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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Did you know that Kareem won three consecutive national championship basketball titles when he played at UCLA?

Did you know that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar birth name was Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Jr.?




 Did you know that Kareem was born April 16, 1947?

Did you know that Kareem is a retired American professional basketball player who played 20 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers?


Did you know that during his career as a center, Abdul-Jabbar was a record six-time NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP), a record 19-time NBA All-Star, a 15-time All-NBA selection, and an 11-time NBA All-Defensive Team member?

Did you know that Kareem was a member of six NBA championship teams, Abdul-Jabbar twice was voted NBA Finals MVP.?

Did you know that Kareem in 1969 was the first-ever Naismith College Player of the Year?.


Did you know that when Kareem started playing High School ball he was 6 foot 8 inch player?[14][15]

Did you know that Kareem led Power Memorial Academy to three straight New York City Catholic championships, a 71-game winning streak, and a 79–2 overall record?[16]

Did you know that Kareem scored over 2,067 total points which is a New York City high school record?[14]

Did you know that Kareem won three consecutive national championship basketball titles when he played  at UCLA?

Did you know that Kareem adopted the Muslim name Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. after winning his first NBA championship in 1971?

Did you know that the name  "sky hook" became his trademark shot, which helped him established himself as one of the league's top scorers?

Did you know that at the time of Kareem retirement in 1989, Abdul-Jabbar was the NBA's all-time leader in points scored (38,387), games played (1,560), minutes played (57,446), field goals made (15,837), field goal attempts (28,307), blocked shots (3,189), defensive rebounds (9,394), and personal fouls (4,657)?

Did you know that in 2008, ESPN named him Kareem "greatest player in college basketball history"?[6]

Did you know that Abdul-Jabbar has also been an actor, a basketball coach, and a best-selling author?[7][8]

Did you know that Kareem as of the 2011–2012 season, he still holds or shares a number of individual records at UCLA?[22]
  • Highest career scoring average: 26.4;
  • Most career field goals: 943 (tied with Don MacLean);
  • Most points in a season: 870 (1967);
  • Highest season scoring average: 29.0 (1967);
  • Most field goals in a season: 346 (1967);
  • Most free throw attempts in a season: 274 (1967);
  • Most points in a single game: 61;
  • Most field goals in a single game: 26 (vs. Washington State, February 25, 1967).






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Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Did you know that Doctor who is listed in Guinness World Records as the longest-running science fiction television show in the world?


Did you know that Doctor Who is a British science-fiction television programme produced by the BBC?

Did you know that Doctor Who is depicts the adventures of the Doctor, a Time Lord—a time-travelling humanoid alien?


Did you know that Doctor Who has received recognition as one of Britain's finest television programmes, winning the 2006 British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series and five consecutive (2005–2010) awards at the National Television Awards during Russell T Davies's tenure as executive producer?[2][3]

Did you know that in 2011, Matt Smith became the first Doctor to be nominated for a BAFTA Television Award for Best Actor?

Did you know that in 2013, the Peabody Awards honoured Doctor Who with an Institutional Peabody "for evolving with technology and the times like nothing else in the known television universe?"[4]

Did you know that Doctor who is listed in Guinness World Records as the longest-running science fiction television show in the world?[5]

Did you know that Doctor who has the "most successful" science fiction series of all time—based on its over-all broadcast ratings, DVD and book sales, and iTunes traffic—[6] and for the largest ever simulcast of a TV drama with its 50th anniversary special?[7]


Did you know that Doctor Who originally ran from 1963 to 1989?

Did you know that eleven actors have headlined the series as the Doctor?

Did you know that the transition from one actor of Doctor who to another,  is written into the plot of the show as regeneration, a life process of Time Lords through which the character of the Doctor takes on a new body and, to some extent, new personality, which occurs after sustaining injury which would be fatal to most other species?






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Monday, December 16, 2013

Did you know that Meryl Streep has more nominations than any other actor in the history of either award?

Did you know that Mary Louise Streep; is an American actress of theater, television, and film?

Did you know That Meryl Streep is widely regarded as one of the greatest film actresses of all time?

 Did you know that Streep was born June 22, 1949?

Did you know that Streep has received 17 Academy Award nominations, winning three?

Did you know that Streep had 28 Golden Globe nominations, winning eight?

Did you know that Meryl Streep has more nominations than any other actor in the history of either award?

Did you know that Streep work has earned her two Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Cannes Film Festival award, five New York Film Critics Circle Awards, two BAFTA awards, two Australian Film Institute awards, five Grammy Award nominations, and a Tony Award nomination, amongst several others?

Did you know that streep was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2004 and the Kennedy Center Honor in 2011 for her contribution to American culture through performing arts, the youngest actor in each award's history?






Did you know that President Barack Obama awarded her the 2010 National Medal of Arts?






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Sunday, December 15, 2013

Did you know that O'Toole was nominated eight times for the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, making him the most-nominated actor never to win the award?

Did you know  that Peter James O'Toole was an Irish-born, British reared and educated actor.[2]

Did you know that Peter O' Toole died on 14 December 2013, he was 81?

Did you know that O'Toole won four Golden Globes, a BAFTA and an Emmy, and was the recipient of an Honorary Academy Award in 2003?

 Did you know that O'Toole was nominated eight times for the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, making him the most-nominated actor never to win the award?






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Friday, December 13, 2013

Did you know that Herb Alpert is the only recording artist to hit No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 pop chart as both a vocalist ("This Guy's in Love with You," 1968) and an instrumentalist ("Rise," 1979)?

Did you know that Herbert Alpert  is an American musician most associated with the group variously known as Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass?

Did you know that Herb Alpert was born March 31, 1935?

Did you know that Alpert is also a recording industry executive, the "A" of A&M Records recording label?


Herb Alpert & Jerry Moss
Did you know that Alpert and business partner founded and eventually sold to Polygram?
Jerry Moss




Did you know that Alpert's musical accomplishments include five number one albums and 28 albums total on the Billboard charts, eight Grammy Awards, fourteen platinum albums and fifteen gold albums?

Did you know that as of 1996, Alpert had sold 72 million albums worldwide?[2][3][4]

Did you know that Herb Alpert is the only recording artist to hit No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 pop chart as both a vocalist ("This Guy's in Love with You," 1968) and an instrumentalist ("Rise," 1979)?






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Thursday, December 12, 2013

Did you know that Kandi Burruss was the first African-American woman ever to win ASCAP's Songwriter of the Year award in 2000?

Did you know that 'Kandi Burruss is  an American singer-songwriter, actress, record producer, and television personality?


Did you know that Kandi Burruss was born on May 17, 1976 in Atlanta, Georgia?

Did you know that Burruss was also a former member of the group Xscape from Atlanta?


Did you know after the disbanding of Xscape, Burruss began to focus on production and songwriting?

Did you know that in 1999, Burruss teamed with bandmate Tameka "Tiny" Cottle to score the international number one hit "No Scrubs" for TLC?

Did you know the  single  "No Scrubs" received a Grammy for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, MTV Video Music Award, Billboard Music Award and Soul Train Music Award?

Did you know later that same year, Burruss scored a hit for Destiny's Child on their second album?

Did you know that Burruss songs  "The Writing's on the Wall". "Bills, Bills, Bills", also topped the Billboard "Hot 100" chart?

Did you know that Burruss also wrote their second single "Bug a Boo"?

Did you know that Burruss. Kandi also worked with then newcomer Pink by co-writing her debut single "There You Go" off Pink's debut album "Can't Take Me Home"?

Did you know that Kandi Burruss was the first African-American woman ever to win ASCAP's Songwriter of the Year award in 2000?

Did you know that Burruss won for Songwriter of the year in the Rhythm &Soul category?[1][2][3][4]


Kim Zolciak
Did you know that Kandi's writing credits continued to grow by penning for the likes of Mariah Carey, Alicia Keys, Boyz II Men, Da Brat, NSYNC, N-Toon, Solo, Usher, Fantasia, Mýa, Joe, MC Lyte and Whitney
Houston?

Did you know that Kandi has since rewritten and executive produced "Tardy for the Party" for Real Housewives of Atlanta co-star Kim Zolciak's debut album?







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Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Did you know That Joe Montana is the only player in NFL history to win Super Bowl MVP three times 1981, 1984, 1989?

Did you know that Joseph Clifford Montana, Jr. was born June 11, 1956?

Did you know that Joe Cool[1] and The Comeback Kid?[2]

Did you know that Montana is a retired professional American football player, and a  hall of fame quarterback with the San Francisco 49ers?

Did you know that Montana won a college national championship at Notre Dame?

Did you know that Montana started his NFL career in 1979 with San Francisco, where he played for the next 14 seasons?
 Did you know that Montana started in four Super Bowl games and won all of them?

Did you know That Joe Montana if the only player in NFL history to win Super Bowl MVP three times 1981, 1984, 1989?
  
Did you know that in 1989 and 1990, the Associated Press named Joe Montana the NFL Most Valuable Player (MVP)
Did you know that  in 1986, Montana won the AP NFL Comeback Player of the Year Award?

Did you know that Sports Illustrated magazine named Montana the 1990 "Sportsman of the Year"?

Did you know that Montana was elected to eight Pro Bowls, as well as being voted 1st team All-Pro by the AP in 1987, 1989, and 1990?

Did you know that Joe Montana had the highest passer rating in the National Football Conference (NFC) five times (1981, 1984, 1985, 1987, and 1989)?

Did you know that Montana in both 1987 and 1989 had the highest passer rating in the entire NFL?[8]

Did you know that Joe Montana lead his teams to 31 fourth quarter come-from-behind wins?[4]

Did you know that the game-winning touchdown passes in the 1981 NFC Championship Game and Super Bowl XXIII, Montana threw the touchdown at the end of the championship game was so memorable that sports journalists, fans, and many others, refer to the play simply as "The Catch"?

Did you know that Jon Steven Young was born October 11, 1961?

Did you know that Steve Young  is a retired American college and professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for fourteen seasons during the 1980s and 1990s?

Did did you know that Young played college football for Brigham Young University (BYU), and played professionally for the Los Angeles Express of the United States Football League?

Did you know that Young also played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers?

Did you know that Steve Young was named the Most Valuable Player of the NFL in 1992 and 1994, and the MVP of Super Bowl XXIX?

Did you know that Steve Young is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame and the Pro Football Hall of Fame.?

Did you know that Young at the time of his retirement, he had the highest passer rating among NFL quarterbacks who have thrown at least 1,500 passing attempts (96.8)?

Did you know that Young also won a record six NFL passer rating titles?

Did you know that Jerry Lee Rice was born October 13, 1962?

Did you know that Jerry Rice is a retired American football wide receiver who played 20 seasons in the National Football League (NFL)?


Did you know that Rice is widely considered to be the greatest wide receiver in NFL history and among the greatest NFL players overall?[1]

Did you know that on November 4, 2010, Rice was chosen by NFL Network's as the greatest player in NFL history?

Did you know that Rice is the all-time leader in most major statistical categories for wide receivers[2] and the all-time NFL leader in receptions, touchdown receptions, and yards?

Did you know that Rice was selected to the Pro Bowl 13 times (1986–1996, 1998, 2002)?

Did you know that Jerry Rice was named All-Pro 12 times in his 20 NFL seasons?

Did you know that Rice won three Super Bowl rings playing for the San Francisco 49ers and a AFC Championship with the Oakland Raiders?





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Did you know that the average human brain contains approximately 86 billion neurons? These remarkable cells form intricate networks, allowing us to think, feel, and experience the world around us. Each neuron communicates with others through electrical impulses, creating a symphony of thoughts, memories, and emotions. So next time you ponder life’s mysteries, remember that your brain is orchestrating a cosmic dance of neurons!