kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that although Saluche was blacklisted by the Unity Labour Party for his political jokes, the ULP prime minister attended his funeral?
Did you know that the costumes of the ballet In Creases are modified from old leotards from another ballet and unused unitards ?
Did you know that Maddalena Mariani Masi performed the title role of Ponchielli's La Gioconda in the 1876 world premiere at La Scala ?
Did you know that the Book of Ezekiel prophesied Nebuchadnezzar II 's Siege of Tyre , which lasted 13 years?
Did you know that despite opposing the establishment of Georgetown College , Francis Neale later became its president?
Did you know that the Israeli Nazis and Nazi Collaborators (Punishment) Law was intended to punish Holocaust survivors rather than Holocaust perpetrators?
Did you know that an estimated 12 percent of those who voted for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 presidential primaries voted for Donald Trump in the general election ?
Did you know that German native Marianne Ignace is helping to preserve indigenous languages in British Columbia?
Did you know that Giovanni's Room both influenced and appears in the 2020 novel Swimming in the Dark , a gay love story set in the last years of the Polish People's Republic ?
Did you know that Jerome Robbins was commissioned by the New York City Ballet to choreograph the ballet Fanfare in celebration of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II ?
Did you know that James Bond introduced himself for the first time on film at Les Ambassadeurs Club ?
Did you know that although the suffix automaton , a data structure used in computer science , was introduced in 1983, it appeared in a 1973 scholarly article as an auxiliary structure?
Did you know that when he is sworn in next year, Mark Robinson will become the first Black lieutenant governor of North Carolina ?
Did you know that the Gulmarg Wildlife Sanctuary acts as a natural corridor in the movement of the Himalayan brown bear and markhor between Poonch and the Kashmir Valley forests?
Did you know that the architect who was hired to remodel 5 Columbus Circle 's lower stories later expressed regret for the renovation?
Did you know that Rui Pinto uncovered four terabytes of confidential information about association football finances despite having no formal education in computer science?
Did you know that the development of the video game Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope was affected by two developers suffering injuries during a football match?
Did you know that Victor Jory 's first major screen role as a lecherous landlord in the 1933 film Sailor's Luck was praised as "deliciously slimy" and "insanely funny"?
Did you know that the British conspiracy-theory and Holocaust-denial group Keep Talking unites the far right and far left?
Did you know that after 28 years away from public media, José Antonio Álvarez Lima was tapped in 2019 to head the Mexican television channel Canal Once ?
Did you know that one reviewer of the book The South's Finest called it "chronically and annoyingly" melodramatic?
Did you know that table-tennis player Isabelle Li received a standing ovation despite losing the final at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics ?
Did you know that only the refrain of " Herr, wir bringen in Brot und Wein ", a 1970 offertory hymn written after Huub Oosterhuis , appeared in the first edition of Gotteslob , but the complete text in the second ?
Did you know that the Royal Navy cutter HMS Surly carried almost £96,000 in coin between Dublin and London in 1825?
Did you know that Pawnee professional roller skater Bright Star was called "the fastest man on wheels"?
Did you know that Fulper Pottery produced a precursor to the modern water cooler named the Germ-Proof Filter?
Did you know that the Polish public-television film Invasion "depicted LGBT rights activists as a foreign-backed threat to Polish children, religion, values, and the very biological continuation of the nation"?
Did you know that before Carole Dawn Reinhart was appointed professor of trumpet at the Vienna Music Academy , she performed in several of Al Hirt 's Fanfare shows in 1965?
Did you know that the Gozo Phoenician shipwreck excavation is the first maritime archaeological survey to explore sunken vessels beyond a depth of 100 metres (330 ft)?
Did you know that Edgar Claxton helped set up electrification of the UK mainline railway in the 1960s, and was awarded an MBE ?
Did you know that the character of Swiss-type cheeses comes from originally being made on high alpage pastures, as part of the historic culture of Alpine transhumance ?
Did you know that German children's author Kirsten Boie has published more than 100 books?
Did you know that bishop Hermann of Schleswig was never actually bishop of Schleswig ?
Did you know that Cleveland Indigenous activist Sundance successfully petitioned Oberlin High School in Ohio to change its school mascot from the Indians to the Phoenix in 2007?
Did you know that a Carthaginian army trapped 40,000 rebels and starved them into cannibalism before attacking and killing every man at the Battle of the Saw ?
Did you know that Moneyball depicted Grady Fuson being fired by the Oakland Athletics , though in reality he left voluntarily?
Did you know that the Japanese rock band Real spells its name with the Cyrillic letter Я to indicate a desire to show the band's "real inside and outside"?
Did you know that Daisy Yen Wu helped establish the new field of nutrition research at Peking Union Medical College ?
Did you know that the world's first fusion reactor was called the Diffusion Inhibitor so managers at NACA would not know what it was?
Did you know that the Moriguchi Route in Osaka has a mini rest area on one of its entrance ramps?
Did you know that American fashion designer Michelle Smith created the dress chosen for Michelle Obama’s official portrait ?
Did you know that the Marri rose in rebellion in Balochistan in 1918 because they heard rumours of British defeats in the First World War ?
Did you know that Jean Ritchie formed her own record label "out of self-defense" following distribution problems with None but One ?
Did you know that Anna Hájková says her research into LGBT people and the Holocaust "shows a more complex, more human, and more real society beyond monsters and saints"?
Did you know that the parasitic wasp Diadegma semiclausum can help to control the diamondback moth , a pest that has become resistant to many insecticides?
Did you know that John R. Casani used to carry the Pioneer 3 and Pioneer 4 spacecraft in a suitcase?
Did you know that a rare microscope designed by Joseph Zentmayer is on display at the Delaware County Institute of Science ?
Did you know that the unusual given name of Chilean travel writer Maipina de la Barra commemorates the Battle of Maipú , in which her father fought?
Did you know that one of the inhabited initials of the 12th-century Necrologium Lundense illuminated manuscript shows influences from Viking art ?
Did you know that former NCAA president Judith Sweet chose to pursue a career in physical education following a blind date?
Did you know that the 1906–1907 weekly Der nayer veg ( The New Path ) contained some of the earliest critical scholarly writings on Yiddish language and literature?
Did you know that First World War flying ace Max Näther was appointed as commander of his squadron at age 18?
Did you know that the theme tune to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is actually an Eagles song?
Did you know that Faustas Latėnas , vice-minister of Lithuania's Ministry of Culture , composed incidental music , film scores, and a string quartet subtitled "In loving memory"?
Did you know that though it received mixed reviews at its release in 1987, Floodland by the Sisters of Mercy is now considered an essential gothic rock album?
Did you know that despite the biggest missing-person investigation in the history of the Toronto Police Service , no physical evidence regarding the 1985 disappearance of Nicole Morin was ever found?
Did you know that the ballet Hurry Up, We're Dreaming is performed in sneakers?
Did you know that serial entrepreneur John Teeling broke the monopoly in Irish whiskey held by Irish Distillers by launching Cooley Distillery ?
Did you know that a newly discovered species of green pit viper, Trimeresurus salazar , was named after Salazar Slytherin from the Harry Potter series?
Did you know that the Polish Kresy myth has been compared to the American myth of the Wild West and the German nostalgia for East Prussia?
Did you know that Newton Collins was enslaved, manumitted , re-enslaved, and emancipated before becoming a successful businessman and landowner?
Did you know that although the bronze-leaved clerodendrum is an ornamental garden shrub, it sometimes becomes naturalised and may become an invasive species ?
Did you know that " Levels " samples the intro from the Etta James song " Something's Got a Hold on Me "?
Did you know that Busiri Suryowinoto was the first governor to propose splitting the province of Papua ?
Did you know that the early French science-fiction novel Memoirs of the Year 2500 was one of the most popular titles of the 18th century, despite being banned by the Holy See and the Inquisition ?
Did you know that as part of a famous priority dispute , E. T. Whittaker's 1953 book claimed that Henri Poincaré and Hendrik Lorentz developed the theory of special relativity before Albert Einstein ?
Did you know that journalist Robert Sam Anson , assigned to cover boxer Joe Frazier , instead got into the ring with him and suffered a broken leg or dislocated shoulder as a result?
Did you know that a fatberg heavier than an African elephant was removed from a sewer beneath Cadogan Place ?
Did you know that author and book reviewer Janice Harayda started an all-woman church service in New York City in 1974?
Did you know that the video game I Hate Running Backwards was named after a quote from the Serious Sam series?
Did you know that Dámasa Cabezón was contracted by the Bolivian government to establish a school for girls in La Paz after having done so in Santiago de Chile ?
Did you know that Georgies is known as "the gay Cheers "?
Did you know that at the Siege of Tunis , a Carthaginian general was crucified on the same cross to which he had previously nailed a rebel leader ?
Did you know that William E. Miller was awarded the Medal of Honor after disobeying orders during the Battle of Gettysburg ?
Did you know that Kylie Minogue was credited as co-writer for the first time on her third studio album Rhythm of Love ?
Did you know that knowing only a surname and a continent, author Hanoch Teller tracked down a boy photographed at the liberation of Auschwitz 70 years earlier for the award-winning cover of Heroic Children ?
Did you know that Arkansas poet laureate Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni had her poems published in more than 900 U.S. and international publications?
Did you know that in a 2009 case , the U.S. Supreme Court held that a group of school officials violated the U.S. Constitution when they strip-searched a 13-year-old middle-school student?
Did you know that the scholarship of Nyasha Junior on the life of Moses has been described as a starting point for how he can be viewed as a subject of feminist inquiry?
Did you know that when iceberg A-38 calved from the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf in 1998, it carried a German research station with it?
Did you know that Marion Hartog founded the first Jewish women's periodical in 1855?
Did you know that the city flag of Columbus, Ohio , is undergoing a redesign process due to its heavy use of Christopher Columbus imagery?
Did you know that a fire destroyed 70,000 Jōmon period artifacts found at the Ōfune Site ?
Did you know that after qualifying on the pole at a late-model stock car race, Ty Majeski chose to start at the rear for a chance to win more money—and won the race?
Did you know that in The Cellist , a ballet about cellist Jacqueline du Pré , the cello is personified by a male dancer?
Did you know that Joyryde finished three songs for his album Brave while recovering from lower back surgery?
Did you know that Joseph Paduano , the minority floor leader in the Philippine congress , began his political career in the military wing of the Revolutionary Workers' Party under a nom de guerre ?
Did you know that shortly after the Improved United Kingdom Air Defence Ground Environment radar network was ready for action "a mere six years" late, the Ministry of Defence had already started looking to replace it?
Did you know that the case of Adelia Silva , an Afro-Uruguayan teacher who was removed from three different schools due to her race, generated national attention and disciplinary action against one of the principals?
Did you know that Jon Pardi had each song on California Sunrise recorded with a full band to create the feel of a live recording and carry the "traditional country soul"?
Did you know that "as Pembroke a horseman by most is accounted, 'tis not strange that his Lordship a Hunter has mounted"?
Did you know that a Jewish girl from Jerusalem became an acclaimed performer of Indian , Javanese , Balinese , and other ethnic dance forms in the United States?
Did you know that 100 war elephants led the Carthaginian assault on a rebel camp at the Battle of Utica ?
Did you know that four days after participating in a 12-hour-long legislative session, Joel Molina Ramírez became the first Mexican senator to die of COVID-19 ?
Did you know that when it changed hands in 2019, a "mega condo" in 220 Central Park South became the most expensive residence ever sold in the United States?
Did you know that Yemeni poet Fatima al-Suqutriyya saved the island of Socotra by writing a qasida to Imam al-Ṣalt ibn Mа̄lik requesting military help?
Did you know that claims that Super Mario Bros. 35 was a stolen concept from fan game Super Mario Royale were denied by the developer ?
Did you know that Mustafa Akıncı , the incumbent President of Northern Cyprus , claimed he was threatened by Turkish authorities in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election ?
Did you know that epidemiologist J. Michael Lane , who played a leading role in the global eradication of smallpox , trekked across the United States from Atlanta to Seattle at the age of 79?
Did you know that the melody of the children's song " Kommt ein Vogel geflogen " ("Comes a Bird Flown") was used by Siegfried Ochs for variations in the styles of different classical composers?
Did you know that the Swedish archaeologist Birger Nerman excavated a Scandinavian settlement at Grobiņa , Latvia, which predates the Viking Age ?
Did you know that the ballet The Runaway is partly inspired by hip-hop dance but performed in pointe shoes ?
Did you know that Harold Jarman scored in the first match ever played in the Football League Cup ?
Did you know that in 2017, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History discovered that its 19th-century diorama Lion Attacking a Dromedary contained a human skull?
Did you know that the establishment of KVZK-TV led to the electrification of many villages in American Samoa ?
Did you know that four-term Uruguayan senator Alba Roballo was also an award-winning poet with a rebellious spirit?
Did you know that the Khalili Collection of Enamels of the World includes a throne table made for the 18th-century Qianlong Emperor ?
Did you know that Laurence Olivier won an Emmy for his role as a London stockbroker, Parisian artist, and Tahitian leper in The Moon and Sixpence ?
Did you know that some of the students of yeshivas in World War II were exiled to the remote Komi Republic to do forced labor?
Did you know that Vijayalakshmi Ramanan , the first woman officer of the Indian Air Force , custom-tailored her uniform as there were no specific uniforms for women when she joined the force?
Did you know that in the early use of intravenous therapy , attempts were made to inject milk, sugar, honey, and egg yolk into a person's veins?
Did you know that Marla Berkowitz considers herself a sumain , meaning someone who communicates using their hands?
Did you know that a playlist of budots music features excerpts from speeches of Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte ?
Did you know that a 14-foot (4.3 m) steel cutout of Donald Trump stands outside the Trump House in Latrobe, Pennsylvania ?
Did you know that Gudrun Schröfel , the longtime choral conductor of the Mädchenchor Hannover and a professor at the Musikhochschule Hannover , received the Lower Saxony State Prize in 2015?
Did you know that Blue and Red are proposed to meet at Boston's Charles/MGH station ?
Did you know that John Djopari 's book about the Free Papua Movement was banned by the Indonesian government , even though the book incorporates material from the Indonesian Army ?
Did you know that a 2010 study found 1,000 people living in Al-Ghuraba cemetery in Tripoli, Lebanon?
Did you know that Christian Flor , described in a 1740 encyclopedia as a famous organist from Lüneburg , composed settings of Bible verses for collections, and one of the earliest Passion oratorios ?
Did you know that Ingrid Bergman won Emmy and Sylvania Awards for her world television debut in John Frankenheimer 's horror movie The Turn of the Screw ?
Did you know that the mayors of Prague, Bratislava, Warsaw, and Budapest signed the Pact of Free Cities in December 2019?
Did you know that John F. McCarthy Jr. headed a group that suggested modifications to the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy that tripled the structural life of the aircraft?
Did you know that Dua Lipa and The Blessed Madonna 's remix album Club Future Nostalgia was crafted in two months during lockdown protocols associated with the COVID-19 pandemic?
Did you know that state representative Patricia Haynes Smith worked with a gay rights group to decriminalize sodomy in Louisiana ?
Did you know that it is impossible to draw water from Robin Hood's Well ?
Did you know that Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! is the first boys' love series published in English by Square Enix ?
Did you know that Saadet İkesus Altan studied music in Berlin, performed as a mezzo-soprano in Germany, and became the first female vocal coach and opera director in Turkey after her return home in 1941?
Did you know that in a speech after the 1901 FA Cup Final , General Sir Redvers Buller compared football to the Army by saying that the winning side is usually the one best practised at shooting?
Did you know that the World Health Organization 's Weekly Epidemiological Record reports on neglected tropical diseases ?
Did you know that linguistics professor and environmentalist Winfred P. Lehmann donated 160 acres (65 ha) of land in Travis County , Texas, to The Nature Conservancy ?
Did you know that two of the British Type 42 destroyers from the 1982 Exercise Spring Train would be sunk later that year in the Falklands War ?
Did you know that the company responsible for the Miss Spider children's series also produced Sex by Madonna ?
Did you know that Edgar C. Polomé established Africa's most advanced phonetics laboratory at the University of Lubumbashi ?
Did you know that the Gulmarg Golf Club in Kashmir , situated at an altitude of 2,650 metres (8,690 ft) above sea level, is the highest green golf course in the world?
Did you know that an HPV prevention group focuses on preventing cervical cancer by promoting the sharing of information on cervical screening and HPV vaccination ?
Did you know that Dieter Ruehle , stadium organist for the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Los Angeles Kings , has played for three championship teams in three different sports?
Did you know that the potential of a large landslide and resulting tsunami at Cumbre Vieja volcano attracted considerable attention?
Did you know that the ballet Corybantic Games marked the first time Erdem Moralıoğlu had designed costumes for men?
Did you know that World War II veteran Millie Bailey went skydiving to celebrate her 102nd birthday?
Did you know that the extinct wheel-tree leaf species T. postnastae and fruit species T. rosayi are possibly from the same plant?
Did you know that Ukrainian-born Stefania Berlinerblau was one of the first Jewish women to practice surgery in the United States?
Did you know that a 2019 book argues that the Armenian Genocide was part of a larger genocide which targeted all of the Christian minorities in the Ottoman Empire?
Did you know that the State-of-the-Art Car was designed to run on portions of five different subway systems?
Did you know that the film roles of Nepali actor Dayahang Rai include a crime boss, a Maoist , the suspected killer of a popular communist leader , a police officer, and a bank robber?
Did you know that the Carpentras Stele , the first ancient Semitic inscription ever published, was originally thought to be Phoenician but is actually ancient Aramaic ?
Did you know that Price's Lost Campaign: The 1864 Invasion of Missouri challenged the Lost Cause myth that Confederate soldiers did not engage in total war during Price's Raid ?
Did you know that Malcolm Todd uncovered a previously unrecognised Roman occupation at the Iron Age hillfort in Hembury ?
Did you know that the world's first simultaneous heart-and-liver organ transplant was performed in 1984 at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh ?
Did you know that hundreds of academics signed a letter opposing the "coordinated harassment campaign by the Polish ruling party" against law professor Wojciech Sadurski ?
Did you know that Variations for Cello Solo , premiered by the composer Graham Waterhouse in Vienna in 2020, depicts characteristics of the members of his family?
Did you know that James Biggart 's election to the Legislative Council of Trinidad and Tobago was viewed by Tobagonian planters as lowering their social standing, because it meant that they were represented by a person of African descent?
Did you know that Ted Heath stated "rejoice, rejoice" at the 1990 resignation of Margaret Thatcher, echoing words she had used after the 1982 recapture of South Georgia ?
Did you know that the tiny parasitic wasp Metaphycus helvolus has helped control a major pest of citrus, Mediterranean black scale , in California and Australia?
Did you know that several Collegiate Gothic buildings were constructed during W. Coleman Nevils 's presidency of Georgetown University as part of his revival of the "Greater Georgetown" plan?
Did you know that despite its name, the 11th-century Emperor's Bible is not a Bible?
Did you know that musician Sufjan Stevens , who initially disliked ballet , allowed his music to be used in Year of the Rabbit after choreographer Justin Peck invited him to various performances?
Did you know that Turkish voice actress Adalet Cimcoz opened and curated her country's first and only woman-owned private art gallery?
Did you know that the minbar of the Ibrahimi Mosque in the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron was originally made for a Fatimid shrine in Ashkelon ?
Did you know that Edward G. Faile raised prize-winning cattle in what is now The Bronx ?
Did you know that James Nathan Calloway , born in slavery in Tennessee, established an experimental cotton-growing farm in Togo?
Did you know that Dua Lipa created the music video for her 2020 song " Hallucinate " with teams working in London, Paris, and Los Angeles?
Did you know that Ibaqa Beki was briefly married to Genghis Khan , who abruptly gave her to one of his generals, possibly as a reward to that general for killing her father?
Did you know that the date of Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court nomination – September 26, 2020 – was the nearest to a presidential election in U.S. history?
Did you know that the Battle of Roan's Tan Yard ended Missouri State Guard recruiting activities in Randolph County ?
Did you know that "All Praise and Glad Thanksgiving" is sung to the hymn tune of " Gott Vater, sei gepriesen "?
Did you know that a radio interview with Swedish police chief Mats Löfving was described as "a bombshell"?
Did you know that as a lobbyist for Bacardi , Otto Reich , a former U.S. ambassador to Venezuela , played a role in passing legislation that stripped trademark protection from Havana Club rum?
Did you know that the 2013 Nepali historical drama Badhshala was briefly banned by the Nepali Army because the actors wore military uniforms without permission?