\n2.<\/b> The world’s first book printed with movable type is the Gutenberg Bible which has 42 lines per page.<\/div>\n
\n3.<\/b> On page 42 of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Harry discovers he’s a wizard.<\/div>\n
\n4.<\/b> The first time Douglas Adams essayed the number 42 was in a sketch called “The Hole in the Wall Club”. In it, comedian Griff Rhys Jones mentions the 42nd meeting of the Crawley and District Paranoid Society.<\/div>\n
\n5.<\/b> Lord Lucan’s last known location was outside 42 Norman Road, Newhaven, East Sussex.<\/div>\n
\n6.<\/b> The Doctor Who episode entitled “42” lasts for 42 minutes.<\/div>\n
\n7.<\/b> Titanic was travelling at a speed equivalent to 42km\/hour when it collided with an iceberg.<\/div>\n
\n8.<\/b> The marine battalion 42 Commando insists that it be known as “Four two, Sir!”<\/div>\n
\n9.<\/b> In east Asia, including parts of China, tall buildings often avoid having a 42nd floor because of tetraphobia \u2013 fear of the number four because the words “four” and “death” sound the same (si or sei). Likewise, four 14, 24, etc.<\/div>\n
\n10.<\/b> Elvis Presley died at the age of 42.<\/div>\n
\n11.<\/b> BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs was created in 1942. There are 42 guests per year.<\/div>\n
\n12.<\/b> Toy Story character Buzz Lightyear’s spaceship is named 42.<\/div>\n
\n13.<\/b> Fox Mulder’s apartment in the US TV series The X Files was number 42.<\/div>\n
\n14.<\/b> The youngest president of the United States,Theodore Roosevelt, was 42 when he was elected.<\/div>\n
\n15.<\/b> The office of Google’s chief executive Eric Schmidt is called Building 42 of the firm’s San Francisco complex.<\/div>\n
\n16.<\/b> The Bell-X1 rocket plane Glamorous Glennis piloted by Chuck Yeager, first broke the sound barrier at 42,000 feet.<\/div>\n
\n17.<\/b> The atomic bomb that devastated Nagasaki, Japan, contained the destructive power of 42 million sticks of dynamite.<\/div>\n
\n18.<\/b> A single Big Mac contains 42 per cent of the recommended daily intake of salt.<\/div>\n
\n19.<\/b> Cricket has 42 laws.<\/div>\n
\n20.<\/b> On page 42 of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Jonathan Harker discovers he is a prisoner of the vampire. And on the same page of Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein reveals he is able to create life.<\/div>\n
\n21.<\/b> In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Friar Laurence gives Juliet a potion that allows for her to be in a death-like coma for “two and forty hours”.<\/div>\n
\n22.<\/b> The three best-selling music albums \u2013 Michael Jackson’s Thriller, AC\/DC’s Back in Black and Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon \u2013 last 42 minutes.<\/div>\n
\n23.<\/b> The result of the most famous game in English football \u2013 the world cup final of 1966 \u2013 was 4-2.<\/div>\n
\n24.<\/b> The type 42 vacuum tube was one of the most popular audio output amplifiers of the 1930s.<\/div>\n
\n25.<\/b> A marathon course is 42km and 195m.<\/div>\n
\n26.<\/b> Samuel Johnson compiled the Dictionary of the English Language, regarded as one of the greatest works of scholarship. In a nine-year period he defined a total of 42,777 words.<\/div>\n
\n27.<\/b> 42,000 balls were used at Wimbledon last year.<\/div>\n
\n28.<\/b> The wonder horse Nijinsky was 42 months old in 1970 when he became the last horse to win the English Triple Crown: the Derby; the 2000 Guineas and the St Leger.<\/div>\n
\n29.<\/b> The element molybdenum has the atomic number 42 and is also the 42nd most common element in the universe.<\/div>\n
\n30.<\/b> Dodi Fayed was 42 when he was killed alongside Princess Diana.<\/div>\n
\n31.<\/b> Cell 42 on Alcatraz Island was once home to Robert Stroud who was transferred to The Rock in 1942. After murdering a guard he spent 42 years in solitary confinement in different prisons.<\/div>\n
\n32.<\/b> In the Book of Revelation, it is prophesised that the beast will hold dominion over the earth for 42 months.<\/div>\n
\n33.<\/b> The Moorgate Tube disaster of 1975 killed 42 passengers.<\/div>\n
\n34.<\/b> When the growing numbers of Large Hadron Collider scientists acquired more office space recently, they named their new complex Building 42.<\/div>\n
\n35.<\/b> Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has 42 illustrations.<\/div>\n
\n36.<\/b> 42 is the favourite number of Dr House, the American television doctor played by Hugh Laurie.<\/div>\n
\n37.<\/b> There are 42 US gallons in a barrel of oil.<\/div>\n
\n38.<\/b> In an episode of The Simpsons, police chief Wiggum wakes up to a question aimed at him and replies “42”.<\/div>\n
\n39.<\/b> Best Western is the world’s largest hotel chain with more than 4,200 hotels in 80 countries.<\/div>\n
![](\"http:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/42-1.jpg\")
<\/a><\/div>\n