574.64

The temperature 574.64 is the same in Fahrenheit and in Kelvin.

1-800-F1UC-KYO

The telephone number for the government office for Obamacare is 1-800 (because it is a toll-free number)  and then F1UCKYO .  The 1 key has no letters associated with it.  So the letter part spells out FUCK YO .

486

The longest home run of the 2013 baseball season was 486 feet, hit by Evan Gattis, of the Atlanta Braves on September 8.

This is Gattis, but not necessarily that particular hit.

122

Oklahoma laws include 122 mandatory minimum sentences.  These include 1 year minimum sentence for altering the serial number on a motor, and a 3 year sentence for stealing a hog.

78,200

Severn Street in Hong Kong is currently the most expensive street in the world, with average cost of $78,200 per square foot, according to the Wall Street Journal. The prices have successfully been driven up after the recession by the wealthy residents of this luxury area.

37,000

The average amount owed in student loans for a college student who graduated in 2013 was $37,000 according to the Wall Street Journal.

33,771

This date in Jewish history: 

September 29, 1941. The Nazis start massacre of Kiev Jews in the Baby Yar ravine during which 33,771 Jews were killed in a single two-day operation. 

Photo: Women waiting for execution in Baby Yar.

5300

Look at this marvelous dragon that is selling in Etsy for only $5,300.

The description:

Meet Freya. She's a fairly young dragon with lots of attitude. She's very protective of children and loves to be petted. You might say she's all bark and no bite, or in dragon terms, all smoke and no fire! Her belly is hinged and houses a fog machine that is plumbed up through her neck and allows her to bellow smoke on cue from the accompanying remote. Perfect for entertaining the grand kids or drawing attention to your business, everyone who meets her falls in love!

Freya won the People's Choice Award in 2012 at the Vancouver Recycled Arts Fair. Read her story here: http://www.columbian.com/news/2012/jun/24/junkyard-dragon-rain-leaves-no-rust-on-recycled-ar/

The steel was long since forgotten and forsaken from its original purpose, so we salvage it to create one-of-a-kind pieces to treasure for many years to come. Upon close observation, you can see Freya's shapely figure is comprised of steam pipe, tire irons, an old 50's Chevy truck hood, exhaust pipe, plow tines, scrap rebar, industrial springs and even metal from an excavated underground shelter. Her natural rusty patina will continue to darken to a rich brown as she ages, causing the welding and grinding marks to blend nicely. No rust protector is necessary, but can be applied, if so desired. She stands 9' tall, has an 8' wingspan and is about 7' long. She comes with custom made glass eyes in either a fierce red with small pupils or a friendlier amber color and larger pupils.

 %%%%%%

The price is without shipping (or with shipping inside Oregon only), and they won't  ship to Alaska.  But my roommates were just in Oregon.  I sent this the information.  They could have just bought her in Oregon and brought her home with them.  But did they buy her?  NO!

3.7

$3.70 is currently the average amount left by the tooth fairy per tooth (according to Time Magazine).

52

Aevin Dugas' hair entered the Guinness Book of Records at 52 ins (132 cm) around. 37 year old social worker from Napoleanville, Louisiana has the world's largest afro.

3

~ 1.36437635 i

log(-1) = 1.36437635 i

184

102-Year-Old Drives 82-Year-Old Car

 

 

2102

 Lance Armstrong, in 2003, at the age of 31, became the 2nd person ever to win the Tour De France 5 times consecutively, beating the runner-up Jan Ullrich by 61 seconds.

2003, 31, 2, 5, 61 are all prime numbers, which add up to 2102, which is not prime.

-83

The accepted height of Denali, the tallest mountain in the US, had been lowered by 83 feet.  It had been 20,230 but now the mountain is believed to be 20,237 feet above sea level.  The adjustment came from using photogrammetry, a more accurate method of measuring the height.

to read more about Denali:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denali

to read more about photogrammetry:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photogrammetry

14

The professor is having me write a sonnet.
This is line number two.
All I know about sonnets
Is they have fourteen lines.
This is line number five.
I know there is a rhyme scheme
I should be following
But I don't know it
So I will not even bother
Trying to rhyme.
Line number eleven
Twelve
Thirteen
This is the fourteenth and final line

  -  written by me.

900

This year every Alaskan resident will get a Permanent Fund dividend check of $900.

For a bunch of boring information:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund_Dividend

30,000

Al Capone estimated that he spent $30 million PER YEAR to pay off judges, police, elected officials, and newspapermen.

50

If you had your way – and your health – what age would you like to be for the rest of your life?

According to a recent Harris interactive poll, the magic number is 50.

The online poll surveyed a total of 2,252 American adults which included men and women of all ages, all geographical regions, and all political bents. Some had children; some did not.

The question: If you could live forever in good health at a particular age, what age would you like to be?

Not surprisingly, younger people chose younger ages. Echo boomers, ages 18 to 36, thought the perfect age was 38. Gen Xers, ages 37 to 48, wanted to stay put at 49. Baby boomers, ages 49 to 67, thought 55 was pretty awesome. While mature adults, ages 68 and older, were happy to hold steady at 67.

On average, men wanted to be younger than women, choosing 47 over the average perfect age for females of 53. Those with kids in the household thought staying 45 forever would rock; those without children around opted for 53.

“You have almost every opportunity,” says Barbara Becker Holstein, a psychologist with a private practice in Long Branch, N.J. “You’re young enough to be famous or start an organic farm and still have the muscle tone to work eight hours a day. You’re old enough to have wisdom but young enough that your parents are still alive so you have a generational experience. If you’re tired, you can ask the young man on the bus to get out of his seat for you. Or you can date the young man.

Holstein says research shows that as we age, we tend to be less depressed, less anxious and more optimistic than our juniors. And we also become more comfortable with ourselves and our bodies.

A similar survey conducted 10 years ago found 41 to be the perfect age.

actors Johnny Depp, Jodie Foster and George Clooney are at the half century mark

for more information:  http://www.today.com/health/americas-favorite-age-its-50-new-poll-says-8C11144329

160

Many people won’t be aware of Italy’s invasion of Ethiopia in 1895, but one man doesn’t just know about the battle – he claims to have lived through it.

Retired farmer Dhaqabo Ebba, from Ethiopia, says he is a staggering 160 years old, which would make him the world’s oldest living man.

He claims to have clear memories of Italy’s invasion of his country in the 19th century – however, there is no birth certificate to prove his age.

In a statement to Oromiya TV, he provided so much detail on the history of his local area that reporter Mohammed Ademo became convinced that Mr Ebba must be at least 160 years old.

This would make him 46 years older than the oldest ever recorded man.

‘When Italy invaded Ethiopia I had two wives,and my son was old enough to herd cattle’, said Mr Ebba.

He then recounted his eight-day horseback rides to Addis Ababa as a child – a journey that takes only a few hours today.

As Mr Ebba grew up in an oral society, there is no paper trail and no living witnesses to verify his age.

However, if his claim can be medically confirmed, he would oust 115-year-old Misao Okawa, who is currently recognized by the Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest living person.

He would also overtake French woman Jeanne Calment as the oldest person to have ever lived.

Ms Calment died in 1997 at the age of 122.

4

Today is the 50th anniversary of the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church, a Black church in Birmingham, Alabama.  Four girls, ages 11-14, died in the blast.  The blast was from dynamite, set by 4 members of the KKK.  An additional 22 people were injured.  (My 4 is for the 4 girls, not the 4 bombers.)

Clockwise from top left, Addie Mae Collins, age 14; Cynthia Wesley, age 14; Carole Robertson, age 14;  and Denise McNair, age 11. 

 

 

for more information:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Street_Baptist_Church_bombing

1,500,000

$1.5 million paid for world’s most expensive dog

Genghis Khan had one, legend says. So did the Buddha.

And now, the prized red Tibetan mastiff, thought to be one of the world’s oldest and most venerable breeds, has another distinction: One of the massive, fluffy dogs has become the most expensive dog ever sold.

An 11-month old pup named Big Splash (“Hong Dong” in Chinese) recently sold in the Chinese city of Qingdao for 10 million yuan — about $1.5 million in U.S. dollars.

The 3-foot-tall, 180-pound dog is one of a breed that has been around since time immemorial. Tibetan mastiffs are said to have guarded nomad camps and monasteries, and are rarely seen outside of Tibet.

today-today_pets/t/million-paid-worlds-most-expensive-dog/#.UjE-kj8qtSI

 

 

233,000

233,000 gallons of molasses were spilled into Honolulu harbor on Monday.  It has killed all the marine life.

When oil spills, the oil floats on top of the water, and is relatively easy to clean up.  Molasses sinks to the bottom of the ocean, is impossible to get to, sucks up all the oxygen, and kills everything.

People are advised to stay out of the water.   The molasses in the water does not pose a threat by itself.  But the dead sea animals may attract sharks.

The company responsible, Matson Inc., says it "regrets that the incident impacted many harbor users as well as wildlife. We are taking steps to ensure this situation does not happen again."

for more information: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/09/12/221709158/massive-molasses-spill-devastates-honolulu-marine-life

5

A Las Vegas family of six nearly doubled in size in less than five minutes after ushering in a set of quintuplets.  Evonne Derrico, 33, her two newborn boys and three baby girls were recovering Wednesday at Banner Desert Medical Center in Mesa, Ariz.  The parents did NOT use fertility drugs.

The father, Deon Derrico, says that everyone is doing well.

Deniko (b), Dariz (b), Deonee (g), Daician (g), and Daiten (g) each weigh less than 3 pounds and were being cared for in the neonatal intensive care unit.

They're joining an already-full house that included the Derricos' seven-year-old daughter, Dai, a three-year-old son, Deon Jr, and one-year-old twin boys, Dallas and Denver.  

(If this blog was "Letter of the Day", today's letter would be D.)

121

about 300,000

Superman addict Herbert Chavez has about 300,000 pesos (about $6764.40) on 13 surgeries to make him look like the comic book superhero.

The dress maker has transformed himself from scrawny to superman - thanks to the operations which include nose jobs, skin whitening, lip liposuction, jaw realignment, pec implants and even bum implants.

The 35-year-old from Calamba City, Phillipines first fell in love with the super hero - famed for his red cape and 'S' logo - when he was five-years-old while watching him on TV.

Over the past 30-years he has splashed around 300,000 Pesos (£4,400) on his obsession - the average hourly wage in the Phillipines is a meagre 90p.

Herbert regularly takes to the streets around his home dressed in full Superman costume, with his hair gelled in distinctive fashion.

2

There are only two people who can speak the native Mexican language Ayapaneco.  However, they are not speaking to each other.

Though it is not clear what lies behind their mutual avoidance, Manuel Segovia (in picture below), 75, and Isidro Velazquez, 69, live 500 metres apart in the village of Ayapa in the the southern state of Tabasco. The two have reportedly never enjoyed each other's company.

110 ( 73 + 37 )

Sheldon Cooper feels that 73 is the best number:

"73 is the 21st prime number. Its mirror 37 is the 12th prime number."

But what he says about 73 is also true about 37.
"73 is the 21st prime number. Its mirror 37 is the 12th prime number" can also be put as
"37 is the 12st prime number. Its mirror 73 is the 21th prime number".

(This is listed under 110 because the real beauty is  37 and 73 together.)

OK, 73 is a palindrome in binary (1001001) and 37 isn't (100101).

but they are both palindromes in morse code:  
37 is     . . .  - -    - -  . . .      while 73 is  - - . . .    . . . - -

46

This is listed under 46 because 10+11+12+13 = 46 .

1231

5774

Happy Rosh Hashana

135,000

Genetic 'Adam & Eve' Chromosome Study Traces All Men To Man Who Lived 135,000 Years Ago 

Almost every man alive can trace his origins to one man who lived about 135,000 years ago, new research suggests. And that ancient man likely shared the planet with the mother of all women.

The findings, detailed today (Aug. 1) in the journal Science, come from the most complete analysis of the male sex chromosome, or the Y chromosome, to date. The results overturn earlier research, which suggested that men's most recent common ancestor lived just 50,000 to 60,000 years ago.

Despite their overlap in time, ancient "Adam" and ancient "Eve" probably didn't even live near each other, let alone mate.

"Those two people didn't know each other," said Melissa Wilson Sayres, a geneticist at the University of California, Berkeley, who was not involved in the study.

for more information:  huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/01/genetic-adam-eve-chromosome-men-man

My comment - They say that "Adam" and "Eve" probably did not mate with each other, or even live near each other.  But they used to say that they lived thousands of years apart, and they changed on that. - Amy

618

Ellen and I covered 618 miles on a 3 day photography trip up to the Denali highway over Labor Day weekend.  We went from Anchorage to Paxson to Cantwell, back to Anchorage.  We took pictures all along the way.

Actually, Ellen probably did 620 miles, since she began by driving from her house to pick me up, and after dropping me off, she drove home.

12,400,000

In 2010, the onyx and diamond panther bracelet that was once owned by Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor and most famous American for whom King Edward VIII abdicated the throne to marry, was auctioned at Sotheby's in London for $12.4 million.

5557

5557 contains no 0's in base 3 through base 10.

9

Colonel Meow just won a Guinness Book of Records title for having the longest hair on any cat - up to 9 inches in some places.

42

The state with the longest official name is also the smallest. The winner is the "State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations." 42 letters, not counting spaces.

Despite the name, most of Rhode Island is on the mainland United States. The official name of the state, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, derives from the merger of two settlements. Rhode Island colony was founded near present-day Newport, on what is now commonly called Aquidneck Island, the largest of several islands in Narragansett Bay. Providence Plantations was the name of the colony founded by Roger Williams in the area now known as the City of Providence.

1723

This 1723 pound (781.5 kg) pumpkin from Alaska was not eligible to set a world record or to compete in the Alaska State Fair because of a tiny puncture that went all the way through to the center.  The rules say this makes it ineligible.

17

"I Have a Dream" is a 17-minute public speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered on August 28, 1963, in which he called for racial equality and an end to discrimination. The speech, from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement. Delivered to over 200,000 civil rights supporters, the speech was ranked the top American speech of the 20th century by a 1999 poll of scholars of public address. According to U.S. Representative John Lewis, who also spoke that day, "Dr. King had the power, the ability, and the capacity to transform those steps on the Lincoln Memorial into a monumental area that will forever be recognized. By speaking the way he did, he educated, he inspired, he informed not just the people there, but people throughout America and unborn generations."

115

New Element 115, Ununpentium, May Join Periodic Table

The periodic table of the elements has grown ever since the first version was published by Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869. And now scientists in Sweden suggest it's time to add yet another element to the table.

Now, a new set of experiments backs up the discovery of one of those elements. An international team of physicists has synthesized an element with 115 protons in the GSI accelerator in Germany. This isn't the first time a research group has synthesized the element, which has the temporary name of ununpentium (Latin for one-one-five, plus "-ium.") A team of Russian and U.S. scientists first made ununpentium in the early 2000s and published a paper about it in 2006. However, at the time, the IUPAC didn't consider that enough evidence to officially recognize—or name—ununpentium. The new GSI studies are another step toward official recognition.

Dr. Rudolph and his team synthesized element 115 by blasting calcium ions (with 20 protons) at a film of americium, a radioactive element with 95 protons. Super-heavy elements like ununpentium decay rapidly, so the team measured the photons (light particles) released by the decay of the sample. They confirmed that the energy of the photons matched up with the element's expected radioactive "fingerprint."

If added to the periodic table, element 115 would join its recently named neighbors, livermorium and flerovium (elements 114 and 116), which were added to the table in 2011.

 

 

for more information:  .huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/27/element-115-ununpentium-periodic-table

still more information:  www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-08/new-accelerator-study-confirms-theoretical-element-115-exists

and still more:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ununpentium

0

No one, witch or otherwise, was burned at the stake during the Salem witch trials.  Most were hanged.

0

The History of Zero

In today's modern mathematics, we have become accustomed to zero as a number. It's hard to believe that most ancient number systems didn't include zero. The Mayan civilization may have been among the first to have a symbol for zero. The Mayas flourished in the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico about 1300 years ago. They used the as a placeholder, in a vertical place-value system. It is considered one of their cultures greatest achievements. The ancient Egyptians, Romans, and Greeks alike had no symbol for zero. In Greek geometry, zero and irrational numbers were impossible. The Greeks made great strides in mathematics, but it was all done with a number system without zero. The Greek astronomer Ptolemy (ca. C.E. 150) was the first to write a zero at the end of a number. For this he used a circular symbol. In ancient Babylonian history there was no use of the zero. In the later Babylonian or during the Seleucid period a special symbol, which was also used as a separation mark between sentences, came into use for a zero. There's a definite possibility that the Babylonians used this mark for a zero within a number, as early as the end of the eighth century B.C.E.  Up until the time of Aristotle, there seems to be no evidence that the Babylonians ever regarded zero as a number. Aristotle discussed division by zero in connection with speed through a vacuum. Throughout the Dark Ages, Western mathematics was held back by the Roman's traditional numbering system. The first to think differently was Leonardo Fibonacci. He was a merchant's son, born in the Italian city-state Pisa, late in the twelfth century. In Pisa, he studied the work of Euclid and other Greek mathematicians. When he was still a boy, he moved to the Muslim city of Bugia, in North Africa. There he examined leather and furs before they were shipped back to Pisa. Leonardo got an education in Arabic culture as he traveled around the Mediterranean to Constantinople, Egypt and Syria. He recognized that the Hindu-Arabic numerals, the numerals we use today, were superior to the Roman numerals he had grown up with in the West. In the sixth century, mathematicians in India developed a place-value system. They introduced the concept of zero to keep their symbols in their proper places. In the seventh century, Hindu scholars introduced to Islam the ideas of zero and place-value. These ideas spread rapidly throughout the Arabic world. Six centuries later, Fibonacci was so impressed with the ease of Hindu-Arabic numerals that he wrote a book entitled Liber abaci. The Pisan local merchants, the trading class, ignored Fibonacci's book. They were wallowing in prosperity and did not want to be bothered with giving up Roman numerals and adopting a zero. Ferbonacci's mathematician friends liked the new number system and slowly over time gave up the Roman numerals. By the fifteenth century, the numerals were showing up on coins and gravestones. Western mathematics had emerged from the Dark Ages, and was flourishing into a new number system with a zero, the Hindu-Arabic numerals. The immediate advances in mathematics after that time are proof of the importance of, the zero.   completely stolen from another website, where this was contributed by Pam Nye

I have no idea

How many lanes are here???

Picture is from LA.

-40

-40 Celsius and -40 Fahrenheit are the same.

1.86

"Double Stuf" Oreos only have 1.86 times as much "stuf" as regular Oreos.

3

Countries that are on our weird measurement system, rather than the way superior metric system:  US, Myanmar, and Liberia.

1504

An Austrian collector has found what may be the oldest globe, dated 1504, to depict the New World, engraved with immaculate detail on two conjoined halves of ostrich eggs.

The globe, about the size of a grapefruit, is labeled in Latin and includes what were considered exotic territories such as Japan, Brazil and Arabia. North America is depicted as a group of scattered islands. The globe’s lone sentence, above the coast of Southeast Asia, is “Hic Sunt Dracones.”

for more information:  www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/oldest-globe-to-depict-the-new-world-may-have-been-discovered

10

To the Kikuyu tribe of central Kenya, the number 10 is considered bad luck. In fact, “10” is so feared that no one speaks it aloud; they just skip that number when counting anything—especially people, since it’s thought to be particularly bad luck to count humans.

2,000,000

6100

Densuke Black Watermelon

Also imported and exported from Japan, the Densuke Black Watermelon is an exquisite fruit only grown on the Japanese island of Hokkaido where only 10,000 are produced annually. One of the 17-pound fruits can be sold for $6,100.

911

911 Operator to the Rescue After Bride's Dress Is Stolen

A bride whose wedding dress had been stolen got the surprise of her life when a 911 dispatcher stepped in — and saved her wedding day.

Last Sunday, a Washington-based bride-to-be (her name was withheld for privacy) was inside her home on the morning of her wedding, preparing for the ceremony, when someone broke into her car and stole her wedding dress, among other belongings.

Panicked, the woman called 911 to report the crime, and Candice (she declined to provide her last name), a dispatcher at Valley Communications, the local 911 center, answered the call. “We deal with theft calls every day, but this one really touched me,” Candice, 28, told Yahoo! Shine. “I handled the situation as I normally would, but inside, I really sympathized. I couldn’t imagine someone stealing my wedding dress. All I kept thinking was, ‘I have a wedding dress. Maybe she could wear that.’”

By the time Candice got off the phone, she had made her decision: “I wanted her to wear my wedding dress.” So, after getting her supervisor's approval (and with no idea of the woman’s weight, height, or personal taste), Candice asked the responding officer to offer the woman the dress that Candice had worn on her own wedding day 18 months earlier.

“The woman was definitely surprised but very grateful,” Candice shared. “She also asked to see a photo, which, being a female, I totally understood.” Candice texted a picture of the dress to the officer, who, in turn, showed it to the bride-to-be.

It was a match. The woman loved the dress. With only hours to spare, Candice made arrangements to deliver it. “However, that was the difficult part,” she said.

Fortunately, Candice's husband, Brandon, was home, having canceled plans to go camping that weekend. “I called him and asked, ‘Can you do me a huge favor and pick up my wedding dress at my parents' home?’ He was really surprised, but once I explained the situation, he was happy to help," she recounted.

Brandon made a stop at Candice’s brother Peter’s house to pick up house keys before making the 20-minute drive to his in-laws' home. But there were still obstacles ahead. When he arrived, he discovered that Peter had given him the wrong set, so Peter had to drive over to let him in. "Meanwhile, I had no idea where the dress was, so I texted my parents, ‘Emergency. Call me,'" recounted Candice. "They told me that the dress was in the attic."

After Brandon located the bride’s fiancé, he delivered the dress to their home shortly before the ceremony was set to begin. “I’m so happy that I was able to help this woman,” Candice said. “She was very grateful and texted me a photo of her wearing the dress. I would do it all over again, if I could.”

Candace (the operaror) in her dress

 

36

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

is a fear of long words.

12,419

Pioneer Courthhouse Square, Portland's "living room," is where people go to see and be seen and just hang out.

Located on the east side of the square is a whimsical directional signpost with distances shown to nine sister-cities and other geographical destinations--both near and far. The marker is easy to understand as it should be. The furthest distance on the direction sign is Crozet Basin 12,419 Mi.

There are two signs pointing to Crozet Basin, pointing in opposite directions, since Crozet Basin is exactly halfway around the world from Portland.

2,500

Approximately 2,500 lefties die each year in accidents with right handed tools.

4

When you divide googolplex (10^(10^100)) by 7 the remainder is 4.

47

Someone was building a 20 story skyscraper in Spain.  Then they decided to go bigger, and make it 47 floors instead.  But when they planned the additional 27 floors, they forgot to put in an elevator.  No one is sure what will be done with the building.

for more information:  theepochtimes.com 47-story-skyscraper-in-benidorm-spain-lacks-an-elevator-

or more information:  theblaze.com a-47-story-high-rise-has-a-tall-problem-they-forgot-the-elevators/

1230

Einstein's brain weighed 1230 grams.

The average male brain weighs 1360 grams.

779

Last Monday (Aug 5, 2013) , some people attempted to set a new world record for the largest gathering of people in their underwear.  The gathering was in Times Square.  Unfortunately, they only had 779 people, far below the previous record of 2,270 set in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, on September 24, 2011.

88

Eighty Eight is an unincorporated town in Barren County, Kentucky, United States. It is part of the Glasgow Micropolitan Statistical Area and is 10 miles east of Glasgow on State Highway 90. The town's biggest claim to fame was the celebration of August 8, 1988 (08/08/88). People with an affinity for the number 8 descended upon the town from various parts of the nation and world, and the celebration was televised on national television.

As reported in a New York Times article, the town was named in 1860 by Dabnie Nunnally, the community's first postmaster. He had little faith in the legibility of his handwriting, and thought that using numbers would solve the problem. He then reached into his pocket and came up with 88 cents.

The only store in this small town was opened and run by the Richardson Brothers. It was the main source for feed, grocery, hardware and farm needs. It was closed in the late 1980s. The building was restored in 2005 and reopened as the Eighty Eight General Store. The historic post office (Zip Code 42130) was kept intact and is now open to the public. It is no longer in service however and was discontinued in 1984.

Eighty Eight is home to a congregation of the Church of Christ. Although sometimes mistakenly called Eighty Eight Church of Christ, the proper name is Refuge Church of Christ.

3531

3531 is a value of n for which φ(n) = φ(n-2) - φ(n-1).


The totient function is defined as the number of positive integers that are relatively prime to (i.e., do not contain any factor in common with) , where 1 is counted as being relatively prime to all numbers.

2600

Chocopologie

Created by Knipschildt, the Chocopologie is the most expensive piece of chocolate from across the globe. The handmade truffle consists of 70% Valrhona cacao and can be ordered at $2,600 per pound.

146

Just in case you're too cheap to get HBO, "khaleesi" means "queen" in the fictional language of the Dothraki from Game of Thrones. Despite being more of a title than a name, last year the word showed up on the birth certificates of 146 American baby girls whose parents apparently anticipate them to blossom into sexy dragon ladies who get nude a lot.

Considering that the novels have existed since 1996 and the name only showed up after the HBO series started, it's safe to say that once GoT is taken off the air, "Khaleesi" will go back to sounding like a stripper of mysterious ethnicity who does weird things with snakes in public. (Which isn't too far from the source material, actually.)

There’s no greater gift you can give a child than a lifetime of having to explain her dumb name came from a TV show.

9000

10,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000

A googol is the large number 10^100; that is, the digit 1 followed by 100 zeroes:

10,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000,­000.

The term was coined in 1938^[1] by 9-year-old Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner. Kasner popularized the concept in his 1940 book Mathematics and the Imagination.

A googol has no particular significance in mathematics, but is useful when comparing with other very large quantities such as the number of subatomic particles in the visible universe or the number of hypothetically possible chess games. Edward Kasner used it to illustrate the difference between an unimaginably large number and infinity, and in this role it is sometimes used in teaching mathematics.

A googol is approximately 70!

197

197 is the smallest prime that is the sum of seven consecutive primes:  

197 = 17 + 19 + 23 + 29 + 31 + 37 + 41.

5560

5560 are the first 4 digits of 7⁵⁵⁶⁰

672

The international calling code for Antarctica is 672.

34,492

McDonald's just opened their first restaurant in Vietnam, so now they have 34492 restaurants, spread among 116 countries.

The second McDonald’s ever built and the oldest still standing, in Downey, CA.

 

Read more: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/2013/07/the-golden-arches-of-mcmodernism/#ixzz2aQ7giRFl

18,580,000

 A federal jury in Oregon has awarded $18.6 million to a woman who spent two years unsuccessfully trying to get Equifax Information Services to fix major mistakes on her credit report.

Julie Miller of Marion County was awarded $18.4 million in punitive damages and $180,000 in compensatory damages, though Friday's award against one of the nation's major credit bureaus is likely to be appealed, The Oregonian reported.

The jury was told she contacted Equifax eight times between 2009 and 2011 in an effort to correct inaccuracies, including erroneous accounts and collection attempts, as well as a wrong Social Security number and birthday. Her lawsuit alleged the Atlanta-based company failed to correct the mistakes.

"There was damage to her reputation, a breach of her privacy and the lost opportunity to seek credit," said Justin Baxter, a Portland attorney who worked on the case with his father and law partner, Michael Baxter. "She has a brother who is disabled and who can't get credit on his own, and she wasn't able to help him."

Tim Klein, an Equifax spokesman, declined to comment on specifics of the case, saying he didn't have any details about the decision from the Oregon Federal District Court.

Miller discovered the problem when she was denied credit by a bank in early December 2009. She alerted Equifax and filled out multiple forms faxed by the credit agency seeking updated information. She had found similar mistakes in her reports with other credit bureaus, Baxter said, but those companies corrected their errors.

A Federal Trade Commission study earlier this year of 1,001 consumers who reviewed 2,968 of their credit reports found 21 percent contained errors. The survey found that 5 percent of the errors represented issues that would lead consumers to be denied credit.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/07/28/oregon-woman-wins-186-million-over-credit-report-mistakes/#ixzz2aPgxAI2u

1917

The first known use of  "OMG" was in 1917 in a letter from Admiral John Fisher to Winston Churchill

19^12 / approximately 2.213 x 10^15 / approximately 2 quadrillion

The expression "nineteen to the dozen" means something is going really fast.

 Where id the phrase come from?


The usual meaningis to do something at a great rate. It most often refers to speed of speaking, as in this instance from the Daily Mail of 23 October 2003: “Talking nineteen to the dozen, her conversation is still peppered with outrageous references and bawdy asides.” The idea is that the rate of talking is so great that when other people say merely a dozen words, the speaker gets in 19. It’s also sometimes used to describe rapid heartbeat in times of danger, and to refer to other fast-moving or fast-changing things (like dogs’ tails).

Nobody seems to have the slightest idea why 19 is the traditional number to use here, but it has been in that form ever since it was first recorded in the eighteenth century.

There is a story about it which associates it with the efficiency of Cornish beam engines. It is said that such engines in the Newcomen era of the eighteenth century could pump 19,000 gallons of water out of a tin mine while burning only 12 bushels of coal. I am sure this is a folk tale, as an origin so specific and arcane would have been unlikely to generate a popular saying. It's more likely that the figures were quoted in some treatise and were then picked up as a way to explain the origin of this puzzling phrase. But nobody can know for sure because its early history is obscure.

(copied from somewhere)


 

28 million

How many ping-pong balls would fit in a 747, assuming we filled all available space, including the gas tank?  Estimated at 28 million.

5660

The element with the highest melting point is Tungsten, which boils at 5660 Celsius (10220 Fahrenheit)

Atomic element 74, it is a metal when by itself, but is found naturally only in compounds.

( 2^3021376 ) x ( 2^3021377 - 1 )

The largest known perfect number is

 (2^3021376)(2^3021377-1)

This number has 1,189,050 digits.

(A perfect number is a number that is equal to the sum of its proper factors.  For example, the proper factors of 28 are 1, 2, 4, 7, 14 and 1+2+4+7+14=28.)

 

119

The record for the most beers drunk in one night: 119, by Andre the Giant  (a wrestler who played the giant in The Princess Bride).

Born André René Roussimoff, and at adulthood stood over 7 feet & weighed over 500 pounds at his heaviest. Andre liked to drink. Born in France he had cosumed alcohol since he was a child. While wrestling for the WWF all the wrestlers would go to a certain bars after the shows in certain towns. Well one bar owner approached Andre & offered him a deal. The next time the WWF were in town, Andre would visit their bar & sit on stage, drinking beer all night allowing them to count how many. And the kicker was if Andre agreed to this, he got all his beer for free.

Andre agreed the the next time they were in town, the record was set. Andre sat on that stage for 6 hours. In that time he drank an astounding 119 beers! That's one beer every 3 minutes for six hours! Unreal. He could drink a can of beer in 2 drinks & his hands were so big you couldn't even see the can when he was holding it.  What's funny is that was one of the only times anybody ever saw Andre actually 'drunk'. (Andre passed out in the hallway of the hotel later that morning LOL)  He always seemed fine no matter how much he drank.