kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that horse racing became so popular in Thailand that in 1949 the government ordered the Royal Turf Club and the Royal Bangkok Sports Club to alternate months holding races?
Did you know that Greta Arwidsson , Sweden's first female professor of Scandinavian and Comparative Archaeology, turned to the subject while excavating the Valsgärde boat graves in school?
Did you know that the Scottish Triple Qualification allowed doctors fleeing Nazi oppression to practise medicine in Britain?
Did you know that ice hockey coach Gregg Pilling attempted to serve a penalty himself, instead of putting a player in the penalty box ?
Did you know that the diet of the semi-aquatic Chaco marsh rat includes sugar cane, rice and bananas?
Did you know that on his election in 2017, Alexander Curtis was thought to be the youngest mayor in Europe at only 20 years old?
Did you know that Oleta Crain , one of only three black women officers in training in the U.S. Army in 1943, was not allowed to sleep in the same barracks or take a shower at the same time as the white women?
Did you know that Romania won its only Winter Olympics medal at the 1968 Games in Grenoble , France?
Did you know that Simon Dale lived mainly in the kitchen and one bedroom of his 50-room Hopton Heath mansion, where he was found bludgeoned to death?
Did you know that the first public meeting of the Catholic Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania was chaired by a bishop and drew a crowd of more than 500 people?
Did you know that professional cyclist Marcel Wüst had to end his road bicycle racing career after an accident left him blind in one eye?
Did you know that before becoming a prehistorian , Hans-Jürgen Häßler lived in a refugee camp and trained as a plumber?
Did you know that in Sean Penn ' s satirical novel Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff , Honey advocates the assassination of the US President, "Mr. Landlord", who resembles Donald Trump ?
Did you know that the Vidames de Chartres included a song-writing crusader , a glamorous Renaissance courtier , a writer of famous memoirs , and a banker who was guillotined ?
Did you know that the Easter hymn " Das Grab ist leer, der Held erwacht " (The tomb is empty, the hero awake) from 1777 has been called a hit among church songs?
Did you know that after being sentenced to death for resisting the Romanian military intervention, the Moldavian officer Anatolie Popa was pardoned and offered a position in the Romanian Army?
Did you know that U.S. Vice President Al Gore smashed a glass ashtray on the Late Show with David Letterman to advocate for simplified government acquisition procedures ?
Did you know that as of 2009, the highest location where crustaceans had been discovered was in the crater lake of Paniri ?
Did you know that the Ocean City Life-Saving Station , opened in 1886, was owned by the United States Coast Guard and its predecessor until 1945, when it was sold to become a private residence?
Did you know that Edward Frank Gillett competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics the year after he died?
Did you know that in 2005, Kyrgyz politician Anvar Artykov was elected as a "people's governor" of Osh Region , only to be detained a day later by the police?
Did you know that Low Country Sound operates out of historic RCA Studio A in Nashville, Tennessee ?
Did you know that footballer Chris Sander was the first Cardiff City player to save two penalties during the same match?
Did you know that the Airports Act 1986 created the private company BAA from a public aviation authority?
Did you know that the species description for the mite Afropolonia tgifi was likely only approved because the journal's editors were unfamiliar with the expression " TGIF " ("Thank God It's Friday")?
Did you know that Charles Green excavated burial mounds near Stonehenge ?
Did you know that Bill Gates has participated in the RedditGifts gift exchange service for five years, with the username "thisisbillgates"?
Did you know that the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit , Michigan, was the first factory where more than 100 cars were assembled in one day?
Did you know that Minister Dein , a loyalist of King Binnya U of Hanthawaddy , escaped execution by King Razadarit by telling the new king that his only "crime was being a servant of your father, the king"?
Did you know that the American superhero film Thor: Ragnarok features elements from the comic book storyline " Planet Hulk "?
Did you know that Mary A. Monroe was the first woman to serve as president of the Washington Education Association ?
Did you know that Both Lives Matter ran an advertising campaign in 2017 with billboards featuring the headline "100,000 people are alive today because of our laws on abortion. Why change that?"
Did you know that Paralympic silver-medal winning snowboarder Patrick Mayrhofer was the first person in the world to undergo elective amputation to get a bionic hand prosthesis ?
Did you know that National Book Award finalist Jason Reynolds was inspired by Queen Latifah to begin writing poetry when he was nine years old?
Did you know that in his Clarinet Sonata in G minor , composer Ferdinand Ries provided the opportunity for improvised cadenzas ?
Did you know that an automobile graveyard in Georgia , United States, has become an open-air art gallery?
Did you know that the three-gap theorem explains both the spacing of leaves on plant stems and the intervals between adjacent tones in certain musical tuning systems?
Did you know that Nicole Girard-Mangin , the first woman doctor to serve in the French army, was initially paid at the same rate as a nurse?
Did you know that the video game Harlem Globetrotters: World Tour does not feature the Washington Generals , even though they have been the Globetrotters ' traditional rival for over 50 years?
Did you know that George Smith left money to establish a school for poor children named Smith ?
Did you know that Benjamin Ladraa embarked on a 4,800-kilometre (3,000 mi) trek from Sweden to Jerusalem to raise awareness of rights violations in the West Bank ?
Did you know that investigators allege Libyan influence in the 2007 French elections was partly accomplished by laundering money from the sale of paintings by 17th-century Dutch artist Andries van Eertvelt ?
Did you know that Ordinaire , a wine bar in Oakland, California , opened while its owner was writing a dissertation on the sense of taste in modernist literature ?
Did you know that Fatima Zohra Ardjoune became the first female general in the Arab world in 2009?
Did you know that in the United States, it is estimated that for every dollar spent on prison education , $4 to $5 is saved due to decreases in recidivism ?
Did you know that Pope Alexander VIII , elected in 1689 , was the first Venetian in over 200 years to become pope?
Did you know that Chris Caple , an artefact conservationist , began archaeological excavations at the age of 14?
Did you know that Li Qiang , the communications head of the Chinese Communist Party's intelligence agency, was forced to take refuge in the Soviet Union after the defection of his friend, the head of the assassination team?
Did you know that " Nun jauchzt dem Herren, alle Welt ", a 1646 paraphrase of Psalm 100 by David Denicke , appears in current Protestant and Catholic hymnals?
Did you know that Jesse Gabriel has sued the Trump Administration on behalf of young immigrants previously protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy?
Did you know that the first humorous novel in Gujarati literature was Bhadrambhadra by Ramanbhai Neelkanth ?
Did you know that footballer Hossam Ashour is the most decorated Al Ahly player in the club's history?
Did you know that one of New York City's newest parks was partially built using industrial materials from an abandoned sugar factory ?
Did you know that actor Tony Clay was asked "Dude, what have you done?" on Twitter when his EastEnders character, Halfway , shot a popular character?
Did you know that the 2018 Osaka earthquake disrupted train services during the morning rush hour , forcing passengers to walk between the tracks?
Did you know that funding for Celia Brackenridge 's research into child protection in football was ended because the sport "was not ready for a gay former lacrosse international rummaging through its dirty linen"?
Did you know that the multi-armed Heliaster helianthus sheds several of its arms when attacked by the six-armed predatory starfish Meyenaster gelatinosus ?
Did you know that if elected, Democratic candidate Deb Haaland would be the first Native American woman to become a member of the United States House of Representatives ?
Did you know that Thuy Bo village memorializes 145 Vietnamese civilians who were killed during the 1967 Thuy Bo massacre ?
Did you know that Velvl Greene , a University of Minnesota professor of public health , taught more than 30,000 students?
Did you know that a group of Fijians placed a newspaper advertisement to recruit skiers for the Fijian team at the 2002 Olympic Games after discussing it at a New Year's Eve party?
Did you know that the patchwork leafcutter bee makes use of the leaves of roses, lilac, and honeysuckle?
Did you know that after Petronius Maximus angered their king , the Vandals sacked Rome so thoroughly that their name is still a synonym for wanton destruction ?
Did you know that the Quincy Smelter was part of a Superfund site when it was incorporated into a National Historic Landmark District ?
Did you know that Li Zaiping and his research group were the first to sequence a viral genome in China?
Did you know that in his 2002 book Secret City: The Hidden Jews of Warsaw 1940–1945 , Gunnar S. Paulsson estimated that nearly a tenth of Warsaw 's population were helping Jews during the Holocaust ?
Did you know that W. Barklie Henry , Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt 's stepfather, won many yachting races held off the coast of Long Island ?
Did you know that Three Dancing Maidens can be found in Germany, Belgium, and the United States?
Did you know that Cao Tianqin , the discoverer of the myosin light chain , was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution because of his association with Joseph Needham , who was accused of being a spy?
Did you know that a phallic sculpture at Lakewood station attracted controversy because the area around the station had once been home to sex businesses?
Did you know that Gujarati theatre actor Bapulal Nayak started his stage career at the age of eleven for a salary of three rupees per month?
Did you know that "starfish soup" made from Stichaster striatus is said to have been fed to workers in South America to discourage alcohol consumption?
Did you know that 19 years after Will P. Brady prosecuted the "legal lynching" of a 15-year-old murder suspect, Brady's brother , a judge, himself became the defendant in a death penalty trial?
Did you know that in 1966, John Steinbeck visited the remnants of Mount Hope , a farm near Jaffa that had been founded by his grandparents?
Did you know that Marye fought for both the United States Army and the Confederate States during the American Civil War ?
Did you know that Volker David Kirchner , who composed operas for the Wiesbaden State Theatre and a mass for the Mainz Cathedral , was the first recipient of the Rheingau Musikpreis ?
Did you know that the A483 Newtown bypass was diverted after a campaign to save the Brimmon Oak , which is thought to be more than 500 years old?
Did you know that Croatian theater director Saša Broz trademarked the name and signatures of her grandfather, Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito ?
Did you know that Ideal Records was the predominant Tejano music label of the 1940s and 1950s?
Did you know that Roman general Publius Cornelius Dolabella was denied a triumph for defeating Tacfarinas ' 10-year insurgency partly because Emperor Tiberius had already declared victory?
Did you know that in Buddhism, transfer of merit to deceased loved ones is seen as a better alternative than mourning?
Did you know that the title of There There , a 2018 novel about urban Indians in Oakland, California , mirrors Gertrude Stein 's quip about the city that "There is no there there"?
Did you know that after winning a USD$ 266 million Mega Millions jackpot, Gil Cisneros became a philanthropist?
Did you know that the deepwater sea urchin Cidaris blakei is named after a ship?
Did you know that Pope Martin I was abducted and tried for high treason because of his opposition to the Type of Constans ?
Did you know that a theory that English nursery rhymes such as " Hark, Hark! The Dogs Do Bark " could be understood by translating sound-alike Dutch words back into English was called "ingenious if somewhat addlepated"?
Did you know that former Indian Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao called the Parkala Massacre the " Jallianwala Bagh of the south", referring to the 1919 British slaughter of hundreds of people at a peaceful protest?
Did you know that the Thai monk Luang Por Dattajivo writes about economics from a Buddhist perspective ?
Did you know that Giulia Bongiorno , a defense lawyer in both the Giulio Andreotti trials and the Amanda Knox trial , is now the Italian Minister of Public Administration ?
Did you know that the composer of Rocket League used his old music to create the game's original soundtrack ?
Did you know that Shmerke Kaczerginski saved over 250 Jewish songs about the Holocaust from destruction?
Did you know that Klinger , a United States Army horse serving with the 3rd Infantry Regiment , has participated in more than 5,000 full-honor military funerals?
Did you know that the London firm of Mary Hayley arranged the shipment of tea involved in the Boston Tea Party ?
Did you know that the 1876 hymn " Ein Haus voll Glorie schauet " is used for festive occasions such as the millennium of the Bamberg Cathedral , but with drastically changed text?
Did you know that after a 1995 subway collision , speed limits were lowered across the New York City Subway system, contributing to widespread train delays?
Did you know that the flightless weevil Lyperobius huttoni may have rafted between the North and South Islands of New Zealand ?
Did you know that Moritz Wagner was the first player to post 20 points and 15 rebounds in a NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament semifinal in over 30 years?
Did you know that it was claimed that " Day Trip to Bangor (Didn't We Have a Lovely Time) " was originally about a trip to Rhyl ?
Did you know that Eunice Lam , called the "prodigal daughter" of Hong Kong, was the sister-in-law of Bruce Lee ?
Did you know that the indigenous people of northern Australia ate the flowers of the kapok bush ?
Did you know that a candidate in a 1981 congressional special election in Mississippi was kicked out of his leadership position with the Ku Klux Klan after going to a house party attended by neo-Nazis ?
Did you know that Irish author Sally Rooney has been described as " Salinger for the Snapchat generation"?
Did you know that after she was fired by fascists for being a Jew, agronomist Elza Polak ran a network of gardens to feed the Yugoslav Partisan resistance movement during World War II?
Did you know that the first radio station in Aberdeen, South Dakota , operated from the sixth floor of the Alonzo Ward Hotel ?
Did you know that pianist David Garvey accompanied Leontyne Price in the White House, on tours abroad, and in her "exceptional" first recital in Carnegie Hall in "a true musical partnership"?
Did you know that a passage in Al-Ahqaf is used by some Islamic jurists to argue that the lower limit of fetal viability in Islamic law is 25 weeks?
Did you know that Mormon novelist Mette Ivie Harrison attributes part of her success in writing to her autism , which forces her to closely analyze human behavior?
Did you know that bakers of sfenj , a Maghrebi doughnut, are often nicknamed "Hitler"?
Did you know that actress Edna Loftus freed her fiancé from an asylum after his mother had him committed?
Did you know that Hedgewar Smruti Mandir is a memorial to K. B. Hedgewar , the founder of the Hindutva organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh ?
Did you know that injuries and documentation issues delayed Issuf Sanon from joining the Ukrainian junior national basketball team?
Did you know that Flame Con , the first LGBTQ comic convention in New York City, kicks off its annual event with a dance party and drag performances ?
Did you know that Jill S. Tietjen tries to supply more role models for women in engineering and technology by regularly nominating candidates for awards and halls of fame?
Did you know that the marine biologist Walter Kenrick Fisher illustrated the book The Salinas: Upside Down River written by his wife Anne B. Fisher ?
Did you know that the winner in Rantzen v Mirror Group Newspapers was awarded "Mickey Mouse money" by the jury, which was reduced on appeal for being disproportionate?
Did you know that China is the world's largest producer of potatoes ?
Did you know that Franz Seraph von Kohlbrenner , a civil servant at the Bavarian court , published a hymnal that contained the mass ordinary in German ?
Did you know that construction of the Penn South housing cooperative in New York City was initially met with resistance because 7,500 residents would have been displaced?
Did you know that the deaths of Alloura Wells and Tess Richey , reported one day apart, renewed fears of a serial killer in Toronto's gay village ?
Did you know that the Icelandic lava tube Raufarhólshellir was temporarily closed in 2016 to remove several tonnes of garbage left by visitors?
Did you know that Oregon rancher Bill Brown , known as the "Horse King of the West", often wrote checks on newspaper margins and soup can labels—which bankers would cash without question?
Did you know that sea urchins can go bald ?
Did you know that the Washington State Convention Center , which opened 30 years ago today, was built over a section of Interstate 5 in Seattle ?
Did you know that junior Turkish aerobic gymnast Ayşe Begüm Onbaşı is nicknamed "Medal Monster" due to the many medals she has won?
Did you know that after Cuba seized the freighter Johnny Express , Manuel Noriega helped negotiate the release of the captain?
Did you know that Gujarati folk singer Diwaliben Bhil was awarded the Padma Shri , the fourth highest civilian award in India?
Did you know that actress Jan Pearson 's favourite storyline as Holby City character Kath Fox was a love affair with a priest?
Did you know that Tony Christie asked whether this was the way to The World Cup and then declared it "crap"?
Did you know that Virginia Fraser , the Long-Term Care Ombudsman for the state of Colorado , created a bingo game that teaches nursing home residents about their rights?
Did you know that the Organ Grinder Restaurant 's Wurlitzer pipe organ included such effects as a submarine dive alarm?
Did you know that Dutch Arabist Petra Stienen was awarded the Aletta Jacobs Prize by the University of Groningen for "using her work to represent and transmit the voices of women who would otherwise not be heard"?
Did you know that the Royal Game of Ur is a board game that was first played in ancient Mesopotamia over 4,500 years ago?
Did you know that Destiny Herndon-De La Rosa 's feminist group New Wave Feminists was removed as a partner of the 2017 Women's March after organizers discovered the group was pro-life ?
Did you know that the tennis ball theorem concerns curves that, like the seam of a tennis ball , cut the surface of a sphere into two equal areas?
Did you know that in 1869, Alfred Eteson of the Bengal Medical Service attributed an epidemic of ague to the effect of winds laden with a "pestiferous miasma"?
Did you know that Japanese voice actress Hikaru Akao initially did not wish to pursue that career as she "hated her voice"?
Did you know that despite having a wide distribution in shallow seas, the pufferfish Arothron multilineatus was not described until 2016?
Did you know that hailing its "pioneering" approach, Professor John G. Hawthorne lauded the University of Chicago for ending a student sit-in "without bloodshed, beatings, or other violent acts"?
Did you know that a former streetcar powerhouse in New York City is now a library building for Baruch College ?
Did you know that the Phipps Bridge housing estate has been described as "one of south London's most notorious crime vortexes"?
Did you know that WSFN , "Which Stands for Nothing", was created to control robots?
Did you know that the shoot 'em up video game Star Goose was originally envisioned as a first-person racing game ?
Did you know that the Scottish surgeon John Spencer Login was entrusted with the protection of the Koh-i-Noor diamond ?
Did you know that the song " Nun, Brüder, sind wir frohgemut " was written by Georg Thurmair in 1935 for processions to Mary in the Altenberger Dom , in subtle opposition to the Nazi regime?
Did you know that the animation team of the film Frozen tried to model the movements of character Sven on a real-life reindeer, but due to its relative immobility, used the behavior of a dog instead?
Did you know that the motto of the Supreme Court of India is Yato Dharma Tato Jaya – "There is no victory without justice"?
Did you know that Ryan Watts , whose parents were split on political ideology, does not state his party affiliation in a campaign video for the US House of Representatives ?
Did you know that the leech Erpobdella punctata sometimes hitches a ride on a salamander ?
Did you know that the design of Cincinnati 's new soccer stadium features homages to Allianz Arena in Munich ?
Did you know that Arthur Menachem Hantke sought support from Austria-Hungary during the First World War for the Zionist cause?
Did you know that two weeks before its release, retailers had already reportedly bought more than half a million copies of Action Comics #1000 ?
Did you know that mezzo-soprano Hedwig Fassbender , who also appeared in soprano roles such as Wagner's Isolde , has been an influential voice teacher in Frankfurt ?
Did you know that Gilmore, the flying lion , was named after the Gilmore Oil Company ?
Did you know that Elias Polk , one of U.S. President James K. Polk 's slaves, became a conservative political activist after the Civil War?
Did you know that the 2018–19 EFL Cup will not feature ABBA and will have no extra time to ensure the winner takes it all?
Did you know that US President Jimmy Carter spent the majority of his childhood on a farm in Archery, Georgia ?
Did you know that Robert Mugabe said that hunger in Zimbabwe might occur because Zimbabweans are " not potato eaters "?
Did you know that the adult tapeworm Australamphilina elongata is found in freshwater turtles, but how its eggs emerge from the host's body cavity is unknown?
Did you know that soprano Christina Gerstberger recorded the role of Lisida in E. T. A. Hoffmann 's Liebe und Eifersucht in a performance at the Ludwigsburg Festival ?
Did you know that the Rood Building is the only remaining High Victorian Gothic commercial building in Grand Rapids, Michigan ?
Did you know that the little-known 1758 Methodist hymn " Sun of Unclouded Righteousness " asks God to send the doctrine of the "Unitarian fiend ... back to hell", referring to both Islam and Unitarianism ?
Did you know that Deborah Bial uses Lego to test whether students are ready for college?
Did you know that 10th-century monk Adso of Montier-en-Der wrote a biography of the Antichrist ?
Did you know that the 1565 motet " If Ye Love Me " by Thomas Tallis was performed at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle ?
Did you know that the French political party Nous Citoyens seeks to present an "alternative offer" to the National Front by creating a program through "participatory democracy"?
Did you know that the first ever Indonesian Olympic team included a high jump athlete who later became a lieutenant colonel?
Did you know that on retiring to England in 1845, surgeon Henry Goodeve brought four Brahmins with him to complete their medical training?
Did you know that the platform shelters at the modern Puyallup train station were built to resemble the city's former train depot?
Did you know that Iva Despić-Simonović , court sculptor to King Alexander and Queen Maria of Yugoslavia , had to buy a cow to support her family during the Second World War and hid it in her atelier ?