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This is the sign in the development where my friend is staying.

Happy Tau Day!

What’s in a flight number? Most flight numbers are assigned based on one of two factors; the route of the flight, such as short haul and...

Most tricks known by a single dog:  469. Owned and trained by Sharon Robinson of Ontario, Canada, the pooch’s diverse talents included pla...

Earthquake in Alaska Earthquake had a magnitude of somewhere between 6.4 and 7.3, depending on the source. It was located 86 km WSW ...

A team at the University of Central Missouri has announced that they have found the largest prime number ever. It is 22,838,618 digits l...

The Russian government has proposed a giant, 12,910 mile roadway to be connected, linking New York City and London and effectively uniti...

Today is Betty White's 94th birthday.

57 accidents on the Glenn Highway today.

Today "The Force Awakens", the 7th Star Wars movie comes out.

Here are some facts about 28: 28 is a PERFECT NUMBER. A perfect number is a number that is equal to the sum of its proper factors. A pr...

Today is my 52nd birthday. There is NO number whose sum of it's proper factors is 52. There are 52 cards in a deck, not counting jok...

A.  The Cubs won in overtime. B.  I have no idea who the guy is. C.  I was going to put this under 107 + 1908, but that gives me 2015 which ...

144 wedding rings were found among the remains of the World Trade Center.

The average amount spent on a wedding in the US is $31,213.  (This does not include the honeymoon.)

This is the 43rd anniversary of the murder of 11v members of the Israeli Olympic team in Munich in 1972.

190,116 x 3003 x 10^5120 - 1 and 190,116 x 3003 x 10^5120 + 1 [each 5129 digits] is the largest known pair of twin primes, found by Harvey D...

On this day in 1920, the 19th amendment was passed, giving women the right to vote.

The cost of a ride on the NYC subway is now $2.75.  This does not include the $1 charge whenever you get a new MetroCard.  However, if you p...

3 is the only prime number that is 1 less than a perfect square.

Why is a baker’s dozen 13 and not 12? There are three main theories for why a baker’s dozen is 13 instead of 12, but most think it has it...

8 people have survived rabies without a vaccine.

Ashkenazi Jews descend from 350 people, study finds ‘Bottleneck’ dates back 600 to 800 years, genome analysis shows; researcher says amon...

About the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence: Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before t...

Samuel Reshevsky, age 8, defeating several chess masters at once in France, 1920

The area code for a section of Florida, which includes Cape Canaveral, is 321.  And that is the last 3 consecutive numbers read off for a co...

I think they failed Roman numerals.

Farhud (Arabic: الفرهود‎) refers to the pogrom or "violent dispossession" carried out against the Jewish population of Baghdad, Ir...

Napoleon and Hitler were born 129 years apart, came to power 129 years apart, declared war on Russia 129 years apart, and were defeated 129 ...

As of 2010, 55% of the Starbucks in Manhattan (68 out of 124) were within 2 blocks of another Starbucks.

Here are some books with the number 5 in the title: I didn't want to include any that were from a series wher...

This past winter, Anchorage received 25.1 inches of snow, This is the lowest amount since they've been keeping records.  The start of th...

According to Swedish mathematicians there are 177,147 different ways to tie a tie.

Today is the anniversary of the day the SS St. Louis set sail from Germany in 1939, with 937 passengers aboard. I will give a synopsis here...

The average age of the cars on the road in the US today is 11.4 years old.

In Barrow, Alaska, the sun rises this morning (May 11) at 2:36 am, and will set at 2:13 am on August 2nd, 83 days later.

SEXY PRIMES are prime numbers that vary by 6. The lowest pair is 5 & 11. A few other pairs are 7 & 13, 11 & 17, 101 & 107, 3...

Sheriff's office rug with 'In Dog We Trust' typo sells for nearly $10,000 A Florida sheriff's office has turned a $5...