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

Not bad for a man who in one of his movies had to find out that a chimpanzee was the better actor.

30 years ago 1 gigabyte of disk storage space cost $300,000/£185,600.

True, but you could store real data on it in those days, not just all this Microsoft bloatware.

Anne de Mortemart-Rochechouart, duchess of Uzès, was the first woman to get a driver's license (in 1897). She was also the first woman to get a speeding ticket, driving a reckless 15kph instead of the allowed 12

She was also the great-granddaughter of Veuve Cliquot

Final mileage reading on the Space Shuttle Discovery's odometer: 148,221,675 miles.

Also, it spent 365 days in space over 39 missions completing 5,830 orbits.

apposite


Is Dictionary.coms word of the day today
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ABRACADABRA results in two emirps. I am not 100% certain this is useless, but that's my educated guess. Try saying, "1218131412181, 1812141318121, 1182141311821 and 1281131412811 are prime," and see if anything unusual happens. Nothing happened when I did it.

Julius Caesar was apparently a good swimmer (according to historians).

From Neil deGrasse Tyson:
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Mid-19th century, a mysterious element was discovered in galactic nebulae. It emanated deep GREEN. Dubbed "nebulium".

By the 1920s the GREEN-emitting element nebulium was ID'ed as oxygen, but behaving oddly in the rarefied conditions of space.
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"OMG, WE'RE BREATHING NEBULIUM!"

"Settle down. Here, have a sip of dihydrogen monoxide."

Ey, are you bonkers? Dihydrogen monoxide can be lethal when breathed. High time that stuff gets banned.

Apropos of my last post, the tenth base in which ABRACADABRA and its reverse are both prime (with A=1, B=2, etc.) is 60606.

Which is an angram of: Oh, Oh, 666

Watch out folks, the beast's about

And if seen in a mirror placed above it, it's "POPOP".

Oh no, not POPOP again

I can do POPOP too. I just need to eat beans.

It is most definitely physically possible to POPOP underwater.

"Facts 'bout prime numbers" is an anagram of "Info perturbs me - scat, bum!"

Goldfish do. Giraffes are not known to. Don´t look now.