I don't know if any of yall believe in that stuff but I found 13 interesting facts:
There are two more Friday the 13ths this year, one in March and one in November. Three Friday the 13ths in one year only happens every 11 years!
- The British Navy built a ship named Friday the 13th. On its maiden voyage, the vessel left dock on a Friday the 13th, and was never heard from again.
- Apollo 13 launched at 13:13 CST on Apr. 11, 1970. The sum of the date's digits (4-11-70) is 13 (as in 4+1+1+7+0 = 13). And the explosion that crippled the spacecraft occurred on April 13 (not a Friday). The crew did make it back to Earth safely, however.
- Many hospitals have no room 13, while some tall buildings skip the 13th floor. You should go check Wiley Tower and see if its true.
- Fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskavedekatriaphobia as well as friggatriskaidekaphobia. Triskaidekaphobia is fear of the number 13.
- Butch Cassidy, notorious American train and bank robber, was born on Friday, April 13, 1866.
- Fidel Castro was born on Friday, Aug. 13, 1926.
- President Franklin D. Roosevelt would not travel on the 13th day of any month and would never host 13 guests at a meal.
- Napoleon and Herbert Hoover were also had a fear of the number 13.
- Superstitious diners in Paris can hire a quatorzieme, or professional 14th guest.
- Mark Twain once was the 13th guest at a dinner party. A friend warned him not to go. "It was bad luck," Twain later told the friend. "They only had food for 12."
- Woodrow Wilson considered 13 his lucky number. He arrived in Normandy, France on Friday, Dec. 13, 1918, for peace talks, only to return with a treaty he couldn't get Congress to sign.
- Numerologists consider 12 to be a complete number - 12 months in a year, 12 signs of the zodiac, 12 tribes of Israel, 12 apostles of Jesus, and 12 eggs in a dozen.
- The seals on the back of a dollar bill include 13 steps on the pyramid, 13 stars above the eagle's head, 13 war arrows in the eagle's claw and 13 leaves on the olive branch.
source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090213/sc_livescience/13factsaboutfridaythe13th

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