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    USS Pivot (AM-276), an Admirable-class minesweeper, was the first ship of the United States Navy named Pivot. She was built at the Gulf Shipbuilding Corporation, Chickasaw, Alabama.

    Mrs. Clara L. Prouty christened Pivot on 11 November 1943.

    #491905

    GOD

    The Grand Canyon is an abyss 277 miles long and at places it is 18 miles wide.

    #491906

    25 minutes of jogging will burn up 278 calories

    #491907

    United Nations Security Council Resolution 279, adopted unanimously on May 12, 1970, at 12 words is the shortest Security Counil resolution ever adopted; it reads simply “Demands the immediate withdrawal of all Israeli armed forces from Lebanese territory.”

    #491908

    GOD

    18 people around a round table can shake hands with each other in non-crossing ways, in 280 different ways (this includes rotations).

    #491909

    The Battle Over Citizen Kane was RKO’s 281st film production

    #491910

    GOD

    In 1999, a group of 282 skydivers set the record for the largest number of skydivers in a free-fall formation above Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand. They held the link for 7.11 seconds

    #491911

    saw this on s site today

    Fact No. 283 You are four times more likely to get a reply from a designer if you have written your email in Helvetica.

    wonder if that’s true

    #491912

    100011100
    Thats 284 in binary.
    (phew.bit of a labour of love,this thread,innit?)

    #491913

    285

    The number of Rules of Acquisition followed by the Ferengi.

    And I’m not sure if this thread is a labour of love or an instrument of torture… :lol:

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