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

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No Democrat with a beard has ever served as President of the United States.

The only bearded prime minister of the UK in the last fifteen years or so was Thatcher, right ?

The Morris Minor 1000 Series V had a engine bore of 64.6mm.

The maximum bore replacement cylinders for a VW Bug engine are 105mm . You can get them through JC Whitney, of Chicago Il. USA

What a bore!



The symbol of Scotland used to be a wild boar.

In the TV series 'The West Wing' President Josiah Bartlet is directly descended from one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

this coke bottle cap has the number 42 on it.

In Red Faction, the PS2 game, a full assault rifle clip holds 42 rounds

I have only thought about buying a PS2 42 times today...

Damn, now its 43...
44...

The world's largest pizza was 122 feet long in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Now I can't stop wondering how long that pizza would have been in Denver, Colorado.

But how wide was the Pizza? Was it a traditional round pizza or a long narrow pizza?

The Swiss Rolex watch company actually started out in London founded by a German and only later moved to Switzerland.

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London was previously called Londinium

I do not live in London

Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, is a real town. It used to be known as Hot Springs but changed its name in 1950 for the American television game show of the same name (at thre request of the game's host, Ralph Edwards, who still makes an appearance every May to commemorate the change). The consequences of lying in Truth or Consequences are not completely known.

The cheapest place to buy a Rolex watch in the world is Las Vegas , Nevada.


Las Vegas translates to " The Meadows "
Nevada means " Snow Capped "

Arkansas means nothing, It might have come from a word that was a reference to an Native American Tribe, but if it did , it was probably a group from Oklahoma.

Are you sure they are real Rolexes?

I have no idea about how wide the pizza was.

Boring, Virginia is a real town too.

The world's tallest animal alive is a 19 ft. tall giraffe.

Rhinoceroses don't sweat.

The Dutch bought Manhattan Island from the natives for the equivalent of twenty four dollars (ish). Turns out the natives that sold it didn't actually live there, but were just passing through.