Besides being the lovely number for this month's LID anniversary, here are a few other fun and interesting #17 facts.
Happy Sunshine!
- 17 is the seventh prime number
- 17 is the sum of the first four primes
- 17 is the atomic number of chlorine
- 17, in the US is the age @ which one may donate blood & join the military voluntarily
- 17, in Ireland & UK is the age which one may drive a car (Not to mention the age I had to be before getting a license of my own to drive ~ courtesy of Mom and Dad's rule :0)
- Seventeen Seconds an album by The Cure
- Seventeen the title of a magazine
- 17, Humbug's answer to 2 different math problems in The Phantom Tollbooth
- 17, the retired jersey number of baseball pitching great Dizzy Dean
- 17, described at MIT as 'the most random number', according to 'hackers lore'
- 17, number of guns in 'gun salute' to US Army, Air Force & M.C. Generals & C.G. Admirals
- 17, number to call police in France
- 17, a mild swear word in Swedish ("sjutton också!" ("seventeen, too!") roughly translated to Darn!
4 comments:
Happy 17 and hopefully it won't go much further for you guys...I know we are in it for much longer but you are definately getting closer!!!
Happy 17 months to you!
Love the The Phantom Tollbooth reference -- one of my all time favorite children's books ever!
Ruth, if you can find just 4 more tidbits to add, you'll have 17 17 facts.
I always like the graphics you come up with as anniversary markers.
K1 - aren't you funny! I never even thought to have 17 17 fun facts. Now that would have been cool.
Thanks for the compliment on graphics. Between google images and flicker.com I can usually come up with something cool.
Blessings
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