Category: Omnibit

Angel Falls, the highest waterfall in the world, was discovered in 1935 by Jimmy Angel, a daredevil pilot looking for gold. The falls, on Mount Auyantepui in Venezuela, has an unbroken drop of 2,648 feet and a total height of 3,212 feet. It is over 1,000 feet higher than any other known falls.

— William W. Lawrence Sr.

Want to get out of the rain? Try moving to Nevada, our driest state, where the annual rainfall averages a mere 9.5 inches.

BTW, the average was 8.8. inches when this Omnibit was conceived in the ’80s.

— William W. Lawrence Sr.

Don’t want to give our politicians any ideas, but in the 1600s there was a tax on every fireplace in England and Wales.

–William W. Lawrence Sr.

Tawdry, as you must know, means cheap and gaudy but this was not always true. The name comes from Saint Audrey’s Lace, a silk ribbon worn around the neck during the Middle Ages. Medieval merchants sold cheap, bright substitutes to country bumpkins who couldn’t afford the real thing. They called it “tawdry” an obvious take off of St. Audrey.

— William W. Lawrence Sr.

Yes, Robert James, turtles are laid back parents. The mother sea turtle simple digs a hole in the sand, lays her eggs, covers them and returns to the sea. The sun’s heat hatches the eggs.

— William W. Lawrence Sr.

There are no permanent residents on Kahoolawe, the eighth largest of the Hawaiian Islands.

–William W. Lawrence Sr.

Paris’ 16-story-high Arc De Triomphe de l’Étoile  — or Arc of Triumph of the Star — took 30 years to complete after Napoleon ordered it built.
–William W. Lawrence Sr.

How big is the Amazon River, you ask. Really big! Over 4,000 miles longer than I-80 which connects the east and west coasts. It holds more water than the Nile, Mississippi and Yangtze rivers put together.

— William W. Lawrence Sr.

Denmark’s flag, dating back to the 13th century, is the oldest, unchanged one in existence.

— William W. Lawrence Sr.

The Greek playwright Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.) was killed when an eagle, mistaking the dramatist’s shiny bald head for a stone, dropped a tortoise on it.

–William W. Lawrence Sr.