Category: Omnibit

Julius Caesar was bald. This bothered him.

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OK Miranda, what are the only nations that have “The” as part of their names? That’s right, The Gambia and The Bahamas.

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Chimpanzees eat monkeys. They also go to war with other chimpanzees.

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Sayonara doesn’t simply mean goodbye. It means “I will never see you again or at least for a very long time.” It really confuses Japanese when Americans use it casually.

The literal meaning in Japanese is “if it is to be that way.”

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“Vetting” as in doing a background search originally meant a veterinarian checkup. It came into vogue at horse tracks at the start of the 20th century.

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Nike Gary Gilmore — Gary Gilmore murdered a man and a woman in Utah and was put before a firing squad in 1977. He was asked if he had any final thoughts. He didn’t.”Let’s do it,” he said. 

Those last words impressed a manufacturer of athletic footwear. Nike’s slogan “Just Do It” is based on them.

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Amazon River 30 miles wide — Parts of the Amazon River are 30 miles wide in wet season. The English Channel is but 20.7 miles wide.

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That’s right Walter White, methamphetamine was invented by the Japanese.

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The most obscene poem in history is Catullus 16 written by the Roman poet Valerius Catullus circa 60 B.C.

Until just a few decades ago, it could only be read in Latin. We will not repost it.

 

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Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee, the Revolutionary War hero who who would later squash the Whiskey Rebellion in Pennsylvania, was the father of Robert E. Lee who would get squashed in Pennsylvania in a rebellion of his own.

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