Dillinger
Guerrilla Ontologist
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Pay attention to all the 23's you encounter from now on and you'll find that the number 23 appears more often then any other 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 chromosomes each parents gives to human DNA. - John Dillinger robbed 26 banks, but only 23 for money. Now that's a statement. 2323 Clark St. Chicago, IL: this is the theater where John Dillinger was allegedly shot while leaving after the flick Manhattan Melodrama ended.
- The pattern of DNA shows irregular connections at every 23rd section (angtroms).
- The human biorhythm cycle is generally 23 days
- It takes 23 seconds for blood to circulate through the human body
- Humans have 23 vertebra running down their main bit.
- The number of joints in the human arm is 23.
- April 23 - William Shakespeare was born and died on this date. Most of Shakespeare is known to us through the first folio published in 1623.
- 23 is the first prime number in which both digits are prime numbers and add up to another prime number.
- Archbishop Ussher reckoned that the earth was created on October 23rd, 4004 BC, while the Mayans believed the world will end on December 23rd, 2012.
- The ideal orbit for a satellite is 23,000 miles above the Earth ("Clarke's Orbit")
- First landing on the Moon was in the Sea of Tranquility, 23.63 degrees East
- Second landing was in the Ocean of Storms, 23.42 degrees West
- First two landings were Apollo 11 & 12 (11+12= 23)
- The Earth is tilted at an angle of 23.5 degrees (At the moment)
- Max Headroom broadcast on Network 23.
- In the final assault on the Death Star, Luke Skywalker is in Red 5. Red 2 and Red 3 start the bomb runs at 23
degrees. "Stay on target!" - AA-23 is thedesignation of the detention block on the first Death Star used to imprison Princess Leia
- Popeye is seen repeatedly pondering the number 23 in many of his 1970's TV Cartoons.
- 23 Axioms in Euclid's Geometry.
- Standard TCP/IP port for Telnet is 23.
- The design of the United States flag has changed 23 times since the declaration of Independence.
- In the movie THX1138 (directed by George Lucas and produced by Francis Ford Coppala), the main police droid is number 23.
- Comet Hale-Bopp was closest to earth on the 23rd of March 1997
- Support your local gunslinger; James Garner's character, who despises roulette, announces that he has "an irresistible urge to bet on the number 23." 23 becomes a running gag throughout the comedy-western.
- The Knights Templars had only 23 Grandmasters. Jacques de Molay was the 23rd and last of the Templar Grandmasters.
- The address of the Freemasons lodge in Stafford, England is 23 Jaol Rd. In New York it is on 23rd street.
- Hexagram 23 in the 'I Ching' oracle means "break apart"
- On average every 23rd wave crashing to shore is twice as large as normal.
- It's -23 celcius on Mars
- There are 23 rings in J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Lord of the Rings'
- 23 in telegrapher's code means "break the line"
- There are 23 letters in the Latin alphabet
- Aleister Crowley defined number 23 as "parting, removal, separation, joy, a thread, and life . . ."
- 23 HOP is the club where the Toronto rave scene was created.
- 2/3 =.666
- In Dickens'Tale of Two Cities, Sidney Carlton, the 23rd man, is guillotined in the final scene.
- Allen Ginsberg died at 2:39pm April 5: 2+3+9+4+5=23. The code at the bottom of the Reuter's article about Ginsberg's death reads: '23:28
- June 1, 1996; The day Timothy Leary died. The date 6-1-1996 provides 6+1+1+9+9+6=32, or 23 backwards. Fortean Times #97 reported that Timothy Leary's ashes were to be launched into space the 2nd week of March (the third month). The launch contained the ashes of Timothy Leary,Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and 23 others...
- There are exactly 23 plainly visible characters (letters & numbers) on the front of U.S. Coins.
- There is no known 23rd Chapter to Revelations.
- Psalm 23: "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want..."
- Two-thirds of the angels decided to stick it out in Heaven with God after Lucifer and the other third fell.
- Hiroshima was bombed on August 6, 1945 (8+6+4+5=23).
- The USA performed 23 tests of atomic detonations at Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific.
- After the Rodney King verdict, a Korean shopkeeper during the L.A riots can be clearly seen shooting at looters from the roof of a building in front of a large sign proclaiming the number 23 and nothing else.
- Parliamentary Procedure; 23 votes are required to rescind a Motion.
- Michael Jordan's retired shirt number is 23, which is also the day of his father's death.
- September 23 The Fall Equinox.
- 1723 A.D. The year that Adam Weishaupt revived the Illuminati.
- Nissan is a brand of Japanese cars. In Japanese, "ni" is 2, and "san" is 3. So Nissan would be 23.
- In the film version (titled Alice) of Lewis Carroll's classic _Alice in Wonderland_ by the Czech director/animator Jan Svankmejer, Alice's taxidermically stuffed rabbit flings open the door by dressing itself and running 'away'. The case that holds the white rabbit (i.e. Pookah (i.e. one who takes you OUT)) is labeled "No. 23".
- The Police; Their song "Synchronicity I" is 3:23 long.
- Kurt Cobain; Born 1967: 1+9+6+7=23. Died 1994: 1+9+9+4=23.
- 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 two gives you 23.
- Sonny Bono died on Jan 5, 98 (1/5/98) -> 1+5+9+8=23
- 23 April 1950 --Lucille Ball & Desi Arnez form Desilu Productions
- W = 23rd letter of the alphabet It's symbol is 2 points down, 3 up.
- WWW = 23+23+23 = 69
- Two-thirds of numbers which are divisible by 2 are not multiples of 3.
- Dutch Shultz, the New York City gangster, had put a contract out on 23-year-old Vincent 'Mad Dog' Coll, who met his end on 23rd St. Shultz himself died on October 23rd, 1935
- A hedgehog maintains a metabolic temperature of 23 degrees
- Lawrence of Arabia; Anthony Quinn's character proclaims he has 23 wounds upon his body.
- There is no No. 23 bus in Dublin (There is a 22a )
- 23+23+2+3 = 51 (Area 51)
- Computers communicate in 2³ bits (bytes).
- 23 days in the male sex cycle (according to Tantrists).
- There are 23 buildings on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington.
- In the early '60's in Tangiers, William Burroughs knew a certain "Captain Clark" who ran a ferry from
Tangiers to Spain. One day, Clark said to Burroughs that he'd been running the ferry 23 years without an accident.
That very day the ferry sank, killing Clark and everyone aboard. In the evening, Burroughs was thinking about this
when he turned on the radio. The first newscast headlined the crash of an airline plane on the New York-Miami
route. The pilot was another Captain Clark and the flight was listed as Flight 23 (ala the line "Captain Clark
welcomes you aboard."). - December 23, 2012 - The date the Mayans believed the world will end.
- In the movie Airport, the mad bomber has Seat 23.
- In Oliver Stone's Nixon, Tricky Dick's football jersey at Whittier is number 23.
- In the movie Babe, the little piggy is the 23rd contestant for the Sheep Dog contest.
- The number on Adam Sandler's helmet in "Happy Gilmore" is 23.
- In the movie Die Hard III the train derails in subway station 23.
- In the movie "The Prophecy", the Bible belonging to the dead angel Uziel is bookmarked on the 23rd chapter of Revelations.
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978); The first trash truck seen transporting pods is labled number 23.
- In the movie Hackers, the data which causes all the action is take from 'data bank 23'.
- The harmonic convergence occurs every 23,000 years.
- Johannes Kepler was born at 2:30pm in 1571. In astrology, this gives him an Ascendant degree of 23 degrees. He was born at 2:30pm on Dec. 27, 1571 His astrological rising sign was at 23' of the sign Gemini.
- The axis of the Earth (which currently points vaguely at Polaris) describes a circle in the heavens (switching off 'pole stars' and sometimes going without) over a period of 23,000 years.
- On March 14, 1997, NASA representative states that MIR 23 space station is having problems resulting from the February 23, 1997 fire and has used 23 of their oxygen-generating canisters. It is the 23rd day aboard for the Russian crew. Progress 233 supply vehicle has problems of its own and cannot redock with MIR.
- July 23rd is both the Sumerian and Egyptian New Years.
- 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.
- Sesame Street; Bert is a member of the National Association of W Lovers. W is the 23rd letter of the alphabet
- August 23, 1305; The day William Wallace was executed for treason
- Over 50% of the national media is owned by 23 major corporations
- X Files; Ten-Thirteen (10+13=23) is the name of the production company
- The "Dog Days" of summer begin on July 23rd when the star Sirius, in the Constellation of Orion, first rises from behind the sun.
- 2+3=5 (Hail Eris, All Hail Discordia)
- 23 Skidoo
