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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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Monday, December 9, 2013

Did you know that Dempsey was the first person in the NFL to kick a 63-yard field goal which set a NFL record?


Did you know that Matthew Phillip Prater was born August 10, 1984?

Did you know that Prater is an American football placekicker for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL)?

 Did you know that Prater holds the NFL record for kicking the longest field goal (64 yards), which he set on December 8, 2013 in Denver in a game against the Tennessee Titans?


Did you know that Thomas Dempsey is a former American football placekicker in the National Football League?

 Did you know that Dempsey played for the New Orleans Saints (1969–1970), Philadelphia Eagles (1971–1974), Los Angeles Rams (1975–1976), Houston Oilers (1977) and Buffalo Bills (1978–1979)?

Did you know that Dempsey was the first person in the NFL to kick a  63-yard field goal which set a NFL record?

Did you know that Dempsey kicked the 63 yard field goal in the final two seconds to give the New Orleans Saints a 19–17 win over the Detroit Lions on November 8, 1970 at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans?[1]


Jason Elam
Did you know that Jason Elam was born March 8, 1970?


Did you know that Elam  is a retired American football placekicker?

Did you know that Elam was drafted by the Denver Broncos in the third round of the 1993 NFL Draft and played 15 seasons with the Broncos and two with the Atlanta Falcons?[1]

Did you know that Elam was a three-time Pro Bowl selection?

Did you know that  Elam won two Super Bowl rings and was the second person in the NFL history to kick a 63 yards field goal?



Did you know that Sebastian Janikowski was born March 2, 1978?


Did you know that Janikowski  is a Polish-born American football placekicker for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League (NFL)?

Did you know that Jamikowski is nicknamed The Polish Cannon because he is considered to have one of the strongest kicking legs in the league?[1]

Did you know that Janikowski leads the NFL in kickoffs for touchbacks?

Did you know that on September 12, 2011 in a Monday Night Football game against the Denver Broncos, Jamikowski tied the NFL record for the longest field goal at 63 yards?

 sharing the record with Tom Dempsey, Jason Elam and David Akers. The record stood for just under two years when it was broken by Matt Prater on December 8, 2013.



Did you know that David Roy Akers was born December 9, 1974?

Did you know that Akers is an American football placekicker for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL)?
 
Did you know that Akers was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Atlanta Falcons in 1997?

Did you know that Akers was also a member of the Carolina Panthers, Washington Redskins, Berlin Thunder, Philadelphia Eagles, and San Francisco 49ers?

Did you know that Akers has been selected for the Pro Bowl six times in his career and was at one point tied for the longest field goal of 63 yards in NFL history.?






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Did you know that Eddie Murphy was the first black Comedian who sold out Madison Square Garden two nights in a row?


Andrew Dice Clay
Did you know that  Andrew Clay Silverstein was born  September 29, 1957?

Did you know that Andrew Dice Clay is an American comedian and actor?[1]

Did you know that Clay played the lead role in the 1990 film The Adventures of Ford Fairlane?[2]
  
 Did you know that Andrew Dice Clay is the first Comedian who ever sold out Madison Square Garden two nights in a row?



Did you know that George Denis Patrick Carlin was born May 12, 1937 and died on June 22, 2008?

Did you know that George Carlin was an American stand-up comedian, writer, and actor?

Did you know that Carlin won five Grammy Awards for his comedy albums?[2]

Did you know that Carlin "Seven Dirty Words" comedy routine was what sparked the U.S. Supreme Court case F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation in 1978?

Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court case F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation , affirmed the government's power to regulate indecent material on the public airwaves?

 Did you know that Carlin had over 14 stand-up comedy specials for HBO?

Did you know that George Carlin was on  Comedy Central list of the 100 greatest stand-up comedians, ahead of Lenny Bruce and behind Richard Pryor?
 
Did you know that Carlin did his final HBO special, It's Bad for Ya, less than four months before his death?

Did you know that in 2008 that Carlin was posthumously awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor?


Did you know that Edward Regan "Eddie" Murphy was born April 3, 1961?

Did you know that Eddie Murphy is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, singer, director, and musician?

 Did you know that Eddie Murphy was the first black Comedian who sold out Madison Square Garden two nights in a row?


Did you know that Murphy Box-office takes from his films make him the second-highest grossing actor in the United States?[2][3]

Did you know Murphy was a regular cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1980 to 1984 and has worked as a stand-up comedian?

Did you know that Murphy is ranked no. 10 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time?[4]

Did you know that Murphy received Golden Globe Award nominations for his performances in 48 Hrs., Beverly Hills Cop series, Trading Places, and The Nutty Professor?

Did you know that in 2007 Murphy won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of soul singer James "Thunder" Early in Dreamgirls?[5]

Did you know that Eddie Murphy's work as a voice actor includes Thurgood Stubbs in The PJs, Donkey in the Shrek series and the Chinese dragon Mushu in Disney's Mulan?
Dane Cook,

Did you know that Dane Jeffrey Cook was born March 18, 1972?

Did you know that Dane Cook  is an American stand-up comedian and film actor?

Did you know that Cook has released five comedy albums?

Did you know that of the 6 Albums that Cook released  Harmful If Swallowed; Retaliation; Vicious Circle; Rough Around The Edges: Live From Madison Square Garden; and Isolated Incident, 2006, Retaliation became the highest charting comedy album in 28 years and went platinum?[1]

Did you know that Cook also was a comedian who sold out Madison Square Garden two nights in a row?

Did you know that Cook was one of the first comedians to use a personal webpage and MySpace to build a large fan base?






Did you know that Christopher Julius "Chris" Rock III[6] was born February 7, 1965?[7][8]

Did you know that Chris Rock is an American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer, and director?

Did you know that Chris Rock was the second black comedian in history to sell out Madison Square Garden two nights in a row?

Did you know that Rock was voted as the fifth greatest stand-up comedian of all time by Comedy Central?[9]







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Saturday, December 7, 2013

Did you know that Portia De Rossi once struggled with the eating disorder anorexia nervosa for four years?

Did you know that Portia de Rossi, was born Amanda Lee Rogers?

Did you know that Rossi is an Australian actress who was best know for her roles as lawyer Nelle Porter on the television series Ally McBeal and as Lindsay Bluth Fünke on the sitcom Arrested Development?[1][2]

Did you know that she was on the ABC sitcom Better Off Ted and she was Veronica Palmer?

Did you know that De Rossi was born 31 January 1973 in Horsham, Victoria, Australia?

Did you know that De Rossi legally changed her name when she was 15?

Did you know that De Rossi was a child model and was in several TV commercials?


Did you know that Portia De Rossi once struggled with the eating disorder anorexia nervosa for four years?

Did you know that De Rossi at one point in her life weighed as little as 82 pounds?

Mel Metcalfe


Did you know that De Rossi was married to documentary filmmaker Mel Metcalfe from 1996 to 1999?

Did you know that De Rossi Married Metacalfe as part of a plan to get a green card?



Did you know that De Rossi married talk show host and comedian Ellen DeGeneres, in August 2008?[7]

Did you know that De Rossi and DeGeneres are both vegan?[8]





Did you know that an unconfirmed rumor has surfaced from the Star Publication claiming that Ellen has a crush on Pamela Anderson ?
Did you know that this rumor has created a buzz that De Rossi  is going to Divorce DeGeneres?










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Portia de Rossi and her relationship with Ellen DeGeneres may be on the rocks according to a number of unconfirmed rumors which have surfaced in the press recently.
The most recent rumors came from a major tabloid publication. the paper claims that the current relationship issues are over an alleged crush Ellen has on none other than Pamela Anderson.
The publication, called Star, says they spoke with a source who informed them that Ellen not only has a crush on Pamela but is more or less obsessed with her. Apparently “falling in love with her beauty.”

Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/1054987/portia-de-rossi-to-divorce-ellen-degeneres-over-pamela-anderson-crush/#LqwJi1doV5kYW7LC.99
he publication, called Star, says they spoke with a source who informed them that Ellen not only has a crush on Pamela but is more or less obsessed with her. Apparently “falling in love with her beauty.”
Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/1054987/portia-de-rossi-to-divorce-ellen-degeneres-over-pamela-anderson-crush/#LqwJi1doV5kYW7LC.99

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!