I was in a bad mood today, having had to rescue beautiful monsters from ravening princesses. To top off the vicious cycle, I decided to put up this splendid and worthwhile list from h2g2. Share and Hate.

• There are 42 laws of cricket.
• Paul McCartney, Jimi Hendrix and Jerry Garcia were born in 1942.
• Singer Elvis Presley died at the age of 42. So did his mother.
• If you combine the number of dots, or pips, on a pair of dice, there are 42.
• At the time of writing, Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest United States president when he was elected. He was 42.
• Canines have 42 teeth.
• There is a Broadway musical titled 42nd Street.
• 42 was the jersey number of Jackie Robinson.
• If you rearrange ‘tea for two’ you get ‘for tea two’.
• When sending a text message on a mobile phone, to punch in ‘h2g2′ you have to select 4 (press it twice), 2 (press it four times), 4, then 2 (press it four times).
• Tiberius was born in 42BC.
• In JRR Tolkien’s novel The Two Towers, Gimli the Dwarf kills 42 orcs in the battle at Helm’s Deep.
• According to the Book of Revelations, ‘The Beast’ will hold the Earth for 42 months.
• There are 42 lines on each page of a Gutenberg Bible.
• It would take 42 minutes to ride the Gravity Sled.
• In binary, 42 is 101010.
• If you search answer to life, the universe and everything on Google, the calculator function will display ‘42‘.
• In the 42nd Street subway station in New York City, there are large, white tiled columns with pretty 42s on each side.
• Scientists calculated that the Hubble Constant, the rate at which the universe expands, is 42. (However, it will not stay at that rate always.)
• An E-ELT, European Extremely Large Telescope, was built to probe the universe. It is 42 metres in diameter.
• Washington was the 42nd US state to join the union.
• Bill Clinton was the 42nd US president.
• There were 42 Soviet missiles based in Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
• The Orion Nebula is otherwise known as M42.
• Element No 42 in the periodic table is molybdenum, a metal.
• The numbers for the computer in the TV show Lost are 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42.
• There were 42 generations from Abraham to Jesus.
• 11 February is the 42nd day of the year. Thomas Alva Edison was born on 11 February, 1847.
• A day on Uranus lasts 42 Earth years.
• Rosa Parks was 42 years old when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man.
• Catch 22, the novel by Joseph Heller, has 42 chapters.
• Queen Elizabeth II is the 42nd sovereign since the Norman conquest.
• The tallest building in London is Tower 42.
• There are 42.194988 kilometres in a marathon.
• To create red light, light has to reflect off water at a 42 degree angle.
• It takes light 10^-42 seconds to cross the diameter of a proton.

And with that that being that, I leave you in agony.