Jan 09 2020
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- Epiphany (holiday) (Wikipedia)
- Olentzero (Basque Santa) (Wikipedia)
- Twelve Grapes (Wikipedia)
- Swatch Internet Time (Wikipedia)
- Podcast about Swatch Time (TL;DR – On The Media)
- Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything (Wikipedia)
Douglas Adams was asked many times why he chose the number 42. Many theories were proposed, including that 42 is 101010 in binary code, that light refracts through a water surface by 42 degrees to create a rainbow, that light requires 10−42 seconds to cross the diameter of a proton. Adams rejected them all. On 3 November 1993, he gave this answer on alt.fan.douglas-adams:
The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought ‘42 will do’ I typed it out. End of story.
- 42nd Street (Manhattan) (Wikipedia)
- List of U.S. states by date of admission to the Union (Wikipedia)
- Blues Brothers – Peter Gunn (YouTube)
- Warner settles ‘Happy Birthday’ copyright suit for $14 million (Reuters)
- Tesla Motors is now America’s most valuable car company (CBS News)
- Misery (film) (Wikipedia)
- David Bowie: Finding Fame (2019) (IMDB)
- 27 times Ricky Gervais hilariously trolled his own girlfriend on Twitter (Mashable)
- After Life (Netflix)
- EXTRAS Bloopers: Patrick Stewart - Naked (YouTube)
- Jon Voight (Wikipedia)
- Solo: A Star Wars Story (Wikipedia)