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Omnibit Trivia 11-29-13 by William W. Lawrence Sr.
Q – Who was Sarah Josepha Hale?
A – A famous magazine editor (Ladies Magazine, Godey’s Lady Book) during the 1800s. She is credited with writing verses to the children’s nursery rhyme “Mary Had A Little Lamb.” But more importantly she crusaded for and persuaded President Lincoln to make Thanksgiving a national holiday.
–William W. Lawrence Sr.
Yes, Christopher Anthony, Americans do eat about 11 billion bananas a year.
— William W. Lawrence Sr.
They built a high stockade fence around Harvard College when it was found in 1636 — to keep out prowling wolves.
— William W. Lawrence Sr.
World champion Jamaican sprinter Yohan Blake eats 16 bananas a day. 
Michael Arnstein, the reigning champion of the Javelina Jundred ultramarathon, eats an all fruit diet. It costs him $200 a day.
Arnstein should talk to Blake. It would save him some money.
Hat tip Outside Magazine.
Don’t ever water your lawn while it’s raining in Holyoke, Mass. It’s against the law.
–William W. Lawrence Sr.
Thomas Jefferson was the author of the Declaration of Independence and he was picked for the job by John Adams.
Adams died in Quincy, Mass. on the document’s 50th anniversary. When told it was the Fourth, he replied “It is a great day. It is a good day.”
A short time later he passed. His last words were reportedly “Thomas Jefferson survives.”
Jefferson, however, had died several hours earlier in Virginia.
Ask yourself why anyone would want to walk 871 miles on his hands from Vienna, Austria to Paris, France. Johann Huslinger did it circa 1900.
— William W. Lawrence Sr.
No, Christopher Anthony, don’t bother to ask your green grocer for a fruit from the jackfruit tree. The sweet fruit weights over 100 pounds — making it the world’s largest tree fruit. They are popular in India and Sir Lanka.
–William W. Lawrence Sr.
Yes, Robert James, when the planet Uranus was discovered in 1781, English scientists named it George, in honor of George 3rd.
— William W. Lawrence Sr.