Thursday 19 April 2012

15

Did you know that ...
  1. Fifteen is the smallest natural number with seven letters in its name.
  2. 15 is the atomic number of phosphorus.
  3. In Judaism various celebrations start on the 15th day of the month.
  4. There are 15 players in a team in Rugby Union & major Gaelic games.
  5. There are 15 days in each of the 24 cycles of the Chinese calendar.
  6. Interstate 15 is the freeway that runs from California to Montana.
  7. In backgammon, each player has 15 checkers at the start.
  8. Jamie Oliver established the restaurant "Fifteen" to give unemployed young people a chance to have a better future.
  9. The rock band Wire had a song called "The 15th".
  10. American singer Taylor Swift had a song called "Fifteen"
  11. 15 is the number of minutes in a quarter of an hour.
  12. 15 is the number corresponding to The Devil in tarot cards.
  13. The words "uncopyrightable", "dermatoglyphics", "misconjugatedly", and "hydropneumatics", all have 15 letters and are the longest words in the English language that do not repeat a letter.
  14. In 1968 Andy Warhol said that "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes".
  15. My wife and were married 15 years ago today.

Happy Anniversary darling!  I love you.

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