4 (or not)

The NBA says they are NOT planning to add a 4 point shot to the rules of basketball.

1944.444444...

A man spent $35,000 to have his house set up for his 18 cats.  This comes to 1944.444444... per cat.  See pics.

50

Facebook has added 50 new choices for gender, beyond the previous choices of "female" and "male".  I don't know what they are, however, because they are not showing up as options for me.

117

What's cooler than a Girl Scout selling cookies?

A business-savvy Girl Scout who sets up shop outside a cannabis clinic to rev up her sales skills.

Thirteen-year-old Girl Scout Danielle Lei did brisk business last Monday selling Dulce de Leches and other flavors outside The Green Cross medical marijuana clinic in San Francisco.

Danielle was able to sell 117 boxes within two hours outside the cannabis clinic -- 37 more than what she sold within the same time frame at a local Safeway the next day.

"It's no secret that cannabis is an appetite stimulant -- so it's not shocking that a lot of our patients came and purchased cannabis, and then saw the cookies and purchased them," said Holli Bert, a spokesperson for The Green Cross. "But it wasn't just patients, staff members and neighbors also bought the cookies. I personally bought five boxes. It turned out to be a big success."

Bert said that Danielle's mother had contacted The Green Cross to set up the sale outside the store.

"We were happy to have her (Danielle) come -- she is extremely business savvy," Bert said.

110

The world's oldest known Holocaust survivor has died at age 110, her grandson told CNN Sunday.


Alice Herz-Sommer and her son were sent to a concentration camp during WWII, A talented pianist, she survived by playing for the Nazis at the camp.  "My world is music," she said in a 2014 Oscar-nominated documentary about her life, "The Lady in Number 6".

for more information:  http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/23/world/europe/holocaust-survivor-death/

for more more information:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Herz-Sommer

22

The star-nosed mole rat has 22 fingerry appendages on his nose.

The star-nosed mole is a small mole found in wet low areas of eastern Canada and the northeastern United States. It is easily identified by the 11 pairs of pink fleshy appendages ringing its snout, which is used as a touch organ with more than 25,000 minute sensory receptors, known as Eimer’s organs, with which this hamster-sized mole feels its way around.

3

Alexis Martin, a three-year-old who's become the youngest person in Arizona to be accepted into Mensa.


Alexis was found to have an IQ of above 160, and has even taught herself Spanish!
Her mom and dad started to realize she was something special when she began to recite bedtime stories at 12-18 months old.


"We'd be driving around in the car and she would recite her bedtime story from the night before,” said her dad. “She didn’t just recite them, she recited them exactly.”


The parents say Alexis' use of adult apps on their iPad has helped her learn and she began reading at age two.

The parents are now debating whether Alexis should start kindergarten early.

695

The "Epicurious Gourmand" experience at the Oregon Truffle Festival costs $695 per person and includes truffle tasting and truffle hunting with dogs.

4

While the number 4 does not strike fear to many in the West, the Chinese and Japanese have a superstitious fear of the number 4. The reason is fairly simple: the word for death, shi, sounds just like the number for 4. In China and Japan, buildings do not have a 4^th floor or any floor whose number contains the digit 4.  Cartoon characters that have only four fingers are considered bad luck. The superstition runs so deep in these cultures that cardiac deaths for Chinese and Japanese Americans are said to increase by 7 percent on the fourth of each month.

880

Exit 880 in I-10 in Orange, Texas, is the highest interstate exit number.

15

In the past week, this blog has been viewed 15 times in Germany.  No one left any comments.

22

If there were such a thing, it would probably be rule No. 1 in the teaching manual for instructors of aspiring suicide bombers: Don’t give lessons with live explosives.

In what represented a cautionary tale for terrorist teachers, and a cause of dark humor for ordinary Iraqis, a commander at a secluded terrorist training camp north of Baghdad unwittingly used a belt packed with explosives while conducting a demonstration early Monday for a group of militants, killing himself and 21 other members of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, army and police officials said.

12

12 is a sublime number. 


A sublime number is a number with a perfect number of factors whose factors add up to a perfect number.


12 has 6 factors:  1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12.


The factors of 12 add up to 28.


6 and 28 are both perfect numbers because they are equal to the sum of their proper factors.

43 ( 7 + 13 + 23 )

I asked my friend Cheryl what her favorite number is.  She said it is a tie between 7 ("I had seven children"),  13 (" I was born on the 13th.  I've always liked that number, maybe because most people don't."), and 23 ("When I was a child I always wanted to be 23.  Not 16.  Not 18.  Always 23.")

128

I'm suffering from a lack of imagination today.  So 128 is today's number.  Just because.

56

Shirley Temple always had 56 ringlets.

17

A sudoku puzzle must have at least 17 numbers to be filled in to be solvable.

2

45

The longest word to appear in an English language dictionary is

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis 

which is a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust, causing inflammation in the lungs.  It has 45 letters.

512.73

512.73 is the Dewey Decimal system classification for analytical number theory.

What is the significance of 512.73?

According to "The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers":

First I subtract it from 666, the Number of the Beast in the Book of Revelation:
666 - 512.73 = 153.27
Behold!
The same digits appear, but rearranged, signifying the effect of removing evil from the world.

The whole number part is now 153, the number of fishes hauled from the river by Peter.
The decimal part is the sacred number 3, raised to its own power.

Divide the Number of the Beast by 3, and you obtain 222,
the Dewey Decimal system classification for the Old Testament.
Add 3 and you obtain 225, the classification for the New Testament.
Add 3 again, and you obtain 228, the classification of the Book of Revelation.

5939.74

I couldn't think of anything, so I went to Yahoo, and typed in "How many" to see what they came up with.

There are:

• 105 calories in a banana (on average)
• 128 ounces in a gallon (fluid ounces)
• 16 ounces in a pound (non-fluid ounces)
• 4 cups in a quart
• 5280 feet in a mile
• 8 ounces in a cup (fluid ounces)
• 28.35 grams in an ounce (approximately)
• 365.39 weeks in a year (approximately)
• 3 teaspoons in a tablespoon
• 2 pints in a quart

total:  5939.74

0.01

My friend's credit card company messed up her account an overcharged her 1¢ so they sent her a check.

I whited out her name and address  on the picture.

1

100 women were asked "On a scale from 1 to 10, how sexy are men with hairy chests?" The most common answer was 1. 



(source: Family Feud)

3

Preston, Socrates, and Buddy are hogging my bed. (Buddy likes to hide under the covers.)

20,860

The Gregorian calendar is set up so that a year is equal to one revolution of the earth around the sun.  The months don't correspond to anything.

A month in the Muslim calendar is equal to one cycle of the moon, between 29 and 30 days.  A year is 12 months.  This means that a year in the Muslim calendar is about 11 days shorter than a Gregorian year.  This is why the Muslim holidays are not connected to any seasons.

(The Jewish calendar has the same months as the Muslim calendar, but some years have 12 months and some have 13 months.  So the year is roughly the same as a year in the Gregorian calendar.)

So at some point, the year number of the Muslim year will catch up to the year number of the Gregorian year.  This will happen in the year 20860.

50

There are 50 states in the United States. 

(I couldn't think of anything.  So I decided to go to Google and type "How many" and go with the first way Google finished the sentence. 

2

Sean :: Is there any special term for a prime p, such that the prime squared plus one is also a prime?

Kevin :: Yes. 2. If you can think of any other example, you should alert the media.

C

Here is a proof that the amount of real numbers is larger than the amount of integers:  diagonal_argument

I know a proof that 2 to the power of the number of integers gives you the number of real numbers, but can not find it on line.

39,997.99

For only $39,997.99 you can get this 85 inch TV from Amazon.

• 4K Ultra HD with Micro Dimming: Best picture quality
• 120Hz Refresh Rate: Better for general viewing, video games, action movies, and sports
• Smart TV with Voice Control: Interact with streaming content and the web
• LED Design: TV without stand (Width x Height x Depth): 78.9" x 64.4" x 2.8", TV with stand (Width x Height x Depth): 78.9" x 64.4" x 22.9"

You save from the list price of $44,999.99.

You can get a used one for $30,999.99.

Whether it's your voice or a simple hand gesture, with the new Ultra-Slim Samsung Smart TV S9, controlling your TV is easier than ever before. You can talk to your TV in more natural ways such as asking, "What action movies are on", or you can perform all the basic commands such as "record", "last channel" and "turn on". You can also use hand gestures to browse the new intuitive Smart Hub, a central, easy-to-navigate hub of all your favorite content. You can even use gestures to use apps, play games and more. Samsung has also made it easier to keep up with the latest technology. The new Smart Evolution Kit updates your TV with new software, so you can keep enjoying new features without having to get a new TV. Discover how the new S9 can keep up with both you, and the ever-changing world of technology. 

1900

This is an actual screen shot from my friend Shevie.

17

17 is an unlucky number in Italy, probably because in Roman digits 17 is written XVII, that could be rearranged to "VIXI", which in Latin means "I have lived" but can be a euphemism for "I am dead."

8466548 (4048144+4418404)

An equation that works in reverse as well.

2012 x 2012 = 4048144  and  4418404 = 2102 x 2102

or, if you prefer

2102 x 2102 = 4418404 and 4048144 = 2012 x 2012

288

The most overdue book in the world was borrowed from Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge, England and was returned 288 years later. 

(source: ebizarre.com)

2700

The CHEAPEST Super Bowl tickets are gong for $2,700.

also:  Average cost are $4,600.  Most expensive are $25,000.

30,000

For $30,000 you can buy a first class ticket from LA to Dubai on United Arab Emirates’ A380 airline suite. 

With private three-wall suites (plus closeable door) and two lounges on the plane, Emirates takes it one step further and offers their highest-paying customers two classic walnut and marble state-of-the-art shower systems complete with shower kits and fine linens. Also available: relaxing chair-massages and mini-bar parties.

47.5

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800

A scroll at the University of Bologna is shown to be 800 years old.

In 1889, an Italian librarian’s faulty identification sentenced to archival obscurity an antique Torah scroll that has turned out to be the oldest complete such scroll in existence.

This week, University of Bologna Professor Mauro Perani announced the results of carbon-14 tests authenticating the scroll’s age as roughly 800 years old.

The scroll dates to between 1155 and 1225, making it the oldest complete Torah scroll on record.
Like all Torah scrolls, this one contains the full text of the five Books of Moses in Hebrew and is prepared according to strict standards for use during religious services

What a 19th-century cataloguer had interpreted as clumsy mistakes by what he guessed was an awkward 17th-century scribe provided the very clues that led Perani to investigate further. National Geographic spoke by telephone to Perani about his rediscovery.

.....What led you to take a second look at the scroll?

In 2012, a colleague and I decided to write a new catalog of the [University of Bologna] library’s Hebrew manuscript collection. The original librarian and cataloguer from 1889, Leonello Modona, was an educated man but not a scholar. He had dated this scroll to the 17th century with a question mark.

He described the writing in this scroll as “an Italian script, rather clumsy-looking, in which certain letters, as well as the usual crowns and strokes, show uncommon and strange appendices.” But when I went to examine the scroll, I saw immediately that it was not the “bad” writing that Modona described. These Hebrew letters were in the Oriental style, not of Palestine, but of the Babylonian tradition, and from a much earlier time than the 17th century.

.....So what did you do?

I consulted with other colleagues and experts who agreed that this scroll originated from some time between the end of the 11th and the beginning of the 14th century. I then pursued carbon-14 testing at the University of Sorrento; the results showed a date of between [the] second half of the 12th century to [the] beginning of the 13th century. In addition, a second carbon-14 test at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign confirmed the first result.

.....Even before you received the authentication of the carbon-14 dating, were there clues that led you to focus on an early date?

At the end of the 12th century Maimonides set down the rules for how to copy Torah scrolls, and those fixed rules have been followed ever since. This scroll’s copyist did not know of those rules. Those rules would have forbidden him from using some of the graphical elements found here, such as use of compression of letters, line justification, and which letters can have  “crowns” on top.

There is more freedom here. There are also passages whose graphical layout is identical to that of the Aleppo Codex [a Bible in book form], which dates to the 10th century. This all means that either the Torah scroll was made before the death of Maimonides, who died in 1204, or the copyist had not yet learned of those rules. Remember, there was no Internet then to spread the news immediately.

....So when did the University of Bologna first obtain this Torah scroll—and how?

This scroll has been at the University of Bologna library for centuries. It’s very possible that at some time it came into the possession of a monastery, was later taken to Paris after Napoleon suppressed the monastic and religious orders, and finally restored to Bologna after Napoleon’s collapse.

.....How significant is this discovery?

This is important because this is the entire Torah scroll, the most ancient entire scroll that we know of. We have fragments of other Torah scrolls from the Cairo Geniza that date to the same time or earlier, and they show identical styles to this copyist. Maybe we will find another Torah scroll that is older, but for now this is it.

 to read the article that I just completely copied here:  http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/05/130530-worlds-oldest-torah-scroll-bible-bologna-carbon-dating/

115,132,219,018,763,992,565,095,597,973,971,522,400.5

There are 2 39 digit narcissistic numbers.

115132219018763992565095597973971522400

and

115132219018763992565095597973971522401   .


A narcissistic number is a number that, when you take all the digits, raise them to the power of how many digits the number has, and add them all together, you get the original number.

For example, 407 is a 3 digit number, and 4^3 + 0^3 + 7^3 = 407.

The number of the day is the average of the 2 39 digit numbers.  It begins with one-hundred-fifteen-dodecillion.

1/48

A "hairbreadth"is 1/48 of an inch.

161

Because morse code was time consuming and often expensive, users in the olden days came up with a lot of abbreviations.  They came up with a list of 2 digit numbers and what they stood for.  The meanings would have nothing to do with the numbers.  Most are not used today.

A few that are still used:

• 73 means "Best wishes" often used as a sign-off.

• 88 means "Hugs and kisses", also used as a sign-off, mostly to a HAM of the opposite gender.

• 161 (since it is 73+88) is used to say both, either to someone you really like, or to a couple where one of them is the opposite gender from you.

8

I asked my roommate for a number of the day and a reason, and he said 8 because

'Octomom' charged with welfare fraud

The woman known as the "Octomom" was charged with welfare fraud after allegedly failing to report nearly $30,000 in earnings.

Nadya Suleman, 38, who gained fame in 2009 when she made medical history by giving birth to octuplets, all of whom survived, was charged Jan. 6, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said in a news release issued Monday.

She is being charged with one count of aid by misrepresentation and two counts of perjury by false application for aid, the release said. The mother of 14 children allegedly failed to report the extra income she earned between Jan. 1, 2013 and June 30, 2013.

Suleman is scheduled to be arraigned Friday at the Foltz Criminal Justice Center. Prosecutors will ask that her bail be set at $25,000.

If convicted, she faces up to five years and eight months in jail.

 

 

130,000,000

447 E 52nd St, New York, NY 10022

This is the largest single-family residence in Manhattan.  And it is now selling for a mere $130 million!! 

 

24527 (8191+8128+8208)

In the Simpsons, the following appeared on a Jumbo-tron:

The writers purposely selected a perfect number, a narcissistic number, and a prime number.

8191 is a mersenne prime number.  (A prime number is a number that has exactly 2 factors - itself and 1.  A mersenne prime is a prime number of the form 2^p-1, where p is a prime number.  8191 is 2^13 -1)

8128 is a perfect number. (A perfect number is a number that is equal to the sum of its proper factors. The proper factors of 8128 are 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 127, 254, 508, 1016, 2032, 4064 and these add up to 8128.)

8208 is a narcissistic number.  (A narcissistic number is a number that, if you raise each digit to the power of the number of digits you have, and add all of them, you get the original number. 8208 has 4 digits, and 8^4+2^4+0^4+8^4 = 8208.)

3.2

An incident that took place in Indiana in 1897, when politicians attempted to legislate an official (and wildly incorrect) value for π:

The Indiana Pi Bill was the brainchild of Edwin J Goodwin, a physician from the town of Solitude in the south-western corner of the state. He had approached the assembly and proposed a bill that focused on his solution to a problem known as "squaring the circle". He seemed oblivious to the fact that this ancient problem had already been proved impossible in 1882. Goodwin's complicated and contradictory "solution" effectively dictated a value for π equal to 3.2. He said that Indiana schools could use his discovery without charge, but that the state and he would share the profits from royalties charged to other schools who wished to adopt a value of 3.2 for π.

Initially, the technical nature of the bill baffled the politicians, who then passed it without any objection. It was then up to the state senate to ratify the bill.

Fortunately, Professor CA Waldo, a mathematician at Indiana's Purdue University, alerted senior politicians to the absurd legislation. This prompted Senator Orrin Hubbell to proclaim: "The Senate might as well try to legislate water to run uphill as to establish mathematical truth by law."

There was a successful motion to indefinitely postpone the passing of the bill, but it still exists in a filing cabinet in the basement of the Indiana statehouse, waiting for a gullible politician to resuscitate it.

28

A "sociable chain" is a set of numbers where each number is the sum of the proper factors of the previous number, and then it gets back to the beginning number.


For example: 

For example
* The proper factors of 12496 are:  1, 2, 4, 8, 11, 16, 22, 44, 71, 88, 142, 176, 284, 568, 781, 1136, 1562, 3124, 6248.  If you add them up, you get 14288,
* The proper factors of 14288 add up to 15472.
* The proper factors of 15472 add up to 14536.
* The proper factors of 14536 add up to 14264.
* The proper factors of 14264 add up to 12496.  Which is where we started.  So this is a sociable chain of 5 numbers.

When the chain ony has 2 numbers, it is an  "amicable pair".
* The proper factors of 12285 are 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 13, 15, 21, 27, 35, 39, 45, 63, 65, 91, 105, 117, 135, 189, 195, 273, 315, 351, 455, 585, 819, 945, 1365, 1755, 2457, 4095.  These add up to 14595.

* The proper factors of 14595 add up to 12285.

SO, what does this have to do with 28?  The longest known chain has 28 numbers in it:

14316, 19116, 31704, 47616, 83328, 177792, 295488, 629072, 589786, 294896, 358336, 418904, 366556, 274924, 275444, 243760, 376736, 381028, 285778, 152990, 122410, 97946, 48976, 45946
22976, 22744, 19916, 17716, back to 14316 which I don’t count a second time.

133.335

133.335 is the Dewey-Decimal number for numerology.

And if you reverse it and add, they add up to 666.666 , the Number of the Beast repeated.

132

How many different 2 digit numbers can you make from the digits in 132? 

6 :  12, 13, 21, 23, 31, 32.  If you add these numbers, what do you get?  132!!!

5771

You know those long boring conditions you have to agree to before installing software that no one ever reads?  I did a word count on one, and it was 5771 words.


... If the WM-DRM Software's security has been compromised, owners of Secure Content (“Secure Content Owners”) may request that Microsoft revoke the WM-DRM Software's right to copy, display and/or play Secure content.  Revocation does not alter the WM-DRM Software's ability to play unprotected content.  A list of revoked WM-DRM Software is sent to your computer whenever you download a license for Secure Content from the Internet.  Microsoft may, in conjunction with such license, also download revocation lists onto your computer on behalf of Secure Content Owners.  Secure Content Owners may also require you to upgrade some of the WM-DRM components distributed with this software (“WM-DRM Upgrades”) before accessing their content...

37

Take any 3 digit multiple of 37,  If you rotate the digits, you still get multiples of 37.

For example, use 518, which is 14 x 37.  If you rotate the digits you get 185 which is 5 x 37.  Rotate them again and you get 851 which is 23 x 37.

Another example is 629, which is 17 x 37.  If you rotate the digits, you get 296, which is 8 x 37.  Rotate them again, and you get 962 which is 26 x 37.

This works with any 3 digit multiple of 37, including the ones that are 3 digits because we have 0 as a leading digit.

It does NOT work if you change the order of the digits in a non-rotation.  For example, going back to the 518, if I change the order of the digits in a non-rotation to 158, this is NOT a multiple of 37.

757

757 is:

a palindrome  (a palindrome is a number that is the same backwards or forwards)

prime (a number with exactly 2 factors: 1 and itself)

happy (a number where, if you square all the digits and add the squares, then repeat with the sum, you will eventually get to 1.)
...start with 75:.  7^2 = 49,  5^2 = 25, 7^2 = 49.  49+25+49=123
...now we have 123:  1^2=1, 2^2=4. 3^2=9  1+4+9=14
...with 14:  1^2=1, 4^2=16.  1+16=17
...with 17:  1^2=1, 7^2=49.  1+49=50
...with 50:  5^2=25,  0^2=0.  25+0=25
...with 25:  2^2=4,  5^2=25  4+25=29
...with 29: 4^2=16, 9^2=81  16+81=97
...with 97: 9^2=81, 7^2=49.  81+49=130
...with 130:  1^2=1, 3^2=9, 0^2=0.  1+9+0=10
...with 10:  1^2=1,  0^2=0.  1+0=1  VIOLA!!!

These facts were posted by my Facebook friend Kevin L. Schwartz when his page had 757 "like"s.  He got the facts from Wikipedia.  I added in the explanations.

14

article from 2007:

Police in Iran are reported to have taken 14 squirrels into custody - because they are suspected of spying.
The rodents were found near the Iranian border allegedly equipped with eavesdropping devices.
The reports have come from the official Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA).
When asked about the confiscation of the spy squirrels, the national police chief said: "I have heard about it, but I do not have precise information."

some articles:   

• http://www.jihadwatch.org/2007/07/iranians-arrest-14-squirrels-for-spying.html
• http://www.nowpublic.com/squirrels_arrested_iran_spying 

719

719 is:

a prime number 

a factorial prime (6! − 1) = a prime number that is some number factorial plus or minus 1

a Sophie Germain prime = a prime, p, such that 2p+1 is also prime

a safe prime = the inverse of a Sophie Germain prime

the sum of seven consecutive primes (89 + 97 + 101 + 103 + 107 + 109 + 113)

a Chen prime = a prime number where the number 2 more than it is either a prime or a pq number

an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part = I can't figure out what the hell that is.

 - (from my Facebook friend Kevin L. Schwartz, who posted this when his page had 719 "like"s.  He got it from Wikipedia.)

2083

My friend Shevi wrote 2083 words of her next book yesterday.  Unfortunately, she was procrastinating from other stuff she had to do.

(I don't care about her other stuff.  I loved her last book, and want her to get the sequel written already!)

And I can shamelessly plug her last book because this is MY blog!  But it really is a fun book.

4

128

The highest-scoring opening play in Scrabble is MUZJIKS for 128 points.  The word means Russian peasants.

FFF8E7 (in hexadecimal)

Cosmic Latte is the color of the universe, according to a team of astronomers from Johns Hopkins University. In 2001, Karl Glazebrook and Ivan Baldry determined that the color of the universe was a greenish white, but they soon corrected their analysis in "The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: constraints on cosmic star-formation history from the cosmic spectrum", published in 2002. In this paper, they reported that their survey of the color of all light in the universe added up to a slightly beige white. The survey included more than 200,000 galaxies, and measured the spectral range of the light from a large volume of the universe. The hexadecimal RGB value for Cosmic Latte is #FFF8E7. 

In a Washington Post article, the color was displayed. Glazebrook jokingly said that he was looking for suggestions for a name for the new color. Several people who read the article sent in suggestions. "Cosmic Latte" was selected.

(I tried to make this in that color, but it is too light to read.  It is like a very light grey.  This is halfway between Cosmic Latte and Black.)

110

The strongest beer is "The End of History", made by the Scottish firm BrewDog, and is 110 proof.

Just 12 bottles were produced in 2010, and they were all sold for $765 a bottle.  The bottles come packaged inside the body of roadkill.

2014

2014 is the center of three consecutive integers, all of whom have exactly 3 unique prime factors.

2013 = 3 * 11 * 61

2014 = 2 * 19 * 53

2015 = 5 * 13 * 31

This means that each of these numbers has exactly 8 factors.

8

If Jesus had been born on December 25, his bris would have been on January 1 (the 8th day).

25.8069758...

If 666 is evil, then 25.8069758... is the root of evil.

eleventy-one

In The Fellowship of the Rings, it says "Bilbo was going to be eleventy-one, 111, a rather curious number, and a respectable age for a hobbit".

2

2 = (3²+4²+5²+6²+7²+8²+9²)/(1²+2²+3²+4²+5²+6²+7²)

91.67

Are you unhappy with the color of your fecal matter?  You can get gold leaf pills that will make your poop sparkle gold.

 Only $91.67 per pill (actually, $275 for 3 pills since they are only sold in sets of 3).  You can buy them on various websites, though 91.67 is the cheapest I could find, at the New Museum gift shop.

New Museum gift shop,$275 for 3 pills:  http://gawker.com/334908/new-museum-let-them-eat-gold

Here is the link to the Citizen's Online page, where they would be selling for $425 each, but they are temporarily unavailable:  http://www.citizen-citizen.com/collections/all/products/gold-pills

I was NOT able to find them on Amazon.

A number that is approximately 6.60568 x 10^16, since that is the best approximation my calculator will give me

The 363 rd triangular number is 66,066 .  Both of these numbers are palindromes.

The 363,474,363 rd triangular number is 66,056,806,460,865,066 .  Both of these numbers are palindromes.

The number in the title is the sum of these four numbers.

(A triangular number is a number that forms a triangle.  Like bowling pins.)

1.374

A man whose name was not made public has set a record for the highest blood alcohol content of 1.374.  He was found passed out on the road in the village called Tarnowskiej Woli in the province of Podkarpaciu in Poland. This means that his blood was 1.374% alcohol.

In the US it is illegal to drive with a BAC of 0.08.  Possibility of death begins at about 0.3.  At 0.5, the risk becomes high.

114,639.06

How much do all the gifts cost in the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas"?

Assuming all the gifts in the song - a total of 12 partridges (1 each day), 22 turtle doves, 42 swans-a-swimming, etc, the total cost is  $114,639.06

8

8392, 8393, 8394, 8395   each have 8 factors

75,000

Robin Williams only made $75,000 for voicing the Genie in Aladdin. After grossing over $200 million, Disney sent him a Picasso painting as a way of saying "thank you."

 

 

1,083,676,269

1-800-MD-TUSCH

1-800-MD-TUSCH  is the telephone number of some proctologist in New York.  I have seen his ads in the subway.

285

285 years ago today they bought the land...  (by the Jewish calendar)

In 1684, a group of Spanish and Portuguese Jews who had fled the Inquisition held a Rosh Hashanah service in New Amsterdam, thereby founding congregation Shearith Israel ("Remnant of Israel"). On this 17th of Tevet in 1728, the congregation purchased a lot in Lower Manhattan to erect the first synagogue in New York.

4

Nine-banded armadillos always give birth to identical quadruplets.

25,679,675

A narcissistic number is a number that is equal to the sum of each of its digits raised to the power of the number of digits it has.  There are 4 7-digit narcissistic numbers.

The sum of these numbers is 25,679,675.