As is my wont, here are the 52 pieces of trivia that I used to respond to Facebook birthday well wishers (granted, mostly from wikipedia and first pages of Google search results, but still). Also, this year, I compiled the list, then randomized the posting order of things in Google sheets, so I did not/was not able to send subtle messages to posters with my chosen response:
- Fort52 sells watercolor-painted playing cards and other paper goods. They're in Fort Worth.
- "52 hertz is equivalent to the musical note G#1, which is the 12th lowest key on a conventional 88-key piano keyboard; or, the 4th finger position on the lowest string (E1) of a double bass."
- The B-52s are also an iconic US band.
- 52 is a series of 4 albums totalling 52 songs writing by American country singer Kristian Bush.
- The Bell XP-52 was a WWII fighter aircraft design project with a twin boom tail and pusher propellers.
- US Route 52 goes from South Carolina to North Dakota, about 2,072 miles.
- The Q52 is a superyacht tender built by Dutch company Qnautic.
- 52 in Morse code is ….. ..--- (I actually knew this without having to look it up)
- Social 52 is a restaurant and bar in Richmond, Virginia.
- The atomic number of Tellurium is 52.
- 52 is a DC Comics limited series, published weekly in 2006 for a year.
- F52 is the ICD-10_CM code for "Sexual dysfunction not due to a substance or known physiological condition"
- The p52 protein dimerizes with RelB to translocate into the nucleus, where it regulates gene transcription.
- 52 factorial (52*51*50…*1) is about 8.0658e67. That link has a lot of trivia about that.
- 52 in binary is 110100.
- Seasons 52 is a US restaurant and wine bar chain.
- Pub 52 is the US Postal Service's publication on Hazardous, Restricted, and Perishable Mail (I actually know a little about this one.)
- 52 is not a prime number. The factors of 52 are 1, 2, 4, 13, 26, and 52.
- Title 52 of the US Code codifies voting and election laws.
- A B-52 cocktail is "a layered shot composed of coffee liqueur (KahlĂșa), Irish cream (Baileys Irish Cream), and Grand Marnier (in later versions replaced with triple sec or Cointreau)"
- 52 is the international direct dial code for Mexico.
- B52 is another name for The Sicilian Defence chess opening?
- Pliny the Elder wrote his account of the Roman Empire's German wars in AD [CE] 52.
- D52 is a school district in Washington, Illinois.
- 52 American hostages were held in the Iran hostage crisis.
- A modern piano has 52 white keys.
- The New 52 was DC Comics' lineup revamp in 2011.
- The 52nd day of the year is February 21.
- Article 52 of the Geneva Conventions covers the general protection of civilian objects.
- J52 was the hull number of the HMS Guysborough, a British Royal Navy minesweeper loaned to the Royal Canadian Navy and sunk by a U-boat in 1945.
- 1952 was a leap year that started on Tuesday.
- The Lenovo ThinkPad P52 was a laptop.
- Messier 52 or M52, also known as NGC 7654 or the Scorpion Cluster, is an open cluster of stars in the highly northern constellation of Cassiopeia.
- Food52 is a food website.
- There are 52 cards in a standard deck of playing cards.
- 52 is the car number of retired NASCAR driver Jimmy Means.
- Clay Matthews wore 52 for the Green Bay Packers.
- The Siemens and Halske T52 is a WWII German cipher machine and teleprinter, codenamed Sturgeon by the British.
- 52 is a song by British band The Royston Club (it's not bad)
- The movie 52 Pick-Up starred Roy Scheider and Ann Margaret.
- 52 is an untouchable number (a math term for "a positive integer that cannot be expressed as the sum of all the proper divisors of any positive integer.")
- NFPA 52 is the National Fire Protection Association's Vehicular Natural Gas Fuel Systems Code
- The Liga Privada T52 is a cigar by tobacco company Drew Estate and made in Nicaragua.
- A beehive hairdo is also (apparently) nicknamed a B-52.
- WMATA's Route 52 Metrobus runs between L'Enfant Plaza Station and 14th and Colorado.
- 52 Blue is a whale that calls at the "unusual">frequency of 52 hertz, and has been called the "world's loneliest whale."
- The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is an iconic US bomber.
- There are, of course, 52 weeks in a year.
- A pill with imprint LILLY J52 is a white, round pill, Diethylstilbestrol 1 MG.
- Part 52 of the Federal Acquisition Regulations deals with Solicitation Provisions and Contract Clauses.52 was some sort of video series about a group trying to make 52 short films in 2013.
- 52 was some sort of video series about a group trying to make 52 short films in 2013.
- NGC 52 (PGC 978) is an edge-on spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus. It was discovered on September 18, 1784, by William Herschel. He described it as "very faint, small, extended."