Category: Omnibit

The average lightning bolt is six miles long.

Average lightning bolt William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 10-7-19

There are more collect calls on Father’s Day than any other day of the year.

Yes Miranda, Luxor, Egypt a.k.a Thebes a.k.a. Waset is oldest continuously inhabited city in Africa with its founding estimated at 3,200 B.C.

Waset William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 5-28-19

The distress call mayday mayday mayday — note it’s always said three times — has nothing to do with the month of May. It comes from the French m’aider which means “help me”.

Mayday William Lawrence Sr Omnibit

The speed of ketchup is 245 miles per year. Note: that’s per year. It’s mph is .028

Power to the entire province of Quebec was lost on March 13, 1989 when coronal mass ejections from the Sun sent a billion-ton cloud of gas our way which just happened to hit the French speaking part of Canada.

The outage lasted about 12 hours.

Coronal mass ejections William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 3-3-18

 

 

Who was Josephine de Beauharnais? She was the wife of Alexandre de Beauharnais who was guillotined by progressive social justice warriors in Paris on July 23, 1794. Josephine would go on to marry a guy named Napoleon and become empress of France. Alexandre’s grandson became Napoleon III, emperor of France. Take that progressives.

Beauharnais William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-17-24

No Robert James, the words “chili” “chocolate” “coyote” and “tomato” did come to us from Spain. They were given to the English language by the Aztecs.

Q — Was William Howard Taft the first president to have a bathtub installed in the White House.

A — No. That was Millard Fillmore. Taft, at 300 pounds, was the first president to get stuck in a bathtup at the White House.