The average stay for a prisoner on Alcatraz, when it was used as a prison, was five years.

David Rice Atchison was President of the United States for only one day.

It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is "shake" and the 46th word from the last word is "spear".

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