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Posted Dec 30, 2009 by Baron Grim
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  | | This counts as useless because it won't make any difference.
The odds of being a terror victim on a flight are 1 in 1,408,947.
Any new TSA rules are unlikely to significantly change those odds.
Only two things have made flying safer since 9/11, reinforced cockpit doors and passengers that now know to attack would be terrorists.
I'll just keep reading my book or magazine until we reach the ground, thank you very much.
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| | | Subject: useless facts
Posted Jan 11, 2010 by Baron Grim
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| | OK... I'm going to "borrow"  almost an entire entry here, A19229763
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There are 42 laws of cricket.
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Paul McCartney, Jimi Hendrix and Jerry Garcia were born in 1942.
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Singer Elvis Presley died at the age of 42. So did his mother.
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If you combine the number of dots, or pips, on a pair of dice, there are 42.
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At the time of writing, Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest United States president when he was elected. He was 42.
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Canines (dogs and wolves) have 42 teeth.
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There is a Broadway musical titled 42nd Street.
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42 was the jersey number of Jackie Robinson.
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If you rearrange 'tea for two' you get 'for tea two'.
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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).
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Tiberius was born in 42BC.
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In JRR Tolkien's novel The Two Towers, Gimli the Dwarf kills 42 orcs in the battle at Helm's Deep.
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According to the Book of Revelations, 'The Beast' will hold the Earth for 42 months.
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There are 42 lines on each page of a Gutenberg Bible.
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It would take 42 minutes to ride the Gravity Sled.
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In binary, 42 is 101010.
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If you search answer to life, the universe and everything2 on Google, the calculator function will display '42'.
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In the 42nd Street subway station in New York City, there are large, white tiled columns with pretty 42s on each side.
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Scientists calculated that the Hubble Constant, the rate at which the universe expands, is 42. However, it will not stay at that rate always.
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An E-ELT, European Extremely Large Telescope, was built to probe the universe. It is 42 metres in diameter3.
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Washington was the 42nd US state to join the union.
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Bill Clinton was the 42nd US president.
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In 2004, Ernie Roscouet finally returned a library book that was 42 years past its due date.
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There were 42 Soviet missiles based in Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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The Orion Nebula is otherwise known as M42.
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Element No 42 in the periodic table is molybdenum, a metal. There are no elements with a relative atomic mass of 42.
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The numbers for the computer in the TV show Lost are 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42.
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There were 42 generations from Abraham to Jesus.
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If, for some reason, you wanted to record an entire week's worth of television onto four-hour capacity VHS tapes, it would take 42 of them.
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11 February is the 42nd day of the year.
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Thomas Alva Edison was born on 11 February, 1847.
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Gilda Radner, one of the original 'Not Ready For Primetime Players' on Saturday Night Live died of ovarian cancer at the age of 42.
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The game Connect Four has 42 holes.
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'Fortitude', meaning courage in pain or adversity, sounds a little like 'forty-two'.
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Rosa Parks was 42 years old when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man.
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Catch 22, the novel by Joseph Heller, has 42 chapters.
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Queen Elizabeth II is the 42nd sovereign since the Norman conquest.
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The tallest building in London is Tower 42.
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There are 42.194988 kilometres in a marathon.
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The red light reaching your eye from a rainbow has been deflected by the raindrops through an angle of 42°.
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It takes light 10-42 seconds to cross the diameter of a proton.
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A day on Uranus, from sunrise to sunset, lasts for 42 Earth years.
[I just accidentally posted this in another (unrelated) thread... oops,  ]
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