Category: Omnibit

There is only a 1 in 7.5 chance that a burglary will be solved in the United States.

Charlie Chaplin, the king of the silent movies, directed his last film in 1967. It was A Countess from Hong Kong and starred Marlon Brando and Sophia Loren.

Its signature piece of music, This is My Song, was written by Chaplin and became a world-wide hit for Petula Clark.

 

Countess from Hong Kong William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 7-25-22

Forty-three percent of Americans regularly attend religious services. Thirty-six percent say that God has spoken to them.

And this really hasn’t changed all that much since when this was first published back in the 1980s. 

The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters – and the symbol okina.

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 7-22-22

The first novel written on a typewriter was “Tom Sawyer.” OK, some claim that it was “Life on the Mississippi” and that Mark Twain was misremembering when he said it was “Tom Sawyer”. Regardless, there does not seem to be any dispute that it was Twain that wrote it.

What’s a typewriter, you ask?  Think of it as a keyboard without cut and paste. The achievement remains.

The parachute was invented by Leonardo da Vinci in 1515, albeit his design wasn’t tested until 2000. Yes, it worked.

President James Garfield discovered a new proof for The Pythagorean Theorem.

More money is printed daily for Monopoly than for the US Treasury, it is claimed.

Yes Miranda, 90 percent of bird species are monogamous

American Airlines saved $440,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.