kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that Joel Breman , who helped combat the 1976 Ebola virus outbreak in Zaire , was not expected to return alive by the pilots who dropped him there?
Did you know that the Lutheran St. Trinitatis in Wolfenbüttel , consecrated in 1719, is a Baroque church with a facade recalling that of a palace ?
Did you know that to mitigate religious violence in the city , Ambon mayor Marcus Jacob Papilaja made Muslim and Christian city employees mix?
Did you know that the Vulcan Bridge , a bridge in Vulcan, West Virginia , was constructed after the mayor requested financial aid from the Soviet Union?
Did you know that while going to the Strategion in Constantinople , Emperor Theodosius II was attacked with stones by a hungry mob?
Did you know that during the "trial from hell" Matthew Charles Johnson hurled abuse at the judge and one of his co-accused threw a bag of excrement at a member of the jury?
Did you know that the Robyn Gigl novel By Way of Sorrow , which features a transgender lawyer as the protagonist, was described as "quietly groundbreaking" by The New York Times ?
Did you know that due to a 2024 heat wave in Southeast Asia , heat indices in the Philippines rose to dangerous levels, as high as 51 °C (124 °F)?
Did you know that Hal Malchow consulted for every Democratic presidential nominee from 1988 through 2004?
Did you know that before its inhabitants were evicted, Rosal was the largest of 49 townships in Strathnaver ?
Did you know that Mohammad Saifullah Ozaki , an academic in Japan born to a Hindu family in Bangladesh, became a leader in the Islamic State?
Did you know that floods across New York City in September 2023 allowed a sea lion to escape her enclosure at the Central Park Zoo ?
Did you know that Dedie Rachim was the first active member of the Corruption Eradication Commission to be elected to public office?
Did you know that a boot is the only monument in the United States dedicated to the traitor Benedict Arnold because it "was the only part of Arnold not to later turn traitor"?
Did you know that although the icosian game was advertised as a "highly amusing game for the drawing room", it was too easy to play and not a commercial success?
Did you know that prior to embarking on a music career during the COVID-19 pandemic, the DJ Sim0ne placed fifth on the eleventh series of Britain's Next Top Model in 2017?
Did you know that the architects of the Eldridge Street Synagogue were Catholics who had never designed a synagogue before?
Did you know that Theo Benedet is the first offensive lineman to be named the best Canadian university football lineman two years in a row?
Did you know that Luo Wenzao became the first Catholic bishop from China in 1685, after initially declining the appointment in 1677?
Did you know that the historic mansion Bulgur Palas in Istanbul hosted a birdhouse for hundreds of domestic canaries in one room during its ownership by the Ottoman Bank ?
Did you know that women were 33 percent more likely than men to search for clown pornography on Pornhub in 2016?
Did you know that the chief editor of the United States' Telegraph allegedly gouged a rival reporter's eyes inside a Senate office?
Did you know that an ancient Chinese village likely had its own local pyromancer ?
Did you know that Napoleon awarded a medal to English inventor James White ?
Did you know that the Japanese vegetable nozawana got its name from skiers visiting Nozawaonsen who were impressed by the area's pickled turnip ?
Did you know that Plato and Aristotle both opposed the idea of extraterrestrial life ?
Did you know that by 2022 Levi Marhabi had become the last known Jew in Yemen ?
Did you know that the inclusion of the Canadian song " How Long " in a bootleg Russian DVD resulted in a sixteen-year search for the track's creator?
Did you know that a species of Brazilian cichlid is named after both Satan and Lilith ?
Did you know that the Beatles secretly called the host of their radio show "Pee Litres"?
Did you know that Romani Holocaust survivor Philomena Franz wrote about her deportation to Auschwitz, internment in Ravensbrück, escape from a camp near Wittenberge, and concealment by a farmer?
Did you know that a large basin on Neptune's moon Triton may have once been filled with liquid water cryolava , similar to how liquid silicates fill lava lakes on Earth?
Did you know that Inman Jackson played "as though he were born with a basketball in each hand"?
Did you know that Josephine Kenyon moved from recommendations of rigid scheduling to "on-demand" scheduling in editions of her book Healthy Babies Are Happy Babies ?
Did you know that Amie Parnes allegedly first heard about her employer, The Messenger , ceasing operations from a New York Times article?
Did you know that Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly was released after the main creator of Coffee Talk died in March 2022?
Did you know that baritone Liviu Holender chose lieder by five composers whose music was banned by the Nazis— Schreker , Zemlinsky , Mahler , Korngold and Schönberg —for a recital at the Oper Frankfurt ?
Did you know that one member of the U.S. Army Air Corps was so unimpressed by the Estoppey D-8 that he stated that he would rather use "nails and a wire"?
Did you know that Spider began making alternative music because she felt that not enough Black women were doing so?
Did you know that the trowel and gavel used at the cornerstone-laying ceremony for the Southern Railway Building were previously used by George Washington for the U.S. Capitol?
Did you know that Gherardo Gambelli , the incoming archbishop of Florence , served as a prison chaplain in Chad for over a decade?
Did you know that the Centurion C-RAM can fire 4500 rounds per minute?
Did you know that Indonesian politician Rahmad Mas'ud received his master's degree simultaneously with four of his siblings?
Did you know that all Atlantic hurricane activity in 1993 ceased two full months before the season officially ended?
Did you know that Chuck Eisenmann went from professionally pitching in baseball to owning and training the dogs that starred on the Canadian television series The Littlest Hobo ?
Did you know that Richard Garwin proposed using a bed of nails to protect the Minuteman missile silos from attack?
Did you know that the New York City government sought to demolish a wall around the Isaac L. Rice Mansion for five years?
Did you know that Mayling Oey-Gardiner went from being a University of Indonesia clerk to a full professor?
Did you know that according to Brandy Hellville , executives at Brandy Melville have bought the clothes off of employees' backs?
Did you know that a California TV station wondered whether it had the "World's Longest Pregnancy"?
Did you know that it will soon be illegal for government employees to gamble in the country of Georgia ?
Did you know that Czech industrialist Jan Felkl founded a company in 1854 that would produce globes in 17 languages?
Did you know that the Russian and Belarusian military exercise Zapad 2013 was officially described as counterterrorist, but international observers concluded that it was a preparation for a conventional war?
Did you know that after criticizing the political patronage system , John Silva Meehan was hired as Librarian of Congress through "purely an act of political patronage"?
Did you know that a major parade took place in Cairo on 24 August 1472 for the hanging of Shah Suwar ?
Did you know that Ronald MacDonald was allegedly drugged with chloroform during the 1901 Boston Marathon , sabotaging his race?
Did you know that avant-garde musician Mabe Fratti 's religious upbringing restricted her to classical and Christian music until she discovered file sharing on LimeWire ?
Did you know that a North Carolina TV station broadcast from a "residential showplace" that was considered to be "one of [the] finest" houses in town?
Did you know that Lithuanian communist activist Valerija Narvydaitė spent more than 14 years in jails and detention centres?
Did you know that " Not Strong Enough " by Boygenius describes conflicting mental states of self-hatred and self-importance?
Did you know that Ronald Reagan did not publicly mention AIDS until 1985, after more than 5,000 people in the United States had died from it?
Did you know that many winter wonderland fairs have become notorious as "winter blunderlands"?
Did you know that according to Dadang Supriatna , his father gave him 1,000 bricks to fund his studies?
Did you know that sulfate pollution causes cooling through global dimming , which is comparable to warming from methane ?
Did you know that a priest refused to perform the wedding ceremony for Austrian socialist Josef Peskoller and his fiancée Maria Griel on political grounds in 1928?
Did you know that Puerto Rican singer Young Miko composed " Classy 101 " in Los Angeles and had never met Colombian singer Feid before he recorded the song with her?
Did you know that Fang Gan failed the imperial examination more than ten times, apparently because of his cleft lip ?
Did you know that ice in outer space is an amorphous solid , and this may be the most common phase of ice in the universe?
Did you know that Butt Drugs in Corydon, Indiana , had Butt Liquors and free parking in the rear?
Did you know that the Golden State Valkyries are the first expansion franchise in the WNBA since 2008?
Did you know that in Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945 , "the 'American people' appear with conspicuous infrequency"?
Did you know that Julian Prégardien 's performance as the Evangelist in Bach's St Matthew Passion was noted by one reviewer for its emphatic and penetrating "profoundly human" nature?
Did you know that The New York Times called Teeth a "feminist awakening with a lethal bite"?
Did you know that Debbie Currie once worked as a lollipop lady ?
Did you know that the Missoula Children's Theatre works with more than 65,000 children every year?
Did you know that in two years the Thourots became the Brewers, who became the Palaces, who became the Jackaways, who became the Mules, who then disbanded ?
Did you know that despite graduating last in his West Point class, Frederick Kimble eventually became a general?
Did you know that the 2024 film 18×2 Beyond Youthful Days was filmed in Japan in March to capture both snowfalls and cherry blossoms in the same month?
Did you know that a will bequeathing the Chestnut Street Opera House to the University of Pennsylvania was contested at the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ?
Did you know that the comedian Jonny Pelham is one of an estimated 200 people in the UK to suffer from popliteal pterygium syndrome ?
Did you know that after a CD edition of Taylor Swift 's album Midnights containing the exclusive song " You're Losing Me " was released at MetLife Stadium , some of the first purchasers uploaded the song online?
Did you know that BBC Breakfast 's resident doctor Nighat Arif has advocated for more women to be given vibrators for medical reasons?
Did you know that Soviet prisoners of war were the second-largest group of victims of Nazi mass killing?
Did you know that Katherine Sleeper Walden was a journalist, postmistress, innkeeper, community organizer, environmental activist, and conservationist who now has three mountains named after her ?
Did you know that writer and artist Jim Steranko was given authorship of " The Strange Death of Captain America " in part to resolve a dispute between himself and Stan Lee ?
Did you know that Jan Klán , as a pilot in the Groupe de Chasse II/5 , became the first Czech to achieve an aerial victory against the Luftwaffe while flying the Hawk 75 ?
Did you know that as part of illegal wildlife trading, Oophaga solanensis frogs are bought for US$3 in their native Colombia and sold for up to US$1,000 overseas?
Did you know that before becoming a voice actor, Kikunosuke Toya was the keyboardist of an all-male Princess Princess cover band in high school?
Did you know that the U.S. state of Oklahoma was not allowed to ban Sharia law ?
Did you know that Triton , a moon of Neptune, has thin clouds that are likely made of nitrogen ice crystals ?
Did you know that Jake Bates 's first in-game field goal was the second-longest in professional football history?
Did you know that all sea lions in Otago descend from Mum ?
Did you know that after failing to qualify for prestigious races as an athlete, Mounir Akbache became a rabbit ?
Did you know that the memorial Ivančena was created to honor members of the Silesian Scout Resistance who were executed for their part in the resistance to Nazi occupation during World War II?
Did you know that Lewis W. Green was one of the two members of the first graduating class of Centre College and later became its president?
Did you know that " Toy Town " was said to have "almost destroyed" the happy hardcore scene?
Did you know that nearly a thousand elections for local executives were held in Indonesia between 2005 and 2013, with an average of around one every three days?
Did you know that although Agnes Kimball was a popular recording artist of opera and musical theatre, she never appeared as a singing actress on the stage?
Did you know that 287 Broadway was once called "the most succulent cast-iron street-show in all New York"?
Did you know that at least one person on every NFL All-Decade Team has played for the Green Bay Packers , although one of those players was only with the Packers for one season?
Did you know that the 2024 opening of regular sessions of the National Congress of Argentina took place at 21:00 instead of 12:00?
Did you know that Ground Round attempted to diversify its meat-heavy menu with such dishes as swordfish and Mexican pizza?
Did you know that Final Fantasy 's " first great villain " has been compared to characters like the Green Goblin and the Joker ?
Did you know that singer Frank Croxton performed a duet with his father for the unveiling of a monument to a Confederate States Army general?
Did you know that Thomas Figures prosecuted two members of the Ku Klux Klan for murder, and Michael Figures bankrupted their organization in a civil lawsuit?
Did you know that ancient humans cared for a 14,000-year-old puppy ?
Did you know that Harrogate War Memorial , by Ernest Prestwich , names 1163 casualties of the First and Second World Wars, of whom more than 300 have unknown graves, and the youngest was 15 years old?
Did you know that within a week of its upload, YouTube Rewind 2018: Everyone Controls Rewind became YouTube's most-disliked video of all time?
Did you know that no voting was held in four out of six curiae in the 1916 Warsaw City Council election , as the Polish and Jewish parties had agreed on a single joint candidate slate?
Did you know that the oldest complete versions of the Book of Jonah and 1 Peter are from a 3rd-century codex discovered in Egypt in 1952?
Did you know that social media influencer Andrew Tate described himself as "absolutely a misogynist "?
Did you know that when the Bukharian-Jewish Soviet newspaper Bajroqi Miⱨnat switched to the Latin script , it initially did not use capital letters, following Jewish writing rules?
Did you know that Addie Viola Smith was the first female Foreign Service officer to serve under the United States Department of Commerce ?
Did you know that in 88 BC, Lucius Cornelius Sulla carried out the first coup d'état in Roman history ?
Did you know that during a soccer game, Mike Watts and his co-commentator wove more than 200 Taylor Swift song titles into the broadcast?
Did you know that Bedok Reservoir MRT station features a public artwork including a message that "dribbles down" the lift shaft in motifs of droplets?
Did you know that Cinda Firestone , the heiress to the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company , directed a documentary about the 1971 Attica Prison riot ?
Did you know that in 1850s New Orleans , the French revolutionary Joseph Déjacque called for black slaves and the white working class to overthrow the United States in a social revolution ?
Did you know that The Ugly Black Bird , a Polish book that discredited the autobiographical value of Kosiński 's The Painted Bird , initially received reviews that were "more negative than favourable"?
Did you know that Cam Booser retired from baseball to work as a carpenter in 2017 and made it to Major League Baseball in 2024?
Did you know that due to Richard Louhenapessy 's arrest, the Indonesian city of Ambon had four mayors in May 2022?
Did you know that the Israel Defense Forces have accepted responsibility for killing seven World Central Kitchen aid workers in targeted drone strikes that destroyed the aid workers' cars one by one?
Did you know that Broadway and film star Lester Allen began his career as a child acrobat in the Barnum and Bailey Circus ?
Did you know that the Skyrocket Galaxy has been described by NASA as looking like a "July 4th skyrocket"?
Did you know that a reviewer described the approach of soprano Magdalena Hinterdobler to her role as Grete in Zemlinsky's Der Traumgörge as "bold" and "sassy"?
Did you know that of the 33 Green Bay Packers players named to an NFL All-Rookie Team since 1975, only one— James Lofton —went on to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame ?
Did you know that after being sent off for the record 97th time, footballer Elvio Porcel de Peralta went to the referee and punched him?
Did you know that the café C1 Espresso delivers food to customers using pneumatic tubes ?
Did you know that the 1910–1916 publication Raḥamim was the first newspaper in the Judeo-Tajik language ?
Did you know that football player Dick Harris was selected in professional drafts four times, including twice as a first-round pick, but never played professionally?
Did you know that Pulp singer Jarvis Cocker helped fundraise to save a Merseyside flat that has been called "the first example of outsider art to be nationally listed "?
Did you know that basketball player Joanne McCarthy and her actress sister Jenny did gymnastics and bowling in their youth?
Did you know that in 1911 the Butterfly Theater featured a pipe organ worth US$10,000 (equivalent to US$327,000 in 2023)?
Did you know that environmental economist V. Kerry Smith has been described as a "Renaissance Man of Economics"?
Did you know that a year after objecting to the unauthorised use of his own AI -generated vocals, Drake used vocals of other rappers generated that way to respond to a diss against him ?
Did you know that in 1919 nurse Hilda Hope McMaugh became the first Australian woman to qualify as a pilot?
Did you know that employees of a Florida TV station joked that their studio building would survive "as long as the termites don't stop holding hands"?
Did you know that the fossil insect Allenbya holmesae was named after its finder's mother's maiden name?
Did you know that Eric Sievers helped the San Diego Chargers set an NFL record for receptions by tight ends on a team?
Did you know that the literary magazine Adabijoti Soveti was the sole remaining publication in the Jewish-Bukharian language by the time of the switch to the Cyrillic script in 1939–1940?
Did you know that Charlize Mörz became the first Austrian female gymnast to win a gold medal in the FIG World Cup series in 2024?
Did you know that the 2023 drama film Fly Me to the Moon was Sasha Chuk's debut as a director, screenwriter and lead actress, making it her first feature film in all three categories?
Did you know that with the appointment of Michael Martin as Bishop of Charlotte , the Conventual Franciscans are now the most represented religious order among American Catholic bishops?
Did you know that in 1990, Simon Rimmer bought an existing vegetarian restaurant with his business partner and taught himself to cook – in that order?
Did you know that the perpetrator of the 2017 Aztec High School shooting had previously been investigated by the FBI , but the investigation was closed after he convinced them that he was simply " trolling "?
Did you know that the 1920–1922 Tashkent wall newspaper Rost was the first Bukharian-Jewish Soviet newspaper?
Did you know that Kooraban National Park has provided a habitat for more than twenty vulnerable animal species, including koalas ?
Did you know that a bust of the notorious slave trader Isaac Franklin was placed on the prow of his slave ship, the Isaac Franklin ?
Did you know that the video game Manor Lords was wishlisted more than three million times on Steam after its developer had estimated it would receive around 14,000?
Did you know that Walid Daqqa wrote several works of prison literature , including a children's novel about a boy who uses magical olive oil to visit his imprisoned father?
Did you know that the production team of the TV series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier created a digital highway more than five miles (8 km) long to capture visual effects for a truck action sequence for the episode " The Star-Spangled Man "?
Did you know that prior to becoming a royal reporter for Fox News , English journalist Neil Sean released a cover of Cliff Richard 's " We Don't Talk Anymore " with his mother?
Did you know that Palestinian citizens of Israel hold an annual march to one of the towns and villages from which their community had been displaced in the Nakba ?
Did you know that the UT Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros football team were members of the United Athletic Conference but left before ever having played a game there?
Did you know that music director Raul Mitra wanted Regine Velasquez to do an all-rock concert ?
Did you know that Lore Harp McGovern went from being a housewife to the CEO of a US$36 million computer company in six years?
Did you know that police officers had to be flown in by helicopter to seize hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of cannabis plants found growing illegally in Jerrawangala National Park ?
Did you know that many former cast members returned for Arrow 's 150th episode ?
Did you know that the replacement of a semipalmated sandpiper sculpture named Shep in New Brunswick led to a $19,000 investigation over code-of-conduct violations?
Did you know that after the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake destroyed Napier Technical College , it was disestablished and amalgamated into its rivals?
Did you know that Thomas Mann insisted on omitting a passage on homoeroticism in the English translation of his work " On the German Republic "?
Did you know that more than 100 European royals boarded the Cruise of the Kings , a 1954 cruise organised by the Greek queen consort Frederica of Hanover to promote tourism in Greece?
Did you know that the first Acadian newspaper, Le Moniteur Acadien , was acquired in 2023 for just CA$1?
Did you know that NCVs can assign different values to the lives of civilians of different nationalities?
Did you know that Yuu Nagira, the author of My Beautiful Man , did not expect readers to love one of the main characters because she had written him to be creepy?
Did you know that actress Agnes Mapes had to improvise a complex choreographed dance from basic poses for the 1907 play The Holy City ?
Did you know that in March 2022 Sonja van den Ende was the only Dutch journalist to report from the Russian-occupied Donbas on the war in Ukraine ?
Did you know that a restaurant in a Thai hotel serves "Chicken Volcano", a dish containing whiskey?
Did you know that One Chun , a Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand restaurant, has black-and-white televisions, transistor radios , and aged clocks on a wall?
Did you know that Heike Heubach became the first deaf member of the German Bundestag ?
Did you know that larvae of the species Carabus japonicus prey on earthworms up to 400 times larger than themselves?
Did you know that John Quincy Adams described Jonathan Elliot , his former printer , as "penurious and venal"?
Did you know that an Irish comedy group wrote the film Apocalypse Clown ?
Did you know that scholars debate whether Anactoria , mentioned in Sappho 's poems, was a real person, a pseudonym , or an invention of Sappho?
Did you know that American Colossus , a history book that describes how a banker bailed out the U.S. government in 1895, was published around a time when the U.S. government bailed out banks ?
Did you know that football player Joe Gray was nicknamed the "Gray Ghost" because when running "it was like he wasn't there anymore"?