61 Useless Facts About The Number Sixty-One Traditional Cache
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61 Useless Facts About The Number Sixty-One
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So now that BarbershopDru is Sweet 61....here are some little known facts about the number 61!
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61 is the natural number following 60 and preceding 62.
Cardinal…..61
Ordinal……61st
Roman……LXI
61 is a cuban prime of the form p = (x3 - y3 ) / (x - y), x = y + 1
61 is the sum of the square of 5 + the square of 6
61 is the atomic number of the element Promethium
Messier object M 61 is a magnitude 10.5 galaxy in the constellation Virgo
61 Ursae Majoris is located 31.1 light-years from Sol
61 is the number of the French department Orne
61 is the international direct dial phone code to Australia
61* was a baseball movie directed by Billy Crystal
Highway 61 Revisited is a Bob Dylan album
W.C. Fields was 61 when he starred in “Never Give a Sucker an Even Break”
President Harry Truman was 61 when he decided to drop the atom bomb
President Richard Nixon was 61 when he resigned
Gerald Ford was 61 when he succeeded him
61A is the London address of Margot and Tony Wendice in “Dial M for Murder”
Philadelphia’s tallest building has 61 stories
NY Yankee Roger Maris hit 61 home runs in 1961
Nolan Ryan had 61 career shutouts
Wayne Gretzky holds or shares 61 NHL records
LA Laker Elgin Baylor set a record for 61 points in an NBA finals game
Rick Nash is number 61 for the Columbus Blue Jackets
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From Rayman......The new federal courthouse in downtown Buffalo will be 61 meters tall when completed.
Budget900....The average gestation period of a dog is 61 days.
havocgeo...Isreal turned 61 in April.
PurpleHawks....Dru has 61 total caches hidden.
The Inkwell....61 was the jersey number of former-sabre Max Afinogenov.
bigwheel...61 is a Pillai Prime number. A Pillai prime is a prime number p for which there is an integer n > 0 such that the factorial of n is one less than a multiple of the prime, but the prime is not one more than a multiple of n.
carawannababes...Rochester has on average 61 sunny days per year
Phish Face....The Roman historian Pliny was so impressed by garlic and it's perceived powers he listed no less than 61 medicinal uses for the pungent bulb. Among them: warding off vampires, restoring hair loss and preventing warts.
Qwizard....The junction of Highway 61 and Highway 49 in Clarksdale is designated as the famous crossroads where, according to legend, Robert Johnson supposedly sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for mastery of the blues. But more important I was born in 61
TrackcoachH....The official length of an ice hockey rink must be no more than 61 meters.
booboo_1 .... The average gestation period of a dog is 61 days.
MickEMT...The P-61 is the Northrop designed fighter first designated as the XP-61. It first flew on May 26, 1942. It is also known as the Black Widow as it was the first fighter aircraft designed to be a night fighter
61 is the Saros number of the lunar eclipse series which began on -870 October 20 and ended on 609 March 26. The duration of Saros series 61 was 1478.4 years, and it contained 83 lunar eclipses.
Joe the Mailman....61 cents is what is required for a letter weighing 1 to 2 ounces.
G.O. Jen......From my driveway to exit 46 on the NYS thruway is 61 miles.
redickdigital...Bistro 61 is a restaurant on the corner of 1st and 61st street in NYC.
2catsnj ........Useless fact about 61: I celebrated my 61st birthday last week!
atmospherium.......In 1961 Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space.
gbink49........A useless fact for 61? One of us is 61--is he useless??
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