Category: Omnibit

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.”

A Kentucky woman, under the law, can marry as many times as she wants but only four times to the same fellow. At least as of 1983.

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 10-7-14

 

There is a tree in India larger than the average Walmart.

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 10-6-14

 

Tamanend, a Delaware Indian chief, was called Tammany by the white men. He was famous for his wisdome and some Revolutionary War soldiers called him the “patron saint of the Republic”. Tammany Hall was named for him.