Category: Omnibit

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 8-21-15

The lowest recorded temperature on Earth was in August 2010 in Antarctica. It was -135 F.

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 8-20-15

Among the lesser-known works by the great composer Mozart was Leck mich im Arsch,  or in English  “lick me in the ass”.  In American, it would translate to  “kiss my ass”.  It was directed at Goethe.

Leck mich im Arsch

Here is how it sounds:

William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 8-19-15

Children have more taste buds than adults.

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 8-18-15

About 35 million people descended from Genghis Khan. That’s half-a percent of the world’s population

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 8-17-15

Elvis Presley last words were “I’m going to the bathroom to read.”

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 8-15-15

It was hot dogs the McDonald brothers started with, not hamburgers.

William Lawrence Omnibit 8-14-15

William Penn’s neighbor as a child in England was the famed diarist Samuel Pepys. Pepys didn’t like the Penns. He had tried to seduce William’s mother and sister and couldn’t.

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 8-13-15

The Egyptians drank a lot of beer. The first recorded strike in history occurred when ancient Egyptian tomb workers failed to receive their beer rations.

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 8-12-15

The first book ever sold on Amazon was Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought by Douglas R. Hofstadter. The purchase date was April 3, 1995. The customer was John Wainwright. He still has the book and the packing slip. He says he was an employee at Kaleida Labs and ordered it from work over a T-1 connection.

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 8-11-15

The Dakota War of 1862 ended with the hanging of 38 of the participants who had committed rapes and murders of civilians. It was the largest mass execution in United States history.

Due to the demand for cadavers for anatomical study several of the Indian graves were robbed and their bodies acquired by doctors. One of those lucky medical men was William Worrall Mayo who had the skeleton of Mahpya Akan Nazin cleaned, dried and varnished. He kept it in an iron kettle in his office and used it to give his sons anatomy lessons.

Mayo would go on to found the Mayo Clinc. The clinic eventually acquired Mahpya Akan Nazin bones and kept them until finally returning them for reburial to the Dakota tribe shortly before the turn of the Millennium.

Largest mass execution in United States history