Did you know that Ronnie Wilson, Founder of the Gap Band, Died he was 73?

Did you know that Ronnie Wilson, Founder of the Gap Band, Died he was 73?

Did you know that Wilson joined his two younger brothers to record several hits with the Gap Band?

 Did you know that Ronnie Wilson primarily played keyboards but

also contributed horn and percussion parts in a rotating vocal and instrumental arrangement with his two younger brothers, Robert, who mainly played bass, and Charlie, the lead singer?

 

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Did you know that coach Brown is the only coach in basketball history to win both an NCAA national championship (Kansas Jayhawks, 1988) and an NBA title (Detroit Pistons, 2004?

Did you know that Lawrence Harvey Brown is coach Larry Brown?

Did you know that Coach Larry Brown is the assistant coach of the Memphis Tigers?

Did you know that coach coach Larry Brown was born September 14, 1940?

Did you know that coach Brown is the only coach in basketball
history to win both an NCAA national championship (Kansas Jayhawks, 1988) and an NBA title (Detroit Pistons, 2004?

 Did you know that coach Brown has a 1,275–965 lifetime professional coaching record in the American Basketball Association (ABA)?

Did you know that coach Larry Brown is the  only coach in NBA history to lead eight teams to the playoffs?

Did you know that Larry Brown also won an ABA championship as a player with the Oakland Oaks in the 1968–69 season, and an Olympic Gold Medal in 1964?

Did you know that coach Brown is the only person ever to coach two NBA franchises in the same season (Spurs and Clippers during the 1991–92 NBA season

)?

Did you know that coach Brown played collegiately at the University of North Carolina? 

Did you know that Brown was enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach on September 27, 2002?

 

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Did you know that Musk sold PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion in stock (of which $165 million was given to Musk)?

  

Did you know that Elon Musk was born in South Africa in 1971?

Did you know that Elon Musk made his fortune as a co-founder of PayPal?

Did you know that Musk became famous for starting Tesla Motors and SpaceX?

Did you know that Elon Musk had a cameo in  Iron Man 2?

Did you know at age 12, Musk taught himself computer programming and created a video game called Blastar, which he sold for $500?

Did you know that Elon Musk didn't become an American citizen until 2002, at age 31?

Did you know that when Elon Musk was 17, he moved from South Africa to Canada?


Did you know that Elon Musk established a company call --Zip2, which provided online newspapers with maps and business directories?

Did you know that Musk sold Zip2 in 1999 for $307 million?

Did you know that Musk sold PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion in stock (of which $165 million was given to Musk)?

Did you know that Musk co-founded Tesla Motors, a company that designs and manufacturers electric sports cars?

Did you know that Musk now serves as CEO and chief product architect at Tesla?

Did you know that SpaceX has a $1.6 billion contract with NASA to resupply (and eventually ferry people to) the International Space Station?

Did you know that Musk has reduced the cost of reaching the International Space Station by 90%, bringing it down from $1 billion per mission to just $60 million?

Did you know that SpaceX had three launch failures before its fourth and final effort was a success?

Did you know that Elon Musk has been married three times, having married (and subsequently divorced) British actress Talulah Riley twice?

Did you know that Musk has five sons (one set of twins and one set of triplets),whom he shares custody of with his first wife, Canadian fantasy author Justine Wilson?

Did you know that Musk was named one of the 75 most influential people of the 21st century by Esquire magazine?

Did you know that in 2013, Musk was named Fortune's "Businessperson of the Year" for SpaceX, SolarCity, and Tesla Motors?

Did you know that on January 25, 2015, Elon Musk made a guest appearance on The Simpsons episode titled "The Musk Who Fell to Earth," playing himself?

 

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Colin Powell, the former secretary of State and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has died from Covid complications at the age of 84.

 Did you know that Colin Powell was an American statesman and a retired four-star general in the United States Army?

Did you know that Colin Powell's net worth was $60 million at the time of his death in October 2021?

Did you know that Colin Powell served as the United States Secretary of State from 2001 to 2005?

Did you know that Colin Powell, the former secretary of state and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, died from Covid complications at the age of 84?

Did you know that Powell, who was fully vaccinated against Covid?

Did you know that Powell had been suffering from Parkinson’s disease and had been treated recently for multiple myeloma?

Did you know that Colin Powell was the first Africa-American to serve as the Secretary of State?

Did you know that Powell's served as Secretary of State under George W. Bush?

Did you know that Powell after retiring from the military in the early 1990s, earned a fortune thanks initially to speaking engagements?

Did you know that in 2000 Powell earned $7 million from 109 speaking engagements, charging around $64,000 per speech on average?

Did you know that Powell received a $6 million advance for his 1995 autobiography "My American Journey?"

Did you know that Colin Powell was born in 1937 in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York? 

Did you know that Colin Powell received the Soldier's Medal for bravery after surviving a helicopter crash and rescuing three others from the wreckage?

 

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Did you know that Long Beach, California is the only state too win consecutive little league World Series Title?

 Did you know that Long Beach , California is the only state

too win consecutive little league World Series Title?

1992	Long Beach-Long Beach, California
1993	Long Beach-Long Beach, California

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Did you know that Lopez is the the youngest person to receive Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and a Tony at age 39?

Did you know that between 2004 and 2021, Robert Lopez received a total of 11 awards?

Did you know that Lopez only Emmy awards were Daytime Emmys until he won a Primetime Emmy in 2021 for WandaVision?

Did you know that Lopez is the first Filipino and Asian to achieve the feat of winning an EGOT award? 

Did you know that Lopez is the Robert Lopez became the twelfth person to win all four awards in 2013?

Did you know that Lopez is the  the first Asian American to when EOGT?

Did you know that Lopez is the  the youngest person to receive Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and a Tony at age 39?

Did you know that Lopez receive Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and a Tony, In 10 years?

Did you know that Robert Lopez is the youngest winner to receive Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and a Tony?

Did you know that Lopez received a Grammy Award for The Book of Mormon in collaboration with fellow EGOT winner Scott Rudin (among others), making them the first pair of Grand Slam winners to have been co-winners of the same award. 

Did you know that Lopez is also the first person to have won the Oscar last, which he won with his wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez?
 

Did you know that Lopez is the first winner to win the so-called "Double EGOT", winning each EGOT award at least twice?

• Academy Awards:
  1. 2013: Best Original Song – "Let It Go" from Frozen
  2. 2017: Best Original Song – "Remember Me" from Coco
• Primetime Emmy Awards:
  1. 2021: Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics – "Agatha All Along" from WandaVision
• Daytime Emmy Awards:
  1. 2008: Outstanding Music Direction and Composition – Wonder Pets!
  2. 2010: Outstanding Music Direction and Composition – Wonder Pets!
• Grammy Awards:
  1. 2012: Best Musical Theater Album – The Book of Mormon: Original Broadway Cast Recording
  2. 2015: Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media – Frozen
  3. 2015: Best Song Written for Visual Media – "Let It Go" from Frozen
• Tony Awards:
  1. 2004: Best Original Score – Avenue Q
  2. 2011: Best Book of a Musical – The Book of Mormon
  3. 2011: Best Original Score – The Book of Mormon

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Did you know that Isaac Hayes won an Oscar won for best original song for Them from Shaft in 1972?

Did you know that Isaac Hayes won an Oscar won for best original song for Them from Shaft in 1972?

Did you know that Isaac Hayes won 3 Grammys, including two for “Theme From ‘Shaft,’” plus a 1999 Grammy Hall of Fame Award also for “Shaft”?

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