There are 42 dots on a pair of dice.

It takes 42 days for an ostrich egg to hatch.

The average diameter of a one-carat diamond is 6.42 mm.

There are more than 7,000 varieties of apples grown in the world. The apples from one tree can fill 20 boxes every year. Each box weighs an average 42 pounds.

In the 1820s, the average American consumed 10 pounds of sugar a year. Today we eat about 420 pounds per year, the equivalent of eating six candy bars a day.

There are 42 year-round research stations on Antarctica.
In 1935, the police in Atlantic City, New Jersey, arrested 42 men on the beach. They were cracking down on topless bathing suits worn by men.

According to the Data Group, grandparents spend an average of $42 per grandchild for a birthday gift.

It takes 17 facial muscles to smile but 42 to frown.

Not many people have heard of a glass harmonica, because there are only about 30 people in the world who can play it. It was invented in 1761 by Benjamin Franklin, and is made of up to 42 separate hand-blown glass bowls placed on a rotating spindle that the player rubs with his or her fingers.

Elvis Presley died on August 16, 1977. He was only 42 years old.

Rosa Parks started the boycott of the Montgomery, Alabama, buses in 1955 at the age of 42.

The seventh planet from the Sun, Uranus, is tipped on its side so that at any moment one pole is pointed at the Sun. The polar regions are warmer than the equator. At the poles, a day lasts for 42 Earth years, followed by an equally long night.

A standard 747 Jumbo Jet has 420 seats.

The youngest person to take the position of U.S. president was Theodore Roosevelt. He was 42 at his inauguration. Next youngest was John F. Kennedy, who was 43.

In the United States and France, a septillion is represented by the number 1 followed by 24 zeroes; in Great Britain and Germany, it is the number 1 followed by 42 zeroes.