Did you know that Joseph Louis Barrow, was known as the Brown Bomber
Joe Louis?
Did you know that Joe Louis
was an
American professional
boxer and the
World Heavyweight Champion?
Did you know that Joe Louis held the World Heavyweight Boxing title longer than any other fighter in history, 12 years from 1937 to 1949?
Did you know that Louis' championship reign lasted 140 consecutive months, during which
he participated in 27 championship fights, 26 championship fights during
his reign?
Did you know that Louis was
ranked as the #1 heavyweight of all-time by the International Boxing
Research Organization,
[3] and was ranked #1 on
The Ring's list of the 100 Greatest Punchers of All-Time?
Did you know that Joe Louis died in 1981?
(May 13, 1914 – April 12, 1981)
In his time as a fighter, Joe Louis had 72 fights. He knocked out 54
opponents, endured three defeats and held the championship from 1937
until March 1949, the longest span of a heavyweight titleholder. Louis
failed to regain the championship when he returned to the ring in 1950
and when
Rocky Marciano knocked him out in 1951. The man who had been called the Brown Bomber was finished.
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Did you know that a
homonym is a group of words that share the same spelling
and the same pronunciation but have different meanings?
Did you know that these are examples of homonyms, are the pair
stalk (part of a plant) and
stalk (follow/harass a person) and the pair
left (past tense of leave) and
left (opposite of right)?
Did you know that a distinction is sometimes made between "true" homonyms, which are unrelated in origin, such as
skate (glide on ice) and
skate (the fish), and polysemous homonyms, or
polysemes, which have a shared origin, such as
mouth (of a river) and
mouth (of an animal)?
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Did you know that the
Brooklyn Bridge is one of the oldest
suspension bridges in the United States?
Did you know that the Brooklyn Bridge was completed in 1883?
Did you know that the Brooklyn Bridge was the first steel-wire suspension bridge?
Did you know that The Brooklyn Bridge was initially designed by German immigrant
John Augustus Roebling, who had previously designed and constructed shorter suspension bridges, such as
Roebling's Delaware Aqueduct in
Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania,
Waco Suspension Bridge in
Waco,
Texas, and the
John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge in
Cincinnati, Ohio?
Did you know while conducting surveys for the bridge project, Roebling sustained a crush injury to his foot when a ferry pinned it against a piling?
Did you know that Roebling had to have his crushed toe amputated?
Did you know that he later developed a
tetanus infection which left him incapacitated and soon resulted in his death?
Did you know that his 32-year-old son
Washington Roebling in charge of the project?
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Did you know that Washington Roebling also suffered a paralyzing injury as a result of
decompression sickness shortly after the beginning of construction on January 3, 1870?
[11]
Did you know that decompression sickness is also called "
caisson disease"?
Did you know that the Brooklyn Bridge was completed in thirteen years?
Did you know that the Brooklyn Bridge was opened for use on May 24, 1883?
Did you know that
Chester A. Arthur was President when the bridge was completed?
Did you know that Brooklyn bridge's main span over the East River is 1,595 feet 6 inches (
486.3 m)?
Did you know that the bridge cost
$15.5 million to build and approximately 27 people died during its construction?
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Did you know that Yoshio Shirai was a professional boxer from
Tokyo,
Japan?
Did you know that Shirai was the first Japanese boxer to win a world title?
Did you know that he won the world
flyweight title in 1952?
Did you know that he was inducted into the
Ring Magazine hall of fame in 1977?
Did you know that Shirai died from
pneumonia on December 26, 2003, He was 80 years old?
(白井 義男, November 23, 1923 – December 26, 2003)
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Did you know that Wilfredo Benitez on March 6, 1976 was the youngest fighter to ever win a World Championship at 17?
Did you know that Benitez turned pro at 15, and was managed by his father
Gregorio Benitez?
Did you know that GreGorio Benitez was a member of one of
Puerto Rico's most famous boxing families, his brothers
Frankie and
Gregory Benitez were also top contenders in the 1970?
Did you know on May 23, 1981,
at age 22, he became the youngest three-time world champion in boxing
history by knocking out WBC World Super Welterweight Champion
Maurice Hope in twelve rounds in Las Vegas?
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Did you know that Hank Armstrong is the only fighter in the history of Boxing to hold world titles in 3 different divisions?
Did you know that Hank held the Featherweight, Welterweight and Lightweight crows simultaneously in 1938?
Did you know that in 2007,
The Ring ranked Armstrong as the 2nd greatest fighter of the last 80 years?
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Did you know the fear of loosing your cell phone has a name?
Did you know that Nomophobia:is the Fear Of Losing your Cell Phone?
Did you know that there are approximately 5.6 Billion mobile phone subscribers here in the U.S?
Did you know that a recent on line polling service estimates 66% of those surveyed say they fear losing or being without their cellular phone?
Did you know that people between 18-and-24 tend to suffer from Nomophobic more?
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Did you know that Joseph Louis Barrow, was known as the Brown Bomber Joe Louis?
Did you know that Louis' championship reign lasted 140 consecutive months, during which
he participated in 27 championship fights, 26 championship fights during
his reign?
