3,000,000

This wall of the bus stop shelter has $3,000,000 in it. 

The glass is some special non-breakable security glass.  This is to promote the glass.  If you manage to break the glass, you can keep the money.

5936

5936  is divisible by the digits it does not contain, and not divisible by the digits it contains.

171

The longest Greek word is

λοπαδοτεμαχοσελαχογαλεοκρανιολειψανοδριμυποτριμματοσιλφιοκαραβομελιτοκατακεχυμενοκιχλεπικοσσυφοφαττοπεριστεραλεκτρυονοπτοκεφα-λλιοκιγκλοπελειολαγῳοσιραιοβαφητραγανοπτερύγων

transliterated as

lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimupotrimmatosilphioliparomelitoaktakexhumenokichlepikossuphophattoperis-teralektruonoptopiphallidokinklopeleioplagoosiraiobaphetragalopterugon  .

This 171 word is the name of a dish compounded of all kinds of dainties, fish, flesh, fowl, and sauces.

The dish was a fricassée, with at least 16 sweet and sour ingredients, including the following:

• Fish slices
• Fish of the Elasmobranchii subclass (a shark or ray)
• Rotted dogfish or small shark's head
• Generally sharp-tasting dish of several ingredients grated and pounded together
• Silphion "laserwort," apparently a kind of giant fennel
• A kind of crab, shrimp, or crayfish
• Honey poured down
• Wrasse (or thrush)
• Was topped with a kind of sea fish or Blackbird
• Wood pigeon
• Domestic pigeon
• Chicken
• Roasted head of dabchick
• Hare, which could be a kind of bird or a kind of sea hare
• New wine boiled down
• Wing and/or fin

 So, who's hungry?

for more information (but not much because I cut-and-pasted most of the article):  Lopado...pterygon

240

Soma Cubes are made of all 7 shapes you can make by gluing 3 or 4 cubes together (face to face lined up) so that you get something other than a rectangular solid.

The point is to arrange them in to a 3x3x3 cube.

There are 240 ways to do this  (not counting rotations).

some info on soma cubes:  wiki/Soma_cube

some more info:  games/soma.htm

0.028

12

2 + 11 - 1 = 12...

two + eleven = twoeleven

twoeleven - one = twelve!

7

Number of weeks fans spent camping outside Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood for the opening of the new Star Wars movie before being told they were at the wrong theater.

32,000

The tallest mountain in the world is located in the United States Mauna Kea, located in Hawaii, is only 13,796 feet (4,205 m) in altitude above sea level, however, when measured from the seafloor it is over 32,000 feet (10,000 meters) high, making it taller than Mount Everest (Earth's tallest mountain above sea level at 29,028 feet or 8,848 meters).

5,000,000

Justin Bieber is having a party!

Don't you DARE even THINK about spilling the deets that go on behind closed doors at Justin Bieber's place!

Cuz if ya do, the little prince will sue your ass for FIVE MILLION — and that includes tweets and instagrams!

A copy of one his infamous liability waiver and release forms has made its way to the internetz, and the doc that every party guest has to sign before going to the dark side in warns of not only the legal obligation, but of "health risks" too!

The "physical health, or the philosophical, spiritual or other views or characteristics" of Biebs or any other guest are to remain locked in your memory, but you also need to know that there could be activities that are "potentially hazardous and you should not participate unless you are medically able and properly trained."

Risks including "minor injuries to catastrophic injuries, including death."
  
But hey, we know most celebs use these forms for their parties, but we can't help but be fascinated by the conditions of Justin's!!! His legal team knows what's up when it comes to protection, that's for sure!!

333.70

Anchorage set a bunch of new records this past week:

THE OFFICIAL CLIMATE STATION FOR ANCHORAGE (AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE OFFICE ON SAND LAKE ROAD) RECEIVED 0.3 INCHES OF SNOW ON
FRIDAY MAY 17. THIS SETS A DAILY SNOWFALL RECORD BARELY EDGING OUT
THE OLD RECORD OF 0.2 INCHES SET IN 1989.

A NEW DAILY RECORD FOR LIQUID PRECIPITATION WAS ALSO SET ON FRIDAY.
RAIN PLUS MELTED SNOW ADDED UP TO 1.30 INCHES WHICH BREAKS THE OLD
DAILY RECORD OF 0.21 INCHES SET IN 1959.

AS OF 10 AM SATURDAY ANOTHER 0.1 INCHES WAS RECORDED. THIS SETS
A NEW DAILY RECORD FOR MAY 18 BREAKING THE OLD RECORD OF A TRACE
OF SNOW FROM 1966. 

THE SNOWFALL FROM THE PAST TWO DAYS MAKES 2012-2013 THE LONGEST
SNOW SEASON SINCE RECORDS BEGAN IN 1917. THERE WERE 232 DAYS
BETWEEN THE FIRST MEASURABLE SNOWFALL (SEPTEMBER 29) AND THE
LAST MEASURABLE SNOWFALL (MAY 18). THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF
230 DAYS SET IN 1981-1982.  

THE HIGH TEMPERATURE ONLY REACHED 37 DEGREES ON FRIDAY. THIS SETS A
NEW DAILY RECORD FOR LOWEST MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE ON MAY 17 BREAKING
THE OLD RECORD OF 44 DEGREES SET IN 1971. THIS ALSO MAKES MAY 17
THE LATEST DATE A MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE THAT LOW HAS OCCURRED.
THE PREVIOUS LATEST OCCURRENCE OF A HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 37 DEGREES
WAS MAY 4TH...OBSERVED IN THE YEARS 1945...1949...AND 2013.

232

The first day of snow in Anchorage this past winter was Sept 29.  The last (I hope!) snow of the season was last Saturday, May 18.  This means we had a 232 day snow season, breaking the record 230 days from the 1981 - 1982 winter.

My friend's friend took this picture in Anchorage on Friday, May 17

 

1,562.50

In 1916, Norman Rockwell sold "Boy with a Baby Carriage" to the Saturday Evening Post, the first picture he sold to them.  They paid him $75, which was worth what $1,562.50 is worth today.  It ran on May 20.

4 + 20/60 = 4.333333333333333...

All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.

at least 8

You can fit at least 8 sugar gliders into a Cool Whip container.

1,900,000

Nude Bea Arthur Painting By John Currin Sells For $1.9 Million At Christie's Auction

A nude portrait of Golden Girls star Bea Arthur sold for a whopping $1.9 million at Christie's auction house this week. The pricey painting went to one lucky, anonymous phone bidder.

The controversial artist John Currin painted "Bea Arthur Naked" in 1991, which features the late actress in nothing but her birthday suit. It's just one of many nude paintings created by the artist, who tends to choose provocative women -- both celebrities and nonentities -- as his subject matter.

“It’s historically significant," Christie's representative Koji Inoue says of the Arthur portait in a statement to The New York Post. "It’s radical to sexualize someone people think of as asexual." (Ed. note: "Asexual?" Really?)

The painting was expected to fetch between $1.8 and $2.5 million, so whomever scored the naked Bea got their famous artwork for a bargain price. You can view more of Currin's titillating imagery here. All we can say is, thank goodness Blanche wasn't around for this sale because she would have been so jealous.

20

1

500

A man tried to rob a bank after paying $500 to a wizard to make him invisible

 

Never trust strangers. That is something most of us were taught by our parents or guardians at an early stage of our life, especially if the stranger says he is a sorcerer who can turn you invisible whilst you rob a bank!

Unfortunately, for one man in Iran, he made the mistake of trusting a fake sorcerer who convinced him that he was invisible and could rob a bank safely. The man explained to the court that he had paid five million rials (just under £290) to a wizard imposter, who in return gave him a set of spells to tie to his arm. The fake sorcerer explained to him that the spells would make him invisible, and that he could then rob banks all he wanted.

 

The man’s ill-fated attempt to rob the bank started to go wrong after he entered the bank and started randomly snatching money from the hands of customers, before they decided to act quickly and overpower the ill-fated thief.

The man told the court, ‘I made a mistake. I understand now what a big trick was played on me.’

95

Want a serving of mac-n-cheese for a mere $95?

Available only during white truffle season (October through December), this popular dish for kids gets a major upgrade at the high-end Los Angeles restaurant Mélisse. It’s made with fresh tagliatelle pasta that’s covered with melted parmesan, grated white truffle, and brown butter truffle froth. The $95 price tag, however, doesn’t include the health care costs you’ll likely incur from digesting it.

1,140,000

The Western Stone is the largest stone in the Western Wall.  It weighs approximately 1,140,000 pounds (517,000 kilograms).

It is one of the largest building blocks in the world. The stone is 44.6 feet (13.6 meters) long and 9.8 feet (3 meters) high and has an estimated width of 10.8 feet (3.3 meters)

The Western Stone, beginning at shoulder level of the guide

 The holes in it were made by the Romans, so they could cover it more easily with whatever they wanted to cover it with.

The stone is not in the portion of the Wall that is seen in pictures of the Wall.  It is along the underground tunnel along side the wall, to the left of the portion of the wall that has been uncovered. 

1961

The last year to appear the same upside down as it did right side up. 2002 would do so on a calculator, but that technically is outside the limits of this distinction.

75

 "USA Today has come out with a new survey: Apparently three out of four people make up 75 percent of the population." 

      --David Letterman

TWENTY-NINE

TWENTY-NINE is the largest number that must be written with more strokes than its value.

75 ( 25 & 50)

25 is the smallest square that can be written as a sum of 2 squares.  

( 25 = 3^2 + 4^2 )

AND

50 is the smallest number that can be written as the sum of of 2 squares in 2 ways.

( 50 = 5^2 + 5^2  and  50 = 1^2 + 7^2 )

16

57

57 is the number of sauce varieties H. Heinz lied about to promote his famous ketchup (when he began his business, he actually had many fewer than 57 sauces or food products!).

A mutt is referred to as a "heinzdog" meaning there are 57 varieties of dogs mixed together.

42

The expression n⁷ - n is divisible by 42.

The expression xy + x + y can never equal 42.

(these both assume n, x, y are integers)

0.681534914 ......

5/3 ? 0.6?

0

4.33

Sssh! Wanna hear about the quietest piece of music ever composed? It's by John Cage (1912-1992), who was at the center of the US avant-garde scene for several decades, and has probably had a greater influence on world music than any other 20th-century American composer. This three-movement composition, in which a performer sits at a piano for four minutes and thirty three seconds intentionally making no sounds, is possibly his most famous piece. The idea behind the work is that the audience should be driven to appreciate the ambient sounds around them. It was a reflection of the influence of Zen Buddhism, which Cage studied since the late forties.

David Tudor gave the premiere of 4.33 on August 29, 1952, at Woodstock, New York as part of a recital of contemporary piano music. The American pianist sat at the piano and, to mark the beginning of the piece, closed the keyboard lid. Some time later he opened it briefly, to mark the end of the first movement. This process was repeated for the second and third movements. No note was played or any deliberate made at any point during the performance of the piece and Tudor timed the three movements with a stopwatch while turning the pages of the score. Musicians and critics alike initially thought the piece a joke, but Tudor called it his most intense listening experience.

When the BBC Symphony Orchestra played the piece during a concert at the Barbican Centre in London on January 16, 2004, the performance was carried live on BBC Radio 3. One of the main challenges was that the station's emergency backup systems are designed to switch on and play emergency-standby music whenever apparent silence lasting longer than a preset duration is detected. They had to be switched off for the sole purpose of this performance.

Several rock artists have covered this oh so quiet work, including American avant-garde musician Frank Zappa as part of A Chance Operation: The John Cage Tribute and US rock band Living Colour, who included a version on their 2009 album, the Chair in the Doorway.

English producer Mike Batt is the man behind both The Wombles and Katie Melua. He has also been involved in a number of other projects and one of them was an eight piece classical band called The Planets, who recorded an album, Classical Grafitti, which topped the UK classical charts for three months. The record included a track called "A One Minute Silence," which was credited to 'Batt/Cage.' Batt was accused in July 2002 of copyright infringement by the estate of John Cage who claimed the piece sounded "uncannily like 4'33". The producer initially vowed to fight the suit, even going so far as to claim that his piece is "a much better silent piece. I have been able to say in one minute what Cage could only say in four minutes and thirty-three seconds." Batt argued his case in an interview with The Independent stating: "My silence is original silence, not a quotation from his silence." He eventually settled out of court for an undisclosed six figure sum two months later.

A charity version was recorded by a collection of artists with the moniker of Cage Against The Machine in an attempt to achieve the 2010 UK Christmas #1. The artists keeping quiet in the studio included Mr Hudson, The Kooks, Enter Shikari, Heaven 17, Suggs and Pendulum and telephones were placed on top of the piano during the recording allowing Billy Bragg and Imogen Heap to phone in their silent contributions. However the single sold a mere 14,000 in the Christmas week achieving a chart placing of #21.