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In article <2oio67$a2j@engnews2.eng.sun.com>,
Doug Landauer <landauer@morocco.Eng.Sun.COM> wrote:
>> Factoid #1 - Interstate highways, the main routes, are numbered even for
>>	east-west, and odd for north-south;
>> Factoid #2 - The main routes are numbered from the south-west.
>> Factoid #3 - the three-digit Interstates were originally called 'spur' or
>>	'loop' routes;
>> Factoid #4 - I-4, H-1, H-2, and H-3
>> Factoid #5 - the full name of the system is "The National System of
>>	Interstate and Defense Highways"
>
>Damn CNN anyway for their twisting of the meaning of "factoid"!  Factoid
>used to mean something that sounds like a fact, and might be presented
>as a fact, but which is either unsubstantiated, or pure bullshit.
>Otherwise, why not just call it a "fact" ????
>
>[ Tangential question:  where did I hear that term before CNN
>  picked it up and ruined it ? ]

I don't know, but I have a feeling I've heard the term used in the manner
above before CNN existed.

>But anyway,
>Fact #6 - there are now exceptions to the once-regular patterns
>	described in #3 ... I-238 for example, a short route
>	between 880 and 580 in/near Hayward, CA.   In that case,
>	the number came from its former designation as a state highway.

Although you could really cheat and say it's a branch of a virtual I-38
(an unused number).  Draw your latitude line across and you pass reasonably
close to I-40, at least within the margin of error that allows I-49 to
be completely west of I-39.  On this note, the unused main route numbers
are: 1,2,3,6,7,9,11,13,14,18,22,23,28,31,32,33,34,36,38,41,42,46,47,48,50,
51,52,53,54,56,58,60,61,62,63,67,73,92,98,99.

--Brendan