Category: Omnibit

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 5-12-14

More than 70 million decks of cards are sold in the United States in one year (at least as of 1987)

 

 

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit5-10-14

 

Leonardo Da Vinci and Benjamin Franklin, perhaps the two most talented human beings to ever walk on earth, were lefthanded.

 

 

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 4-23-14

To extract a splinter fill a wide mouthed bottle with hot water nearly to the brim, and press affected part of hand tightly against mouth of bottle. The suction will pull down the flesh, and steam will soon draw out the splinter.

Or so advised the Imperial Tobacco Co. circa 1910 on one of its cigarette cards.

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William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 4-22-14

 

Baseball’s first run was scored by Wes Fisler of the Philadelphia Athletics on April 22, 1876. It was the same day Tchaikovsky completed Swan Lake.

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April 21 2014 Omnibit by William Lawrence Sr

The National Wildlife Federation’s bald eagle counters found 1,158 of the birds in the state of Washington in 1983 but none in West Virgina.

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April 20 2014 Omnibit by William Lawrence Sr

The fine warm water bottom fish we call the giant grouper is a female in its youth and grows up to be a male.

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April 19 2014 Omnibit by William Lawrence Sr

What do you suppose the total value of those cars shown at the first automobile show in 1900 would be today? Don’t know. Plenty.

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April 18 2014 Omnibit by William Lawrence Sr

What is the most ordered soup in the restaurants of America? Our survey team, after an intensive study, show it to be vegetable.

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April 17 2014 Omnibit by William Lawrence Sr

The first postage stam ever issued was the “Black Penny” which went on sale May 1, 1840 in Great Britain. Although more than 68 million were printed they are not scarce. In 1987 they were worth $175.

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April 16 2014 Omnibit by William Lawrence Sr

You are right Robert James. The longest word in Webster’s Third International Dictionary is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, which is the name of a miner’s disease. The dictionary does not list aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic, a word once used to describe the spa waters in Bristol, England.

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