kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that the Austrian entomologist Gustav Mayr named more than 500 new species of ant ?
Did you know that Berkeley humorist Alice Kahn described the Grateful Dead 's Jerry Garcia as a "hippie abominable snowman"—and he liked it?
Did you know that the pre-launch test of the mobile game One Piece Bounty Rush had one million players?
Did you know that the private collections of Giuseppe Saverio Poli formed the foundation of the Zoological Museum of Naples ?
Did you know that the Pink Loerie Mardi Gras and Arts Festival celebrates LGBTQ culture with Wigstock events for drag queens , a bear fest, athletic events, and an art festival?
Did you know that former math teacher Dominic Gates won a Pulitzer Prize for his aerospace reporting?
Did you know that the weekly radio show The Northern Messenger read out personal messages from around the world to friends and family in the Arctic who could not be reached in any other way during the winter?
Did you know that in the 2003 ballet Carnival of the Animals , actor John Lithgow appeared as a school nurse and a female elephant?
Did you know that when the Bureau of Medical Services was ordered to shut down all U.S. Public Health Service Hospitals , the director of the Seattle hospital simply refused to stop admitting patients?
Did you know that Keiji Nishioka , a Japanese botanist, was the first foreigner to receive the Bhutanese honorific Dasho ?
Did you know that a 1953 television special broadcast simultaneously on NBC and CBS attracted 60 million viewers and was called "a milestone in the cultural life of the '50s"?
Did you know that visitors leave offerings of makeup and Barbie dolls at a shrine to a German girl who died in Singapore in 1914?
Did you know that the tur pod bug is the most damaging sap-sucking pest of the pigeon pea in India?
Did you know that 130 historians protested the Institute of National Remembrance 's removal of Adam Puławski from his position researching Polish–Jewish relations during World War II?
Did you know that a book about the life of gnomes remained on U.S. non-fiction best-seller lists for more than a year?
Did you know that Mark Davis withdrew from the second 2020 European Masters after his snooker cue was stolen?
Did you know that a makeup artist used a rubber mask and fake nose to age Julie Harris by 60 years in the Emmy-winning "program of the year" Victoria Regina ?
Did you know that the six members of Navika Sagar Parikrama , an all-female crew who circumnavigated the globe, received India's highest adventure award in 2017?
Did you know that Albert Heschong parlayed his childhood interest in model boats and Erector Sets into building huge stage sets, including a $15,000 Victorian house for ABC's Pulitzer Prize Playhouse ?
Did you know that the first of the Punic Wars began in 264 BC, and the third and last ended 118 years later?
Did you know that the New York State Agricultural Society annually recognizes farms that have been owned and operated by one family for a hundred years ?
Did you know that conductor Eugen Szenkar , who promoted works by Béla Bartók and Gustav Mahler in Germany, Russia, and Brazil, caused a "near riot" with the world premiere of The Miraculous Mandarin ?
Did you know that Albert Johnson was the first black mayor in New Mexico ?
Did you know that the fish-for-finance trade-off in EU–UK trade negotiations pits an industry that accounts for nearly seven per cent of the UK's GDP against one with revenues less than those of Harrods ?
Did you know that a ten-day silent retreat led Deradoorian to invite Dave Harrington to collaborate on her 2020 album Find the Sun ?
Did you know that Myra Kathleen Hughes 's Vanishing London series captured several landmarks before they were demolished?
Did you know that "microatolls" of the coral Porites lutea have been used to study past changes in sea level?
Did you know that A Night to Remember , a live broadcast about Titanic 's final night, featured 107 actors and 31 sets, and proved that "TV occasionally can rise to great heights"?
Did you know that cricketer Issy Wong can solve a Rubik's Cube in seconds?
Did you know that Turkey women's national footballer Berivan İçen scored 11 goals in a girls' under-13 league match that ended 15–0 for her team?
Did you know that Wilson Cary Swann organized the construction of several drinking fountains in Philadelphia , in part to stop people from drinking alcohol?
Did you know that (523764) 2014 WC 510 is a binary , trans-Neptunian object that orbits the Sun only once every 245.8 years?
Did you know that Swiss civil engineer Jürg Conzett designed a footbridge that collapsed in a rockslide after three years of use?
Did you know that choreographer Jerome Robbins planned Dances at a Gathering as a pas de deux for two New York City Ballet dancers, but expanded it to five couples?
Did you know that the organ of St. Gallus in Flörsheim was built before the church?
Did you know that photographer Heji Shin created Big Cocks , a series of portraits of roosters that she admired for their "angry cock energy"?
Did you know that Russian Bank , also known as Crapette or Tunj, has been called "probably the best game for two players ever invented"?
Did you know that the name, sound and concept of the album What the Future Holds by Steps derives purely from the lyrics of the title track?
Did you know that state representative Angela Russell introduced legislation to recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Montana ?
Did you know that five-time world chess champion Viswanathan Anand and India's first woman Everest climber Bachendri Pal received the Arjuna Award in the 1980s , then India's highest sporting honour?
Did you know that a dispute between Llywelyn ap Gruffudd and Roger Mortimer over the rebuilding of Cefnllys Castle was one of the factors that led to Edward I's conquest of Wales ?
Did you know that soprano Ilse Helling-Rosenthal , her husband , and two others formed a vocal ensemble that appeared as the soloists in Bruckner's Te Deum at the Leipzig Gewandhaus in 1920?
Did you know that Belgian waffles were introduced to the United States at the 1964 New York World's Fair ?
Did you know that the American tubist Constance Weldon "fell in love with the tuba" after her father brought one home from a pawn shop?
Did you know that the National Covenant was signed after protests possibly started by Jenny Geddes throwing a stool at the dean of St Giles' ?
Did you know that it took until 2009 to determine which of two apostles was the patron of the 14th-century church of St. Jacobi in Werther ?
Did you know that the YouTube channel All Gas No Brakes contains interviews with flat earthers , QAnon adherents, and other groups that its host says represent "true Americana"?
Did you know that French historian Josette Elayi was made a knight of the Legion of Honour by the French government for her works on Phoenician history?
Did you know that My Lonesome Cowboy , a sculpture created by artist Takashi Murakami as a companion to his earlier Hiropon , sold at auction for US$15.1 million – nearly four times the amount at which it had been valued?
Did you know that the New York Tribune Building , once New York City's second tallest building, "vanished almost without a trace, and barely a whimper"?
Did you know that Büşra Kuru , who began playing football every day at age six encouraged by her footballer brother, is a member of a German club and of the Turkey national team ?
Did you know that the Bureau of State Services was broken up to become the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , and parts of two other agencies?
Did you know that Anna Tifu , a violinist from Cagliari , Sardinia, who won the 2007 George Enescu International Competition , plays a 1716 Stradivarius ?
Did you know that the encrusting sponge Clathria aceratoobtusa kills corals?
Did you know that Dances with Wolves was filmed on a 60,000-acre (24,000 ha) ranch owned by L. Roy Houck , a former lieutenant governor of South Dakota ?
Did you know that reprinted editions of the 1989 manga series Okama Report contain a postscript from an LGBT-rights group noting that the series contains exaggerated and inaccurate depictions of LGBT people?
Did you know that former ballet dancer Edward Villella said that when he performed Tarantella , he "would be flying", and then "in the wings, on the ground, gasping for air"?
Did you know that a prominent obituary of Socorro Sánchez , the first feminist journalist in the Dominican Republic, criticized her as "manly" and too political?
Did you know that in public opinion polls, a majority of Americans believe that Jeffrey Epstein's death was a homicide?
Did you know that most editions of the annual Brit Asia TV Music Awards were held in Birmingham , which has been called the " Bhangra capital of the world"?
Did you know that the fossil Rhus garwellii likely hybridized with other sumac species in the Klondike Mountain Formation ?
Did you know that Canadian Amateur Hockey Association president E. A. Gilroy allowed Canadians to play for Great Britain in ice hockey at the 1936 Winter Olympics as a gesture of sportsmanship?
Did you know that limpa , a sweet Scandinavian rye bread, was historically leavened with fermented brewer's wort ?
Did you know that Paul McCartney named a puppy after Brown Meggs , who signed the Beatles to Capitol Records ?
Did you know that Dawa Dem was the first woman to join the Bhutanese civil service and to become a member of the Royal Advisory Council ?
Did you know that sponsors refused to back the lynching story A Town Has Turned to Dust until writer Rod Serling moved the setting out of the South and changed the victim from black to Mexican?
Did you know that Irish Conservative candidate William McCormick won the 1860 Londonderry City by-election partly because of the support of his Catholic workers, who had previously voted for the Liberal Party?
Did you know that Angela Haseltine Pozzi creates large sculptures of marine life out of plastic waste?
Did you know that Wahan Ke Log is one of the earliest science-fiction films made in India?
Did you know that Walther Killy , who wrote his dissertation about Hölderlin 's poems, published a literary lexicon which came to be known as "Der Killy"?
Did you know that the New York World Building , once New York City's tallest building, was demolished to make room for a ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge ?
Did you know that Bernard Fils-Aimé , CEO of the cell carrier Comcel Haiti , was mistaken for Reggie Fils-Aimé by the Miami Herald ?
Did you know that a COVID-19 outbreak at the White House involved at least 35 people, including the President , First Lady , three senators, and a governor ?
Did you know that the number of Tibetan refugees in India decreased by 44 per cent between 2011 and 2018?
Did you know that John H. Hill , born into slavery, was the first African-American lawyer in West Virginia and the second president of West Virginia State University ?
Did you know that xenoracism is a term that describes prejudice within one racial group, such as discrimination against Eastern European migrant workers in Western Europe?
Did you know that the former site of the Majestic Cinema , Leeds , which was gutted by fire in 2014, will become the national headquarters of Channel 4 ?
Did you know that an impromptu sound-check by Dan Bellomy turned into the first track on an album?
Did you know that actor Robert De Niro gained 60 pounds (27 kg) and trained as a boxer for a year to portray Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull ?
Did you know that the title and cover art for Molchat Doma 's 2018 album Etazhi reference the Stalinist and socialist-realist architecture that inspired its lyrical themes?
Did you know that Kathleen Byerly was one of six sailors who sued the U.S. Navy for the right to serve on ships?
Did you know that the yellow sponge Aplysina aerophoba turns blue when exposed to air?
Did you know that in preparation for the ballet Glass Pieces , choreographer Jerome Robbins marked down the structure of Philip Glass 's music on graph paper?
Did you know that Austrian-born Turkish footballer Dilan Yeşim Taşkın became a member of the Turkey women's national team although she initially wanted to play for the Austrian national team ?
Did you know that two weeks after the owner of a Kansas City television station declared that " KCIT-TV is here to stay", it ceased broadcasting?
Did you know that the commercial success of Juluka 's " Scatterlings of Africa " enabled band co-founder Johnny Clegg to leave his academic position as an anthropologist and become a full-time musician?
Did you know that the Santa Fe Freight Building in Fort Worth, Texas , was redeveloped as a market space with restaurants in 2002 and then as a university satellite campus in 2007?
Did you know that the Global Certification Commission has certified the eradication of wild poliovirus in five of the six WHO regions , with the exception of the Eastern Mediterranean Region?
Did you know that political consultant Andy Spahn said that Cuba is "nothing like" how it has been portrayed by U.S. politicians?
Did you know that " Einer ist unser Leben " ("One is our Life"), a hymn with text written by Lothar Zenetti in 1973, was recommended for a regional ecumenical service in 2020?
Did you know that a 1998 inquest found that the killing of Alton Manning was unlawful , and a judicial review found that the decision to not bring charges was flawed, but no charges have yet been filed?
Did you know that when the 2,500-seat Bridges Auditorium was completed in Claremont, California , in 1931, its capacity was equal to the population of the entire city?
Did you know that the 1936 film Hearts in Bondage is a rare example of a Hollywood film depicting naval battles of the Civil War ?
Did you know that Gerhard Weber signed tennis player Steffi Graf , at age 17 and before her international success, as an ambassador for the fashion brand Gerry Weber that he co-founded?
Did you know that the Soviet Union called The Plot to Kill Stalin "filthy slander" and retaliated by closing the CBS news bureau in Moscow?
Did you know that Hans Ustrud was the first native-born South Dakotan to be elected to statewide office?
Did you know that all that can be seen of Thyone roscovita is often a plume of branching tentacles?
Did you know that aerobics pioneer Jacki Sorensen was voted the best dancer in the 1962 Miss California pageant?
Did you know that the British Board of Film Classification was forced to watch paint dry ?
Did you know that today's London Marathon is not being run on its usual course, but instead as 19.6 laps around St James's Park , to prevent spectators from attending?
Did you know that Aran Bell , who was profiled at age 11 in the dance documentary First Position , became a principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre at age 21?
Did you know that despite being very aggressive towards other ants, the common pugnacious ant is tolerant towards ants of its own species from other colonies?
Did you know that Kanye West used an extended version of his track " Jesus Is Lord " under the title of "Every Knee Shall Bow" for his film Jesus Is King ?
Did you know that Myint Myint Khin , a professor at the Institute of Medicine, Mandalay , and a WHO consultant, published her first English-language poetry collection at age 89?
Did you know that the decommissioned minesweeper USS Lucid was used as a floating warehouse by a scrap-metal dealer on Bradford Island for 18 years?
Did you know that women called Honey Badgers are among the most prominent men's rights activists ?
Did you know that scientist Emma Teeling of the BatLab in Dublin studies a genus of bats which do not appear to die of old age?
Did you know that the Excelsior Power Company Building , the oldest known surviving power plant in Manhattan , now contains apartments?
Did you know that mezzo-soprano Marina de Gabaráin appeared as Bizet's Carmen in Scotland, and as Rossini's La Cenerentola in Glyndebourne in 1952, recorded the following year?
Did you know that step aerobics attracted 11.4 million people in 1995?
Did you know that New York's Continental Iron Works , founded in 1861 by Thomas F. Rowland , built the Union Navy warship that engaged in the first battle between ironclads ?
Did you know that in the early 20th century, residents of Mġarr , Malta, were encouraged to contribute eggs to raise funds for the construction of their parish church ?
Did you know that The Ghost and the Guest is one in a long line of Hollywood films that validate skepticism about paranormal activity by depicting "a haunted house that is not truly haunted"?
Did you know that a former department store building in New York City was converted into a graduate school, publisher's offices, and research library?
Did you know that when Annette Jahns portrayed Bettina von Arnim in an opera by Friedrich Schenker , the role required her to scream as well as sing?
Did you know that unauthorized persons are not allowed to go to Hooks Island ?
Did you know that The Lodger , released in 1913, was the first fictional work based on the story of the serial killer known as Jack the Ripper ?
Did you know that President Franklin D. Roosevelt regarded Senator Huey Long of Louisiana as "one of the two most dangerous men in America"?
Did you know that according to the superseded Catholic doctrine that " error has no rights ", non-Catholics did not deserve civil or political rights?
Did you know that traditional English singer Pop Maynard was also captain of a world-champion marbles team?
Did you know that Polish-French author Anna Langfus , a Holocaust survivor, wrote novels that had her own life experiences interwoven into the fiction?
Did you know that the 1960 television play Sacco-Vanzetti Story was called "one of the most controversial ever seen on television"?
Did you know that Robert Burg , a leading baritone at the Semperoper in Dresden between the First and Second World Wars, performed the title roles of Busoni's Doktor Faust and Hindemith's Cardillac there?
Did you know that as one of its campus traditions , Pomona College reveres the number 47 , having the bell in its clock tower chime on the 47th minute of the hour?
Did you know that the Maratha Empire 's direct rule came to an end in the Carnatic region when Murari Rao surrendered to Nizam I after the 1743 siege of Trichinopoly ?
Did you know that Bill Nation rejected an attempt by the American Nazi Party to establish a headquarters in Cheyenne, Wyoming ?
Did you know that after an erotic encounter with a young wife in London's Seething Lane , diarist Samuel Pepys bought the lady eight pairs of gloves?
Did you know that the Eocene -age plant Paraconcavistylon was described from a "Rosetta Stone" fossil?
Did you know that as an advisor to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Paul Alexander tried unsuccessfully to tell Dr. Anthony Fauci what he could and could not say about the coronavirus ?
Did you know that Greece is the only state to have left the Council of Europe ?
Did you know that the owners of Florida radio station WPAS blamed an Associated Press teletype machine for starting a fire that burned it down?
Did you know that the Madison Belmont Building contains one of the first Art Deco designs in a building in the United States?
Did you know that Leon Uris called Rod Serling 's In the Presence of Mine Enemies "the most disgusting presentation in the history of American television" and demanded that the negative be burned?
Did you know that " Macht weit die Pforten in der Welt ", written for the Basel Mission , was included with a new melody in Kirchenlied to proclaim Christ the King in opposition to the Nazi regime?
Did you know that the press conference held at a Philadelphia landscaping company by Donald Trump's presidential campaign has inspired a virtual charity run to be held today?
Did you know that a foundation set up by Pragya Prasun has supported more than 250 survivors of acid attacks ?
Did you know that although " O Captain! My Captain! ", written on the death of Abraham Lincoln , was one of Walt Whitman 's most popular poems, he grew to be "almost sorry" he wrote it?
Did you know that the Overa-Aru Wildlife Sanctuary lies within the distributional range of the critically endangered Kashmir stag ?
Did you know that social activist Lee Hyo-jae 's efforts helped abolish South Korea's patriarchal naming system, allowing people to use both parents' surnames?
Did you know that the old baptismal font of the Vaxholm Church became a bird bath ?
Did you know that in 1997, Princess Diana donated her entire wardrobe to a charity auction organized by AIDS activist Marguerite Littman , which raised more than $3 million?
Did you know that the lady beetle Cryptognatha nodiceps helps control coconut scales and coconut whiteflies ?
Did you know that Judah Leib Ben-Ze'ev composed the earliest known Hebrew erotic poems of the modern era?
Did you know that during the 2018 Grande Tema incident , four stowaways threw faeces and urine and made threats to kill the ship's crew?
Did you know that 13 years after it was initially announced, Jay Electronica released his album Act II: The Patents of Nobility (The Turn) because it had leaked online ?
Did you know that although he was the eldest son of Byzantine emperor Andronikos I Komnenos , Manuel Komnenos was not named as heir, as he opposed his father's policies?
Did you know that Major will be the first rescue dog to live in the White House ?
Did you know that the ancient city of Prusias ad Hypium in Asia Minor was visited by the Roman emperors Hadrian , Caracalla , and Elagabalus ?
Did you know that years before their Neon Genesis Evangelion series became famous, Gainax 's first anime, Royal Space Force , was marketed in Japan by staging a Hollywood premiere?
Did you know that National Lacrosse Hall of Fame member Denise Wescott also coached the Germany women's national lacrosse team?
Did you know that the Hokersar wetland is the largest bird reserve in the Kashmir Valley ?
Did you know that the Japanese mezzo-soprano Mihoko Fujimura , who appeared as Fricka at the Bayreuth Festival in 2002, toured Mahler's Resurrection Symphony with the CBSO conducted by Andris Nelsons ?
Did you know that the Columbus Quincentenary was a turning point for how the world remembered Christopher Columbus?
Did you know that the ǃUriǁʼaekua used their cattle to defeat the Portuguese Empire decisively at the Battle of Salt River ?
Did you know that Leda Valladares produced a "Musical Map of Argentina" to document her country's folk music traditions?
Did you know that an estimated tens of thousands of U.S. federal workers could lose due-process job protections by being shifted into Schedule F appointments ?
Did you know that firefighters were able to save the campground at Alaska's Hidden Lake from the 2019 Swan Lake Fire by creating a back burn with driptorches ?
Did you know that the video game Serious Sam Advance simulates 3D computer graphics on the Game Boy Advance ?
Did you know that in For the beauty of the earth , a 1978 anthem for choir and orchestra, John Rutter gave a 19th-century hymn text a new melody, marking it to be sung "Happily"?
Did you know that the 17th-century Maine magistrate Richard Bonython tried his own son?
Did you know that the crown of the General Electric Building in Midtown Manhattan contains Gothic tracery and four 50-foot-tall (15 m) electric deities?
Did you know that the 1990 Hindi film Drishti , which follows the story of a married couple who divorce and later meet again, has been praised for its "harsh look at monogamy"?
Did you know that 19th-century Mormonism embraced the desire for a slow, dramatic, "beautiful death" with plenty of witnesses?
Did you know that Pierre Bleuse , who learned conducting after a career as a violinist, was chosen by composer Michael Jarrell to lead his opera Cassandre , starring Fanny Ardant ?
Did you know that the Fijian fruit fly feeds on the yum-yum tree ?
Did you know that two Royal Navy ships named HMS Surly were launched within a year of each other: an 1855 mortar vessel and an 1856 gunboat ?
Did you know that American diplomat John B. Stetson Jr. gave a book bound in human skin to Harvard's Houghton Library ?
Did you know that in Ainu mythology , it is believed that a gigantic octopus god lives in Uchiura Bay ?