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Thursday, November 16, 2017

Did you know that Sylvester Stallone was accused of sexual assualt from a incident that happened in 1986 with a 16 year old?


Sylvester StalloneDid you know that Stallone today flatly denied the allegation?
“This is a ridiculous, categorically false story,” said his spokesperson, Michelle Bega, today after the story broke in the Daily Mail. “No one was ever aware of this story until it was published today, including Mr. Stallone. At no time was Mr. Stallone ever contacted by any authorities or anyone else regarding this matter.”

Did you know that police noted in their 1986 report, obtained by Deadline, that during their interview with the unnamed girl, she became upset numerous times, “crying and sobbing” as she recounted the incident. Asked if she wanted to press charges, the girl declined, saying she was too “humiliated and ashamed?”

Did you know that the teenager told police that the incident occurred in July 1986 at the Las Vegas Hilton, where Stallone was filming Over the Top?

Did you know that when she meet Stallone, she asked for his autograph and a peck on the cheek?

Did you know that according to the police report, he signed a photo and told her he would give her a
kiss she “would not forget” at a later date. The next day, she returned to the set with a larger picture for him to sign and encountered his bodyguard, Mike De Luca. They talked briefly and De Luca asked what she’d do if Stallone made a pass at her. “I would probably make a pass back at him,” she said. He gave her the keys to a hotel room?

Did you know that later that night, she went to the room and encountered both men in the hallway. She said she went with Stallone into his bedroom, where they began having sex. According to the police report, Stallone then asked if she’d ever had sex with two men. “No,” she told the actor, who then got up and went into the bathroom and brought out De Luca?

De Luca
Did you know that the girl told police the three then had sex without her consent. After it was over, she told the police, Stallone told her they would “beat her head in” if she ever told anyone?

Did you know that the age of consent in Nevada is 16, and she told police that while she had initially consented to having sex with the actor, she had not consented to have sex with
 De Luca, who was killed by police in 2013 after a minor traffic accident in California?







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Franken Issues Apology After Accusation of Forcible Kissing and Groping a woman

Senator Al Franken, Democrat of Minnesota, during a Judiciary committee hearing last month. Credit Al Drago for The New York Times
Leeann Tweeden
Did you know another victim claims sexual harassment which has reached the Senate on Thursday, when a radio newscaster accused Al Franken, Democrat of Minnesota, of kissing and groping her without consent during a 2006 U.S.O. tour of the Middle East before he took public office?
Did you know that Mr. Franken, immediately released an apology to the newscaster,
Leeann Tweeden, who said that Mr. Franken forcibly kissed her during a rehearsal and groped her for a photo as she slept?

Did you know that Ms. Tweeden’s also presented evidence, including a photograph of Mr. Franken, his head turned toward the camera, with his hands placed over Ms. Tweeden’s breasts as she slept?

Did you know that according to account, Mr. Franken wrote a bawdy script that included a kiss for the two to perform onstage. When it came time to rehearse the skit, she wrote, Mr. Franken insisted on kissing despite her protestations?
 
Did you know that Ms. Tweeden said “I immediately pushed him away with both of my hands against his chest and told him if he ever did that to me again I wouldn’t be so nice about it the next time,” Ms. Tweeden wrote. “I walked away. All I could think about was getting to a bathroom as fast as possible to rinse the taste of him out of my mouth”“I felt disgusted and violated,” she added.
Ms. Tweeden said that no one else witnessed the kiss, and she did not tell the tour’s organizers. She said Mr. Franken retaliated against her with insults and, she learned after the trip ended, the compromising photograph?
Ms. Tweeden said the photograph was taken while she was asleep on a flight back to the United States from Afghanistan and that she saw it only later, after the trip ended.
Did you know that Ms. Tweeden, a former model, said that women were too often blamed for provoking male aggression based on their looks or clothing?


Did you know that even before the accusations against Mr. Franken, lawmakers in both the Senate and House had moved to begin mandatory anti-harassment training for all Capitol Hill employees and interns?
Did you know that Ms. Tweeden’s story came one day after Ms. Speier and four other lawmakers, including Rep. Ryan Costello, Republican of Pennsylvania, and Rep. Bruce Poliquin, Republican of Maine, introduced legislation to overhaul the way sexual harassment and assault are reported in Congress?
Lisbeth Kaufman
Did you know that Congressional aides, attorneys and lobbyists say the existing system is convoluted, and has long been stacked against those wishing to speak out against an abuser: The current process requires nondisclosure agreements and can take up to six months before a formal complaint is filed?
Did you know that the proposed legislation would make anonymity optional, as well as require lawmakers to reimburse the U.S. Treasury for paying out any settlements to victims?
Did you know that Lisbeth Kaufman, who worked for Mr. Franken during his first term while she was in her mid-20s, said Mr. Franken never behaved inappropriately in the office to her knowledge, and recalled him as a focused and intelligent lawmaker?







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Did you know that Gustav Åhr, known by his stage name Lil Peep November 15, 2017 died in Tucson, Arizona he was 21?

Lil Peep performing in the Marlin Room at Webster Hall in New York, in April. Credit Chad Batka for The New York Times
Did you know that Gustav Åhr, known by his stage name Lil Peep November 15, 2017 died in Tucson, Arizona he was 21?
Did you know that Lil Peep was an American singer and rapper and his songs such as "White Wine", "Benz Truck", and "The Way I See Things" have each gained over 4 million views on YouTube?
Did you know that Lil Peep, who over the last two years emerged as one of pop music’s brightest and most promising young talents, blending the urgency and dexterity of contemporary hip-hop with the raw, serrated sentimentality of emo?
Did you know that Lil Peep was born on November 1, 1996, and was raised in the town of Long Beach, on Long Island, the son of a college professor father and an elementary schoolteacher mother?
Did you know that when Lil Peep moved to Los Angeles he began pursuing music in earnest, posting first on YouTube and eventually on the streaming platform SoundCloud, finding a rabid following?

Did you know that Peep put out his first mixtapes in 2015, and last year, he released two, “Crybaby” and “Hellboy,” that marked him as a potent, forward-looking synthesizer of styles with an uncanny knack for pop songcraft?
Did you know that many of Peep's songs were recorded in his bedroom when he was living on Los Angeles’s Skid Row?

Did you know that when Peep's toured earlier this year, he
recreated that bedroom on stage, using the actual mattress?
Did you know that Lil Peel struggled with drug use and suicidal impulses dating back to his teenage years, he told The Times?

Did you know that Lil Peep said that his fans told him“They tell me that it saved their lives,” he said, describing what his fans told him about his music. “They say that I stopped them from committing suicide, which is a beautiful thing.”
“It’s great for me to hear,” he continued. “It helps. It boosts me, because music saved my life as well.”?
                                                                       







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Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Did you know that Facebook’s user base grows by eight people per second, or 7,246 people every 15 minutes?



Did you know that Facebook has 2.01 billion monthly active users around the world as of June 30,
2017?

Did you know that Facebook estimates that it has an average of 1.32 billion daily active users?

Did you know that according to Pew Research national survey, 79% of adult Internet users used Facebook as of April 2016?


Did you know that Facebook is blocked in North Korea and most of China?

Did you know that Al Pacino was the first “face” on Facebook?
l Pacino was the first

Peter Thiel,
Did you know Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, was the first major investor to back Facebook?

Did you know that Thiel, a luminary in the startup and venture capital worlds, saw the site’s potential and invested $500,000 into the young company in 2004?

Sean Parker
Did you know that Thiel later sold his stake in the company for more than $1 billion?

Did you know that Sean Parker, co-founder of now-defunct music sharing site Napster, originally acquired the facebook.com domain name for $200,000?

Facebook facts Sean Parker pays $200000 for facebook.com URLDid you know that Parker was the driving force in the renaming of the site, and was highly influential as the site exploded in popularity?

Did you know that a peer-to-peer file-sharing system called Wirehog was once a core function of Facebook?

Did you know that Mark Zuckerberg introduced the P2P file-sharing system when Thefacebook.com reached approximately
Wirehog
500,000 users, and once believed it would become a central component of the site. Wirehog was retired over fears of potential legal repercussions of copyright infringement in 2006?

Did you know that Mark Zuckerberg suffers from red-green colorblindness?

Did you know that is why Facebook’s primary color scheme is blue – although it certainly doesn’t hurt that blue?

Did you know that Facebook’s ‘Like’ button used to be the ‘Awesome’ button?

Did you know that Facebook engineer Andrew Bosworth said that he and other engineers were
Andrew Bosworth
enthusiastic about the “Awesome” button, but that the idea was ultimately vetoed by Zuckerberg in 2007?

Facebook facts Awesome buttonDid you know that the site eventually settled on the “Like” button, a decision that Bosworth said was met with a decidedly lukewarm reception?

Did you know that Facebook stores approximately 300 PETABYTES of user data on its servers?

Did you know that there are 1 million gigabytes in a petabyte?

facebook growth
Did you know that the entire written works of humankind, in every known language (including Latin and other historical languages) from the dawn of recorded history, would occupy approximately 50 petabytes. Think about that for a minute?

Did you know that in 2014, the alleged global economic impact of Facebook was approximately $227 billion?

Did you know that  Facebook’s user base grows by eight people per second, or 7,246 people every 15 minutes?

Did you know that in 2015, Facebook boasted 22% of WORLDWIDE mobile Internet advertising revenue?

Facebook facts mobile ad revenueDid you know that means almost one-quarter of all advertising revenue generated from mobile Internet ads in a single year went to Facebook?
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Did you know that adult Facebook users in the United States spend 68% of their mobile device time using apps?

Did you know that there were only approximately 8,400 app advertisers on Facebook in 2013 – and these 8,400 advertisers drove more than 145 million app installs in that year alone?

Did you know that there are now more than 2 million active advertisers on Facebook?

Did you know that the popularity, impact, and cost-effectiveness of Facebook ads has made the site one of the most popular online advertising platforms in the world, and its upward trajectory seems likely to continue?

Did you know that Facebook ads using custom audience targeting had conversion rates 387% higher than ads only using demographic targeting?

14. The Facebook advertising format with the lowest cost-per-click is the Sponsored Page Action Story format, which has an average CPC of just $0.11. The ad format with the highest CPC is the Sponsored App Action Story, which has an average CPC of $0.58. (source)
Facebook facts Facebook ad CTR
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Did you know that Facebook advertising format with the highest click-through rate is the Sponsored Place Check-In Story, which has an average CTR of 3.2%?


Did you know that Facebook earns an average of $5.85 for every Facebook user in the United States and Canada?

Did you know that these two countries also have among the highest monthly active users of any country in the world, making North America a vitally important market for Facebook?

Did you know that on every minute of downtime outage costs Facebook approximately $24,420?

Did you know that the “prolonged” outage that lasted for 19 minutes in August 2014 cost the company almost $427,000?

Did you know that posts published between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. EST receive approximately 88% more interactions on average than posts published at other times of the day?

Did you know that also, ending posts with a question lifts interactions with those posts by an average of 162%?

Did you know that in September 2014, Facebook users watched a collective 1 billion videos per day?

Did you know that today, that figure is more than 4 billion – and 75% of these video views occur on mobile devices?
Facebook facts shares by post type
Did you know that Videos are the most-shared content type on Facebook?

Did you know that on average, videos receive 89.5 shares per video, significantly higher share counts than photos or text-based posts?

Did you know that posting just once or twice per day on Facebook yields an average of 40% more engagement than posting three or more times per day?
Did you know that there are 20,658 employees at Facebook, and it is headquartered in Menlo Park, California?
Did you know that on February 4, 2004 - "The Facebook" is launched by Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes and Eduardo Saverin at Harvard University?

Did you know that on June 2004 - The company moves to Palo Alto, California?

Did you know that on December 2004 - One million users are active on the site?

Did you know that on September 20, 2005 - The company drops "the" from the name and becomes Facebook?

Did you know that on December 2005 - The number of Facebook users reaches six million?

Did you know that on July 2007 - Former Harvard classmates Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss sue Zuckerberg, alleging that he stole the idea for Facebook from them?

Did you know that on October 2007 - Microsoft buys a 1.6% stake in Facebook for $240 million?

Did you know that on January 5, 2008 - ABC News and Facebook co-sponsor a debate between presidential hopefuls?

Sheryl Sandberg
Did you know that on March 2008 - Facebook hires Sheryl Sandberg to be the company's chief
operating officer?

Did you know that on2008 - The Winklevosses settle their suit with Facebook for $65 million?

Did you know that on 2009 - Facebook settles a lawsuit with founder Eduardo Saverin out of court?

Did you know that on February 9, 2009 - Facebook introduces the "Like" button?

Did you know that on June 2009 - Facebook becomes the number one social network in the United States, surpassing MySpace?

The Social Network
Did you know that on October 2010 - The movie "The Social Network, " a fictionalized account of the start of Facebook, is released.
Did you know that on November 2011 - Facebook settles charges brought by the Federal Trade Commission that it engaged in deceptive practices concerning users' privacy?

Did you know that on February 1, 2012 - Facebook files the paperwork for its initial public offering?

Did you know that on April 9, 2012 - Photo sharing site Instagram is purchased for $1 billion?

Did you know that on May 18, 2012 - The initial public offering of Facebook stock takes place?

Did you know that on October 2012 - Facebook reaches one billion active monthly users?

Did you know that on February 19, 2014 - Facebook announces that it is purchasing mobile messaging service WhatsApp for $19 billion?

Did you know that on March 25, 2014 - Facebook announces that it is purchasing virtual reality company Oculus VR, Inc. for $2 billion?

Did you know that on June 23, 2015 - Facebook stock rises 3% to reach an all time high. The company's market value is close to $245 billion, making it worth more than WalMart, a $235 billion company?

going public
Did you know that on August 27, 2015 - Facebook hits a milestone when 1 billion users log in to the social network in a single day?

Did you know that on April 27, 2016 - Facebook shares rise almost 9% to hit an all-time high of more than $118 after the company reports first-quarter profit almost tripled and sales jumped 52%. There are now 1.65 billion people using Facebook each month, up from 1.59 billion at the end of last year?

Did you know that on September 7, 2017 - Facebook reveals that it sold about $100,000 worth of ads during the 2016 presidential election cycle from inauthentic accounts and pages "likely operated out of Russia?"






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Did you know that District Attorney Jody Warner,'was terminate from she job after she verbally attacked an Uber driver for getting lost?' '

Uber driver Shaun Platt
Did you know that Dallas Uber driver Shaun Platt, 26, made audio recording in which Assistant District Attorney Jody Warner could be heard hurling expletives at him?
Assistant District Attorney Jody Warner
Did you know that Platt says Warner, 32, was drunk when she threatened him with a kidnapping charge because he would not take her home?
Did you know that Warner, who works with crimes against
children unit, called Platt 'an idiot,' 'a legitimate retard' and 'stupid' after he got lost?
Did you know that Warner also told Platt she was an ADA and that she 'knows people'?
Did you know that an Uber driver was driving a Dallas prosecutor home from a bar when he claims the woman got angry at him for getting lost, physically and verbally attacked him, and then accused him of kidnapping her?
Did you know that Shaun Platt, 26, recorded a portion of his interaction with Dallas County Assistant District Attorney Jody Warner, who can be hurling expletives at the driver, repeatedly calling him 'an idiot,' and demanding that he take her home, despite his pleas that she get out of the car?
Did you know that the District Attorney’s Office sent a statement to DailyMail.com Monday evening announcing Warner's termination?
Did you know that District Attorney Jody Warner,'was terminate from she job after she verbally attacked an Uber driver for getting lost?' '

Did you know that criminal charges have not been filed, her behavior is contrary to this office’s core principle of integrity, and it will not be tolerated?
'As public servants, we represent the people of Dallas County and are examples of justice, professionalism, and ethical behavior both inside and outside of the courtroom. I will not waiver on my expectation of the highest integrity for myself or my staff.'  
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Dallas Uber driver Shaun Platt, 26 (left) says Dallas prosecutors Jody Warner, 32 (right) got angry at 





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Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Did you know that at least five people are dead, including the gunman, after a shooting Tuesday in Northern California's Tehama County?

Did you know that at least five people are dead, including the gunman, after a shooting Tuesday in Northern California's Tehama County?

Did you know that the Assistant Sheriff Phil Johnston said police fatally shot the attacker after reports of at least seven shooting scenes, including an elementary school, Johnston said?

Did you know that the violence started with an apparent domestic dispute, according to neighbors, and spread out with the suspect "randomly picking targets," Johnston said?
Did you know that the Corning Union Elementary School District said part of the shooting spree occurred at Rancho Tehama Elementary School?
Did you know that Tehama County, was shocked that this violence was involving schoolchildren?

Did you know that some students were transported to hospitals by helicopter, and others were moved to safe locations, the assistant sheriff's said?
Did you know that at least one student was shot at the elementary school, and another child was shot in a truck along with an adult female, Johnston said?
Did you know that three children and a adult are being treated at Enloe Medical Center in Chico, officials said?
Did you know that this police were still trying to get an accurate count of the injured, Johnston said?
Did you know that a semi-automatic rifle and two handguns believed to be used by the gunman, who engaged police in a shootout, have been recovered?






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Did you that the John Travolta who has repeatedly denied being gay in the past, was said to have touched the unnamed therapist's genitals during a $200-per-hour massage appointment ?

Did you know that John Travolta has been named in a criminal complaint by a 21-year-old masseur who accused the actor of sexual battery that reportedly took place in 2000?
 
Did you know that according to the bombshell police report, the masseur alleged that Travolta gropedhis bare buttocks and indecently exposed himself during a deep body massage at the LaQuinta Hotel in Palm Springs, California?
Did you know that during the alleged incident, Travolta, 63, also made lewd remarks about gay fantasies while at the hotel's spa facility around 1.30am on February 15, 2000?
Did you know that according to the documents, obtained by RadarOnline.com that Travolta wanted a more intimate rubdown and even removed the towel 'exposing' his buttocks as the male spa employee gave him the massage?

Did you know that the employee claimed in the report that he kept replacing the towel and covering Travolta's buttocks up when the Pulp Fiction actor removed it?
 
Travolta, and wife Kelly Preston
Did you know that during the alleged incident, Travolta, 63, who is married to Kelly Preston  also made lewd remarks about gay fantasies while at the hotel's spa facility around 1.30am on February 15, 2000?

Did you know that while the masseur was packing up his massage table, he alleged that Travolta made lewd comments' toward him and asked if he'd 'ever ha his a**hole licked by another man' and if so, 'tell him what he would do, so he [Travolta] could have something to fantasize about'?

Did you know that the masseur said he  reported the incident to the Palm Springs Sheriff's Department? 

Did you know that this isn't the first time Travolta has been accused of misconduct while getting a massage?
Did you know that in 2012, Travolta was sued over accusations that he tried to have sex with a male masseur during a therapy session at the luxury Beverly Hills Hotel?


Did you that the John Travolta who has repeatedly denied being gay in the past, was said to have touched the unnamed therapist's genitals during a $200-per-hour massage appointment (complaint from 2012), the lawsuit claimed?

Did you know that the suit claimed that Travolta stripped naked - and appeared aroused - before being massaged while at the same time trying to remove the towel covering his bottom.
After the session was over, Travolta allegedly touched the man's scrotum and penis?

Did you know that there have been whispers about John Travolta's sexuality which plagued his movie career almost from the outset?
john travolta in hair spray
Did you know that Travolta various camp roles in films – most notably as a drag queen in the musical Hairspray – have helped fuel rumors he is secretly gay?
Did you know that there have also been strongly denied accusations he has been living a double life strikingly at odds with his family man image?
Did you know that Travolta rumor that his 1991 marriage to Kelly Preston was arranged by the shadowy cult-like religion of Scientology, of which he is a leading disciple?
Did you know that seven years later, the father-of-two Travolta was named as a homosexual in court papers by a former member of the Church but the case never got a hearing?
Did you know that in 2001, Travolta faced unsubstantiated claims that he had tried to pick up a business executive in a health club?
Did you know that the rumor mill reached a crescendo in 2006, when the actor was seen apparently kissing a male friend as he prepared to board his own Boeing 707 jet in Canada?
Did you know that the lawsuit was filed for $2 million in damages at the US District Court of Central California, the document claimed that during the encounter Travolta also masturbated?
 





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Did you Know

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!