h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Yesterday, December 28th, a local supermarket began selling Easter eggs.

>>>Yesterday, December 28th, a local supermarket began selling Easter eggs.

What?! Oh dear. That's desperate. Are you sure they're not just a bit late for last year's Easter?

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.

Hanoi became the capital of the nation-state of Vietnam in 1010.

Touche!



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Obama collects Conan the Barbarian comic books.

Swedish student Ragnar Bengtsson, 26, has proven that even after 90 days use of a breast pump at three hour intervals, men do not lactate. "All he got was sore breasts."

Men don't lactate under normal circumstances. However, male lactation has been observed as a side-effect of certain medications.

To (try to) quote Bob Saget, "Men can breastfeed, it's true... Ok, they have to actually tape cans of evaporated milk to their chests..."

fun fact:
words loke 'cool' and 'dude' were first used in the 1920s

Cool! The Dude abides.

The first Kentucky Fried Chicken was opened in Utah.

10p, 20p and 50p coins are not attracted by magnets, but copper coins are.

Women take a lot more days off work sick than men (46% more) even allowing for child care.

running out of facts here...

...The skin is the largest organ in the human body

I think the facts here may be useless, but they should be interesting.

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, ]

"...The skin is the largest organ in the human body"
Despite surrounding it!

Theodore Roosevelt wasn't 42 when he was elected president. He was 42 when the then-current president was shot. As the then-current vice-president, he became the president.

Erm

Stupid fact: there are a ridiculous number of star wars references made every day if you pay attention.

Now you know, you'll suddenly realise that a lot of people hum the darth vader theme or mention the force. annoying really.