Category: Omnibit

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 7-7-14

Coca-cola was originally green

Yak, yak, yak. There were 700,000 phone calls in 1950. By 1979, that number rose to 168,300,000.

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 6-26-14

Prisoners have a lot of time on their hands. That is one explanation of why so many novels are written in jail cells. Name one? Okay, Cervantes was doing time when he started writing “Don Quixote.”

 

Some $10 million worth of Food Stamps were issued in 1962.

The figure has risen to $71.8 billion today with almost 47 million Americans receiving them which is 14 percent of the population.

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 6-21-14

 

Solstice as in summer solstice means “sun stand still” in Latin.

Phew! It was against the law to take a bath in Spain during the 17th and 18th centuries.

(Don’t laugh too hard. It remains illegal to take a bath in Boston unless ordered so by a physician according to many sites on the web.)

About 1.8 million children disappeared from their homes in 1983. Government officials said thousands were abducted and were never heard from or reunited with their families.

Children disappeared from their homes

The oldest song written in English? Probably that real oldie “Judas” written in the 1200s.

A Connecticut firm called Skunks Unlimited back in 1983  developed a protective spray device that squirted skunk scent instead of tear gas.

According to our resident expert on such matters there were 18 million joggers in America in 1983 — one third of whom were women.