Did you know that there is a texting champ who won $50, 000?

Did you know that there has been a texting competition held for the last 5 years?

Did you know that there is a repeat texting champion?

Did you know that the contest took place in New York's Time Square?

Did you know that Austin Wierschke is the consecutive 2 time text champ?

Did you know that Wierschke, the contest's 2011 champion, beat out 10 others, aged 16 to 24, who had been winnowed down from over 100,000 competitors during preliminary rounds conducted since May?

Did you know that this year's group of competitors, flew from Montana, Texas and California among other states?

Kent Augustine (green shirt), 16, from New York

Did you know that Wierschke said that he won every round by a few seconds?

Did you know that LG sponsored the contest and gave each contestant a cell phone?

Did you know that Wierschke beat out Kent Augustine, 16, from New York to win the championship? 

Did you know that the contenders texted a line from "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" while wearing black out goggles, transcribed a phrase written backward, and completed other challenges meant to test their texting accuracy, speed and dexterity?

Did you know that Wierschke said that he could type the alphabet in less than 3 seconds?

Did you know that Wierschke said that he would use the $100,000 to pay for college?

Did you know that Wierschke said that he would not retire yet and plans on competing again next year?

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Did you know that Phelps took the record for the most first-place finishes at any single Olympic Games?

Did you know that Michael Fred Phelps II is the most decorated Olympian of all time with 22 medals?

Did you know that Phelps holds the all-time records for 18 gold medals , and 11Olympic medals in individual events for a male (13).

Did you know that in 2008 Beijing Games Phelps won eight gold medals?

Did you know that Phelps took the record for the most first-place finishes at any single Olympic Games?

Did you know that five of those victories were in individual events, tying the single Games record?

Did you know that in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Phelps won four golds and two silver medals?

Did you know that Phelps is the long course world record holder in the 100-meter butterfly, 200-meter butterfly and 400-meter individual medley as well as the former long course world record holder in the 200-meter freestyle and 200-meter individual medley?

Did you know that Phelps has won a total of 71 medals in major international long-course competition, 57 gold, 11 silver, and three bronze spanning the Olympics, the World, and the Pan Pacific Championships?

Did you know that Phelps's international titles and record-breaking performances have earned him the World Swimmer of the Year Award six times and American Swimmer of the Year Award eight times?

Did you know that Phelps unprecedented Olympic success in 2008 earned him Sports Illustrated magazine's Sportsman of the Year award?




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Did you know that Usain Bolt is the first man to hold both the 100 metres and 200 metres world records?

 Did you know that Usain Bolt is called  "Lightning Bolt"?

Did you know that Usain Bolt ,  is a Jamaican sprinter widely known as the fastest man ever?

Did you know that Usain Bolt is the first man to hold both the 100 metres and 200 metres world records?

Did you know that Bolt also set the world record in the 4×100 metres relay?

Did you know that Bolt is the reigning Olympic champion in these three events, and a five-time World and five-time Olympic gold medalist?

Did you know that Bolt is the first man ever to defend both the 100 m and 200 m title at consecutive Olympics?

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Did you know that James Fitzsimmons is the only Trainer, to have have trained two horses who won the Tripple Crown?

Did you know that there has been 11Triple Crown Winners of Horse Racing?

Sir Barton

Gallant Fox

Omaha

War Admiral

Whirlaway

Count Fleet

Assault

Citation

Secretariat

Seattle Slew

Affirmed

Triple Crown Trophy

   
Did you know that the Triple Crown Trophy is the most prestigious Trophy in horse racing?

Date	Horse	Jockey	Trainer	Owner
1919	Sir Barton	John Loftus	H. G. Bedwell	J. K. L. Ross
1930	Gallant Fox	Earl Sande	James Fitzsimmons	Belair Stud
1935	Omaha	William Saunders	James Fitzsimmons	Belair Stud
1937	War Admiral	Charley Kurtsinger	George Conway	Samuel D. Riddle
1941	Whirlaway	Eddie Arcaro	Ben A. Jones	Calumet Farm
1943	Count Fleet	John Longden	Don Cameron	Mrs. J. D. Hertz
1946	Assault	Warren Mehrtens	Max Hirsch	King Ranch
1948	Citation	Eddie Arcaro	Ben A. Jones	Calumet Farm
1973	Secretariat	Ron Turcotte	Lucien Laurin	Meadow Stable
1977	Seattle Slew	Jean Cruguet	William Turner, Jr.	Karen L. Taylor
1978	Affirmed	Steve Cauthen	Lazaro S. Barrera	Harbor View Farm

Did you know that James Fitzsimmons is the only Trainer,  to have have trained two horses who won the Triple Crown Trophy?


Did you know that Two of Fitzsimmons  champions, Gallant Fox (1930) and Omaha (1935) won the Triple Crown?.


Did you know that Fitzsimmons sent out 155 stakes-winning horses that won more than 470 stakes races and he trained 12 champions?

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Did you know that Tom Lee Park was named after a black man?

Did you know that Tom Lee Park is a city park located to the immediate west of downtown Memphis, Tennessee, overlooking the Mississippi River?

Did you know that the Tom Lee park is named after Tom Lee, an African-American riverworker, who saved the lives of 32 passengers of the sinking steamboat M.E. Norman in 1925?





Did you know that Tom Lee park hosts events throughout the year, perhaps most notably the major weekend events during Memphis in May?

Did you know that Tom Lee Park is a popular location for walkers, joggers, roller bladders and cyclists?

Tom Lee (ca. 1925)

Late during the afternoon of May 8, 1925, Lee steered his 28 ft (8.5 m) skiff Zev upriver after delivering an official to Helena, Arkansas.
Also on the river was a steamboat, the M.E. Norman, carrying members of the Engineers Club of Memphis, the American Society of Civil Engineers, and their families.^[1]

Did you know that Tom Lee witnessed the M.E. Norman capsize in the swift current 15 mi (24 km) downriver from Memphis at Cow Island Bend. Although he could not swim, he rescued 32 people with five trips to shore?

Did you know that because Lee acted so fast that only 23 people died?

Did you know that to honor the hero Tom Lee, the Memphis Engineers Club raised enough money to purchase a house for Lee and his wife?

Did you know that Tom Lee died of cancer on April 1, 1952 at John Gaston Hospital?

Did you know that two years after his death, the park along the Memphis Riverfront was named in his honor and a granite obelisk was erected?

David Alan Clark

Did you know that in October 2006, a bronze sculpture by artist David Alan Clark ^[2] was erected in the park to commemorate the event and to honor the civil hero?

 The sculpture depicts the rescue of a survivor saved from drowning in the Mississippi River.^[3]

Did you know that the World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest, held the third weekend of May, is the world's largest pork barbecue cooking competition, attracting hundreds of competitors to Tom Lee Park from around the world?






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Did you know that the 1990–91 UNLV Runnin' Rebels basketball team was the first college team to draft the 5 starters?

Year	Round	Pick	Player	NBA Club
1991	1	1	Larry Johnson	Charlotte Hornets
1991	1	9	Stacey Augmon	Atlanta Hawks
1991	1	12	Greg Anthony	New York Knicks
1991	2	29	George Ackles	New York Knicks
1992	1	25	Elmore Spencer	Los Angeles Clippers

Did you know that the 1990–91 UNLV Runnin' Rebels basketball team defeated Duke University, in the biggest blowout in college basketball championship game history, 103-73, to win the NCAA National Championship?

Did you know that the 1990–91 UNLV also was a first Division I National Championship in one of the three major sports?

Did you know that the 1998 UNLV golf team won the school's second team National Championship?

Did you know that the 1990–91 UNLV Runnin' Rebels also have won six individual national championships: 2 mens golf, 2 mens tennis, 2 women's track and field? 

 

Did you know that the National Institutes of Health estimates that 15 million people in the United States have some form of eczema?

Did you know that Eczema is a skin condition that creates inflammatory response to physical or environmental irritants?

Did you know that the red, itchy, and flaky skin that appears in eczema is a result of the skin's oversensitivity to external irritants?

Did you know that anybody can get eczema? although those with a family history will have a greater predisposition of developing the disease

. Did you know there is currently no cure for this condition, although there are treatments that may help to alleviate the itchy symptoms?

Did you know that the process Lichenification occurs when eczema patches ooze liquid? When the skin heals, it thickens and can radiate a leathery appearance at spots where the eczema reaction occurs.

Did you know that allergic reactions to fruit, meat, animal dander, dust, soaps, and viruses can trigger an episode of eczema?

Did you know that stress, can also induce a reaction from eczema? 

Did you know that the National Institutes of Health estimates that 15 million people in the United States have some form of eczema? 

Did you know that about 10 to 20 percent of all infants have eczema?

Did you know one of the most important components of eczema treatment is to prevent scratching?

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