23

Watched this movie today called the number 23. A bit of a freaky movie. Its about the obscession with the number 23 which drives the people almost crazy. They see it everywhere, in names, number plates, dates, events everything, until they cannot escape it and resort to suicide. The guy (Jim Carey) get into it throuhg a book that his wife buys for him on his birthday. Its a chain of events which lead from one another. I wont discuss it al incase any of you are goona watch it. Its a good movie should definately see it. Some interesting facts

- The blood takes 23 seconds for one circulation through the body
- Humans have 46 chormosomes and the baby gets 23 from each parent
- The earth revolves around its axis on 23 degreees. When they found out that it is actually 23.5, fanatics claimed that is mearly a number derived from 2+3 hence 23 again
- The Hiroshima bomb was dropped at 8:15 which makes 8+15 = 23
- Charles Darwin's Origin of Species was published in 1859 : 1+8+5+9 = 23. Two divided by three makes 0.666 recurring ... number of the devil
- Nash the noble proze winner and the father of the nash equilibrium theory was obscessed wit hthe number. he publishes 23 papers
- The terrorist attack of september 11 2001 : 9+11+2+0+0+1 = 23
- In the bible the first 23 verses of the first chapter of Genesis talk about act of creation while the 23rd chapter talks about death.
- The most detailed accounts of Julius ceaser's death tell that he was stabbed 23 times
- W is the 23rd letter of the Latin alphabet. It has two points down and three points up.
- Titanic sank on 4/15/1912 which means 4+1+5+1+9+1+2=23
- December 23, 2012 is the day the classic Mayans said the world would end.
- In Islam, the Quran was revealed in a total of 23 years to Muhammad.
- In the religion of Discordianism, 23 is considered a holy number
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And most of my friends and I were born in the year 1985 which is 1+9+8+5 = 23!!!! creepy
So is this just selective thinking or really a natural mystery?There are other rations adn numebrs in the world which hold a mustical and facinating powers. for example the golden ratio ( which deserves a blog post of its own) Laterzz