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13 is supposed to be an unlucky number in many countries, and superstitions about it abound. there are buildings that don't have a designated thirteenth floor (floor numbers jump from 12 to 14) and Friday the thirteenth is commonly held to be a lucrative series of increasingly shite films the unlucky date. In Ireland the Government felt obliged to alter car registration numbers in anticipation of faltering sales in 2013.[1]

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[edit] Origin

The unpopularity of 13 goes back a long way; the Code of Hammurabi, the earliest known code of laws, has no thirteenth law.[2] Tradition holds that Judas Iscariot was the thirteenth person to sit down at the Last Supper, and Loki was the thirteenth Norse god at the feast where he killed Balder. The reasons why these worthies were symbolically placed thirteenth, though, is lost in the mists of time.

[edit] People who like 13

[edit] People who hate 13

  • Triskaidekaphobics

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