Category: Omnibit

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 10-23-14

 

Alaska is the westernmost — and easternmost state. Its Aluetian Island chain extends past the Antimeridian i.e the 180th Meridian which is considered to be the dividing line between the east and west hemispheres.

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 10-22-14

Count the number of stitches on the baseball in the toy basket. If there is not exactly 108 stitches it cannot be a regulation ball.

William Lawrence Sr Omnbit 10-21-14

 

Abner Doubleday, the fellow who invented baseball, was graduated from United States Military Academy at West point. He became a major general during the Civil War and fought heroically at the Battle of Gettysburg.

 

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 10-20-14

Abraham Lincoln was awarded a patent for a system of buoying vessels over shoals. He is the only American president to have a patent.

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 10-18-14

 

The average height for a man in the United States is 5 feet, 10 inches.

About 68 percent of men are between 5-7 and 6-1.

About 95 percent are between 5-4 and 6-4.

And 99.7 percent are between 5-1 and 6-7.

And this is why jockeys and NBA centers are  pretty rare to find.

 

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 10-17-14

Yes, Anthony, 88 percent of internet users trust online reviews about local businesses.

 

Ten percent of U.S. research and development money is spent in New Jersey. Mostly in hi-tech Essex County. That’s where Thomas Edison lived.

At least that was the case in 1987.

Emails are most likely to be read on Saturdays and between 8 p.m. and midnight.

When Al Capone, the world’s most famous bootlegger was buried, all saloons in Chicago closed for two hours as a sign of mourning. Al would have liked that.

Queen Elizabeth was the first English ruler to use a fork. The deed caused a mild uproar and one clergyman preached that it was an “insult to God, when He had given us fingers with which to eat our meat.”