Category: Omnibit

Spring fever is a real thing. Longer daylight really does cause most to be in a better mood and have more energy.

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There are five basics tastes. Sweet, sour, salty and bitter are the ones easy to guess. The fifth? It’s umami. It’s a Japanese word and is used to describe the taste of glutamic acid which provides a pleasant “meaty” flavor to food.

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So what does green have to do with Saint Patrick? It’s the color of the shamrock that he used to explain the Holy Trinity.

And of course spring, which is but three days away, this year.

A shamrock, by the way, is a sprig of clover.

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What was the First Reich? It was the Holy Roman Empire from 962 to 1806. The Second? The German Empire from 1871 until the German Revolution of 1919. You all know what the third one was.

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 3-16-17 First Reich

34 percent of welfare recipients live in California.

William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 3-15-17

Eighty percent of all the Earth’s freshwater is either ice or snow.

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No Anthony, it’s not the amount of snow that makes a blizzard but the amount of wind. According to the National Weather Service, a blizzard requires a snowstorm with 35 mph wind that reduces visibility to a quarter mile or less for three hours or more.

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The Nazis heavily used the ancient Roman highways Via Latina and the Appian Way during the Battle of Anzio.

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Oyster stew is not just popular among Southerners and Americans of Irish descent. It’s the traditional dish of The Gambia.

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The livers of losing gladiators were sold in Rome as a cure for epilepsy.

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