you know that on June 8, 1826, rioters destroyed William Lyon Mackenzie 's printing press in the Types Riot ?
Did you know that Anisomeles malabarica plants are defended from unwanted foragers by carpenter bees ?
Did you know that geographer Hildegard Binder Johnson fled Third Reich Germany after the Nazi Party destroyed her scientific paper criticizing the development of European colonies in Africa?
Did you know that the Sherwood Studio Building was characterized in 1892 as New York City's "uptown headquarters of Art", with many of its tenants having studied art together?
Did you know that one airline has flown more than 5,600 preighter flights, carrying cargo in place of passengers?
Did you know that Sonny Bloch invested $500,000 in improvements to Connecticut radio station WCNX , only to be unable to complete the purchase after he was arrested on federal fraud charges?
Did you know that Kühkopf-Knoblochsaue is a large Naturschutzgebiet in Hesse , Germany, protecting the ecology of the floodplains where the Rhine formerly meandered ?
Did you know that the termite Macrotermes michaelseni is considered to be an ecosystem engineer in the Okavango Delta in Botswana?
Did you know that the only way for litigants in California to appeal most pre-trial rulings before a final judgment – and the only way to appeal some rulings at all – is by suing the court that issued the order for a writ of mandate ?
Did you know that Royal Ballet dancer Fumi Kaneko danced Princess Aurora in a cinema relay of The Sleeping Beauty , even though she was supposed to portray the Lilac Fairy?
Did you know that Ester Wajcblum and other Jewish prisoners of Auschwitz smuggled gunpowder out of a munitions plant and successfully destroyed a crematorium at Birkenau during the Sonderkommando revolt ?
Did you know that when the European Super League was proposed, UEFA threatened to ban any footballers who took part from playing international football?
Did you know that the 1928 Austin city plan recommended segregating the city's African American residents to East Austin?
Did you know that avant-garde artist Hu Zhiying 's master's degree was denied after his thesis was labeled as "not in line with Marxist principles"?
Did you know that Frank Lloyd Wright 's 1905 plan for a Wisconsin Badgers Crew boathouse was shelved but the design was used in 2007 for the West Side Rowing Club in Buffalo, New York ?
Did you know that the cast of Canadian teen drama Degrassi Junior High were named UNICEF goodwill ambassadors of Canada?
Did you know that Tishaura Jones , the new mayor of St. Louis , once started a GoFundMe fundraiser to take down a Confederate monument ?
Did you know that tourists on holiday trips arranged by the Finland travel agency Keihäsmatkat were encouraged to drink alcoholic beverages , partly to avoid culture shock ?
Did you know that Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi sought plant species from Indian forest conservationist S. G. Neginhal to be planted at the memorial of his mother, former prime minister Indira Gandhi ?
Did you know that Tom Jones 's 2021 album Surrounded by Time marked the first time in his career that he recorded music in his home country of Wales ?
Did you know that Walter Gladwin was the first black New York state assemblyman from the Bronx ?
Did you know that Ronald Graham , a star in the original Broadway casts of musicals by Rodgers and Hart , Cole Porter , and Arthur Schwartz , began his career in radio after winning a national singing contest in 1931?
Did you know that the Dolmen de Soto is one of about 1,650 neolithic burial sites in Andalusia , and assumed to have been built between 4,500 and 5,000 years ago?
Did you know that jelly rolls are sensitive to interest rates ?
Did you know that the proverb " speech is silver, silence is golden " has been attributed to "wise men of old", and traced to Arabic texts more than a millennium old?
Did you know that early in her career, Maria Calegari danced principal roles in every ballet performed one weekend by the New York City Ballet ?
Did you know that the Agreed Measures for the Conservation of Antarctic Fauna and Flora , passed in 1964, established the first international rules for wildlife conservation in Antarctica?
Did you know that the four-year history of radio station WUCI-FM included the revelation of the founder as a convicted felon and a station staffer threatening another with a revolver?
Did you know that despite being sick and ordered to return to the rear, Hughie Miller fought on the front lines in the Battle of Belleau Wood and single-handedly captured two German soldiers?
Did you know that Lord Byron lay in state for two days at a house in Great George Street , Westminster?
Did you know that due to COVID-19 lockdowns in India , the science-fiction short film 55 km/sec was directed remotely, and the lead actors Mrinal Dutt and Richa Chadda filmed themselves through their own devices?
Did you know that in translating the short story " Xianü " by Pu Songling , Herbert Giles omitted the protagonist's homosexual relationship with a fox spirit ?
Did you know that the sculptor and schoolteacher Arvīds Brastiņš led a group of Latvian pagans in the post-war United States?
Did you know that Hercules hosted a live-streamed talk show during the COVID-19 pandemic ?
Did you know that Western media treated Egyptian activist Gihan Ibrahim as a face of the Egyptian revolution of 2011 , but rarely mentioned her revolutionary-socialist political views?
Did you know the Tala tank is the largest overhead water reservoir in the world?
Did you know that William Henry Ellis spearheaded a plan to colonize Black Americans in Mexico in the late 19th century?
Did you know that " Wo Menschen sich vergessen " was the first song in the opening service of the 2021 Ecumenical Church Assembly in Frankfurt , held as an open-air livestream ?
Did you know that the presidential transition of John F. Kennedy saw Kennedy, the youngest individual elected president, prepare to assume power from Dwight D. Eisenhower , at the time the oldest individual to have served as president?
Did you know that ancient Egyptians carried boats in pieces across the Eastern Desert , reassembling them when they reached the Red Sea to embark on trading expeditions?
Did you know that the Supreme People's Procuratorate , China's highest agency for investigation and prosecution, was abolished for three years during the Cultural Revolution ?
Did you know that Robin Ransom , the first African-American woman to serve on the Supreme Court of Missouri , said that she was "really happy I didn't like law school"?
Did you know that the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum in Samoa was founded by two American Mormon missionaries?
Did you know that Sungai Selan hosted the first Catholic mission under the Dutch East Indies outside of Java?
Did you know that Charles Irving 's apparatus for the distillation of seawater was used during James Cook 's 1772–1775 voyage round the world ?
Did you know that developer William Earl Dodge Stokes commissioned a five-story mansion in New York City that he never resided in?
Did you know that the rugby league teams of the British Army , Royal Navy and Royal Air Force play in the Challenge Cup with Great Britain Police ?
Did you know that Kathleen Rubins has voted while in space —twice?
Did you know that Izkia Siches , who was re-elected as president of the Chilean Medical College in 2020, has ruled out running for President of Chile in 2021?
Did you know that the wooden houses at 312 and 314 East 53rd Street were completed just as fire codes in New York City prevented the construction of further wooden structures nearby?
Did you know that British sailor Eilidh McIntyre , who has qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics , is the daughter of a former Olympic gold medallist ?
Did you know that one of the founders of the Santa Cruz Operation later said that they had "every type of relationship with Microsoft you can imagine"?
Did you know that the paintings and letters sent home by " Inkerman hero" Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Tippinge helped document the Crimean War ?
Did you know that 2 Cheap Cars withdrew a television advertisement in New Zealand because children were copying the main character's catchphrase, "Ah so", which they sometimes pronounced "asshole"?
Did you know that Gretchen Campbell 's research on Bose–Einstein condensates may provide insight into the expansion of the early universe ?
Did you know that Richard Hatherill survived a mutiny and a shipwreck, only to die from an illness at the age of 35?
Did you know that West Virginia radio station WHIS made the first broadcast of a murder trial in the United States—and was broadcasting when the first on-air death occurred?
Did you know that the emperor shrimp likes to hitch a ride on a sea cucumber or a large mollusc?
Did you know that when The Saint Paul Hotel was built in 1908–1910, a rathskeller was carved into the sandstone beneath the building?
Did you know that soprano Estelle Liebling , the voice teacher of Beverly Sills and Meryl Streep , performed in more than 1600 concerts with John Philip Sousa and his band?
Did you know that Frederick Manfred ate insects and mice as research for his 1954 novel about mountain man Hugh Glass , titled Lord Grizzly ?
Did you know that 110 taxa are classed as being extinct on the Japanese Red List , including the Hokkaido wolf ?
Did you know that the last five minutes of a 1977 game between Coventry City and Bristol City were played with neither team attempting to score?
Did you know that Sindee Simon studied ancient amber to show that glass does not flow ?
Did you know that concert pianist, composer, and opera librettist Leonard Liebling was the editor-in-chief of the Musical Courier from 1911 to 1945?
Did you know that the principal of Big Tree Elementary read a book from a hot-air balloon to honor her students for having collectively read more than 2.5 million minutes in 2006?
Did you know that Kartini Hermanus , the first female general in the Indonesian Army , outranked her husband after being promoted in 2000?
Did you know that landslides caused by Tropical Storm Talas delayed a realignment project on Japan National Route 424 ?
Did you know that when the sheriff in Helena, Arkansas , was asked to arrest Owen Flemming , an African-American man accused of killing a white overseer on June 8, 1927, he allegedly said "I'm busy. Just go ahead and lynch him"?
Did you know that after being denied admission to Memphis State University because of her race, Miriam DeCosta-Willis went on to become the university's first African-American professor?
Did you know that Acer spitzi is one of seven fossil maples first found in the Klondike Mountain Formation ?
Did you know that the Star Wars Rebels episode " Twin Suns " took inspiration from the 1954 Akira Kurosawa film Seven Samurai ?
Did you know that Robert J. Ulrich was asked to cast Glee because of his musical background?
Did you know that a former DJ at radio station WKOP in Binghamton, New York , was convicted of arson for setting fire to the studios?
Did you know that the former Ontario Highway 29 was split in half for nine years, from 1927 to 1936?
Did you know that students participating in the 1968–69 Japanese university protests were known for ruthlessly interrogating and verbally abusing professors, sometimes for days on end?
Did you know that in Hall v. Decuir , the Supreme Court of the United States "all but endorsed segregation"?
Did you know that Herman Schiller and Marshall Meyer cofounded the Movimiento Judío por los Derechos Humanos , a Jewish human-rights organization in Argentina that denounced the National Reorganization Process ?
Did you know that ballerina Margaret Tracey performed for Bill and Hillary Clinton when Maria Tallchief received a Kennedy Center Honor ?
Did you know that the brown seaweed Acinetospora crinita forms a more-or-less complete covering of filamentous algae over the rock, detritus, living animals and sea grasses on the seabed where it occurs?
Did you know that Canadian cyclist Bernie Willock , who missed out on competing at the Olympics due to the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott , later owned furniture stores?
Did you know that Mirror , a Hong Kong Cantopop music group which does not want to go for a " K-pop feel", performed Korean pop songs at a concert?
Did you know that labor activist Mother Blizzard once led a group of women to tear up train tracks to prevent an attack on striking miners?
Did you know that botanist and "great Yorkshire character" John Farrah reprimanded greedy plant collectors in such a way that they would "remember it to the end of their days"?
Did you know that the orange flatworm Yungia aurantiaca can regrow its whole body from a small fragment of tissue?
Did you know that the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western once stockpiled 15,000 train cars of coal at Gravel Place, Pennsylvania , to be able to operate through a miners' strike?
Did you know that Jimbōchō Book Town is home to roughly a third of Japan's used bookstores?
Did you know that the 18th-century Great Pagoda in London is considered the most important surviving example of Chinoiserie : Chinese-inspired design in Europe?
Did you know that Fannie R. Buchanan received a citation and medal from the USDA "for outstanding contributions to rural culture"?
Did you know that Cuddles Marshall , the "handsomest twirler" on the New York Yankees , turned down a movie contract from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ?
Did you know that a man who threatened to blow up Alaska radio station KIAK unless he was put on the air was startled to find the station completely automated?
Did you know that Kahe Te Rau-o-te-rangi swam seven miles (11 km) with her child strapped to her back, from Kapiti Island to the New Zealand mainland, to raise the alarm about an impending invasion?
Did you know that hundreds of spectators gathered at a nearby church and club to watch 689 Fifth Avenue catch on fire?
Did you know that although ballerina Cynthia Harvey spent most of her career with the American Ballet Theatre , she was also the first American principal dancer with the Royal Ballet in London?
Did you know that Thurston Clarke felt that Harold Wilson should find it a "chilling thought" that The Chariot of Israel would be "cluttering library shelves" for years to come?
Did you know that Kenneth Robinson , the second of three Robinsons to present Points of View between Robert Robinson and Anne Robinson , was fired from that programme for the frivolous way he described bananas?
Did you know that SC East Bengal became the first club in Indian football to activate the force majeure clause in their 2020–21 season ?
Did you know that after Haier bought the Greenwich Savings Bank Building , it turned the large banking hall into a showroom for refrigerators and air conditioners?
Did you know that Finnish politician Kaarina Suonio answered the world's first GSM phone call?
Did you know that around a fifth of all Filipinos served by the Philippine consulate in Barcelona protested its closure on Facebook ?
Did you know that British deputy prime minister John Prescott was nicknamed "Two Jabs" after punching a protestor in 2001?
Did you know that the village of Pstrąże is known as the "Polish Chernobyl " due to its reputation as a ghost town and a former storage site for nuclear weapons?
Did you know that, at the 2002 Commonwealth Games , Jamie Arthur became the first Welsh boxer to win a gold medal for more than 40 years?
Did you know that critics compared John Lennon 's first book, In His Own Write , to the writings of James Joyce , even though Lennon had never read him?
Did you know that Moto Hagio wrote her 1992 manga Iguana Girl as a semi-autobiographical story that reflects her strained relationship with her mother?
Did you know that the state of Illinois erected both the Illinois Memorial and the Illinois Monument on American Civil War battlefields in the early 1900s?
Did you know that soprano Joyce Mathis won the Marian Anderson Award in 1967 and the Young Concert Artists singing competition in 1968?
Did you know that the Victorian Carham Hall in Northumberland was saved from demolition this year when its listed-building status was reinstated?
Did you know that J. L. Granatstein 's 1998 book Who Killed Canadian History? has been described as the pinnacle of Canada's "history wars"?
Did you know that the "pits" in trachoma are named for Herbert Herbert ?
Did you know that some Polish military cooperatives , formed to provide supplies to service personnel at low prices, issued their own coins?
Did you know that the Bishop of Bath and Wells said that "there is not a more dangerous woman in the West" than Mary Speke ?
Did you know that Masayoshi Soken composed the music for Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker while battling cancer ?
Did you know that Finnish politician Maija Rask earned a PhD at the age of 61 after a career as a nurse, teacher, member of Parliament, and minister of education?
Did you know that the Museum of French Art once exhibited Napoleon's penis ?
Did you know that New York City's Olympic Tower was meant to reflect St. Patrick's Cathedral but instead gave the city "the back of its hand"?
Did you know that Victor Hugo Tinoco was a deputy in the National Assembly of Nicaragua, first for the Sandinista National Liberation Front , then for the opposition Sandinista Renovation Movement ?
Did you know that the 1972 documentary Elvis on Tour became the only film starring Elvis Presley to win an award?
Did you know that the music minister, seminary student, and pageant contestant Leah Boyd became an Internet celebrity due to her comedic and satirical commentary on Twitter?
Did you know that Tropical Storm Eliakim enhanced rainfall and brought flooding to Kenya despite the storm making landfall on Madagascar?