kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that the Austro-Hungarian scout cruiser Helgoland was ceded to Italy on 19 September 1920 as part of the peace settlements that ended World War I ?
Did you know that CNN Radio news anchor Stan Case was also a licensed attorney in the U.S. state of Georgia ?
Did you know that in 1998, Paul McCartney rearranged Wings ' 1976 songs " She's My Baby " and " Warm and Beautiful " for string quartet for concerts in memory of his late wife Linda ?
Did you know that Bernard de Lattre de Tassigny , son of French World War II hero Jean de Lattre de Tassigny , was one of 21 sons of French marshals and generals to be killed in the First Indochina War ?
Did you know that the SOE assassination operation Bittern received severe criticism from the Norwegian resistance movement ?
Did you know that Lý Anh Tông , the sixth emperor of the Lý Dynasty , was considered the first ruler of Đại Việt who promoted Buddhism as the state religion ?
Did you know that after a quiet tour, ball tampering allegations and problems with the review system caused controversy in the third and fourth Tests of the England–South Africa series in 2009–10 ?
Did you know that Pirot -born Krastyo Krastev , the first professional Bulgarian literary critic , was a shorthand writer for the National Assembly of Bulgaria while still a schoolboy?
Did you know that Nallathambi marked the film debut for C. N. Annadurai , who later went on to become Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu ?
Did you know that during the 2001–02 season , Hibernian F.C. sacked manager Franck Sauzee just 69 days after he had been appointed?
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Did you know that at age 19, Felix Barker became the youngest drama critic working on Fleet Street ?
Did you know that the Ngwenya Mine in Swaziland is one of the oldest mines in the world?
Did you know that 28 people died in a 1922 fire in the Palacio de la Aduana in Málaga , Spain ?
Did you know that John Usher was called to the Bar and made an Honorary Bencher of Lincoln's Inn at the same time?
Did you know that the barbeled houndshark is the only shark with a spherical placenta ?
Did you know that if rugby union player Tom Prydie appears for Wales in the 2010 Six Nations , he will become the youngest cap in the team's history?
Did you know that the BBC Radio 4 panel game Act Your Age was voted by readers of the British Comedy Guide the "Worst British Radio Panel Show/Satire 2008"?
Did you know that the character actor Tom Greenway , shot down as a pilot in World War II , spent more than a year in Italian and German POW camps?
Did you know that in Minuscule 545 iota adscript occurs up to Luke 1:77, then ceases?
Did you know that Concordia University in Portland, Oregon , is opening a law school in Boise, Idaho ?
Did you know that the land on which Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl , Mexico, stands was under Lake Texcoco until the early 20th century?
Did you know that the 1925 Rochester Jeffersons season included the final seven games of a twenty-three game streak without a victory?
Did you know that the hieroglyphic inscriptions at the Early Classic Maya city of Bejucal in northern Guatemala were all made within a narrow 40-year period?
Did you know that Barack Obama 's most recent State of the Union address was almost scheduled to preempt the broadcast of " LA X ", the final season premiere of the television show Lost ?
Did you know that the omissions due to homoioteleuton are unusually frequent in Minuscule 544 ?
Did you know that Fritz Bultman , an original Abstract Expressionist of the New York School , missed a photo shoot for the Life magazine article that established his colleagues' reputations?
Did you know that Guyanese president Forbes Burnham was president of the Guyana Labour Union twice, from 1952 to 1956 and again from 1963 to 1965?
Did you know that Elders Colonial Airways ceased flying to Bathurst in The Gambia after its Short Scion Senior sank in the city's harbour in August 1939?
Did you know that John Douglas ' design for 78–94 Foregate Street, Chester was so unlike any of his previous architectural styles that it "shocked the City Council Improvement Committee"?
Did you know that David Haig-Thomas who rowed for Great Britain at the 1932 Summer Olympics was an ornithologist, arctic explorer and commando officer who was killed in action on D-Day ?
Did you know that during the 1960s Air Guinée was managed by Alaska Airlines and Pan American World Airways , each for a short time?
Did you know that basketball player Bill Spivey sued the National Basketball Association and its commissioner in 1960, claiming that the league blacklisted him?
Did you know that in 1894, after the Pall Mall Gazette mocked what became the Viking Society for Northern Research , a member wrote, "The fiercest warriors, even savages, drink tea and coffee nowadays"?
Did you know that settlement money given to the city to close the Harbour Island People Mover was utilized in the creation of an endowment to cover the operating costs of the TECO Line Streetcar in Tampa, Florida ?
Did you know that Charles Terront used a prototype pneumatic tyre made by Edouard Michelin when he won the inaugural Paris-Brest-Paris cycle race in 1891?
Did you know that on the brink of the American Civil War , there was a movement in the mid-Atlantic states to secede from the Union and form a Central Confederacy ?
Did you know that John Smith , a noted 18th century London housebreaker , managed to avoid execution three times, and was eventually transported to Virginia ?
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Did you know that in the United Kingdom, the military offence of looting carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment ?
Did you know that when Townsville financial advice company Storm Financial collapsed in 2009, victims included cricketer Andrew Symonds , who lost at least AU $1 million?
Did you know that former actress Esme Church founded a theatre school in Bradford, England, where stars such as Tom Bell , Bernard Hepton and Robert Stephens received their training?
Did you know that the mayors of six Parisian suburbs took part in founding the Socialist-Communist Union in 1923?
Did you know that the Alfie Atkins children's book series by Swedish author Gunilla Bergström has been translated into twenty-nine different languages and sold over eight million copies worldwide?
Did you know that if anyone appeals to the Pashtunwali doctrine of Nanawatai , even his sworn enemy will have to give him sanctuary ?
Did you know that Arne Rettedal , county mayor of Rogaland from 1988 to 1991, died on the birthday of his successor Odd Arild Kvaløy ?
Did you know that former Louisiana State Senator Lawson Swearingen in 1990 cast one of three critical votes to sustain Governor Buddy Roemer 's veto of a restrictive anti- abortion bill?
Did you know that the 900 South station was the first infill station constructed as part of the UTA TRAX light rail system in Salt Lake City , Utah ?
Did you know that Shenandoah and Alison Krauss ' " Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart " won a Grammy Award in 1995, and its b-side " Darned If I Don't (Danged If I Do) " was also nominated for one?
Did you know that in 1916, William Gilbert Gosling ' s 12-man governing commission of St. John's, Newfoundland , allowed for legal proceedings to be instigated against the town's tax evaders ?
Did you know that the Hill 50 Gold Mine was Australia 's most profitable mine between 1955 and 1961?
Did you know that during the construction of the Manila Film Center , its scaffolding collapsed, where at least 169 workers fell and were buried under quick-drying wet cement?
Did you know that Diane Keaton accepted the lead role in Sister Mary Explains It All because she thought she couldn't do it?
Did you know that one of the patrons of The Ypres League was Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom , whose son, Prince Maurice of Battenberg , had died in World War I at the First Battle of Ypres ?
Did you know that Bob Matthewson , an English footballer and referee , was recently portrayed in the 2009 film The Damned United ?
Did you know that forty-three butchers' shops were built around the outside of Borough Market in Halifax , England, along with three pubs ?
Did you know that Bracetti Plaza , an NYCHA development in the East Village , New York City , is named after Mariana Bracetti ?
Did you know that Scorpions were transported to Cyprus in 1974 to protect the British Sovereign Base Areas during the Turkish Invasion ?
Did you know that 13-year-old Emer Jones ' s "Research and Development of Emergency Sandbag Shelters" helped her win the 2008 Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition , the youngest ever and her school's debut?
Did you know that the Nanodragster is a nanocar which is 50,000 times thinner than a human hair and has a top speed of 0.014 millimeters per hour?
Did you know that the Louisiana State Rep. H. Lawrence Gibbs in 1956 authored legislation which outlawed social events and athletic contests including both African Americans and whites?
Did you know that the blind crustacean Polycheles typhlops preys on fish and on other crustaceans, probably acting as an ambush predator ?
Did you know that when James Cudworth introduced the 0-4-4T to the South Eastern Railway , they were the first locomotives of this wheel arrangement in England ?
Did you know that Starobrno Brewery annually produces a special batch of green beer distributed only on Maundy Thursday ?
Did you know that despite being a famous pre-war career criminal with a very controversial war record, Johannes "The Yellow Cheese" Andersen gained the friendship and patronage of King Haakon VII of Norway ?
Did you know that the Swedish zoo Skånes Djurpark displays almost a hundred different animal species, most of which are part of the Nordic fauna?
Did you know that Chekhov 's White Dacha in Yalta , where he wrote his finest works, was visited by Leo Tolstoy , Feodor Chaliapin , Sergei Rachmaninoff , Maxim Gorky , Leonid Kuchma and Vladimir Putin ?
Did you know00, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
Did you know that Bredtveit is one of three women's prisons in Norway ?
Did you know that the cap of the mushroom Xeromphalina campanella resembles a navel when the mushroom matures?
Did you know that after retiring from professional wrestling , Ida Mae Martinez was one of the first nurses in Baltimore to work with AIDS patients?
Did you know that the out-of-service Fairmount Avenue station building still wears the same coat of paint it received in the 1960s?
Did you know that Muhammad Naguib , who would later lead a coup d'état in Egypt , was relieved of his command of a brigade for its failures in the Second Battle of Negba ?
Did you know that the American Delta blues pianist and singer , Willie Love , never employed his musician friend, Sonny Boy Williamson II , on any of his own recordings ?
Did you know that screenwriter Ian Brennan wrote the first draft of the musical comedy-drama Glee with the aid of Screenwriting for Dummies ?
Did you know that the western outlaw L.H. Musgrove "calmly puffed a cigar to its bitter butt" as he awaited hanging by vigilantes in Denver , Colorado , in 1868?
Did you know that 13 and 14-year-old Liam McCarthy and John D. O'Callaghan achieved fame in 2009 for "The Development of a Convenient Test Method for Somatic Cell Count and Its Importance In Milk Production"?
Did you know that L'ange de Nisida , an opera semiseria by Gaetano Donizetti , was completed but never performed due to the bankruptcy of the theater company Donizetti contracted?
Did you know that in 1991, John C. Ensminger of Monroe defeated Frank Snellings, the husband of U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu , for a seat in the Louisiana State Senate ?
Did you know that after decommissioning, the Commandant's Quarters of the Dearborn Arsenal was used as a library, American Legion hall, town hall, police station, school, newspaper office, and finally a museum ?
Did you know that American football defensive tackle O'Brien Schofield , who completed his college career for Wisconsin in 2009 , is a cousin of the National Football League veterans Vonnie Holliday and Bobby Engram ?
Did you know that United States Supreme Court associate justice Antonin Scalia reportedly hates the word " choate " , because it is a back-formation from " inchoate "?
Did you know that John Haworth is the only Burnley manager to date to have led the team to an FA Cup victory?
Did you know that the Classic Period Maya site of El Zotz , in Guatemala , takes its name from the enormous quantity of bats that live in a cave under the ruins?
Did you know that singer-songwriter Gillian Welch met her musical partner David Rawlings at a successful audition for the only country band at Berklee College of Music ?
Did you know that many of the canopies at the light rail transit stations in the Salt Lake Valley of Utah are designed to resemble the canopy of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building ?
Did you know that William Ashwell Shenstone , a published chemist , listed "experimental work" among his recreations in Who's Who ?
Did you know that the Portuguese Socialist Party was the sole political party tolerated by the military regime after the 28 May 1926 coup d'état ?
Did you know that Donald Goerke invented SpaghettiOs , choosing the "O" over pasta shaped like baseballs, cowboys, and spacemen, and later ran the company's dog food division?
Did you know that the Swetman House was known as the "architectural gem" of Seward, Alaska ?
Did you know that John Sheridan commanded the bomb vessel HMS Terror during the Battle of Baltimore , the action that inspired the writing of the poem that became " The Star-Spangled Banner "?
Did you know that the documentary film Barricades was shelved for three years by Israeli television because of the controversy that would result from airing it?
Did you know that centenarian Dorothy Geeben was the oldest mayor in the United States until her death on January 10, 2010?
Did you know that former Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker was initially delighted by the 1975 Stringband song " Dief Will Be the Chief Again " but later refused to comment about it?
Did you know that when GNU Oleo became officially part of the GNU Project , a 1996 article in iX magazine dubbed it as "GNU's response to Excel"?
Did you know that Jan C. Gabriel is credited for the tagline "Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!", along with bringing NASCAR and NHRA to television?
Did you know00, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
Did you know that coal accounts for 86% of South Africa 's carbon dioxide emissions ?
Did you know that Jon Hippe , who suggested higher taxes as a way to reduce the gap between rich and poor, was appointed leader of the Norwegian Financial Crisis Committee by the Ministry of Finance ?
Did you know that the Philippine Commission on Elections cited the Bible and the Koran to disqualify the Ang Ladlad LGBT Party from the 2010 party-list election ?
Did you know that Victorian psychiatrist L. Forbes Winslow was involved in the cases of Jack the Ripper , Percy Lefroy Mapleton , Florence Maybrick , and Amelia Dyer ?
Did you know that in 1920 Hungarian socialists such as Sándor Garbai , Zsigmond Kunfi and Vilmos Böhm , exiled after the crushing of the Hungarian Soviet Republic , founded the Világosság émigré group?
Did you know that the last two buildings used by the Makawao Union Church were built atop the foundation of a 19th-century sugarcane mill in Maui , Hawaii ?
Did you know that Cultivator No. 6 was an enormous fighting machine conceived by Winston Churchill and developed in Britain early in World War II ?
Did you know that the March 18–20, 1956 nor'easter left snow drifts 14 ft (4.3 m) high?
Did you know that Enoch Cobb left land in his will to be used to raise funds that would benefit public school students of the town of Barnstable, Massachusetts ?
Did you know that US Project Exploration received a Presidential Award for creating collaborations between scientists and students, especially girls and minorities, traditionally underrepresented in science?
Did you know that after scouting him at South Carolina , current Philadelphia Eagles running backs coach Ted Williams advised the Eagles to take Duce Staley with a third-round draft pick in the 1997 NFL Draft ?
Did you know that the Byzantine emperor Justin II had his cousin, the general and former consul Justin , murdered in his sleep as a potential rival to the throne?
Did you know that The Black Pearl , a 1996 limited series comic book written by Mark Hamill and Eric Johnson, was originally written as a screenplay ?
Did you know that the Suite Vollard in Curitiba , Brazil , is the only building in the world in which floors can independently rotate 360° in either direction?
Did you know that Andy Hayman , the police officer in charge of investigating the 7 July 2005 London bombings , was awarded the CBE for his role?
Did you know that Hurricane Barbara of 1953 uprooted trees left standing intact after the more intense Great Atlantic Hurricane of 1944 ?
Did you know that the assembly of the Vermont Republic voted in June 1781 to expand its borders into parts of New Hampshire and New York during the Haldimand Affair ?
Did you know that John of Brittany, Earl of Richmond , rescued Edward II of England from being captured by Robert the Bruce at the Battle of Old Byland ?
Did you know that the Great Western Railway operated ships in connection with their trains to provide services to Ireland , the Channel Islands and France ?
Did you know that seed of the flowering shrub Banksia dryandroides made its way from King George Sound to the United Kingdom, before it was finally described from plants growing in Bayswater , then a London suburb?
Did you know that after being stranded by Ghana Airways at Banjul's international airport , a group of disgruntled passengers threatened to burn the airline's aircraft and offices at the airport?
Did you know that the English Statute of York has been described as "the end of a period of revolutionary experiments in English government"?
Did you know that HMS Alcmene 's surgeon for nearly five years was William Beatty , who in 1805 attended the dying Horatio Nelson at Trafalgar ?
Did you know that the Norwegian Seamen's Church in San Pedro, California , is visited by the crews of about 160 Norwegian ships every year?
Did you know that the 2007–2008 Nazko earthquakes in British Columbia , Canada , are the only recorded earthquakes in the Canadian Cordillera away from the coast resulting from magma moving in the Earth?
Did you know that Samuel Fox helped start the first free adult school in Britain, at Nottingham in 1798?
Did you know that National Bolshevik Ernst Niekisch played an important role in formulating the ideological line of the Old Social Democratic Party of Germany ?
Did you know that Syrian-American Mohammed Loay Bayazid , a former member of al-Qaeda , was noted for "always teasing bin Laden"?
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Did you know that in 1974 an Air Mali Ilyushin Il-18 crashed after performing a night-time forced landing on the road from Ouagadougou to Niamey , killing at least 47 people?
Did you know that Minuscule 543 , a manuscript of the four Gospels , has additional non-biblical material – Limits of the Five Patriarchates ?
Did you know that Milorg pioneer Arne Laudal , who was shot at Trandumskogen in 1944, was honoured with the British King's Commendation for Brave Conduct ?
Did you know that according to the 10th century Jain text Dravyasamgraha , the three jewels of Jainism —rational perception, rational knowledge and rational conduct—are essential for achieving liberation ?
Did you know that Aaslaug Aasland was Norway 's first female head of a government ministry ?
Did you know that the English Statute of Enrolments , believed to have been emergency legislation, contains no preamble and was drafted by the Clerk of the House of Commons rather than a legislator?
Did you know that Egyptian poet Farouk Shousha has described the decline in the quality of Arabic in Egypt as "an issue of national security"?
Did you know that David Thomas Lenox was the captain of the first wagon train on the Oregon Trail to travel all the way to Oregon ?
Did you know that Thor , scheduled for release in 2011, was envisioned and pitched to 20th Century Fox as early as 1990?
Did you know that clan tradition states that Iain Borb MacLeod was wounded in the head at the Battle of Harlaw in 1411 and that the wound's reoccurring bleeding caused his death 31 years later?
Did you know that the Los Angeles Times wrote in 1914 that American football player Walter Rheinschild had been rated as "the highest salaried amateur athlete in the business"?
Did you know that the Stark County Courthouse and the Zanesville Federal Building are both listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places and designed by architect George F. Hammond ?
Did you know that in 1862, Senator Samuel Pomeroy of Kansas proposed the colony of Linconia to fulfill U.S. President Abraham Lincoln 's vision for African-American emigration to Central America ?
Did you know that a recent outbreak of "hat mania" surrounding RTÉ reporter Paul Cunningham 's "woolly pancake" from "Pakistan's tribal areas" has led to a Facebook campaign for fans to gather in their own hats?
Did you know that 2001's European of the Year Tommie Gorman 's half hour interview with a central figure in the 2002 Roy Keane incident became the most viewed television programme of May 2002?
Did you know that Bank Buildings , in Birkenhead , Merseyside , England, was built by the Bank of Liverpool , later occupied by Martins Bank , and now houses shops and offices?
Did you know that despite damage from a tramway , the Deffenbaugh Site is one of the most valuable archaeological sites in Fayette County, Pennsylvania ?
Did you know that in 1985 the Canadian company Sound Ideas became the first to release a sound effects library on compact disc ?
Did you know that the Mastaba of Mereruka , Vizier to king Teti of the sixth dynasty Old Kingdom period of Ancient Egypt , is the largest and most elaborate of all the non-royal tombs in Saqqara ?
Did you know that Z Special Unit member F. G. L. Chester gained the nickname "Gort" due to his physical resemblance to the British Army Field Marshal John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort ?
Did you know that the American wine critic Robert Parker is credited with popularizing the use of numerical wine ratings ?
Did you know that attorney William Lair Hill codified the laws of both the states of Oregon and Washington ?
Did you know that the krill species Euphausia crystallorophias was first described from specimens caught from a hole bored during Robert Falcon Scott 's Discovery expedition ?
Did you know that Norwegian journalist Ivar Hippe is friends with the current Labour Prime Minister of Norway , Jens Stoltenberg ?
Did you know that at the Dong Xuan night market in Hanoi , one can not only buy goods but also enjoy traditional performances such as ca trù or xẩm ?
Did you know that the Chester architect John Douglas showed his designs for Wrexham Road Farm, Eccleston , and Saighton Lane Farm at the Royal Academy in 1888?
Did you know that in 2001 the Richland County Public Library was named National Library of the Year by the Library Journal and the Gale Group ?
Did you know that one of the victims in a recent rare shooting in Habikino , Osaka Prefecture , Japan , was the gunman's mother-in-law?
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Did you know that Vimcy received an award from the Kerala State Sports Council for his lifelong contributions to sports journalism ?
Did you know that Mallee Cliffs National Park has no public access in order to preserve the mallee eucalyptus habitat of the mallee fowl ?
Did you know that poet Simbo Olorunfemi ' s Rhythm of the Coins was described as "a promise that the Nigerian literary scene is not entirely off-course?"
Did you know that the Historia Ecclesie Abbendonensis , a 12th-century chronicle from Abingdon Abbey , describes the collapse of the abbey's church tower and the narrow escape the monks had?
Did you know that Napaljarri artists include Biddy , Daisy , Susie , Kowai , Wentja , Peggy , Doris , Parara , Eileen , Louisa , Lucy , Helen , Linda , Kitty , Sheila , Valerie , Maggie , Topsy , Nora , Ada , Ngoia , Molly , Mona and Norah ?