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Top 10 facts about the number 111
TODAY is the 111th day of the year, so let’s have some facts about that number.
1. To celebrate Britain’s gold medals at the 2012 Olympics, Royal Mail painted 111 pillar boxes gold for the 111 individual and team winners.
2. Dame Muriel Spark wrote a story entitled One Hundred And Eleven Years Without A Chauffeur.
3. In cricket or darts, a score of 111 is often called a Nelson, supposedly referring to one arm, one eye and one leg. But Nelson always had two legs.
4. The period of Napoleon’s last period of power in France, from March 20 to July 8, 1815 is often called the Hundred Days. It is in fact 111 days.
5. A difference of one degree of longitude at the equator is equivalent to 111 kilometres.
6. In 2009, Henry, a tuatara in New Zealand, became a father for the first time at the age of 111. The tuatara is a reptile found only in New Zealand.
7. 111 is the emergency telephone number in New Zealand.
8. To the nearest foot, the figure portrayed in the Statue of Liberty is 111ft tall, from the base of her foot to the top of her head.
9. Tolkien’s Hobbits refer to 111 as “eleventy-one”.
10. The 111th item in Köchel’s catalogue of Mozart’s works is the opera Ascanio In Alba, which he wrote aged 16. It was his sixth opera.
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