Did you know that Charley Pride is the first African American to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame?

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Robert L. Johnson (1946 - ), founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET) is the first African-American billionaire.








Diahann Carroll (1935 - ) was the first African-American woman to have her own television series, "Julia" in 1968. It was a controversial, yet Nielsen top ten rated show about a single working mother raising her child .








Ralph J. Bunche (1904 - 1971), a politician and a U.N. diplomat, was the first African-American to win the Nobel Peace prize in 1950 for mediating the Arab-Israeli truce.









Debi Thomas (1967 - ), the talented figure-skater, is the first African American to win a medal (bronze) at the Winter Olympic games (1988). In 2002 Vonetta Flowers (1973 - ) became the first African-American to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympic games.







Nathaniel Adams Cole “Nat King Cole” (1919 - 1965), a singer, song writer and pianist, was the first African-American to host a national television program, The Nat King Cole Show, in 1956.








Maurice Ashley ( 1966 - ) is the first and only African-American to be crowned International Grand Master of chess in 1999. He opened the Harlem Chess Center in 1999, where he coaches young chess players.








Charley Pride (1938 - ) is one of the most successful African-American country singers of all time, with a career spanning over 40 years and 36 number one hits. He is also the first African-American to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2000. Pride was a baseball player with the Negro League and the Memphis Red Sox before becoming a successful musician.

Did you know that Pringles are made from potato dough?

Potato crisps were invented in the summer of 1853, by a African American George Crum.














The word “set” has the most definitions in the English language, 424 Definitions.

















Windmills always turn counter-clockwise.

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating its letters is uncopyrightable.

Unlike conventional potato chips that are made from sliced potatoes, Pringles are made from potatoes that are cooked, mashed, dehydrated, and made into a dough. They are then cut out, shaped, and dried.

The man who invented the tubular cans for Pringles was a Proctor & Gamble Co. organic chemist and food storage technician named Fredric J. Baur


he received a patent for the package as well as the method of packaging Pringles in 1970.".

Pringles were introduced in 1973.

Did you know that Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes?

Did you know that:

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.









You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.






The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.








If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.








An average person spent 24 years of his life in sleeping.







E is the most frequently used letter in English.









The only three English words beginning with dw are; Dwarf, dwell and dwindle.

Uncopyrightable is the only 15-letter word in the English language that can be written without repeating a letter.

Did you know the only X-rated film to win the Best Picture Oscar?

1. Did you know that "Midnight Cowboy" won three Academy Awards in 1970, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay?
2. Did you know that "Midnight Cowboy" is the only X-rated film to have ever won the Academy Award for Best Picture?
3. 

   
   Did you know that "Midnight Cowboy" was groundbreaking not only for its rating but also for its gritty portrayal of poverty and struggle on the streets of New York City?

Best Actor (Marlon Brando) and Best Director (Bernardo Bertolucci).

On the other end of the spectrum, no film has won the Best Picture
Oscar with a G-rating since Oliver! in 1968.

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Did you know that Disney World generates 120, 000 pounrs of garbage?

Did you know that:


The 1912 Olympics were the last games that gave out gold medals made entirely of gold














Walt Disney World generates about 120,000 pounds of garbage every day.























When Thomas Eddison

died in 1941, Henry Ford
captured his dying breath in a bottle.





The chances of hitting 2 holes-in-one during the same round of golf is one in 8 million




















On average women speak 7000 words per day, where as men speak just over 2000

Did you know that the average life of a eyelash is 6 weeks?

Did you know that:

Clint Eastwood's roll of Dirty Harry was turned down by Paul Newman, John Wayne, Robert Mitchum and Frank Sinatra.

























The life of an eyelash is about 6 weeks.







You use an average of 43 muscles for a frown and you use an average of 17 muscles for a smile, and they say every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle.









Termites are affected by music; the termites will eat your house twice as fast if you play them loud music.






Greyhounds can reach their top speed of 45 mph in just 3 strides

Did you know that the Avocado is a fruit?

Did you Know that:


















Nobel Prize resulted from a late change in the will of Alfred Nobel, who did not want to be remembered as a propagator of violence-he invented dynamite.









Japan is the largest exporter of frog's legs.



The avocado has the most calories of any fruit.

There are only four words in the English language which end in '-dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.