Laura's Life!

42 THINGS ABOUT 42

1. The answer to life, the universe and everything is 42.

2. The angle at which light reflects off the water to create a rainbow is 42
degrees.

3. The chamber in the Cheops pyramid is exactly 42 metres over the ground.

4. The phrase In the beginning the Universe was created. Including spaces
& the full stops contain 42 characters.

5. Water is most dense at 4.2 degrees Celsius.

6. The total number of dots on a pair of dice is 42.

7. It is 4.2 light years to the nearest star from the solar system.

8. If you assign the alphabetic value to the letters of the words “big bang”
you get 2+9+7+2+1+14+7 which equals 42.

9. Propane boils at 42 degrees Celsius.

10. The maximum temperature in degrees Celsius a human can survive in
case of disease is 42 degrees Celsius.

11. All dogs have a total of 42 teeth over their lifetime.

12. The fastest speed for a land animal over 1mile is 42 mph.

13. The greatest recorded distance covered by one jump of a kangaroo is 42
feet.

14. 1 joule is equal to 42 calories.

15. Joseph Heller’s novel Catch-22 has 42 chapters.

16. Fox Mulder, from the X-Files, lives at number 42.

17. In the book James and the giant Peach the centipede has 42 legs.

18. In Alice in Wonderland rule 42 states “all persons more than a mile high
must leave the court”.

19. In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet sleeps for 42 hours.

20. In The Restaurant at the end of the Universe, when they retrieve Marvin
in the parking of the restaurant, Marvin says Trillian is there for a very
long time, exactly 576000003579 years, the sum of the digits is 42.

21. Jimi Hendrix was born in 1942.

22. If you assign alphabetical value to the letters D Adams you get 42.

23. Muhammad Ali was born in 1942.

24. Paul McCartney was born in 1942.

25. A barrel of oil contains 42 gallons.

26. In the book Catcher in the Rye Holden Caulfield lies and says that he is
42.

27. The city of Jerusalem covers an area of 42 miles.

28. Cleopatra became Marc Anthony’s mistress in 42 BC.

29. A Playtex Wonderbra consists of 42 individual parts.

30. In the game of chess the maximum number of queens that you can place
on the board and still have one safe square is 42.

31. There are 42 rooms, including bathrooms, in the White House.

32. Nevermind Niverna is 42 minutes long.

33. The right arm of the statue of liberty is 42 metres long.

34. On November 11th there are 42 days to Christmas.

35. PI contains the number 42 an infinite number of times.

36. The runway heading of Larnaca airport is 42 degrees.

37. The icon for an external modem outlet is a phone with a 101010, or 42 in
binary.

38. The efficiency of human respiration is 42%.

39. The average dormancy of an active volcano is 42 years.

40. Molybdenum is essential to all plant life; its atomic number is 42.

41. Napolean graduated 42nd in his class at Brienne Military School.

42. Laura Harris celebrates her 42nd birthday on March 13th 2006

Posted by laura at March 13, 2006 06:13 PM