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Max May 26, 2024, 05:58 PM Edit 11
"The Eleventh Hour": an expression meaning "at the last possible moment". It comes from a passage in the bible which is famously difficult to interpret.
Max May 22, 2024, 09:40 PM Edit 11
Max May 19, 2024, 05:51 PM Edit 11
Eleven from Stranger Things

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Max May 26, 2024, 05:37 PM Edit 12
The number of jurors on a jury, as seen here in 12 Angry Men.
Nijinsky May 26, 2024, 05:09 PM Edit 12
Dalmatians User was banned for this post. ...jk but fr wtf does this mean
Max May 19, 2024, 06:29 PM Edit 12
Fun fact: those swords they let you play with in elementary school actually had 12 markings on them.
Max May 19, 2024, 06:28 PM Edit 12
Dozen: For some reason we have a whole extra word for twelve, and if you say dozen instead of twelve or vice versa, people suspect you're an alien.
Max May 19, 2024, 06:27 PM Edit 12
Number of months

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Max May 19, 2024, 06:33 PM Edit 13
The unlucky number. (Friday the 13th is especially unlucky.) Apparently you can get around the back luck by just refusing to label things with a 13, even if there are actually 13 of them.

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Max May 21, 2024, 12:19 AM Edit 14
The number of lines in a sonnet.

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Max May 19, 2024, 06:35 PM Edit 15
"15 minutes of fame" (Apparently Andy Warhol didn't actually say this)

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Max May 27, 2024, 08:44 PM Edit 16
Hexadecimal, or base 16, used to represent binary data in a semi-human-readable format.
rainman May 26, 2024, 07:53 PM Edit 16
24 (or 222)

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Max May 26, 2024, 05:35 PM Edit 17
The number of elementary particles
Max May 21, 2024, 12:18 AM Edit 17
In Swedish, several numbers function as minor swear words. Vad i sjutton! literally means "what in seventeen", but it's more or less equivalent to "what the hell" in English. Others include tusan (thousand), but 17 is the only two-digit Swedish curse.
Max May 21, 2024, 12:08 AM Edit 17
Cicadas: world leaders in counting to 17.
Max May 19, 2024, 06:37 PM Edit 17
Finally, you can go see movies with violence, nudity, and more than one use of the F-word, without having to bring your parents. (Rated R)

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