- Q is the only letter that does not appear in any U.S. state name.
- 6455 = (64 – 5) × 5
- North Dakota’s record high temperature (121°F) is higher than Florida’s (109°F).
- UNNOTICEABLY contains the vowels A, E, I, O, and U in reverse order.
- “An odd thought strikes me: We shall receive no letters in the grave.” — Samuel Johnson
Trivia
Trivium
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
Offside
Only 23 U.S. states are entirely south of Canada’s southernmost point, Middle Island in Lake Erie.
Trivium
Three of the first five U.S. presidents died on Independence Day.
Misc
- SCINTILLESCENT contains 7 pairs of letters.
- Rub two pennies together and you’ll see a third between them.
- Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on the same day.
- 1285 = (1 + 28) × 5
- Squeeze an orange peel into a candle flame and you’ll produce a burst of fire.
Trivium
Twenty-one U.S. states have names that end in A.
Free Parking
Longest game of Monopoly:
- played upside down: 36 hours
- played in a bathtub: 99 hours
- played underground: 100 hours
- played in a treehouse: 286 hours
- ever played: 1,680 hours
No Man’s Land
On the border between Egypt and Sudan is a small trapezoid of landlocked desert, about 2,000 square kilometers.
Egypt says it belongs to Sudan. Sudan says it belongs to Egypt.
That makes Bir Tawil the only land area in the world (outside of Antarctica) that’s not claimed by any state.
Trivium
Men are struck by lightning four times as often as women.
Pieces of Pi
In the decimal expansion of π:
- the digits 27182818 — the first eight digits of e — appear at position 1,526,800.
- the digits 14142135 — the first eight digits of the square root of 2 — appear at position 52,638.
- the first eight digits of π itself — 31415926 — reappear at position 50,366,472.
- 16470 appears at position 16470.
- there are seven 7s at position 3,346,228, eight 8s at position 46,663,520, and six 9s at position 762.
- The White House switchboard number (456-1414) is at position 3,193,808, the population of France (65,073,482) is at position 98,709,092, and Disneyland’s zip code (92802) is at position 41,112.
Write out the alphabet starting with J:
JKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZABCDEFGHI
Erase all letters that have left-right symmetry (such as A) and count the letters in each of the five groups that remain. (James Davis)