Category: Omnibit

Pumpkins are a fruit. Believe it, Anthony.

Only one country separates Finland from North Korea. Take a guess as to which. 

Bayer sold heroin.

The name for the drug heroin was coined by Bayer and comes from the Greek word Heros becomes the company thought it had an “heroic” effict on users.

Bayer had the name trademarked until it lost it — along with aspirin —  following Germany’s defeat in World War I.

Yes, Bayer sold heroin. To children.

No Anthony, John is not the most common name in the world. Muhammed is.

An update, it’s  Maria with Wang being the most common surname.

Seventy percent of Americans have visited either Disneyland or Disney World, or so they say.

A bit of bad news. Most people by age 60 have lost 50 percent of their taste buds and over 40 percent of their sense of smell.

And some good news. The authorities today don’t seem to think this the cause of loss of taste as when this Omnibit was first published back in the 1980s.

An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it

There are four eyes on a dollar bill. Two belong to George Washington, there is that spooky one atop the pyramid, and one is on the eagle. 

Count them yourself.

In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees. Well, they really don’t climb them. They attach to the submerged roots and hang on while the tide goes out. They are called Mangrove oysters.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. Well, some say anyway. We think intelligent people don’t really believe this.