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Any interesting factoids out there about the number 23?

You know...like on the 23rd of whatever month...something happend...or 23 hotdogs eaten in 10 seconds...stuff like that? I'd google it but i'm not sure where i'd start

Wikipedia has various bits of trivia--on the years 23AD and BC, and the number itself. For 23rd of a month, you'd have to look up the day on each month seperately for a list of events.
Apparently 23 is a holy number in Discordianism.

That's great ! Thanks

According to that Wikipedia article, the EU has 23 official languages.

I was somewhat amazed to find a Wikipedia article on the number.

You'd be surprised. There are a lot of pages devoted to numbers, dates, years, as can be seen from the index pages:
List of Numbers
List of Years
List of Dates

Vain wrote:Any interesting factoids out there about the number 23?

You know...like on the 23rd of whatever month...something happend...or 23 hotdogs eaten in 10 seconds...stuff like that? I'd google it but i'm not sure where i'd start

In other words, Do My Research For Me!

Hee hee...

23 was Michael Jordan's # GOD of basketball!!!

Yes, Michael Jordan #23 with the Bulls

Ryne Sandburg #23 with the Cubs

Devin Hester #23 with the Bears

But #23's always get measured up to Jordan in Chicago.

Where's Malik23?

--A

There are 23 balls on the table at the start of a game of snooker, 23 people on the pitch at the start of a game of football.

#23 is on my old lacrosse jersey.

23 strands dna
23 strands rna





It's even in our genes, man.........

Psalm 23: The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not be in want ...

23 Skiddoo

2 + 3 = 5.

2^n-n=5 where n=3.

In Matrix Reloaded, the Architect asked Neo to select 23 individuals to rebuild Zion.

Human sex cells have 23 chromosomes.

The Qur'an was revealed to Muhammad over 23 years.

23 letters in the Latin alphabet.

It takes 23 secs for blood to circulate thru the human body.

23 is the first prime number in which both digits are prime numbers and add up to another prime number. (not sure if thats what EL was alluding to in his algebraic thingy ) I dont do algebra.

Those are really great !! Keep them coming.....yes I'm a slack researcher

I'm planning on using the factoids in a little thing I'm doing - weird and cryptic I know

Vain wrote:Those are really great !! Keep them coming.....yes I'm a slack researcher

I'm planning on using the factoids in a little thing I'm doing - weird and cryptic I know

Whatever it turns out to be, it has to make more sense than Stephen King's fascination with the number nineteen...

The 23rd February is Saint Polycarp's day
23rd march Saint Turibius of Mogrovejo
23rd april St George
24th June St John the Baptist (BUT the 23rd is st johns eve, when the party is!)
23rd July St Birgitta
23rd August St Rose of Lima
23rd September St Pio of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio)
23rd October St John of Capistrano
23rd november St Clement I or St Columban
23rd December St John of Kanty

1 2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23

23 = 19 + 1 + 3
= 17 + (2+3) or 5 + 1
= 13 + 7 or (5+2) + 3
= 11 + 7 + 5 or (2+3)
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1 Day = 23(.934) hours.

Romulus and Remus were conceived in the womb on the 23rd day of the Egyptian month Choiac, at the time of a total eclipse of the Sun. (This eclipse occurred on June 15, 763 BC, with a magnitude of 62.5% at Rome. Its beginning took place at 6:49, its middle at 7:47 and its end at 8:51.)

Pontus, a Middle Eastern kingdom, was annexed to Rome in 23 AD.

In 1950, on Jan. 23, the Knesset offically declared Jerusalem the capitol of Israel.