Top 10 facts about 68

A rugby league pitch is 68 metres wide

SIXTY eight years ago on Friday, on November 20, 1947, the Princess Elizabeth married Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey.

 

1. At 68 per cent proof, Brewmeister’s Snake Venom beer was named as the world’s strongest in 2014. 

2. 68cm is the maximum permitted length of a badminton racket. 

 

3. The planet Jupiter has 68 known moons. 

4. 68 is the largest even number that can be expressed in two ways as the sum of two prime numbers: 68 = 7 + 61 = 31 + 37. 

 

Sixty eight years ago today the Princess Elizabeth married Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten

 

The planet Jupiter has 68 known moons

 

According to a survey this year, 68 per cent of people think it’s best to eat pizza with their hands

 

5. You have to go to the 606th and 607th digits in the decimal expansion of pi (3.14159265…) before you see the number 68. Every other two-digit number occurs earlier in the value of pi.

6. Charles Osborne of Iowa, USA, started hiccupping in 1922 and continued until February 1990. His 68-year hiccup attack is a world record. 

7. A rugby league pitch is 68 metres wide. 

8. According to a survey this year, 68 per cent of people think it’s best to eat pizza with their hands. 

 



According to a survey this year, 68 per cent of men in China are smokers



9. There are 68 species of bumblebee in Europe, 68 species of mosquito in Florida and 68 species of freshwater fish in Finland. 

10. According to a survey this year, 68 per cent of men in China are smokers.