kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that Northwest Coast artist Jim Hart is a hereditary chief of the Haida Nation ?
Did you know that Barbara Rosenblat decided that her Orange Is the New Black character Miss Rosa has a Hispanic accent?
Did you know that Fritz Delius played Louis XIV of France in the 1920 German film Am Liebeshof des Sonnen­königs ?
Did you know that the Nigerien Action Bloc won the mayoral post of Zinder in 1956?
Did you know that Hundeprutterutchebane , Denmark's "Dog Fart Roller­coaster", takes riders past a statue of a defecat­ing dog and "gives new meaning to the phrase 'the wind in my face ' "?
Did you know that Russian para-alpine skier Alexey Bugaev broke his arm at the 2013 IPC World Championships but went on to win two silver medals with his arm in plaster?
Did you know that the British television series Inside No. 9 won the Sketch and Comedy prize at the 35th annual Banff World Media Festival Rockie Awards ?
Did you know that Charles W. Crawford was in charge of wireless telegraphy in Somaliland during actions against the " Mad Mullah "?
Did you know that the tower of the Falkner Island Light originally had a spiral wooden staircase leading outside to the lantern room?
Did you know that filmmaker Michelle Parkerson has been called "a visionary risk-taker"?
Did you know that stories involving Joe Quest are among the many theories about the origin of the term "Charley horse"?
Did you know that the mix of modern elements and traditional gothic norms in " The Harrowing ", episode six of Inside No. 9 , was used for both comedy and horror?
Did you know that Bill Watkins led Detroit to the 1887 World Series and by 1894 had won more pennants than any other manager?
Did you know that Andrew Carnegie objected to his grant money being used for amenities such as a dome, public meeting room, and fireplaces in the Guthrie, Oklahoma Carnegie Library ?
Did you know that sociologist Mihai Ralea was sent to the West by Communist Romania with documents exposing the fascist past of Romanian exiles, only to find himself subject to similar accusations?
Did you know that the distribution of Beck's tree frog is limited to altitudes of over 3,000 metres (9,800 ft) in Papua New Guinea?
Did you know that Taylor Swift 's single " Shake It Off " is dedicated to her haters?
Did you know that author George R. R. Martin killed off protagonist Eddard Stark in his 1996 novel A Game of Thrones because he knew readers would not expect it?
Did you know that Sir Mark Palmer , a godson of Queen Elizabeth II , started an early male modelling agency before leading a band of New Age travellers ?
Did you know that the silky pocket mouse sometimes shares a burrow with the banner-tailed kangaroo rat or the Phillips' kangaroo rat ?
Did you know that Steamer Horning was an All-American football player for Colgate and a two-time All-NFL player for Toledo ?
Did you know that Norman Morrice was the artistic director of Ballet Rambert and The Royal Ballet , the UK's two major ballet companies?
Did you know that during the First World War former postmen serving with the Post Office Rifles delivered German mail using carrots?
Did you know that Cicero 's lost Consolatio (45 BC) is widely accepted as the distinct work that transmitted the earlier consolatio literary tradition to the Romans of the late Republic ?
Did you know that when the recording sessions of Stratum by Drottnar began, guitarist Bengt Olsson left the band, only to rejoin it a few months later?
Did you know that Josefina de la Torre , closely associated with the Generation of '27 , was a columnist for the film magazine Primer Plano ?
Did you know that Charles de Visscher , a Belgian judge of the International Court of Justice , was orphaned at age twelve?
Did you know that Chris Paul won gold medals with the US basketball team at both the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that intimacy between a retired Empress and a monk was one of the causes of the Fujiwara no Nakamaro Rebellion ?
Did you know that 100 years ago today the French 3rd Colonial Division was virtually destroyed at the Battle of Rossignol ?
Did you know that the Hindu deity Heramba , protector of the weak, is associated with rites for inflicting harm on one's enemies?
Did you know that the noble Roman Altieri family , which ascended the papal throne in 1670 with Clement X , pretended to be descended from an unknown ancient Roman citizen named Lucius Alterius?
Did you know that approximately 200 bird species have been observed on or near Lake Chillisquaque in Montour County, Pennsylvania ?
Did you know that three protesters were killed near a Cape Town school by armed police hidden in a "Trojan Horse"?
Did you know that Marina Frolova-Walker has delivered lectures on music at venues ranging from Carnegie Hall to factories in Kazakhstan ?
Did you know that Anabel was the first Brazilian animation series on Nickelodeon Brazil ?
Did you know that although abortion is generally illegal in Sint Maarten , it is legal and accessible "just a walk away across the border" in Saint Martin ?
Did you know that because future cancer surgeon Sir Stanford Cade spoke no English on being evacuated to England in the First World War, he wrote his first medical examination in French?
Did you know that German actress Olga Limburg starred alongside Heinz Rühmann and appeared in 49 films?
Did you know that in the Kibi Clan Rebellion , Japan lost its hold on the Korean peninsula because of a beautiful woman?
Did you know that Jimmy the raven could open envelopes and ride a motorcycle, appeared in some 1000 films (including It's a Wonderful Life ), and earned a Red Cross gold medal?
Did you know that the murder of 14-year-old schoolgirl Leigh Leigh inspired a theatrical play that was later adapted into a feature film ?
Did you know that despite nationwide speculation, John Hay never acknowledged his authorship of The Bread-Winners , published anonymously in 1883?
Did you know that Romanian opera singer and film actress Maria Forescu died in the Buchenwald concentration camp ?
Did you know that the oldest memorial in All Saints' Church, Runcorn , Cheshire , is dedicated to two women, "both good wives"?
Did you know that the last Norse–Gaelic King of Dublin, Ascall mac Ragnaill , was captured and executed in 1171 after failing to reclaim his kingdom from the English?
Did you know that in later life, baseball player Dan Casey claimed he was " Casey at the Bat "?
Did you know that Hugh Lowery taught formation flying in World War I and later played in the National Football League 's first season?
Did you know that on its 1856 opening, the Illinois Central Railroad 's Great Central Station was the largest building in Chicago ?
Did you know that despite receiving the most votes in the 1959 elections , the Dahomeyan Democratic Union emerged as the smallest of the three parties in the Territorial Assembly?
Did you know that the memorial to members of the United Kingdom's Houses of Parliament killed in the First World War was damaged by bombing in the Second World War ?
Did you know that the residence and place of death of Muhammad Iqbal was converted into a museum by the Pakistani government in 1984?
Did you know that Jack Kilmer first acted at age 18, when he starred in Palo Alto with his father Val Kilmer ?
Did you know that Alice Pollock founded the boutique Quorum and the male modelling agency English Boy, both in London?
Did you know that the Itcha Range in British Columbia is an inactive shield volcano formed between 3.8 and 0.8 million years ago?
Did you know that L.A. Mix scored five more hits after being diagnosed by Stock Aitken Waterman as being "unlikely to have another hit"?
Did you know that according to local tradition, the shrine of Muawiya in the town of Basma is named after a soldier in Saladin 's army who was slain near the town?
Did you know that the stoor worm , a sea monster of Orcadian mythology, could destroy humans with its putrid breath?
Did you know that Race is the first feature film about Jesse Owens , who won a record-breaking four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games ?
Did you know that the Selle Français is a French sport horse , recognized internationally as a top breed for show jumping and three-day eventing ?
Did you know that the assassination of Augusto Unceta Barrenechea was the Basque separatist group ETA 's deadliest attack of 1977, and marked the beginning of a more violent phase in the group's operations?
Did you know that Trafalgar High School , established for non-whites in Cape Town , defiantly refused to move after its part of the city was declared "whites only"?
Did you know that Howard Gobioff was one of the architects of the Google File System , which allowed for computation speeds never before possible?
Did you know that Gordon Ramsay 's Bread Street Kitchen cost £3 million to build?
Did you know that Joe Fitzgerald was the first player in NFL history to return an interception for a touchdown ?
Did you know that the BBC Singers and Endymion performed Steve Reich's The Desert Music at the 2014 Proms ?
Did you know that Gerald "Charley" Westbury was one of the first cancer surgeons to develop procedures that would preserve function as well as give good survival rates?
Did you know that the 10th Battalion was the first South Australian infantry unit to leave Australia during World War I, heading for the Middle East in October 1914?
Did you know that Harrington-Birchett House was a federally protected bird sanctuary from 1940 to 1970?
Did you know that the excavations for fossils of Pleistocene fauna in Natural Trap Cave , Wyoming , in 2014 included an experiment in taphonomy ?
Did you know that British archer Sharon Vennard competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics despite being in constant pain due to osteoarthritis in her spine?
Did you know that in a 1966 interview John Lennon remarked that the Beatles were " more popular than Jesus "?
Did you know that the Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation in Cary, North Carolina , has been preserving the ancient Chữ Nôm script of Vietnam since 1999?
Did you know that pianist Werner Genuit played the complete works for piano by Richard Wagner for the national congress of the Wagner Society ?
Did you know that Ludian was a courier station on the Ancient tea route ?
Did you know that the inner part of Stanford University 's Main Quad is surrounded by twelve buildings, numbered 1 through 110?
Did you know that the extinct ant Aphaenogaster sommerfeldti was first described in 1868?
Did you know that Mac Marcoux won gold in the Men's Giant Slalom by over two seconds at the 2014 Winter Paralympic Games ?
Did you know that although the 12th-century Skara Missal has been referred to as "Sweden's oldest book", its origins remain unclear?
Did you know that in 1929, Solomon and Hattie Chandler donated land to the state of Oregon for a park, now called Chandler State Wayside ?
Did you know that more than eighty species of woodland herbs are found near Spruce Run , including fifteen fern species and twelve sedge species?
Did you know that cyclist Floortje Mackaij began her career as a speed skater ?
Did you know that the massive blue giant star 68 Cygni is surrounded by a ring-shaped nebula ?
Did you know that Mr. & Mrs. Waite Phillips lived in the penthouse of the Philcade Building after donating their mansion to the city of Tulsa to become the Philbrook Art Museum ?
Did you know that fossils of 23 mammal species including mammoth , dire wolf , ground sloth , pre-historic bison , camel , and horse have been found at Fossil Lake in south central Oregon ?
Did you know that American actress and theater director Jessie Bonstelle gave her first public performance at two years old?
Did you know that Oriental Film hired Njoo Cheong Seng and Fifi Young for their name recognition and only produced one further film after the couple left?
Did you know that mathematician Elling Holst is particularly remembered for his picture books for children?
Did you know that English sport shooter Mick Gault jointly holds the record for most medals at the Commonwealth Games , but has never been selected for the Olympic Games ?
Did you know that Liebmann Hersch 's article "International Migration of the Jews", first published in 1931, became a classic work on the topic?
Did you know that as of January 1940, No. 2 Elementary Flying Training School RAAF lacked hot water, a kitchen, and a telephone system?
Did you know that Michael H. Weber and his writing partner have written four films together despite living on opposite sides of the United States?
Did you know that Remedios Circle , now considered the center of Manila 's nightlife, was originally a cemetery?
Did you know that swimmer June Krauser set 154 American records and 73 world records?
Did you know that Virgil 's Fourth Eclogue was believed by some early Christians to have predicted the birth of Jesus of Nazareth ?
Did you know that Cahuenga Boulevard in Los Angeles appeared in several Buster Keaton films, such as The Goat (1921) and Three Ages (1923)?
Did you know that the 2014 Orkney earthquake was the biggest earthquake in South Africa since 1969?
Did you know that halfback Eddie Moegle scored the first touchdown for Detroit in the first season of the NFL ?
Did you know that cross-country skier Chris Klebl represented the United States at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Paralympics before winning a gold medal for Canada at the 2014 Games ?
Did you know that concussions are the fifth-most common type injury in American football , possibly affecting over 100,000 players each year?
Did you know that P. T. Daly , secretary of the Dublin Council of Trade Unions , was imprisoned during the Dublin Lock-out and interned during the Easter Rising ?
Did you know that a torture scene in the Orphan Black episode " Things Which Have Never Yet Been Done " was improvised and shot with a handheld camera due to time constraints during filming?
Did you know that mother of four Heather Turland won the marathon at the 1998 Commonwealth Games at age 38, despite having first run the distance only two years earlier?
Did you know that the television debate between Alistair Darling and Alex Salmond attracted 36% of viewers in Scotland?
Did you know that David Friesenhausen , an astronomer and rabbi, was one of the first Jews to support the Copernican heliocentrism ?
Did you know that chili sauce is sometimes used in the preparation of sushi ?
Did you know that a possibly distinct form of the Egyptian white water-lily exists far away from its Nile Delta habitat in a small Romanian nature reserve ?
Did you know that at age 10, Darren Espanto was the youngest contestant in the history of The Next Star to be included in the Top 6?
Did you know that rodents are characterized by their continuously-growing, razor-sharp incisors ?
Did you know that baseball catcher Cal Broughton later became a police chief who captured a gang of train robbers after a gun fight in Wisconsin?
Did you know that 5,000 Redmi smartphones sold out in eight minutes in a March 2014 online sales offering?
Did you know that countertenor David Erler was one of five singers invited by amarcord for the performance of Monteverdi's Vespers as the annual Marienvesper of the Rheingau Musik Festival in Eberbach Abbey ?
Did you know that the Parksley Spuds were a professional baseball team based in a town with a population of about 600 people?
Did you know that the Kinne Cemetery , established around 1713 in Griswold , Connecticut, shows the evolution of funerary art over the course of the centuries?
Did you know that Hans Aasnæs was the 1947 individual World Champion in the 100 metre running deer double shot?
Did you know that the corpse of Indian spiritual leader Ashutosh has been kept in a freezer by his followers since his clinical death on 29 January 2014?
Did you know that Morihei Ueshiba founded the Japanese martial art of aikido ?
Did you know that the 1940 contest between The Catholic University of America and the Arizona State Teachers College at Tempe ended in the only scoreless tie in Sun Bowl history?
Did you know that Gerd Nienstedt performed 14 different roles, including the dragon in Siegfried , during 15 consecutive summers at the Bayreuth Festival ?
Did you know that after the Ottoman conquest of Epirus , some members of the Zenevisi family converted to Islam and held high positions within the Ottoman military and feudal hierarchy?
Did you know that Lionel Fraser worked in naval intelligence, and was the father of Groovy Bob ?
Did you know that more than 300 complaints were received about British slopestyle snowboarder Aimee Fuller 's commentary on her own event at the 2014 Winter Olympics ?
Did you know that the unveiling of Android 4.0 was postponed in remem­brance of Steve Jobs ?
Did you know that Caxiuanã National Forest is the oldest national forest in the Amazon Region of Brazil?
Did you know that Erich Wenk sang a "rage aria" in Bach's dramma per musica Preise dein Glücke, gesegnetes Sachsen ?
Did you know that the music video for " Make U Bounce " features a woman with massive hands causing carnage out of revenge?
Did you know that the call of the male river frog can be described as a "deep, low-pitched, rolling snore"?
Did you know that when food is scarce, the agile wallaby will feed on seeds it finds in bird droppings?
Did you know that the Končar -class missile boat has two chaff launchers?
Did you know that before Lyca Gairanod won The Voice Kids , she helped her mother find recyclable materials to sell to support their family?
Did you know that the Congo Crisis began shortly after the end of colonial rule of Belgian Congo in 1960?
Did you know that Catholic University's Bill Adamaitis was hailed as the "hero of the Orange Bowl" after both catching and throwing touchdown passes in the 1936 game ?
Did you know that Lis Rhodes 's 1975 work Light Music was called "an iconic work of expanded cinema" by the Tate Modern ?
Did you know that shares of GameStop fell over five percent after the announcement of EA Access ?
Did you know that in 1944 a precision bombing raid on the Gestapo 's Aarhus headquarters destroyed all its files?
Did you know that Morocco recently suspended judicial cooperation with France over torture claims against Morocco's intelligence service, the DGST ?
Did you know that the cargo liner Dominion Monarch carried all her passengers in first-class accommodation?
Did you know that an 18th-century German–Serbian dictionary uses a dialect of the Vojvodina Serbs ?
Did you know that the 1969 album Yellow Submarine was one of the few Beatles releases that did not top the charts in the United Kingdom or the United States, peaking at No. 3 and No. 2 respectively?
Did you know that dogs speak with the player and plead to adventure with them in PlayStation Vita Pets ?
Did you know that BL Boötis (or BL Boo) in Boötes is not a binary but a BL Boötis variable?
Did you know that British MP Terry Patchett , suffering from cancer, voted on the Scott Report after journeying 400 miles by ambulance to Parliament?
Did you know that the papal decretal Libellus responsionum (601 AD) dealt with questions such as marriage between relatives and whether priests might celebrate mass after having sexual dreams?
Did you know that composer and entertainer Gitz Rice , serving with the Canadian Armed Forces on the World War I front lines, rescued a piano from shellfire?
Did you know that Walt Disney Animation Studios has released 53 animated features to date, from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) to Frozen (2013)?
Did you know that Bevan Sharpless ' observations of the orbital decay of Phobos led to speculation it was a hollow sphere created by Martians?
Did you know that during the Spanish–American War , the Bridgeport Harbor Lighthouse was equipped with a battery of ten-inch guns, making it one of the few armed lighthouses in American history?
Did you know that Australian farmer Archie Barwick wrote some 400,000 words about his World War I service?
Did you know that John Lee Hooker 's " Boogie Chillen' ‍ " became the first "down-home" electric blues song to reach number one in the R&B records chart?
Did you know that walking football has become a fashionable form of exercise for over-50s with mobility difficulties?
Did you know that in 1951 the Symphony Six – six Canadian musicians including Dirk Keetbaas , William Kuinka , and Ruth Budd – were denied access to the United States under suspicion of leftist activities?
Did you know that the book The Girl With All The Gifts deals with a dystopian future in which most of humanity is wiped out by a fungal infection?
Did you know that the first personality test , the Woodworth Personal Data Sheet , was developed with the intention of screening World War I recruits for shell-shock risk?
Did you know that Montowampate was attacked by Tarrantines while visiting Masconomet ?
Did you know that the first FA Charity Shield match , held in 1908, saw Manchester United draw 1–1 with Queens Park Rangers ?
Did you know that John Gregorson Campbell was at the same time a church minister and a folklorist?
Did you know that the one tropical cyclone to make landfall during the 1930 Atlantic hurricane season killed between 2000 and 8000 people?
Did you know that in 1907, the moose Älgen Stolta defeated horses in a harness race ?
Did you know that the Degree Angular Scale Interferometer was the first instrument to detect polarization anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background ?
Did you know that Klesie Kelly , soprano and academic voice teacher in Cologne, recorded love songs for voices and instrumen­tal soloists with tenor Ian Partridge ?
Did you know that Giacomo Orefice 's 1901 opera Chopin , based very loosely on Chopin 's life, has been called "a kitsch contribution to the last vestiges of late 19th-century romanti­cized bohemianism "?
Did you know that the reign of Ha' K'in Xook , who ruled the Maya city of Piedras Negras from 767–780 AD, seems to have been relatively free from war?
Did you know that former Cardiff MP Ian Grist 's signature, I Grist , signifies "Jesus Christ" in Welsh ?
Did you know that a critic thought that a "pack of satanic Marmadukes" would be scarier than the film Hellhounds ?
Did you know that Megan Fletcher won the 70 kg women's judo at the 2014 Common­wealth Games despite needing to have her face taped up during the semifinal?
Did you know that blueside shiners and longear sunfish work together to defend their nests from predators?
Did you know that a loose coalition of German nationalist and liberal parties defeated the dominant Christian Social Party in the 1911 election in Cisleithania ?
Did you know that in the midst of the 1929 financial crisis , the Socialist Workers Party of Romania argued that the time was ripe for revolution?
Did you know that Novo Brdo , an important medieval fortified town of Serbian Despotate , was besieged and captured in 1441 by the Ottoman forces commanded by Hadım Şehabeddin , the beylerbey of Rumelia Eyalet ?
Did you know that occupants of the Navy Annex finally left after the food service was stopped and the ATM removed?
Did you know that Dominic Monaghan was covered in honey to attract male drones for the production of the Lost episode " House of the Rising Sun "?
Did you know that Frank Brill was a pitcher in Major League Baseball and later won the United States' first national bowling championship?
Did you know that Texas All-Star Wrestling , the oldest independent promotion in Texas , was honored at the 2013 Texas Wrestling Hall of Fame ?
Did you know that Caroline Charles designed clothes for Mick Jagger and Ringo Starr , as well as the outfit worn by Emma Thompson when she accepted the Oscar for Howards End ?
Did you know that the proportion of rowers at the 2011 Boat Race who were British was the highest for a decade?
Did you know that according to the Lesbian Film Guide , She Must Be Seeing Things was a "deeply controver­sial film ... dismissed outright by some as pornography"?
Did you know that Changyuraptor , the largest four-winged dinosaur discovered to date, also had the longest feathers ever recorded in any non-avian dinosaur?
Did you know that Brean Down has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest due to both its geology and its range of plants?
Did you know that the music video accompanying " Ugly Heart " was seen by 2.5 million viewers in less than a week?