I want to do reasearch on 23,....over 500 facts here

[Dr.Argo(ChemicalScientist]

# In the year 2000, when Jesus supposedly comes back to wreak vengeance on the heathens, Easter will be on March 23.

# Peter Lorre died on 3/23/1964. If you add 3+1+9+6+4 you get 23.

# The standard Georgia income tax deduction in 1996 was $2300.

# Basketball player Michael Jordan's retired number is 23. Also, his father was murdered on the 23rd.

# 2 octaves consist of a range of 23 notes.

# Stan Laurel died on 2/23/1965. 2+1+9+6+5=23, so there are 2 23s there. My birthday is 2/23/1969. 1+9+6+9=25-2=23. 1=9+6+9+2+2+3 = 32, 23 in reverse. So there's 3 23s there. 2 from before, 3 from here, is 23. Also, 32/26 (my age) = 1.23.

# 23,000 students took the SAT exams in mid-1995.

# Both the bombing in Oklahoma (TERROR IN THE HEARTLAND!!!! (big bombastic music)) and the Waco thingy happened on 4/19 (19+4=23).

# Uranium 235 is the preferred radioactive element in most nuclear weaponry.

# The round used by Oswald was the standard NATO round of 5.56 milimeters. When this metric designation of bullet caliber is translated into the percentage-of-an-inch caliber commonly used in the US (ie .45 caliber, .38 caliber, .22 caliber) it is written as... .223 caliber.

# According to Meatloaf when he was a guest on Politically Incorrect, "23% of all Americans have watched every minute" of the OJ Simpson trial.

# On March 23, the water level in the Neely Nuclear reactor on the Georgia Tech campus (yes, in the heart of Atlanta) dropped substantially, causing alarms to go off.

# There are 23,000 parking spaces at Hartsfield International Airport here in Atlanta.

# John Waters was in town one week, and he was on the radio discussing mass murderers, and he mentioned that Leslie Van Houten and the rest of the Manson Family have been in prison for 23 years (as of 1995).

# In 1995, Dr. Kevorkian assisted his 23rd suicide.

# The final episode ever of that evil TV show Full House aired on May 23rd, 1995.

# The IEEE standard for 32-bit floating-point number representation allocates 23 bits to store the significand, 8 bits for the exponent, and 1 bit to flag positive or negative.

# The sock found at OJ Simpson's house had 23 spots of the victims' blood.

# Only 23% of Prodigy users polled by Politically Incorrect think that the FBI is more dangerous to America than the cast of Beverly Hills 90210.

# Beethoven was 23 when he composed his first piano sonata. Oh, and his Moonlight Sonata was #23.

# George Reeves, who played Superman on television in the 50s, shot himself with a gun at approximately 2:30 in the morning.

# If you watch the movie Quiz Show, John Turturro is in a restaurant with the show's producer, and is irate at being asked to give a wrong answer and lose on purpose. To prove his vast knowledge he yells at the waiter to pick a number, any number, and the waiter says "I dunno....23?" Turturro then begins to spout facts and dates and events associated with the number...

# The human body has 46 chromosomes, which are paired, in somatic cells. Generative cells have half this number, 23, which is the number of chromosones each parent gives to human deoxyribinucleic acid.

# In 1993 a total of 23,271 people were killed with firearms in America.

# According to US News and World Report, only 23% of Hollywood's decision-makers belong to an organized religion.

# The Nationsbank building in Atlanta is 1023 feet tall.

# On April 23rd of 1996, Robert O'Donell, the guy who saved Baby Jessica from the well in 1988, killed himself with a shotgun.

# Information Superhighway has 23 letters.

# Way back in November of 94, the Georgia Bulldogs tied with auburn, 23-23.

# To describe the entire human body for the purposes of mapping the behaviour of the skeleton in a computer, the simulator needs to monitor 23 total bone rotations.

# It takes 23 gallons of water to produce a pound of tomatoes (according to statistics).

# The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran was first published in 1923.

# The House Subcomittee on Labor, Health, and Human Services voted to cut by $23 million the remainder of the HIV prevention money alloted in 1995 to the Atlanta-based CDC.

# In issue #3 of the Vertigo Comics Tank Girl miniseries, the cover shows Tank Girl wearing a tight bra/halter thingy with a big circled 23 on each breast.

# Computer Hacker Kevin Mitnick, who was captured last year in a high-profile FBI manhunt, faces 23 Federal counts for illegal use of telephone lines and computer systems.

# Susan Smith was 23 years old when she drowned her children.

# Jerry Garcia was found dead in his bed at Serenity Knolls, a drug treatment center, at 4:23 a.m.

# According to a wacky mailing from the NRA, prosecutions of Federal weapons violations have plummeted 23% in the first two years of the Clinton presidency. They are trying to make it look like THEY want tougher laws passed against gun-toting criminals, so we won't notice when they lobby congress to make it legal to sell surface-to-air rocket launchers at Wal-Marts in every small town. For hunting purposes, you know.

# Walt Disney studios was founded by Walter E. and Roy O. Disney in 1923.

# A quote from the documentary 'Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media' (1992): "In North America there are: 7 major movie studios and more than 1,800 daily newspapers, 11,000 magazines, 11,000 radio stations, 2,000 TV stations, 2,500 book publishers. 23 corporations own and control over 50% of the business in each medium. In some cases they have a virtual monopoly."

# A poll of Perot voters found that 23% had favorable opinions of Clinton, and 23% also had favorable opinions of Dole.

# A small plane crash one week in Carrollton, GA initially left 23 of 29 passengers alive.

# In 1923 the Attorney General said it was legal for women to wear trousers anywhere.

# The 8-hour work week was established by the Carnegie Steel Corp. in 1923.

# The Times Best-seller list estimates that Newt Gingrich's book will earn 2.3 million if all 665,000 copies are sold.

# Dwayne Goettel, drummer for the industrial band Skinny Puppy, died of a heroin overdose in Edmonton on August 23rd, 1996.

# The movie Mortal Kombat had a $23 million opening weekend.

# The science fiction TV show Max Headroom revolved around the mega-corporate network for which Edison Carter worked: Network 23.

# Over the course of his career, Bob Dole has accepted $23,000 in campaign contributions from Time-Warner, the company he lambasted for dumping violent "smut" like Pulp Fiction on our children.

# According to statistics, the total value of office buildings in Atlanta has increased 23.2 percent in the past four years.

# Georgia's Senator Sam Nunn is declining to run again in 1996 after 23 years in the Senate.

# In the cheeseball yet embarrasingly entertaining movie Hackers, Penn Jilette and the Bad Hacker (Fisher Stevens? somebody shoot the casting director) sit down at the massive corporate computer system to catch the Good Hackers who are breaking in...they log into "Terminal 23".

# Warner Brothers was founded in 1923.

# Weeks before Rock Hudson's death 10 years ago today, he had flown to France to try the then-experimental drug HPA23, but was deemed to be in too poor health.

# One of the few trials that took longer than OJ Simpson's, the Hillside Strangler case in LA, took 23 months to complete.

# Food stamps, the government's largest welfare program, provided $23 billion in benefits to Americans in 1994.

# According to publisher's statistics, Americans spent $23.8 billion on books in 1994.

# That 1-Million-Man march on Washington thingy was planned to cover 23 blocks.

# On The Simpsons one night Lisa tries to convince the local jazz station to play a tribute to Bleeding Gums Murphy, the late Jazzman, but the station only has a broadcast range of "23 feet."

# According to the US Labor Department's Bureau of Statistics, America's national work force consists of 123 million employed people.

# River Phoenix was 23 years old when he died.

# The brand spanking new Atlanta stadium being built for the Olympics was $23 million over-budget in early 1996.

# In 1996 a rebel bomb went off at an oil facility in Sri Lanka, killing 23 security personnel.

# NPR's "Fresh Air" with Terri Gross featured a story in 1996 in which the guest was talking about an innovative, eccentric, gay British record producer, Joe Meek, who had a fixation with Buddy Holly. He went to a seance after which he predicted Buddy Holly would die in a plane crash on Feb 3, 1958 (2/3). Months later he told Holly about it. On Feb 3, 1959 (2/3), Holly died in a plane crash. Meek killed his landlord & himself on Feb 3, 1968 (2/3).

# In 1996 Newt Gingrich nixed a congressional proposal to sell off 23 federally controlled hydro-electric projects (dams and lakes) in the southeast because it jeapordized the career of influential GOP Kentucky governor Larry Forgy.

# September 23rd is the National Day of the Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia.

# The house where Marilyn Monroe died in 1962 is at 12305 Fifth Helena Drive in the Brentwood Section of LA.

# Nevada has 23 parks and recreation areas.

# On The Simpson's 138th episode anniversary special, there was a blurb at the beginning informing us that the show contains "at least twenty-three percent" new material.

# Liberal congresswoman Pat Schroeder is retiring from the House of Representatives after 23 years of service. This year, 23 members in all are choosing not to run again (1996).

# According to the NRA's statisics, in 1986-1996, 23% of cop-killers were on parole at the time of the killing.

# In the pseudo-scifi movie Strange Days, there's this scene where his friend is about to off him, and he makes a reference to his handgun, a Glock 23.

# In the 12 Days of Christmas, 6 of the 12 items are birds: 1 partridge, 2 turtle doves, 3 french hens, 4 calling birds, 6 geese a layin', and 7 swans a swimmin'. The total number of gift fowl present is indeed 23.

# In 1995 the air ducts were cleaned out in Grand Central Station for the first time in 100 years. Some idiot turned on the fan too early and the resulting dust cloud incapacitated 23 people.

# Shakespeare was born and died on April 23rd. His first folio was published in 1623. 23 + 23 = 46 and Shakespeare was 46 years old in the year 1610, the year the King James Bible was published. Psalm 23 in that translation has as its 23rd word "shake" while the 23rd word from its end is "spear".

# On Christmas Eve '95 a fire broke out in the Pittsburgh Zoo's primate cage, killing 23 animals, many of whom were on endangered lists.

# Nixon's number in college football was 23.

# In 1932 bootlegger "Dutch" Schultz had 23-year-old Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll murdered on 23rd Street in New York City. Schultz himself was assassinated on October 23, 1935, and his convicted assassin, Charlie Workman, served 23 years of a life sentence before he was paroled.

# "The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel." -Matthew 1:23

# Marcel Duchamp, one of the most influential of the early avant-garde artists, gave up formal art with his last official work, Broken Glass, in 1923.

# In the movie IQ, at the end Albert Einstein (Matthau) is using his telescope from his porch at night, and verbally reads off the degrees as he adjusts it, stopping at 23.

# As Jesus hung on the cross dying, one criminal crucified with him taunted: "Aren't you the Christ? Save yourself and us!" (Luke 23:39)

# Cigar-smoking Tom Murphy, Georgia's speaker of the house, is in his 23rd year in that position, the longest run of any current state speaker in the country.

# Today (1/23/96) a teacher in LA was shot in the head by a stray bullet from a gang confrontation while his 23 students screamed and dived under their desks.

# In the film JFK: one scene showed a TV news show reporting 23 soldiers injured during Vietnam maneuvers, the photo of Jack Ruby was numbered 23 as evidence in the hearings, and there were 2.3 seconds between shots fired during the assassination (at 12:30 pm).

# Kennedy was shot on November 22, 1963. Oswald was supposedly shot on November 24, 1963.

# According to the Bible, erroneous conspiratorial assumptions began to undermine the pure gospel practically from the moment Jesus appeared. His enemies accused him of working for Satan, subverting the scriptures, and of plotting to overthrow the government (Luke 23:1-2).

# In the film Babe, the pig is entry number 23 in the finale's Sheep Dog competition.

# Irrelevant now, but in a poll prior to the Georgia primary, 23% of the people said they would vote for Pat Buchanan.

# In a Windows magazine poll concerning users' dislikes of the internet, 23% considered it too costly to use (what? you're uncomfortable with giving your credit card number to AOL?)

# The cartoon strip Dilbert (king of computer geeks worldwide) appears in 900 newspapers in 23 countries.

# There was an early Sunday morning suicide bus bomb in Jeruseleum in February 1996 which killed 23 people. The bomber was 23 years old.

# In Barton Fink, the room number of Charlie (John Goodman) next door to Barton is 623.

# In February 1996 a 23-year-old man was killed in Fallston, Md. when his car smashed into a truck carrying burial vaults.

# The Watts Bar nuclear plant in Tennessee received its operating license after 23 years of construction. The plant is closer to Atlanta than Savannah and will be licensed until the year 2035.

# Ron Brown's White House plane crashed in 1996 from 2300 feet.

# According to the bag, Lay's potato chips are made daily in 23 cities across America.

# In the movie The Prophecy; Eric Stoltz kills the Angel Lieutenant of Gabriel (Christopher Walken), who is carrying a copy of Chapter 23 of Revelations describing a war amongst the Angels.

# Revelations stops at the 22nd chapter.

# An AOL user got their account pulled because they were spreading rumours about Courtney Love and Trent Reznor, to the effect that they were both involved in Kurt Cobain's murder. The user was Sasha23.

# According to the keepers of the NIST-7 atomic clock at NIST's Boulder (Colo.), 1995's leap second will be inserted at 23:59:60 Coordinated Universal Time (7 p.m. EST) on Dec. 31, 1995.

# Not only was Shakespeare born on April 23rd, but so was Lee Majors and Shirley Temple.

# The world's oldest man is 123 years old (1996).

# A silent version of the Ten Commandments was filmed by Cecil B. Demille in 1923.

# The Washington Post reported in January that, in preparation of the outdoor gallows for the first death-row hanging in 50 years (for convicted murderer Billy Bailey), workers affixed non-skid safety strips to each of the 23 steps up.

# In 1991 George Hennard drove his pickup through the window of a Luby's cafeteria in Killeen, Texas and opened fire killing 23 and injuring 22 people.

# Stages, a local theatre company, recently held a 4-day run for ALONE!, a Netherlands production of an interactive play containing 23 scenes chosen by the spectators (kinda like those crappy D&D choose-your-own-adventure books).

# Clay seal imprints dated to the 23rd century BC have identified the ruins of Tell Mozan in NE Syria as the Biblical city of Urkesh.

# CBS' hospital drama Chicago Hope ranked No. 23 among all primetime series this past season (1996).

# On 11/23/76, Jerry Lee Lewis was arrested outside of Graceland after waving a pistol and demanding to see the King.

# In a study of 23,000 women, those who took more than 10,000 IUs of vitamin A a day in supplemental form were nearly 5 times more likely to give birth to babies with birth defects.

# Joan Miro, a surrealist painter, had a "constellation series" consisting of 23 works, one of which, "the beautiful bird revealing the unknown to a pair of lovers", painted on July 23, 1941, appears on pg.123 of "The World of Marcel Duchamp", an art book on the surrealists.

# Rudolph Valentino died August 23rd, 1926. 2+3+1+9+2+6 = 23.

# AT&T occupies 2.3 million square feet of office space in Atlanta.

# As of 1996, Gwinnet police had revealed 2,232 violations of insurance fraud by McFrugal Auto Rentals.

# Joseph W. Tkach, publisher and editor of the Worldwide Church Of God’s flagship magazine The Plain Truth died of cancer on September 23, 1995.

# Jesus said to the thief on the cross "I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise." (Luke 23:43).

# "Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark." (genesis 7:23).

# Fellowship with God was broken, because God cannot fellowship with sinners...and man was lost (Genesis 3.23-24).

# November 23rd is the birthday of serial killer Dennis Nilsen of Scotland who killed 15 young men and dismembered their bodies for easy disposal, caught when the remains clogged a sewer.

# Edmonton, Alberta transit worker Salim Kara, 44, was sentenced to four years in prison in March 96 for a 13-year scheme of stealing coins from fare machines. Using a rod with a magnet on one end, he had amassed $2.3 million (canadian). Noone suspected anything until he bought an $800,000 house on a $38,000 salary.

# An employee of Dunkin Donuts reported that on May 23rd, 1996, she was robbed by a man who said he was holding a gun under his shirt. She didn’t have the key to the register, so he grabbed a cookie instead.

# Man Or Astro-Man?, the instrumental surf-rock band from outer-space (Atlanta) hail from Sector 23-B6-1.

# 30 activists staged a calm protest outside the Cobb County Commision meeting on Tuesday, May 23rd, 1996, to call attention to the forced removal of two gay men from a previous meeting.

# A Bangladesh newspaper reported that 100 criminals attended the nation’s first conference of muggers on April 23rd. The leader, Mohammed Rippon, was acclaimed "Master Hijacker" by the group for his record of 21 muggings in a two-hour period.

# A local Atlanta businessman recently had a 12-story tower built in the shape of a torch along the Downtown Connector as a legacy of the Olympic Games. It is 123 feet tall.

# Lon Chaney first played The Hunchback of Notre Dame in 1923.

# The Georgia Dome is gilded with 23 carat gold.

# 230 people died in the crash of TWA Flight 800.

# Robert Downey, Jr. was arrested on June 23rd, 1996, for drug and weapon charges, and has been arrested at least twice since.

# Actress Gwyneth Paltrow was 23 when she started dating Brad Pitt.

# According to a pamhplet entitled "Manual For Above-Knee Amputees", 23% of amputations occur from accidents.

# In 1992 the Christian Coalition accepted as an illegal donation a check dated July 23 for $60,000 from an investment company chariman.

# An episode of Alex Mack on Nickelodeon had her participate in a cow-milking contest in which her number was 23.

# In his next-to-last year in the Senate, Bob Dole voted to raise his pay by $23,000.

# In the movie The Net, a mugshot number ends in 23, one of Sandra Bullock’s passwords has 23 in it, and the ip address of one of the machines has 23 in it.

# 23 cruise missiles were launched in 1993 as a response to an alleged assasination attempt by Kuwait on former President Bush.

# The starting salary for Atlanta Police Department officers is $23,580.

# In the movie A Boy And His Dog, 23 "screamers" attack Don Johnson and his dog.

# In a recent high-profile Atlanta trial, a woman was killed with 23 cuts to the skull.

# In recent comparison of market shares, Coke had 69% versus Pepsi’s 23%.

# 23% of the trash collected from US Beaches by the Center for Marine Conservancy is cigarette butts.

# A man cleaning a bird feeder in Toronto on his condo balcony slipped and fell 23 stories to his death. He was standing on a wheelchair.

# Fox held a big-screen premier of its new show Millenium on October 23rd, 1996.

# In 1995 the national UFO Reporting Center reported 23 UFO sightings in Pennsylvania.

# The Altavista web search engine advertises itself as being accessed over 23 million times daily (12/96).

# A man who threatened President Clinton’s life in a letter to the White House was sentenced in Columbia, SC to 23 years in prison (12/96).

# Palestine, formerly belonging to Turkey, was placed under British contrl in 1923.

# In Florida, the sugar companies successfully organized with $23 million to oppose a proposition that would tax their product a penny a pound to help clean up the Everglades. They called themselves "Citizens to Save Jobs and Stop Unfair Taxes" (11/96).

# After 12 shootings in Compton, CA on the night following Tupac Shakur’s murder, LA police arrested 23 gang members (8/96).

# According to the US Dept. Of Justice, there were 23 wiretap orders for violent crime in 1990.

# "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." Romans 3:23

# Concerning X-Files: Scully’s badge number is 2317-616, she was born on 2/23/64 in Anywhere, USA (sharing my birthday), and it takes an ensemble crew of 235 people to produce the show.

# "Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark." Genesis 7:23

# In a 1996 Thanksgiving poll, 23% of Georgian blacks liked cranberries.

# Al Franken’s Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot spent 23 weeks on the NY Times best-seller list.

# A building housing Russian soldiers and their families near Chechnya collapsed in a powerful bomb blast, killing 23 people (11/96).

# A bomb exploded in Athens while thousands of people marched through the city center to commemorate the 23rd anniversary of a student uprising that helped end a dictatorship (11/96).

# The FAA reports that commercial airlines in the US have come as close as 500 feet to another plane at least 23 times in 1996.

# On the island of Maui, the Haleakala National Park has a volcano that is 10,023 feet high.

# George Bush will be the main speaker at the Nov. 23 opening of an Argentine newspaper owned by the Reverand Sun Nyung Moon (11/96).

# 23 nations came online to the internet in 1996.

# Andrew Loyd Weber was 23 when he wrote Jesus Christ Superstar.

# Senator Sam Nunn’s new Commission on Civic Renewal, formed to report on ways to clean up America’s moral fabric, has 23 members (11/96).

# Tyco has begun shipping its new VideoCam, designed for youngsters 6 and up, which uses a 23-foot cord (included) to connect to the family VCR.

# 11/23/96 was the broadcast of Bob Hope’s 284th prime-time NBC special.

# In one episode of the crappy sitcom Suddenly Susan, Brooke Shields scored 23 points in her basketball game (11/96).

# Penguins can live in temperatures as low as 23 degrees.

# USA’s Reel Wild Cinema was showing a Mexican Little Red Riding Hood movie in which a guy in a wolf suit gives 23 whacks to a midget in a skunk suit. Later, when the wolf is about to be burned at the stake, the skunk returns the 23 whacks.

# 23% of all New Year’s resolutions are broken in the first week (1/97).

# On December 23rd, 1783, George Washington resigned as commander-in-chief of the Army and retired to his home at Mount Vernon, Va.

# Little Rock Businessman Charles Trie visited the White House 23 times to make questionable donations during Clinton’s first term.

# On December 23rd, 1823, the poem "A Visit From St. Nicholas" ("Twas The Night...") by Clement Moore was published anonymously in the Troy (NY) Sentinel.

# Two-thirds of Americans polled would take a pay cut or reduce their hours for more family time. Women would give up 23% of their income, versus men’s 18%.

# Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass), co-author of the Telecommunications Act, joined 3 other lawmakers and a coalition of 23 groups in endorsing an open letter that urged Jack Valenti to revise its new ratings system for television to more accurately reflect pragram content (12/96).

# Harry’s New York Bar, the expatriate-magnet in Paris that was a stomping ground for Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Gertrude Stein, got its name in 1923.

# The US Government spent $23 million in 1995 to find out how long it takes to deliver the mail.

# A recent internet treatise on Mentos commercials cited the television show Three’s Company as having 23 minutes of useless information (11/96).

# More than 500 people, including the chiefs of 23 American Indian tribes, gathered in Myrtle Beach, SC for a five-day annual conference of Indians. Activities included fish and wildlife projects, housing programs and bingo and gaming laws (10/96).

# Wired magazine had an ad for The cd-rom game You Don’t Know Jack, which has won 23 gaming awards.

# 10111 is the binary equivalent to 23. Note the five digits, yet another connection to the Law of Fives.

# Port 23 is the standard TCP/IP port for Telnet.

# 2^3 bits is how computers communicate (bytes).

# Conversion of 23 to 13: In base 5, 23 = 2x5 +3 = 13 in decimal notation. 13 is a significant number, being the actual level of most floors labeled 14 in hotels.

# Adolf Hitler organized the National Socialist Congress on January 23. On November 23 he tried to take over.

# The Rosicrucian (AMORC) Annual Outdoor Fete is held on September 23, when the sun enters the sign of Libra.

# December 23, 679 A.D. was the date that Dagobert II, a Merovingian King was murdered. Speculation, derived from the research in a book entitled "Holy Blood, Holy Grail", leads one to conclude this assasination was performed in connivance with the Catholic Church. The church leaders, unhappy with Dagobert's apparent policy of religious tolerance in his kingdom, located in the south of France, allegedly got him out of the way so that their best interests would be served. A predecessor of Dagobert, Clovis, had an alliance with the Catholic church, so it is possible that church leaders saw Dagobert's actions as a betrayal of what was considered a long standing policy of pro-Catholic reforms.

# October 23 4004 BCE is the supposed date of God's creation of the world.

# June 15th, 1904 (19 + 04 = 23) is the date that the "General Slocum" boat catches fire and over a thousand die. This is also the day James Joyce uses in Ulysses, who mentions the General Slocum disaster repeatedly within this book.

# April 19th (4+19=23) is the date of the Battles of Lexington, Waco, and Oaklahoma.

# There are more reported UFO sightings on July 23rd than any other day.

# September 23rd is Yom Kippur and the Fall Equinox.

# December 23, 2012 is the day the classic Mayans said the world would end.

# The human biorhythm cycle is 23 days long.

# Asteroid researchers measuring the rotation periods of asteroids reported that none were found with periods of less than 2.3 hours. A rotation period of less than 2.3 hours would cause them to be torn apart by centrifugal force.

# The axis of the Earth is 23.5 degrees.

# Both the average Lunar cycle and average menstrual cycles are 28 (23 + 5).

# According to the Tantrists, the male sex cycle is 23 days.

# One theory states that there were 23 Annunaki, the advance team of aliens who aided in the seeding of life on this planet.

# The Harmonic Convergence occures every 23,000 years.

# Daniel 8:14: "...2300 days the sanctuary will be reconsecrated..."

# John Dillinger robbed 26 banks, but only 23 for money.

# Vanadium is the 23rd element.

# There are 23 joints in the human arm.

# On May 23, 1939, the newly built submarine USS Squalus sank off the eastern seaboard. A sister ship, the USS Sculpin, sped to the rescue, and saved more than half of the fifty-six-man crew. The Squalus was salvaged and renamed the Sailfish. In 1943 the Sculpin was sunk by the Japanese who took forty-two crew members prisoner, and placed half of them on board the aircraft carrier Cuyo. As it approached Japan, the Cuyo was torpedoed by the Sailfish and went down with all hands. The crew of the Sailfish rejoiced at their victory - unaware that they had just killed half the survivors of the sub that had come to their rescue four years earlier.

# Actress Carol Channing and author Norman Mailer were both born on January 31, 1923.

[Jay-qu]

Wow there is 500 facts from human history containing the number 23 - now if I felt like it (and I dont!) I bet I could go and find just as many, if not more, 'facts' that contain the number 24.. or any other number for that matter. I fail to see any signifigance

 

Do you care to put forward any hypothesis? Why are you doing this?

[Turtle]

Twenty-three is the tenth prime-number and the ninth odd prime-number.

 

PS

Why are you doing this?

 

He/she is promoting the new movie The Number 23.

[Zythryn]

Twenty-three is the tenth prime-number and the ninth odd prime-number.

 

And, if you multiply (10 (from above) * 23) and subtract (9 (from above) * 23) you get... 23!!

 

There are millions of things that can be turned into 23. Also, millions that can be turned into 24, 25, 26 and so on. I don't think this is worth study beyond any other number.

Unless you are proposing there is something unusual about this?

[Turtle]

And, if you multiply (10 (from above) * 23) and subtract (9 (from above) * 23) you get... 23!!

 

There are millions of things that can be turned into 23. Also, millions that can be turned into 24, 25, 26 and so on. I don't think this is worth study beyond any other number.

Unless you are proposing there is something unusual about this?

 

No, I was proposing your point by playing along with an example. :hyper: As I say, this thread is a marketing ploy for the new movie coming out.

[Mercedes Benzene]

As I say, this thread is a marketing ploy for the new movie coming out.

 

In the earth science forums nonetheless.

[CraigD]

My birthday is 2/23/1969. Also, 32/26 (my age) = 1.23.

If your birthday is 2/23/1969, you’re currently 37, not 26! :naughty:

 

And 32/26 isn’t 1.23, it’s a repeating fraction, 1.230769 230769 … - um, I suppose this last won’t really discourage “23” finding fans. :shrug:

 

This coincidence stuff just isn’t as much fun when many of the facts are wrong!

[infamous]

This thread has been moved to the Strange Claims fourm. I see no good reason for it to occupy space within the Earth Science forum.........Infy

[arkain101]

Here is how you debunk the whole retarded numbers game!!

 

Everytime you get the number 23, do the same thing you did to every other number 2+3=5

 

Wow, now every fact is infact 5! or 2-3=1 !

 

If you delve into this world wide phenomina of thinking that purposely added up (Notice they only add numbers!) numbers and think it means something, your going to get real f'd up in the head!

 

the #1 shows up in the world about 33% more often than any other of the 9 digits. One would assume it would be around 10% of the time considering the 10 digits and making it fair, but no.. I think its 1 or 0 that roxrz UR boxorz!

[Odin]

Actually you are misinformed about the Oswald Theorom. The .223 shell that you say Oswald used would not be compatable with the .222 that the Secret Service had photographed him with. Furthermore the .223 cartridges were incorporated for the Armalite which is an assault rifle that closely resembles an M-16 to which uses standard NATO 5.56mm. The .223 didnt come out until 1964- to which is 8 months after Kennedys assasination.

The .222 Remington was a new rifle introduced as a new design not carrying over a replicated calibre shell

[ErlyRisa]

Seen the movie PI?

 

ho - here is a cool co-incidence...

 

PI , spell as PIE - circular - one is edible - E is the other letter therefore PI is Edible!!!

 

but if E=mc^2

 

therfore pimc^2 and I joined a religious sect called the pimc squared (pro-anounce pimphs) than

 

Pi intergration manifests confusion (especially when it dissapears from the window sile -unless u were the one that ate it!)

 

and if the leavened bread that cristains eat is in the chape of an O and the current spelling of Christamass ommits christ with an X ie Xmas and ie is short for internet explorer manufactured by Msoft than it suffices to say that PIMC squared is - X, where ie = christ and M is soft or T is equivalent to Christ (proof for shape of cross), yet the Xross is set on an 45 degree angle, and S intertwinded in an X is the Swchtstick than by all judgment devined in me a pimc^2 = ho

 

--anyone see the loop? --watch the movie!!! (Pi, not 23!)

[CraigD]

PI , spell as PIE - circular - one is edible - E is the other letter therefore PI is Edible!!!

This reminds me of a very old (at least pre 1950, I suspect at least centuries older, roughly as old as the first person who used the word “pie” to refer to a food and knew some geometry) joke:

A farmer’s son goes to university. Returning home after 1 term, he’s eager to impress his parents with his newfound knowledge. At dinner, his mother asks him what he’s learned so far.

“I learned that the area of a circle is [math]\pi[/math] R squared,” replies the son.

“Huh,” responds the father. “that’s what we’re paying them to teach you? Any fool can see that pie is round – any you don’t even have the grammer right!”

 

My father, born 1928, though this was a very funny joke. I’ve yet to meet anyone born after 1950 who agreed.