1. According to Douglas Adams´s The Hitchhiker´s Guide To The Galaxy (right), 42 is the meaning of life, the universe and everything.
2. That claim´s supported by the fact that, if you code A as 1, B as 2, etc, 42 is the sum of the letters in "big bang".
3. If a hollow tube was bored through the Earth, then we could theoretically travel from one side of the planet to the other, using only gravity, in just 42 mins.
4. It is the number that, according to Kabbalistic legend, God used to create the Earth.
5. It´s the nuclear number of molybdenum, the metal with the sixth highest melting point of any element.
6. The Gutenberg Bible has just 42 lines per page.
7. The 42nd of the Messier Objets (a list of 110 astronomical bodies listed by Charles Messier in 1771) is the Orion Nebula.
8. Lewis Carroll was slightly obsessed by the number. In Alice´s Adventures In Wonderland, there are 42 illustrations.
9. Alice´s Adventures In Wonderland also had a "Rule 42", as did The Hunting Of The Snark.
10. There are 42 principles of Ma´at, the Ancient Egyptian personification of physical and moral law, order, and truth.
11. It is the perfect score at the International Mathematic Olympiad.
12. It is the angle, in degrees, at which a rainbow appears.
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