I was in a bad mood today, having had to rescue beautiful monsters from ravening princesses. To top off the vicious cycle, I decided to put up this splendid and worthwhile list from h2g2. Share and Hate.
- There are 42 laws of cricket.
- Paul McCartney, Jimi Hendrix and Jerry Garcia were born in 1942.
- Singer Elvis Presley died at the age of 42. So did his mother.
- If you combine the number of dots, or pips, on a pair of dice, there are 42.
- At the time of writing, Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest United States president when he was elected. He was 42.
- Canines have 42 teeth.
- There is a Broadway musical titled 42nd Street.
- 42 was the jersey number of Jackie Robinson.
- If you rearrange ‘tea for two’ you get ‘for tea two’.
- When sending a text message on a mobile phone, to punch in ‘h2g2’ you have to select 4 (press it twice), 2 (press it four times), 4, then 2 (press it four times).
- Tiberius was born in 42BC.
- In JRR Tolkien’s novel The Two Towers, Gimli the Dwarf kills 42 orcs in the battle at Helm’s Deep.
- According to the Book of Revelations, ‘The Beast’ will hold the Earth for 42 months.
- There are 42 lines on each page of a Gutenberg Bible.
- It would take 42 minutes to ride the Gravity Sled.
- In binary, 42 is 101010.
- If you search answer to life, the universe and everything on Google, the calculator function will display ‘42‘.
- In the 42nd Street subway station in New York City, there are large, white tiled columns with pretty 42s on each side.
- Scientists calculated that the Hubble Constant, the rate at which the universe expands, is 42. (However, it will not stay at that rate always.)
- An E-ELT, European Extremely Large Telescope, was built to probe the universe. It is 42 metres in diameter.
- Washington was the 42nd US state to join the union.
- Bill Clinton was the 42nd US president.
- There were 42 Soviet missiles based in Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- The Orion Nebula is otherwise known as M42.
- Element No 42 in the periodic table is molybdenum, a metal.
- The numbers for the computer in the TV show Lost are 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42.
- There were 42 generations from Abraham to Jesus.
- 11 February is the 42nd day of the year. Thomas Alva Edison was born on 11 February, 1847.
- A day on Uranus lasts 42 Earth years.
- Rosa Parks was 42 years old when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man.
- Catch 22, the novel by Joseph Heller, has 42 chapters.
- Queen Elizabeth II is the 42nd sovereign since the Norman conquest.
- The tallest building in London is Tower 42.
- There are 42.194988 kilometres in a marathon.
- To create red light, light has to reflect off water at a 42 degree angle.
- It takes light 10–42 seconds to cross the diameter of a proton.
And with that that being that, I leave you in agony.