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The following Biblical sighting is from 2 Kings 2:23-24 (23) And he [Elisha] went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head. 24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare _forty and two_ children of them.

Pre DNA Sightings

1. NEXT EARLIEST RECORDED SIGHTING: Numbers, 35.6: And among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites there shall be six cities for refuge, which ye shall appoint for the manslayer, that he may flee thither: and to them ye shall add forty and two cities.
2. In the New Testament, Matthew 1:17, (King James Version) “So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations”
   Adding these 3 fourteen’s together produces 42! i.e. There were 42 generations from Abraham to Jesus Christ.
3. In Marx’s Brother movie “Horse Feathers”, 1932, Groucho was given direction to a speakeasy, located at 42 Elm street.
4. ‘42nd Street’ was a screen musical in 1933, directed by Lloyd Bacon (1890-1955)
5. J. S. Bach (the Baroque composer, of course) was into numerology. One of his favorite numbers was 42, arrived at by taking the numerical value of the letters BACH and multiplying the sum by 3 (3 being symbolic of the Trinity).
   B + A + C + H
   2 + 1 + 3 + 8 = 14 and 14 x 3 = 42

   (Check out Nora K. Loyd’s Page for this equation illustrated, plus a more dubious way of arriving at 42 involving Bach.)

6. “The beast was given a mouth uttering proud boasts and blasphemies, and it was given authority to act for forty-two months” Revelation 13:5
7. Forty-two months was how long the profanation of the holy city was to last Revelation 11:2
8. Twelve hundred and sixty days (forty-two months) was the length of the prophetic mission of the two witnesses.Revelation 11:3
9. Twelve hundred and sixty days (forty-two months), is the length of the retreat to the desert the woman goes on to escape the Serpent.Revelation 12:6-14
10. “But leave out the court which is outside the temple, and do not measure it, for it has been given to the Gentiles. And they will tread the holy city underfoot for forty-two months.”Revelation 11:2
11. The Torah (the holy book of Judaism) is broken into columns, each of which always have exactly *42* lines of Hebrew!
12. It took God 6 days to create the universe. He rested on the 7th day which is considered to be a holy day by many. 6*7 =42!
13. The phrase “In the beginning the Universe was created.” - including the spaces and the period (but not the quotes) contains 42 characters!

Computer/Electronics Related Sightings

1. The Network Preferences in the software NetScape’s default is 4 connections, 2K buffer sizes
2. MAC vs. WIntel: Power Mac 6100/66 cost $42 more than Dell Pentium 75(16M, CD-Rom, 15″ Display) MacWeek, March 13, 1995, p.16)
3. If you know ‘C’ programming, you can try out the following code segment to find the answer yourself. This is probably the exact code used by Deep Thought itself!
   ultimate_answer_t deep_thought(void)
   {
   sleep(years2secs(7500000));
   return 42;
   }
4. 42 is used as the channel idle pattern in the UK ISDN access protocol (DASS2). The Euro-standard pattern is supposed to be 0×54
5. In Germany, the dimensions of Computer-Monitors must be printed in centimeters AND Inches, which follows to this relationship: A 17″-Monitor, a common size for computer displays, has a screen-diagonal of 42 cm.
6. 42 is the number in the header file of a Tiff file that identifies the file
7. In the Macintosh game Cogito the background reads 42.
8. On the top right side of the February 1994 issue of PC WORLD magazine is stated: “42 Business shareware packages”
9. Apple filed 42 patents on technology developed for its Color LaserWriter 12/600 PS
10. The latest data compression and error correction protocol for modems is called “V.42bis” and is the current computer standard
11. In the German computer magazine “OS/2 Inside”, issue 7/95, there was a listing of computer mailboxes (BBS). One of these is called “42´er” and is located in the city of Ludwigshafen. The phone number is +49-7141-921269 (14.4K) and +49-7141-950971 (ISDN)
12. The most successful electron tube for audio applications in the 1930’s was a “type 42″ six-pin amplifier
13. RSA developed 42 potential systems for public-key crypto before building one that could not be cracked.
14. It took the hosts of a local Los Angeles radio talk show (called “The Computer Guys”) 42 minutes to install Windows 95
15. PsyScope, a psychology program for the Macintosh, uses 42 internally to verify program structures
16. Several years ago, a popular ram expansion unit for the Commodore 64 was sold by Commodore. In fact, I believe its still one of the most popular REU’s for the C-64/65/128. Its model number is 1764, as 42^2 = 1764!!
17. In the majority of commonly used character sets, the asterisk, “*” is character number 42. And, as we all know, the asterisk is commonly used as a wildcard character. It stands for anything, and, consequently, everything. The answer to life, the universe, and everything. Most of the visible objects in the Universe are stars.
18. An Aldus/Microsoft Technical Memorandum: 8/8/88., This memorandum has been prepared jointly by Aldus and Microsoft in conjunction with leading scanner vendors and other interested parties — States:
    …
    Bytes 2-3 The second word of the file is the TIFF _version number._ This number, 42 (2A in hex), is not to be equated with the current Revision of the TIFF specification. In fact, the TIFF version number (42) has never changed, and probably never will. If it ever does, it means that TIFF has changed in some way so radical that a TIFF reader should give up immediately. The number 42 was chosen for its deep philosophical significance. It can and should be used as additional verification that this is indeed a TIFF file.
    …
19. The most common telephone insulator (US) - the old blue-green type was a Hemingray 42.
20. The toolbar button with ID 42 in Microsoft Excel has a toolface saying 42.
21. Apple sells QuickTime Denim Shirts for $42
22. Prodigy has a free demo which states “Get started in 4.2 minutes.”
23. 424242 as a hexidecimal backcolour in html is a very depressing grey….for proof see http://orca.ucd.ie/~amoull/towel.html
24. When Webcrawler is searched for keyword “Webcrawler”, it returns 4200 documents
25. The Number 42 is the total capacity in gigabytes (GB), Toshiba expects for blue-laser-read Super Density Digital Videodisc formats. From Nov. 1995 Video Magazine, page 17
26. The “Quickworks” FPGA design software from QuickLogic Corp. holds two seed numbers for the chip layout algorithms to work. These two seeds may be set by the user but they are by default 42. As the manual states “for important historical (although completely meaningless) reasons”.
27. The icon for an external modem outlet is a phone with a 101010, or 42 in binary.
28. The control panel MacPPP on the Macintosh reads under default settings the magic number seed value 42
29. As of the 18th of June, 1996, there are exactly 42 documents on the Yahoo search engine that contain the string “42″.

Governmental (i.e. Bureaucratic) Sightings

1. Congress will increase the school-lunch program by a maximinum of 4.2 percent a year for the next 5 years. LA TIMES 3/15/95, Page 18
2. CalTrans, California transportations department has a gap that exceeds a $4.2 Billion. LA TIMES 3/15/95, Page 6
3. The New york state lotto jackpot was $42,000,000 Dollars on 8 Apr 95.
4. The Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S. Flag was officially adopted by the United States in 1942
5. There are 42 rooms including bath, in the White House, excluding closets!!
6. Congress will give the Tobacoo industry 42 million dollars
7. In States that don’t hava the Death Penalty, the murder rate is 4.2 people per 100,000. Note that in states that do have the Death Penalty, the murder rate is double that.
8. In the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty (CFE) that will go in to effect at the end of November. The time that a stored unit has, after being activated, to be re-stored is (of course) 42 days.
9. In L.A. Times Poll taken in October of 95, 42% of people said they were Democrats.
10. 1996 Presedential candidate Phil(I help get a white drug dealer out of prison) Grahm received 42% of the votes in a straw poll in the MidWest.
11. In the past Germany has issued various postage stamps with the value of 42 Pfennigs
12. Today, 19 Dec 1995, in the newspaper `Frankfurter Allgemeine’ there is a report that the government of Rheinland-Pfalz (part of southwest Germany) is expecting additional 42 Million Marks in taxes (which the opposition denies of course)
13. During the U.S. Space Shuttle Endeavour’s mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, the astronaut who was about to implement the “CoStar” corrective device asked:”Houston, how much time have we got left?” - and Houston answered: “42 minutes”
14. The number of chemicals in marijuana and the police code for possesion of marijuana, and the time to fire up a joint is four twenty (420 and 4:20)
15. The Cuban Missile Crisis, which brought the world to the brink of nuclear war (October 22-28, 1962), was over the placement of 42 Soviet missiles in Cuba
16. In six gallup polls taken since Jan. 1993, 42% of people surveyed disapproved of the job President Clinton was doing six times.
17. 42 is the Military Occupation Code (MOC) for the Canadian Military Communications and Electronics Engineer Occupation

Natural Phenomenon and Mathematical Sightings

1. The Earth is 42 orders of magnitude (based on powers of ten) larger than the Planck Length (in case you dont know what that is, it is the smallest length that humans have been able to measure; all below the Planck Length is impossible to measure because time and space merge, and relativity ceases to be the rule. The Planck Length is 1 x 10^-35m.)
2. The angle at which light reflects off of water to create a rainbow is 42 degrees.
3. A 42 mile per hour wind brought down the original Tacoma bridge in the state of Washington in the 1930’s
4. Convert the letters of the word “Iron sulfide” into numbers of the alphabet. (Iron sulfide being (for the record) the true name of fools gold.) I.e:
   I R O N S U L F I D E
   9 18 15 14 19 21 12 6 9 4 5
   Now then, Adding up the first 3 digits yields a total of 42. Adding up the next 3 digits makes 54, which is what 42 would be in base 10, if 42 was originally written as base 13 (The significance of which is widely known). Adding up the rest gets you 36, which is 42 written in base 12.
5. An interesting and oft-cited factoid states that when asked to choose a random number between 1 and 20, 17 is the number most often chosen. A quick examination reveals the following:
   42 = 7 * 2 * 3
   17 = 7 * 2 + 3
6. “The Sri Yantra is drawn from nine triangles, four pointed downward and five pointed upward, thus forming 42 (6×7)[sic] triangular fragments around a central triangle. There is probably no other set of triangles which interlock with such integral perfection.” from “Sacred Geometry” Lawlor R., Thames and Hudson NY,1982 p.9.
7. 42 is the natural vibration frequency of human DNA (Ha! Ha!)
8. 42 is the natural vibration frequency of white mouse DNA. (Ha! Ha!)
9. It is 4.2 light-years to the nearest star from our solar-system?
10. The chamber in the Cheops pyramid is exactly 42 metres over the ground
11. The total number of dots on a pair of dice is 42
12. 42 is 4 tens and 2 ones. 4 is the only perfect number (the number is a perfect square AND it is the only number to have the same number of letters as the number represents) 2 squared is 4, the perfect number.
13. Take ANY number, square its digits, and then add them up. Do the same thing with the answer. If you keep doing this indefinitely your final answer will either be a 1, or you’ll enter a loop of solutions that -culminate- with the number 42!!!!!
14. The Department of Mathematics at the Muenster-University are most interested in the relation between the numbers 42 and 17. Here some examples: - the 17th prime number is 59, and this is the sum of 17 and 42. - If dig(n) means the sum of the digits of n, there are numbers with dig(n)+(dig(n)+1)=n (we call them ‘additive dig-numbers’) and there are numbers with dig(n)*(dig(n)+1)=n (the so called ‘multiplicative dig-numbers’) You can show that there is only one ‘additive dig-number’: 17=(1+7)+((1+7)+1) You can also show that there are only four ‘multiplicative dig-numbers’: 12=(1+2)*((1+2)+1) 42=(4+2)*((4+2)+1) 90=(9+0)*((9+0)+1) 156=(1+5+6)*((1+5+6)+1) And you see: 42 is one of them.
15. 42 is the number of the beast 6*6+6=42
16. The latest evolutionary “Missing Link” is 4.2 million years old
17. Water is most dense at 4.2 degrees celsius. Ice therefore floats on water, and allows marine life to survive below it.
18. The integer part of the square root of proton mass divided by electron mass gives 42
19. The element Molybdenum is vital for plant life on earth. The Atomic Number of Molybdenum is 42
20. 5+4 (The parts from 54) = 9; 4+2 (The parts from 42) = 6 “What do you get if you multiply 6 by 9″ The answer is all yours.
21. 1932 Is the year when Ford and Arthur return to the present in “Life, the Universe…” and it’s also the day that the Vogons came to the earth. Therefore: 1986 (The year of the Copyright) - 54 = 1932!!!
22. From Nicholas E. Scripture: 50 Mathematical Puzzles and Oddities, Faber and Faber, London,1963, p.47, chapter “Oddments in Algebra”, No. 30:
    The problem is:
    Prove that for any value of ‘n’, as long as it is a whole
    number, (n^7-n) must always be a multiple of 42.
     
23. 4^2 = 2^4. Other than 24, this is the only non-palindromic two-digit number for which that is true
24. if you assign the alphabetical value of to the letters of the words: BIG BANG (or GNAB GIB) you get 2+9+7+2+1+14+7 which equals to, indeed, 42
25. They’ve found a star that has a planet circling around it for the first time. Distance to this star: 42 light-years
26. A grad student at UVic says that the lifetime of the universe will be 10^42 years. Note that this is the lifetime, not the age…
27. Propane boils at -42 C
28. The maximum temperature in degrees celsius a human can survive in case of a disease is (of course) 42 degrees celsius !
29. The REAL Hubble is (d / s) distance over speed of galaxies. As we cannot measure the speed accurately, the Constant is not known but scientists think it is betwixt 100 and 40, therefore it could be FORTY-TWO.
30. 42 is the Number of Great Lakes areas Of Concern
31. If you take the number ‘PI’ as 3.14, and multiply the whole part (3) by the decimal part (14), 3 X 14 –> 42
32. The Specific heat capacity of water is 4200 J/kg oC(Jewls/Kilograms x degrees celsius)
33. If you drilled a hole through the Earth from one point to another, and that hole was frictionless, it would take 42 minutes for gravity to move you from you side of the tunnel to the other. That also goes for satellites orbiting the Earth with only gravity moving them.
34. The galaxy M84 (Messier Catalog) is 42 x 10^6 light years distant. It is an elliptical galaxy in Virgo with a diameter of 25,000 light years
35. Two physical constants in the universe are the speed of light and thediameter of a proton. It takes light 10 to the minus 42nd power seconds tocross the diameter of a proton.
36. The Earth is sometimes referred to as the third stone (or rock, if you’re a Jimi Hendrix fan) from the sun. A stone (British measurement system) is 14 pounds, so we have 3 x 14 = 42
37. The world record in memorizing PI is quoted, from the Chicago Sun-Time, to be “over 42,000″
38. All dogs have a total of 42 teeth over their lifetimes
39. The average dormancy of an active volcano is 42 years.
40. The fastest speed for a land animal for 1 mile is 42mph (Guiness, page 59).
41. Greatest recorded distance covered by one jump of a kangaroo is 42 feet (Guiness, page 71).
42. The longest lava flow recorded is 42 miles (Guiness, page 129).
43. The worlds widest conveyor belt is 42 feet wide (Guiness, page 335).
44. The largest shoes ever sold were size 42 (Guiness, page 361).
45. A barrel contains 42 gallons.
46. The time it took for one person to eat an entire ox was 42 hours (Guiness, page 492)
47. 42 occurs infinitely many times in then number PI.
48. When PI is rounded to the third decimal place contains the number 42
49. Consider the following: ( ( 1 * 2 * 3 ) - 4 + 5 ) * 6 = 42
50. In reverse polish notation (postfix), used on most HP calculators (and others), the expression
    2 4 2 4 2 * + * +
    evaluates to 42! (This, of course, is closely related to the fact that the binary number system, 101010 means 42, or that in base 4, 222 means 42).
51. SQRT(41*42+SQRT(41*42+SQRT(41*42+SQRT(…))))=42 where SQRT() means the ’square root’ of the bracketed expression.
52. The Efficiency of human respiration is 42
53. The number of chromosomes of harvested wheat is 42
54. In the “Tree Information” sketch for Monty Python, the Larch (the one they show over and over again) is tree number 42.
55. 42 in base 4 (222) is the same as in base -5 ie. 54
56. 1 joule is equal to 4.2 calories
57. The following question appears in the Rhind Papyrus, which is the oldest mathematical book known and originated in Egypt in 1650 B.C.: “If a certain number, two-thirds of it, half of it, and a seventh of it are added together, the result is 97.” The number, of course, is 42. (x + 2x/3 + x/2 + x/7 = 97 –> x = 42) This was derived from an 8th grade Addison-Wesley Algebra book, page 444.
58. 42 in base 4 is 222 or 4;222. Also, if you multiply or add the digits together, you get the same thing for 42 and 222.

Celebrity Sightings

1. If you assign numbers 1 - 26 consecutively to the letters of the alphabet an then add the letters found in D. Adams (DNA) name you will get 42 i.e.:
   D. A D A M S
   4 + 1 + 4 + 1 + 13 + 19 = 42
2. Marsha Clark, the prosecutor on the O.J. Simpson Trial, is 42 years old
3. The cop that found the body of Nicole Brown-Simpson had been a police officer for 4 years 2 months
4. Jackie Robinson, the first African-American to play Major League Baseball, wore uniform number 42 for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
5. Bill Clinton is the 42nd President of the United States
6. The only openly gay baseball player died at age 42.
7. On July 14, 1995, David Letterman’s Top Ten list was “Top Ten Ways To Beat The Heat” and on number 2 there was:”Get your own talk show, set yourself up in a 42 degree theatre.”
8. On David Letterman’s second “Late Show” at CBS (in 1993), his guest Robin Williams made some jokes about NASA’s lost Mars probe. He said: “You know, even your shorts have a little thing that says ‘Inspected by number 42′!”
9. Today’s SJ Mercury News says that Mark Furman said “The ‘N’ Word” 42 times during his interviews with the scriptwriter lady
10. Recent Citadel dropout Shannon Faulkner was expected to complete 18 pushups in two minutes as part of her physical entrance exam. This was the special, GIRLIE number of pushups, reduced from the male pushup standard of–you got it–42
11. Kyle Petty’s NASCAR Winston Cup race car number is 42.
12. Apollo 13’s commander, Jim Lovell, at the age of 42 was the most experienced astronaut alive; Apollo 13 was his fourth space mission and his second lunar voyage. The year: 1970.– Popular Science July 1995 p 52:
13. On day 142 of the O.J. Simpson trial, defense attorney Johnny Cochran asked screenwriter Laura Hart McKinney how often the “N”-word was said in the conversation she overheard. Her answer was: “Approximately 42 times.”
14. Jimi Hendrix was born in 1942.
15. U.S Marshal William Degan, was 42 when he was killed at Ruby Ridge
16. In the OJ Trail: the defense wanted to introduce 42 special jury instructions
17. Jerry Garcia was born in 1942
18. The actress who plays Rachel on the NBC-TV show “Friends”, Jennifer Anniston, was born on February 11, 1969. February 11, I don’t have to tell you was the 42nd day of ‘69
19. Marsha Clark got a $4.2 million advance on a book deal about the O.J. Simpson Trial
20. In Michael Jordan’s first game in the 95-96 basketball season he scored 42 points.
21. Pierce Brosan, Age 42, stars as the new the James Bond, in “Golden Eyes”
22. In the latest James Bond Film “Goldeneye” the Bad guy says to Bond that he has 16 minutes and 43….correction 42 seconds to save the world.
23. Elvis Presley died at the age of 42
24. Elvis’ father died at age 42.
25. Henry Kissinger wears a size 42 jacket
26. Patty Hearst invoked the 5th Amendment 42 times at her trial
27. Mo Vaughn, the 1995 American League M.V.P. wears the number 42
28. James Earl Jones’ high-school basketball jersey number was 42
29. Muhammad Ali was born in 1942
30. Paul McCartney was born in 1942
31. Weird Al’s “Fat” shadow weighs 42 lbs.
32. The only NHL hockey team to ever come back from a 3-0 deficit in The Stanley Cup Finals was The Toronto Maple Leafs. The year, 1942.
33. Chris Warren, Seattle Seahawks RB, wears jersey #42. He is the best RB available in the Sega game Madden ‘96.

Miscellaneous Sightings

1. 42 percent of all American women rely on some type of sterilization for birth control (Newsweek, March 13, 1995, p.60)
2. Each Marathon run lasts 42 km (+195m)
3. In the Star Control games (from Accolade), the ships with maximum crew (the Ur-Quan, Chenjesu, Kohr-Ah, and ChMmr) all have 42 crew
4. Foreigners now own 42% of the shares in the norwegian insurance-company “VITAL.”
5. There is very often a 42 on the zipper of your Levis
6. Back in the 1980’s, McDonalds had special cups at Christmas. There were 42 trees on a small Coke
7. The runway heading of Larnaca airport, Cyprus is 42 degrees!
8. Some Japanese people bought the Empire State Building with $42 billion dollars.
9. ZOCOR, a new cholesterol drug, was responsible for saving the life of 42% of the people who took it in a 5 year study
10. Of the 1.4 Billion in subsidies doled out to sugar growers, 42 percent go to the top 1 percent growers
11. 42 people died at Chernobl
12. A Kastleburger at the Tastee Donuts coffee shop in Jackson, Mississippi costs 42 cents
13. Fiat manufactured a total of 4.2 million “Fiat 500″ cars.
14. There are 42 stores at the shopping center called “The Citadel” in Los Angeles
15. The tank of the “Ford Fiesta” is 42 liters
16. “The United Negro College Fund supports students at 42 black university and colleges.”–from their TV ad campaign
17. Professor S. A. Jordan who was working with the Smithsonian Institute around 1909 supposedly discovered EGYPTIAN artifacts in the Grand Canyon in an area called AG9, approximately 42 miles up the river from the El Tovar canyon. This area has evidently been off-limits to the public for about 65 years! This find was reported to have been made by G. E. Kincaid on a boat expedition down the Colorado River financed by the Smithsonian. –from the front page of _The_Phoenix_Gazette_ dated April 5th, 1909. The article was entitled “EXPLORATIONS IN GRAND CANYON”, subtitled “Mysteries of Immense Rich Cavern Being Brought to Light…JORDAN IS ENTHUSED…Remarkable Finds Indicate Ancient People Migrated From Orient.”
18. A new species of fish was discovered in Fiordland, New Zealand and named Fiordichthys slartibartfasti. The paper was accepted for publication by Journal of Natural History on 11 March 1994 - Douglas Adams’ 42nd birthday
19. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop? 42
20. There are three ocurrences of 42 in the Song “A Hundred Bottles of Beer On The Wall”
21. In September 1995 there were two 4.2 earthqakes in California in one week
22. Found in the German postcode-register:
    06420 Lebendorf (Leben = life),
    06542 Allstedt (All = universe) and 88422 Alleshausen (Alles = everything).

    Now what do these postcodes have in common? And these 3 cities are located on a straight line and do not form a triangle as you would expect!

23. There is a Night Club in Johannesburg, South Africa, named Level 42, after HHGTTG.
24. There is a bar/night club in Lyon, France called “the 42″
25. The sentence “I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it!” contains 42 characters (Not including the spaces….)
26. This sentence is forty two characters long
27. The city of Jerusalem covers an area of 42 square miles
28. Mongolia is 42% urban
29. Napoleon graduated 42nd in his class at Brienne military school
30. The first book printed on the Gutenburg (movable type) press was a bible with42 lines on each page
31. Aloutte, Canada’s first artificial space satellite was 42 inches in diameter
32. Cleopatra became Marc Anthony’s mistress in 42BC
33. On Nov 11, there are 42 days to Christmas
34. When you reach the California border, you only have 42 miles to go to Las Vegas
35. In an L.A. Times Poll in October 1995, 42% of white people think racism is a major problem, another 42% think it’s a moderate problem
36. Only 42% of the second-class passengers on the Titanic survived.
37. Recently, within the past few years, for some strange reason, Truck Drivers, and now acknowleging each other with “42″ in lue of “10-4″.
38. There were a number of UFO sightings in Iceland in 1942!
39. There are 42 gallons in a barrel of oil
40. ‘TRY TWO OF’is an anagram for “forty two” ! This must mean that the answer 42 was the result of the second calculation in a series of …. (who knows?)
41. FISH = 42
    by: F I S H
    6 + 9 + 19 + 8 = 42
42. The tank of the Super Beetle 1302 S takes 42 liters!
43. How many eyes are there in a deck of cards - 42
44. A Playtex Wonderbra® consists of 42 individual parts
45. Miller Pilsner has 4.2% alcohol
46. Water at the Sea World Penguin Exhibitin San Diego is kept at 42 degrees Fahrenheit
47. The right arm of the Statue of Liberty is 42 feet long
48. There were 42 events at the first modern Olympics
49. There are 42 Oreo cookies in a one-pound package
50. There’s an American company in Poland which is named XLII Ltd. (42).
51. In the game chess the maximum number of queens that you can place on the board and still have one “safe” square is 42. e.g.:
    e q q q q q q e
    e q q q q q e q
    e q q q q e q q
    e q q q e q q q
    e q q e q q q q
    e q e q q q q q
    e e q q q q q q s e e e e e e e q = queen
    e = empty
    s = safe
52. The average age for a pikka bird is 42
53. The America’s Cup yachts must meet the following specification:
    ( (length at waterline) + (square root of sail area) + (cube root of displacement) ) / 1.3579 = 42
54. The top mark that a skater can receive is 6.0. In an international competition, there are either 7 or 9 judges. Therefore, the maximum score that a skater can receive for his/her routine is 42 (7 judges) or 54 (9 judges).
55. In a CBS news report, it was reported that the cutthroat trout was being killed off in Yellowstone national park. The number of preditors feeding on the fish was 42
56. There are ‘42′ men on the back of a U.S.$2 bill! Representing the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
57. On the average, a father of a 3 year old spends 42 minutes a day with his son
58. The word ‘mother’ in hebrew ( ‘ima’) has numeric value 42.
59. The Gaza Strip is 42 kilometers long
60. According to an article in the March 23,1996 edition of the Houston Chronicle, there are 42 free-range prairie chickens left alive in the world
61. There is a CD shop in Prague called Music 42
62. The distance between Tiberias and Afula (2 cities in Israel) is 42 km.

(December 28th, 2007 Addendum: For the record, I published this YEARS before Wiki even existed, though they have their own titled page of significange, paying homage to this fine number as well.

You can find it located here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Answer_to_Life,_the_Universe,_and_Everything