Did you know that not only is Jordan a Billionaire but he is also the Highest-Paid Athletes Of All-Time With $1.7 Billion dollars made as of 2017?

Did you know that Michael Jordan Heads according to Forbes Magazine is the first sports Billionaire?

Did you know that not only is Jordan a Billionaire but he is also the Highest-Paid Athletes Of All-Time With $1.7 Billion dollars made as of 2017?
 

Michael Jordan (The GOAT)

Did you know that the career of a professional athlete is usually relatively brief. It spans six years in Major League Baseball on average and less than four years in football, according to the NFL Players Association?

Did you know that athletes have a small window to bank as much as they can, as the money spigot typically dries up pretty quickly after retirement, but a select group of stars enjoy long careers with hefty paydays and continue to make millions after leaving the game?

Arnold Palmer

Did you know that Arnold Palmer died in September at the age of 87?

Did you know that Palmer who was golfing legend earned $3.6 million in prize money over 52 years on the PGA Tour and Senior Tour?

Did you know up until Palmers last PGA win, which was the 1973 Bob Hope Desert Classic, Palmer earned more than $40 million annually in the years before his death thanks to a slew of endorsement and licensing agreements, as well as 500 stores in Asia selling Arnold Palmer-branded apparel and footwear?

Did you know that Palmer’s line of beverages with AriZona Beverage Co. generated $200 million annually in revenue for the company last year and millions for Palmer’s bank account?

Did you know that the six decades in the spotlight helped Palmer earn a cumulative $1.35 billion (in 2016 dollars) since turning pro in 1954?

Did you know that Palmer's earned income is the third-biggest haul ever for an athlete?

David Falk Michael Jordan Agent

Did you know that Palmer revolutionized the idea of an athlete as product endorser through his partnership with IMG founder Mark McCormack. Palmer and McCormack’s marketing work in the 1960s and 1970s laid the foundation for the greatest product pitchman of his time, Michael Jordan?

Did you know that Jordan and his agent, David Falk, took sports marketing to another level and with the help of Nike made Jordan the highest-paid athlete of all-time, with earnings of $1.7 billion (in 2016 dollars) since leaving North Carolina for the NBA in 1984?

Did you know that Jordan is widely considered the greatest basketball player to ever play the game, but his on-court salary rarely matched his place in the game. Only two seasons did he earn more than $4 million from the Chicago Bulls (both years were $30+ million)?

Did you know that Jordan's cumulative salary over 15 seasons with the Bulls and Washington Wizards was $93 million?

Did you know that Jordan made money on the court, but off the court was where the world got to see why they called Michael Jordan the Greatest Of All Time, (GOAT)?

Did you know that it was off the court that Jordan rose to unprecedented heights with endorsement deals with Nike, Gatorade, McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Wheaties, Hanes and more than a dozen others?

Did you know that Jordan retired permanently from the NBA 13 years ago, but his earnings have never been greater.,Nike paid him more than $100 million this year thanks to the phenomenal success of the Nike-owned Jordan brand, which dominates with more than 50% of the basketball sneaker market?

Did you know that the Jordan brand generated $2.8 billion in revenue for Nike in the fiscal year ending in May, up 18% year-over-year?

Did you know that Jordan’s earnings prowess will remain robust. Nike wants the Jordan brand to

MJ

reach revenue of $4.5 billion by 2020, with MJ collecting royalties on every shoe, shorts and hoodie sold by the sportswear giant?

Tiger Woods

Did you know that Tiger Woods is the athlete who inherited Jordan’s title in the late 1990s as
the most sought after endorser in sports?



Did you know that Woods' earnings are off more than 50% from his heyday, but he still banked $45 million from sponsors, appearances and course design fees in the most recent year, pushing his cumulative career earnings to $1.65 billion?

Rounding out the top five is another golfer (Jack Nicklaus: $1.15 billion) and F1 racing legend Michael Schumacher with $1 billion. Schumacher is one of seven non-Americans to


Did you know that Tiger Woods was the highest-paid athlete in the world for 11 straight years with his peak year of earnings the $115 million he banked for the 12 months ending in June 2008 ($128 million in 2016 dollars) thanks to lucrative endorsements with Accenture, Buick, Gatorade, Gillette, Nike and more?

Did you know that Arnold Palmer’s earned from $875 million to $1.35 billion?

Boxer Mike Tyson

Did you know that Boxer Mike Tyson got to $685 million?

LeBron James

 Did you know that Forbes said that  LeBron James was worth over ($640 million)?

Cristiano Ronaldo

 Did you know that Cristiano Ronaldo has earned over ($620 million?

Roger Federer

Did you know that (Roger Federer: has earned over $600 million)?

Alex Rodriguez

Did you know that baseball legend (Alex Rodriguez has earned over $545 million?)

Lionel Messi

Did you know that Lionel Messi is the youngest player to make the cut, the 29-year-old Barcelona star ranks No. 17 with $520 million (in 2016 dollars)?

Peyton Manning

Did you know that Peyton Manning was the top-earning football player, but just missed the cut at $460 million from being at a half billion dollars?


 These three global icons are fast approaching the $1 billion mark in career earnings, as they ranked highest-paid athletes in the world this year led by Ronaldo at $88 million.
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Did you know that Forbes Magazine said that Beyonce is the highest-paid woman in music this year of 2017?

Did you know that Forbes Magazine said that Beyonce is the highest-paid woman in music this year of 2017?

Did you know that 36-year-old pop star Beyonce dropped to second place on Forbes' annual rankings last year?

Did you know that in 2016 Beyonce estimated earnings was a staggering $105 million?

Did you know that behind her in second is

adele

Adele with earnings of $69 million, which she raked in due to her first full tour since 2011?

Taylor Swift 

Did you know that Taylor Swift - who was the highest-paid was last year top woman?

Did you know that Swift slipped down  to third position after pulling in $44 million from June 2016 until June 2017?

Celine Dion

Did you know that Celine Dion ranked fourth
with $42 million after resuming her Las Vegas residency in February following her hiatus in the wake of her husband René Angélil's death in 2016?

Jennifer Lopez

Did you know that Jennifer Lopez rounded off the top five with $38 million, which she made through her gigs in Sin City and her new show 'World of Dance', which she produces and judges?

Dolly Parton

Did you know that Dolly Parton wiggled her way into sixth position after pulling in $37 million?

Rihanna

Did you know that Rihanna follow closely behind in seventh place while earnings $36 million for 2016 year?

Britney Spears and Katy Perry

Did you know that Britney Spears and Katy Perry claimed eighth and
ninth place, respectively, with $34 million and $33 million?

Barbra Streisand

Did you know that Barbra Streisand rounded off the list of top 10 after she made $30 million for 2016?

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Did you know that even though Facebook bought Instagram back in 2012 for only $1 billion dollars, Instagram is expected to make nearly $3 billion in ad revenue in 2018?

Did you know that most teens  on Instagram, nearly one in five have at least 300
followers

Did you know that Facebook back
in 2012 bought Instagram for a cool $1 billion?
Did you know that Instagram is on top of the world as one of the most
popular social networking sites around?
Did you know that Instagram is the most liked picture to how much some
of the top users get paid per post?

Did you know that Twitter seems to be losing
steam, while Instagram is only getting more and more popular? Did you know that some of the most
popular celebrity accounts get more new followers in an hour than most
of us will in a year?
Did you know that nearly a Quarter of Americans have an Instagram Account?
Did you know that around 77.6 million Americans are on Instagram?
Did you know that 24% of the country’s overall population uses Instagram?
Did you know that in a little less than six years, 30 billion photos
were uploaded to Instagram?

Did you know that since the Instagram platform was launched in 2010 it has become the go-to destination for sharing selfies and
photos of your food?

Photo: Richard BURGER/flickr/CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0

Did you now that New York’s Time Square was
the most Insta-popular location in 2015?

Did you know that  Paris’s Eiffel Tower, London’s
Tower Bridge, Moscow’s Red Square, and Los Angeles’s Dodger’s Stadium
rounded out the top five?

Did you know that Love Is the Most Popular Hashtag on Instagram?

Did you know that 70 Million Photos Are Uploaded Each Day?

Did you know that on average, 70 million photos a day are uploaded to the social media platform and that comes out to nearly 3 million an hour and almost 50,000 every minute?

Did you know that 70% of Instagram Users Come from Outside the U.S.?

Did you know that Instagram is incredibly popular in the United States, but in its short existence, it has become a global brand?

 

 

Did you know that the Majority of American Users Check Instagram at Least Once a Day?

Did you know that Selena Gomez Is the Most Followed Person on Instagram (For Now)?

Photo: Selena Gomez/Instagram

Did you know that Selena Gomez is just barely the most followed person on Instagram with 69.26 ?

Did you know that Taylor Swift has  69.26 With million followers, she’s just ahead of T 69.13  who has  million of her own followers.

Photo: Sarah Marshall/flickr/CC-BY 2.0

Did you know that even though Facebook
bought Instagram back in 2012 for only $1 billion dollars, Instagram is expected to make nearly $3 billion in ad revenue in 2018?

Did you know that photos with faces get 38% more likes than photos without
faces?

 

Kylie, and Kendall

Did you know that Kim, Kylie, and Kendall Have More Followers Than Russia Has Citizens?

Did you know that the Kardashian and Jenners combine for a whopping 169 million followers. In other words, they have 26 million more followers than Russia has citizens?

taylor swift

Did you know that Taylor Swift is the second most followed person on Instagram?

 

 

Did you know that some Top Instagram Users Get Paid Hundreds of Thousands for Their Posts?

Photo: Kylie Jenner/Instagram

Product
placement and celebrity endorsements are nothing new, but things are a
little different with social media. Whenever a big name Instagram
account posts a picture with a brand or in some way endorses it, they
usually get paid big bucks. Some of the top users can receive as much as $300,000 for a single post?

Did you know that an incredible 96% of top fashion brands are on Instagram?

 Did you know that te Most Liked Picture on Instagram Is a Selfie?

Photo: Kendall Jenner/Instagram

Did you know that Kendall
Jenner has the most liked picture on Instagram, the selfie.  has an impressive 3.5 million likes and 167,000 comments, surpassed a photo posted by her half-sister Kim Kardashian to take over the number one spot?

Did you know that by 2017, the total amount of Instagram users from America is projected to reach 98.9 million?

Did you know that the Instagram users will continue to grow and by 2020, expects to be closer to 120 million?

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Did you know that of
all the accounts on Instagram, Instagram’s own account is by far the
most followed?
Did you know that Instagram has 144.25 million followers?

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Did you know that Della Reese, actress who spent almost a decade playing a down-to-earth heavenly messenger on the CBS series “Touched by an Angel” died she was 86?

Did you know that Della Reese, the husky-voiced singer and actress who spent almost a decade playing a down-to-earth heavenly messenger on the CBS series “Touched by an Angel” and became an ordained minister in real life, died on Sunday night at her home in Encino, Calif, she was 86?

Did you know that Reese had diabetes?
 

Did you know that Reese had been under contract to Jubilee Records for three years when, in 1957, she had her first big hit record, the romantic ballad “And That Reminds Me?”

Did you know that Reese was named the year’s most promising “girl singer” by Billboard, Variety and Cash Box, she was soon making regular appearances on the leading television variety shows of the day?

Did you know that Reese biggest hit was “Don’t You Know” — adapted from “Musetta’s Waltz,” an aria from “La Bohème” — which reached No. 2 on the Billboard singles chart in 1959?

Did you know that Reese became best known as an actress, particularly in the sentimental drama series “Touched by an Angel,” which had its premiere in 1994 and evolved into one of prime

Touched By An Angel

time’s top-rated shows?

Did you know that Touched By An Angel placed in the Nielsen Top 10 from 1996 to 2000, with an
average of more than 20 million weekly viewers at one point?
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Did you know that Touched By an Angel series lasted nine years?

Did you know that Reese’s salary from $40,000 to $100,000 per episode?

 Did you know that CBS’s made an agreement with Reese to fly from the set in Utah to California every weekend for church services?

Did you know that in the 1980s, Reese had been ordained as a minister by the Universal Foundation for Better Living and founded the Understanding Principles for Better Living Church?

Did you know that Reese church was a nondenominational Christian ministry and she delivered Sunday sermons there for many years?

Did you know that Delloreese Patricia Early was born on July 6, 1931, in Detroit?

Did you know that

Touched By An Angel

Reese 
e a vocalist with the Erskine Hawkins Orchestra. Although her biggest hits came in her youth, she continued to record well into her 60s and received a Grammy Award nomination for her 1998 gospel album, “My Soul Feels Better Right Now.”

Did you know that Reese made her television acting debut as a nightclub owner on the police series “The Mod Squad” in 1968?

Did you know that Reese in 1980, while taping a musical segment, she suffered a brain aneurysm that almost proved fatal?

Did you know that after multiple operations, she returned to work?

Did you know that Reese married Vermont Taliaferro, a Michigan factory worker, in 1951, and divorced in 1958?

Did you know that Reese married her second husband, from 1959 until their divorce in 1961?

Did you know that Reese married Leroy Gray, an accountant?

Did you know that Reese had a brief 1961 marriage to Mercer Ellington, Duke Ellington’s son, was annulled?

Did you know that in 1983 she married Franklin Lett, a concert producer, who survives her?

Did you know that ReeseA daughter, Delloreese Daniels Owens, died in 2002?
 

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Did you know that Houten was hoping for parole since her crime that happened almost 50 years ago was denied her 21 times for her parole hearing?

Did you know that Leslie van Houten life sentence for her involvement in the murder of Rosemary LaBianca in 1969 has caused her to be denied 21 times for her parole hearing?

 Did you know that Houten was a Charles Manson follower that that was at the scene of the violent crime of murder almost 47 years ago?

Did you know that Houten was hoping for parole since her crime that happened almost 50 years ago would help the governor of California, Jerry Brown, to give her parole especially since she was the the youngest disciple of the Manson clan?

 

Did you know that the governor justified his decision by saying that Van Houten, sentenced to life imprisonment for his participation in the murders of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca in 1969, is "an unacceptable danger to society if released from prison?"

Did you know that Brown thus annulled the decision of a California review commission that on April 16 recommended parole for Van Houten, even though she was almost 67 years old? Did you know that the commission said that they based there decision on several factors? Did you know that Van Houten age at the time of committing the crime she was 19 years? Did you know that when Van Houten committed the crime she was under the effects of LSD? Did you know that Van Houten has been in prison for more than 45 years? Did you know that Van Houten has never been involved in a violent crimes as an adult


Did you know that Van Houten has had an impeccable record in prison, for she has not been disciplined for bad behavior since she is in jail? Did you know that the governor argued that all those arguments lose weight in the face of other negative factors that make Van Houten not a good candidate for parole?

Did you know that Van Houten made a statement saying "I know the pain is transmitted through the generations, I want the victims to know that I am deeply ashamed of what I did?" Did you know that what Van Houten did " refers to the bloody murder of Rosemay LaBianca, who was stabbed to death with her husband in the early hours of August 10, 1969?  


 Did you know that Van Houten Coming from a middle class family in Southern California she was a sociable and athletic young woman who in high school?

Did you know that Van Houten witnessed how Watson killed Leno LaBianca and subsequently was responsible for inflicting 16 of the more than 40 stabs his wife, Rosemary, received?

Did you know that by the end of 1969, all members of the Manson family were arrested and charged for all these murders?

Did you know that On March 29, 1971, Van Houten was convicted and sentenced to death?


Did you know that the subsequent prohibition of the death penalty in California for a few months made the sentence automatically switch to life imprisonment? Did you know that an appeals court overturned Van Houten's conviction in 1976 and a second trial held the following year ended without the jury's agreement? Did you know that finally, in the third and final trial held in 1978, Van Houten was found guilty of first degree murder but the sentence to life imprisonment included the possibility of being eligible for parole? Did you know that Van Houten is serving a sentence in the women's prison in Chino, California? Did you know that Van Houten lawyers say she has obtained a bachelor's degree and a university master's degree and has directed self-help groups for inmates? Did you know that relatives of the LaBianca couple and Governor Brown continue to consider it a danger to society? Van Houten is expected to apply for parole for the 21st time.

Did you know that Sharon Tate's family collected more than 140,000 signatures in a petition against probation for Leslie van Houten?

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Did you know that the Georgia Dome was the site for the Peach Bowls, SEC championship games, two Super Bowls, 1996 Olympic basketball, three Final Four NCAA basketball tournaments?

Georgia Dome implosion

Did you know that one of the nation's largest domed stadiums collapsed Monday into a pile of jagged concrete and a vast cloud of dust in a scheduled implosion in downtown Atlanta?

Did you know that Nearly 5,000 pounds of explosives were used to blast the Georgia Dome in Atlanta to smithereens at 7:30 a.m?

Did you know that onlookers gathered at skyscrapers' windows, at a restaurant atop the city's tallest hotel, in parking lots and on nearby streets to watch the destruction of the landmark stadium?

Did you know that the dome opened in 1992?

Did you know that when the dome was blown up it was flattened in just about 15 seconds?

Did you know that the Georgia World Congress Center Authority, which includes the 71,250-seat dome, had said it would take 12 seconds for the explosives to go off plus another 3 seconds for sections of grandstands to hit the ground?

Did you know that the explosives went off in a spiral around the stadium as it collapsed on itself, and a vast debris cloud hovered over the site before slowly drifting across downtown?

Mercedes-Benz Stadium and the Georgia Dome

Did you know that the dome has been replaced by the $1.6 billion Mercedes-Benz Stadium next door?

5-story ndustrial strength curtain between stadiums

Did you know that a 5-story tall industrial strength curtain between the two stadiums had
been erected to protect the new venue from damage?

Did you know that "There was no damage to Mercedes-Benz Stadium or the Georgia World Congress Center?"

Dud you know that the new stadium will be home Atlanta Falcons and Major League
to the NFL's
Soccer's Atlanta United?


Did you know that it also has a retractable roof that opens like a camera lens?

Did you know that the Mercedes-Benz Stadium boasts a 1,100-foot (335-meter) "halo board" video display and a giant steel sculpture of a falcon with its 70-foot (21-meter) wingspan at one of the main entrances?

Did you know that several streets and parts of Atlanta's transit system were closed to accommodate the blast and spectators?

Did you know that the idea for the Georgia Dome cost the city $214 million which began in the mid-1980s, when civic leaders recommended a domed football stadium adjoining the city's largest convention center, the Georgia World Congress Center?

Did you know that the Georgia Dome was the site of high school football state championships, Peach Bowls, SEC championship games, two Super Bowls, 1996 Olympic basketball, three Final Four NCAA basketball tournaments, concerts, pro wrestling, and other events? 

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Did you know that Terry Glenn, ex-Patriots, Cowboys receiver, was killed in a car accident he was 43?

Did you know that Glenn, was the seventh-overall pick in the 1996 NFL Draft?

Did you know that Glenn played 12 seasons in the NFL?

Did you know that Glenn, who starred at Ohio State ?

Did you know that Glenn was originally selected by the Patriots, but spent the final five seasons of his career with the Cowboys?

Did you know that Glen played 12 seasons, started 127 games and caught 593 passes for 8,823 yards and 44 touchdowns?


Did you know that Glenn eclipsed 1,000 receiving yards on four occasions -- including 1,132 yards and six touchdowns as a rookie and 1,047 yards and six touchdowns in 2006, his last full season?

Did you know that Glenn had a knee injury which limited him to just one game in 2007 and he was released by the Cowboys the following ?
 

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