23

Yay!!! My 23rd post. I wonder what it should be about....hmm....
Interesting facts about the number 23...

In the year 23, Julius Caesar's son, Tiberius died. After that, Caesar lost interest in his empire and was primarily concerned with finding life's pleasures.

There are 23 letters in the Latin alphabet

Human sex cells have 23 chromosomes

It takes blood 23 seconds to flow through the human body

The eleventh song from Tool's fourth full-length studio album 10,000 Days, "Viginti Tres" (Latin for 23).

"The Number 23" is a 2007 film starring Jim Carrey

23 is the fifth of the mystical numbers...4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42...in Lost

Dr Pepper is advertised as having 23 flavors

23 is the state number of Maine

2 divided by 3 makes 0.666

23rdians are a group of people who subscribe to the mystical power of 23 and see it in multiple combinations throughout daily life

The terrorist attacks on America on 11 September 2001 have been held up as one of the most portentous examples of the disturbing power of 23. The figures in the date (9+11+2+0+0+1) add up to 23

In the Old Testament, it is widely held that Adam and Eve had 23 daughters

The Knights Templar, the order of soldier monks who eventually fell foul of the Vatican and have been the subject of conspiracy theories about the Holy Grail, had 23 Grand Masters

The first morse code transmission - "What hath God wrought?" - was from the Bible passage Numbers 23:23

The Birthday Paradox states that a group of 23 randomly-selected people is the smallest number where there will be a probability higher than 50 per cent that two people will share the same birthday

"W" is the 23rd letter of the Latin alphabet. It has two points down and three points up

The pattern of DNA shows irregular connections at every 23rd section

Only 23 people allowed in a AOL chatroom

In Aleister Crowley's Cabalistic Dictionary, he defines the number 23 as the number of "parting, removal, separation, joy, a thread, and life..."

The first song on Side A of the Beatles first Album took 23 takes to record

U2... U is the 21st letter in the alphabet added to the number 2 gives you 23

The number 23 appears in many mysterious coincidences - but only to those who notice them

23 and 80's

It seems all day, I've been bombarded by the number 23 and references to 80's music. It's pretty astounding when the same themes keep repeating themselves almost like deja vu. I had to listen to the music at work today (not that it's a bad thing) and it was referred to on a show I watched, then when I got online, Yahoo had something about it on there front page and I was just asked by a friend about a song from the 80's if I liked it or not. As for the number 23, I was speaking with someone and just happened to notice 23 written on a piece of paper they were holding...nothing too out of the ordinary, but then I went and sat down, was reading the newspaper and drinking a Dr. Pepper (with its 23 flavors) and the number just seemed to be popping out in the articles. If you've never heard, The 23 enigma is pretty cool, let alone the movie (The Number 23) they did about it. Even as I finish this blog at 23 hundred hours, it just keeps rearing its pretty little self. I love it when stuff like this happens. It's as if you're constantly propelled by a force to recognize something that you may have otherwise disregarded.