Did you know that Lance Armstrong holds the record as the only rider to have won the Tour De France seven times (consecutively 1999–2005)?

Did you know that the shortest person to compete in the Tour De France was Samuel Dumoulin  he was 5' 2"?

Did you know that the  tallest rider to compete in the Tour De France was Johan van Summeren at he was  6' 5.5"?

Did you know that Lance Armstrong holds the record as the only rider to have won the Tour De France  seven times (consecutively 1999–2005)?

Did you know the lightest rider to compete in the Tour De France was  Leonardo Piepoli he weighed 125.7lbs?

The heaviest rider to compete in the Tour De France was Magnus Backstedt he weighed 209.5 lbs?

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Did you know that the youngest Tour De France winner was Henri Cornet, 19 years 50 weeks in 1904?

Did you know that the oldest Tour De France winner was Lambot, 36 years four months in 1922?

Did you know that 4 racers have died while competing in the Tour de France?

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Did you know that in April 2010, Kathryn Ann Bigelow was named to the Time 100 list of most influential people of the year?

Did you know that the movie and entertainment world knows Kathryn Bigelow as an American film director?

Did you know that The Hurt Locker won the 2010 Academy Award for Best Picture, won the BAFTA Award for Best Film, and was nominated for the 2010 Golden Globe Award for Best Drama?

 Did you know that The Hurt Locker help Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director,^[1] the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing,^[2] the BAFTA Award for Best Direction,^[3] and the Critics' Choice Award for Best Director?

Did you know that in April 2010, Kathryn An  Bigelow was named to the Time 100 list of most influential people of the year?

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Did you know that Helen Mirren is the first female actress to be nominated for three acting performances at the Golden Globe Awards in the same year?

Did you know that in 1984, Mirren won Best Actress for her role in the film Cal at the Cannes Film Festival and the 1985 Evening Standard British Film Awards?

Did you know that in 1994 and 2001, she was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her roles in The Madness of King George and Gosford Park, respectively?

Did you know that in 1995, she had also been awarded for Best Actress once again in Cannes for playing Queen Charlotte in The Madness of King George?

Did you know that in 2002, she received the SAG Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for Gosford Park?

Did you know that Helen Mirren is the first female actress to be nominated for three acting performances at the Golden Globe Awards in the same year?

Did you know that Helen Mirren won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Leading Role in the movie drama category for Stephen Frears' The Queen in 2006 (along with two nominations in the Actress in a Mini-series or TV Movie category for Elizabeth I, and Prime Suspect: Final Act)? The Queen


Did you know that she won both Golden Globes for The Queen and Elizabeth I and also won two SAG awards the same year for the same roles?

Did you know that Helen Mirren is the third actor to win two Golden Globes in the same year, and the first ever to win for both leading roles in TV and film in the same year?



Did you know that Mirren is one of only three actresses (the first was Liza Minnelli in 1973 and then decades later Helen Hunt) to win a

Liza Minnelli

Golden Globe, an Oscar and an Emmy for performances given in the same year?

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Did you know that Carrie Underwood is the most awarded American Idol winner?

Did you know who were the Major award–winning American Idol alumni?

Idol Contestant & Season	American Music Awards	Billboard Music Awards	Grammy Awards	Academy Awards
Kelly Clarkson (Season 1, Winner)	4 2005 Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist 2005 Artist of the Year 2006 Favorite Pop/Rock Female 2006 Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist	12	2 2006 Best Female Pop Vocal 2006 Best Pop Vocal Album	0
Clay Aiken (Season 2, Runner-Up)	1 2003 Fan's Choice Award	3	0	0
Fantasia Barrino (Season 3, Winner)	0	3	1 2011, Best Female R&B Vocal	0
Jennifer Hudson (Season 3, 7th Place)	0	0	1 2009 Best R&;B Album	1 2007 Best Supporting Actress
Carrie Underwood (Season 4, Winner)	6 2006 Breakthrough artist 2007 Artist of the year 2007 Favorite Country Album 2007 Country Female Artist 2008 Favorite Country Album 2010 Favorite Country Album	15	5 2007 Best New Artist 2007 Best Female Country Vocal 2008 Best Female Country Vocal 2009 Best Female Country Vocal 2010 Best Country Collaboration with Vocals	0
Chris Daughtry (Season 5, 4th Place)	4 2007 Breakthrough Artist 2007 Best Adult Contemporary Artist 2007 Best Pop/Rock Album 2008 Favorite Band, Duo or Group- Pop/Rock	6	0	0
Jordin Sparks (Season 6, Winner)	1 2008 Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist	0	0	0

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Did you know that Forbes named J.K. Rowling as the first person to become a U.S.-dollar billionaire by writing books,[100] the second-richest female entertainer and the 1,062nd richest person in the world?

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Did you know that in 1995, Rowling finished her manuscript for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone on an old manual typewriter?^[48]

Alice Newton

Did you know after Christopher Little Literary Agents reviewed the first three chapters of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone they agreed to represent Rowling in her quest for a publisher?

Did you know that Rowling book was submitted to twelve publishing houses, all of which rejected the manuscript?



Did you know that the decision to publish Rowling's book apparently owes much to Alice Newton, the eight-year-old daughter of Bloomsbury’s chairman, who was given the first chapter to review by her father and immediately demanded the next?^[50]

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,

Did you know that in June 1997, Bloomsbury published Philosopher’s Stone with an initial print-run of 1000 copies, five hundred of which were distributed to libraries?

Did you know that Philosopher’s Stone today, such copies are valued between £16,000 and £25,000?^[54]

Did you know that Philosopher’s Stone won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Five months after the book was released?

Did you know that In February, the novel won the prestigious British Book Award for Children’s Book of the Year, and later, the Children’s Book Award?

Did you know that its sequel, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, was published in July 1998?^[55]

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,

Did you know that in December 1999, the third novel, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, won the Smarties Prize, making Rowling the first person to win the award three times running?^[57]

Did you know that Rowling withdrew the fourth Harry Potter novel from contention to allow other books a fair chance to win the Smarties Prize?

Did you know that in January 2000, Prisoner of Azkaban won the inaugural Whitbread Children's Book of the Year award, though it lost the Book of the Year prize to Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf?^[58]

Potter and the Goblet of Fire,

Did you know that the fourth book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, was released simultaneously in the UK and the US on 8 July 2000, and broke sales records in both countries?

Did you know that Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire sold  372,775 copies of the book were sold in its first day in the UK, almost equaling the number Prisoner of Azkaban sold during its first year?^[59]

Did you know that in the US, the book sold three million copies in its first 48 hours, smashing all literary sales records?^[59] .

Did you know that Rowling  realized there was a serious fault with the plot of Prisoner of Azkaban she rewrote 13 times, until she got it right?

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Did you know that Rowling was named author of the year in the 2000 British Book Awards?^[61]

Did you know that J.K. Rowling waited three years before she released Goblet of Fire and the fifth Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix?

Half-Blood Prince

Did you know that the sixth book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, was released on 16 July 2005?

 Did you know that the sixth book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, broke all sales records, selling nine million copies in its first 24 hours of release?^[64]


Did you know that in 2006, Half-Blood Prince received the Book of the Year prize at the British Book Awards?^[67]

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Did you know that the title of the seventh and final Harry Potter book was revealed 21 December 2006 to be Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallow?^[68]


Did you know that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was released on 21 July 2007 (0:00 BST) and broke its predecessor's record as the fastest-selling book of all time?^[70]

Did you know that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows sold 11 million copies in the first day of release in the United Kingdom and United States?^[70]  


Did you know that Harry Potter is now a global brand worth an estimated £7 billion ($15 billion),^[73] and the last four Harry Potter books have consecutively set records as the fastest-selling books in history?^[70][74]

Did you know that the Harry Potter series, totalling 4,195 pages,^[75] has been translated, in whole or in part, into 65 languages?^[76]

Did you know that Forbes named J.K. Rowling as the first person to become a U.S.-dollar billionaire by writing books,^[100] the second-richest female entertainer and the 1,062nd richest person in the world?

Did you know that when the Forbes first listed billionaire in 2004, Rowling disputed the calculations and said she had plenty of money, but was not a billionaire?^[102]

Did you know that in 2008 Sunday Times Rich List named Rowling the 144th richest person in Britain?^[10]

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Did you know that Dwight Howard became the first player to lead the league in rebounding and blocks in consecutive seasons, and was also the first player to ever lead the league in rebounding, blocks, and field goal percentage in the same season?

Did you know that Dwight Howard has amassed several NBA and franchise records and awards during his NBA career?

Did you know that Howard has led the league in rebounds per game three times, blocks per game twice, and double-doubles twice?

Did you know that Howard is also the youngest player in NBA history to reach one, two, three, four, five, six and seven thousand career rebounds, and the youngest player in NBA history to lead the league in rebounding and blocks?

Did you know following Howard's 2009–10 season, he became the first 

ever NBA player to lead the league in total rebounds for five consecutive seasons?

Did you know that Dwight Howard became the first player to lead the league in rebounding and blocks in consecutive seasons, and was also the first player to ever lead the league in rebounding, blocks, and field goal percentage in the same season?

Did you know that Howard surpassed Wilt Chamberlain's record of four from 1959–60—1962–63, and again from 1965–66—1968–69? 

Did you know that on April 18, 2011, Howard won the NBA’s Defensive Player of the Year Award, becoming the first player in league history to have won the award in three consecutive seasons?

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Did you know that Dwight took his son’s mother Royce Reed to court accusing her of cyber bashing him, and suing her for $9,205,000 in damages?

Did you know that VH1′s Basketball Wives has help boost the cable channels rating in the housewife saga?

.Did you know that Basketball Wives is in its third season?

Did you know that there are some new wives on the block! Pictured above from left to right are Jennifer Williams, Royce Reed, Erikka Moxam, Shaunie O’Neal, Evelyn Lozada, Suzie Ketchem and Gloria Govan?

Did you know how these extraordinary women landed on the show?

Did you know for the women to be on Basketball Wives they are best friends and either the wife, ex-wife or girlfriend of an NBA superstar? 

Did you know that Royce Reed is a college educated, and a former Orlando Magic dancer?

Braylon Howard

Did you know that Royce is also the ex-girlfriend of NBA star Dwight Howard, and the have a son together?

Did you know the name of Howards son Royce is Braylon Howard?

Did you know that Braylon was born on November 18, 2007? 

Did you know that Dwight and Royce have had some major drama between each other?

Did you know that Dwight took his son’s mother Royce Reed to court accusing her of cyber bashing him, and suing her for $9,205,000 in damages?

Did you know that Dwight also took Royce to court back in December 2009, requesting that she not be allowed to speak his name on the reality show?

Did you know that Royce never mentions Howard son on Basketball Wives is because she agreed to not profit off of his name according to reports?

Did you know that some women on Basketball Wives have accused Royce of being a groupie?

Did you know that Royce at one time denied that she dated Dwight for a while before bearing his son?

Did you know that Royce also made some headlines some months ago when she entered a raunchy “dance” contest while in Maimi?

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