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It took Deep Thought, the fictional computer in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" 7.5 million years to computer the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. That answer was "42." In Croatia in 1966, Hedviga Golik (who was born in 1924 which made her 42 years old at the time) sat down with a cup of tea to watch television and died. There she sat in front of her television for - you guessed it - 42 years before recently being discovered by police who were trying to determine who owned the flat she lived in:

A police spokesman said: "So far, we have no idea how it is possible that someone officially reported missing so long ago was not found before in the same apartment she used to live in.

"When officers went there, they said it was like stepping into a place frozen in time.

"The cup she had been drinking tea from was still on a table next to the chair she had been sitting in and the house was full of things no one had seen for decades. Nothing had been disturbed for decades, even though there were more than a few cobwebs in there."

Sometimes life is stranger than fiction.

DailyRecord.co.uk