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• It’s estimated that at least 10% of Americans have a fear of the number 13. This phobia has been officially recognized and named triskaidekaphobia, a term created in 1911.

Because of this, merchants often avoid using the number, such as hotels and tall buildings skipping from 12 to 14 when numbering their floors. According to research, more than 80% of high-rise buildings do not have a 13th floor.

• The word triskaidekaphobia has its roots in the Greek language, with “tris” meaning “three,” “kai” translating to “and,” and “deka” meaning “ten,” with the addition of the word “phobia,” which means “fear.”

• There’s even a special name for the fear of Friday the 13th – paraskavedekatriaphobia. This may have originated in the 1307 execution of the Knights Templar, a religious and military order formed to defend the Holy Land. King Philip IV of France, who wanted the organization’s significant financial resources, ordered their imprisonment based on false charges, and many were executed on Friday, October 13th.

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• How did the number 13 get such a bad rap? Some attribute the notion to Judas Iscariot, the person who betrayed Jesus, as he was the 13th guest to arrive at the Last Supper, as well as the tradition that Jesus was crucified on Friday the 13th. According to Norse mythology, the evil god Loki appeared uninvited at a banquet of the gods of light and joy, and was the 13th to arrive. The legend says he fatally injured his blind brother at the party, introducing evil and bad luck associated with the number.

• Sarah Winchester, heiress to the massive Winchester Arms Company fortune, built a huge mansion in San Jose, California based on her superstitions, with the number 13 prominent throughout. The chandelier had 13 gas jets, while the glass window panes were created from 13 colored stones. There are 13 bathrooms, and every staircase has 13 steps. Each sink drain cover contains 13 holes, and clothes hooks are arranged in groups of 13. Her will, which had 13 sections, was signed 13 times, leaving everything except the mansion to her niece. Every Friday the 13th, a bell is rung 13 times at 1:00 PM, which is 13:00 in military time.

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• Many consider it bad luck to dine with 13 people at a table. London’s Savoy Hotel makes sure it never happens. If you book a table for 13, the table will be set for 14, with the 14th chair occupied by Kaspar, a 3-foot-high carved cat sculpture, a resident of the hotel since the 1920s.

• Not everyone considers 13 to be unlucky. In China, it’s considered a lucky number, because its pronunciation sounds much like the words for “assured growth.” At the time of World War I, the French people regarded it as lucky and used it as a good luck symbol on postcards and charms.

• Mary Kay Ash considered 13 to be her lucky number. She founded her famous cosmetics company on Friday, September 13, 1963. The company’s headquarters has 13 floors serviced by 13 passenger elevators. ...continued

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• Likewise, the number 13 is a lucky number for Hamilton, New York’s Colgate University. The school was founded in 1819 by 13 men (including 6 clergymen), with $13 and 13 prayers. Located at 13 Oak Drive, it's ranked the 17th-best liberal arts college in the nation.

• Civil War veteran Captain William Fowler took the number 13 very seriously. As a boy, he attended Manhattan’s Public School No. 13, graduating at age 13. As a builder, he built 13 structures in New York City. On April 13, 1861, he became a member of the Union Army and fought 13 battles, and resigned his commission on August 13, 1863. He belonged to 13 secret social organizations, which included being the 13th member of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. On September 13, 1863, Fowler purchased the Knickerbocker Cottage in Manhattan and established a supper club.

He regularly hosted an exclusive society called the Thirteen Club, a group that dined together on the 13th day of every month in Room 13, with a 13-course dinner. Four former U.S. presidents were members of the club.

• President Franklin Roosevelt was definitely not a member of the Thirteen Club, as he refused to have a meal with 13 people at his table, and never traveled on the 13th of the month.

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• Most of us know that there were 13 original colonies that eventually became the United States.

Can you name them? New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia comprised the first colonies. Although we usually think of Plymouth Colony, formed in 1620 by a small group of Puritan separatists, as the first, the first colony was Virginia, where Jamestown was founded in 1607. Some Puritans who viewed Massachusetts as too restrictive formed the colony of Rhode Island in 1636, while others who thought Massachusetts wasn’t devout enough, branched away to form Connecticut the same year. Still others who longed for adventure settled in New Hampshire. By 1775, when the Revolutionary War broke out, the population of the 13 colonies topped 2.5 million people. Although Virginia is recognized as the first colony, Delaware is the first official U.S. state, because it was the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution in December 1787, followed by Pennsylvania just five days later and New Jersey six days after that.

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• Take a look at the back of a one-dollar bill and you’ll see all sorts of evidence of the number 13. There are 13 leaves on the olive branch and 13 fruits. The shield contains 13 bars, the eagle’s wings have 13 plumes of feathers on each, and there are 13 stars above the eagle. There are 13 steps on the pyramid. The phrase “E PLURIBUS UNUM” has 13 letters, as does the phrase “ANNUIT COEPTIS” (“God has favored our undertaking”).

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• The weight of all the ants on earth is greater than that of all humans.

• Doctors who perform laparoscopic surgery, which involves inserting a tiny camera into a patient's body through a small incision, have better coordination if they play video games at least three hours per week. According to a 2003 study, gamer surgeons made 37% fewer errors and worked 27% faster than those whose only "video game" experience was the surgery itself.

• The ancient Romans used swan fat or donkey milk to soften wrinkles, while sores and freckles were treated with the ashes of snails.

• Eskimos use refrigerators to stop their food from freezing.

• Disney's musical fantasy comedy "The Princess and the Frog" led to an unexpected salmonella outbreak in the United States. More than 50 children were hospitalized after the film's release when they attempted to free handsome princes with a kiss from what turned out to be perfectly ordinary, definitely non-prince frogs.

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• Watermelons may be a tasty treat today, but that wasn't always the case. Originating in Africa, they were first cultivated solely for their water content -- their flavor was very bitter!

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• After getting into a scrap with his older brother Buzz, Kevin was grounded to his room on the third floor of the family home. The following morning, as the family scrambled to get to the airport on time, Kevin was forgotten and was left home alone. At first, it was fun – making a mess, jumping • The scenes of the McCallister family inside the on the bed, eating what he wanted, and doing as he pleased airplane were shot in a Chicago-area high school.

– until two burglars attempted to rob the house on ChristThe seats were built on the school’s basketball mas Eve. Kevin set out to foil the bandits’ schemes. court. The school’s swimming pool was used for • It took three months to film the picture, beginning on the scene of Kevin running through a flooded Valentine’s Day, 1990 and wrapping up on May 16. Dibasement. The Paris airport scenes were filmed at rector Chris Columbus had been the screenwriter of “The Chicago’s O’Hare Airport.

Goonies” and “Gremlins,” and post-Home Alone, he di- • Joe Pesci was unforgettable as the burglar Harry rected “Mrs. Doubtfire,” “Bicentennial Man,” and the first Lyme, but the role was first offered to Robert Detwo Harry Potter movies. Even though screenwriter John Niro, who turned it down, then to Jon Lovitz who Hughes wrote the role of Kevin specifically for Macaulay also said no. In order to give Macaulay Culkin the Culkin, Columbus auditioned more than 100 kids for the impression that he really was a mean guy, Pesci role before settling on the 9-year-old. When “Home Alone” deliberately avoided the young actor while on set. hit theaters in November, 1990, Culkin became an immediAnd to add insult to injury, while rehearsing the ate star. scene where Harry tries to bite off Kevin’s fin• Although there seems to be an age spread among all the Mcger, Pesci did indeed bite Culkin, leaving behind Callister children – Buzz, Megan, Jeff, Linnie, and Kevin a small scar.

– all of the actors except Culkin were born in 1977. Culkin • Opening weekend at the box office topped $17 was born in 1980. Hillary Wolf, who played Megan, quit million, and “Home Alone” maintained the No. acting and took up judo, becoming a member of the U.S. 1 spot for 12 weeks. It was the highest-grossing Olympic team for the sport at the 1996 and 2000 games. movie of 1990, and for 27 years, it held the record • Stuntman Larry Nicholas served as Culkin’s stunt double. for highest-grossing live-action comedy, with When viewers saw Kevin sledding down the stairs, zip-linearnings of $285.7 million. It was produced on an ing, and crashing through shelves, it was really 30-year-old estimated budget of $18 million. The film’s two Nicholas, a man similar in size to Culkin.

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• On Dec. 6, 1884, in Washington, D.C., workers place a 9-inch aluminum pyramid atop a tower of white marble, completing the construction of a monument to the city's namesake and the nation's first president, George Washington.

• On Dec. 4, 1928, "Dapper Dan" Hogan, a St. Paul, Minnesota, saloonkeeper and mob boss, is killed when someone plants a car bomb under the floorboards of his new Paige coupe. The first car bomb was a horse-drawn-wagon bomb that exploded in 1920 outside the J.P. Morgan Company's offices in New York City.

• On Dec. 5, 1933, the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified, bringing an end to the prohibition of alcohol. Prohibition did little more than slow the flow of booze, and bootleggers like Al Capone had built criminal empires out of illegal distribution.

• On Dec. 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks is jailed for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man, a violation of the city's racial segregation laws. Parks' refusal was not merely brought on by her tired feet, as is the popular legend. Local civil-rights leaders had been planning a challenge to Montgomery's racist bus laws for several months.

• On Nov. 30, 1965, lawyer Ralph Nader publishes the muckraking book "Unsafe at Any Speed." The book became a bestseller and prompted the passage of seat-belt laws in 49 states (all but New Hampshire).

• On Dec. 3, 1979, the last AMC Pacer rolls off the assembly line at the American Motors Corporation factory in Kenosha, Wisconsin. It was hailed as the car of the future when it debuted in 1975.

• On Dec. 2, 1997, "Good Will Hunting," a movie that will earn childhood friends Ben Affleck and Matt Damon a Best Screenplay Oscar and propel them to Hollywood stardom, premieres in Los Angeles.

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• The number 13 is a prime number, meaning it cannot be divided evenly by any other numbers except itself and 1.

• Friday the 13th only occurs in months that start with Sunday. It happens at least once a year, and up to three times in the same year. Looking ahead, 2021 and 2022 will both have just one Friday the 13th.

• The number 13 is strongly associated with executions. There are 13 stairs leading to the gallows, the hangman’s noose has 13 knots, and the guillotine’s blade fell from a height of 13 feet.

• The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified on December 6, 1865.

Submitted the previous year by Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner, it stated; “All persons are equal before the law, so that no person can hold another as a slave…” effectively abolishing slavery. Although Abraham Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves nearly three years earlier, the Southern states had remained in secession from the Union and did not fully honor the proclamation. The amendment made it official nationally.

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• The U.S. flag didn’t always have 13 stripes.

When it was first created, 13 alternating red and white stripes and 13 white stars represented the original 13 colonies. In 1795, when two new states, Vermont and Kentucky were added to the Union, two more stripes and two more stars were added. The flag remained with 15 stripes until 1818, when it was determined that the 13 stripes was a better design plan, with the addition of stars to represent new states. ...continued

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MORE 13 FACTS (cont.)

• Great Britain has a centuries-old tradition of Christmas pudding during the holidays. Symbolizing Jesus and his 12 disciples, the pudding has 13 ingredients, including various dried fruits, suet, eggs, molasses, and several spices.

Moistened with brandy, it is then aged for at least a month, and up to a year. Legend has it that all who eat Christmas pudding in 13 different homes between Christmas and New Year’s Day will have good luck in the coming year.

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• The term “baker’s dozen” has its origins in medieval England. Also known as a long dozen or devil’s dozen, the quantity is 13, one more than the standard. In those days, there was a harsh punishment for any baker who cheated customers, so in order to be safe, bakers began giving a free loaf for every 12 sold. The 13th loaf was referred to as the vantage loaf, since it was advantageous to receive the extra.

• Superstition has even played a part in the Indianapolis 500. The number 13 was not permitted between 1926 and 2002 due to fear of tragedy in the sport. In 2003, the rules were changed and racer Greg Ray chose the number for his car, the first time it had been used since 1914.

Ray experienced no bad luck and finished 8th in the competition. In 2018, racer Danica Patrick chose a Chevrolet with the number 13 for her final race. Her car was green, which is also said to be bad luck in racing. And so it was, as Patrick crashed into the wall on Lap 67 of the race, escaping with minor injuries, retiring shortly after the Memorial Day competition.

• Up until January, 2019, a 13-year-old girl could be married in New Hampshire as long as she had parental consent. A boy had to be 14 years old. Under the new law, the minimum age was raised to 16 for both.

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