What are some facts about the number 36?

Answer 1

U.S. Highway 36 runs two lanes east and west

through Jewell County, Kansas.

36 is a square number: 6 x 6 = 36

According to the Torah, the light of creation shone

for exactly 36 hours.

A beer barrel is 36 gallons.

36 is evenly divisible by 2, 3, 4, 6 ,9, 12 and 18.

William Shakespeare wrote 36 plays.

There are 36 inches in a yard.

36 is the number of degrees

in the angle of all 5 tips in a perfect star.

The fruit fly Drosophila is frequently used

in genetic studies. It normally has 36 bristles.

Mutations may cause it to have more or less.

Further breeding after mutations always

brings the number back to 36.

The probability of throwing double six

on two dice is one in 36.

There are 36 chambers in a Shaolin temple.

36 is a trianglar number:

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 = 36

36 passengers died when the German Zeppelin

Hindenberg caught fire in New Jersey in 1937.

Oh...the humanity.

The American flag had 36 stars from 1865 to 1867.

[when Nevada was added as the 36th state]

36 multiplied by any other number always produces

a quotient whose individual digits add up to nine:

36 x 2 = 72 (7 + 2 = 9)

36 x 36 = 1296 (1 + 2 + 9 + 6 = 18) (1 + 8 = 9)