The number 27 is often regarded as a mythical, mysterious and quite important number across the span of time, from the Romans to the biblical age.
Here we’re going to go through twenty-seven astounding facts about this fascinating number from world records to birth of inventions, 27 really does seem to be a magic number.
So without further ado, here we go;
- The number 27 is often referred to as the trinity of trinities as 3x3x3=27, 3×3=9 and 3×9=27.
- The Planet is made up of 72% Salt water and 1% fresh water, leaving 27% of the world as land.
- Marvel’s Deadpool issue #27 holds the Guinness World Record for the most comic book characters on one cover.
- On October 27th 1939, Nylon officially unveiled their stockings to a 4,000 strong crowd of enthusiastic middle-class women starting their dominance of ladies hosiery.
- An official tennis court has a width of 27 feet.
- Both the Spanish and Hebrew alphabet have 27 letters each.
- John Steinbeck born February 27th 1902 wrote 27 books including Of Mice and Men.
- Some bands like the number that much they name their songs after it, Fall Out Boy and Dave Matthews Band both have a song called 27.
- In a Rubik’s Cube there are 27 cubes.
- The Twenty-Seven Club is a club for celebrities who died age 27 including Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison.
- On November 27th Queen’s “Somebody to Love” was released.
- The planet Uranus has 27 moons.
- The human hand has 27 bones from the scaphoid to the distal phalange.
- Bruce Lee was born on November 27th 1940, he was also one of the first people to try contact lenses.
- The Old Testament’s Leviticus has 27 chapters.
- An elephant has 27 pairs of chromosomes.
- NGC 27 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda.
- A British army rifle platoon consists of 27 men and an officer.
- Eddie Izzard ran 27 marathons in 27 days.
- Samuel Morse, the inventor of Morse code, was born on April 27th.
- In 17 AD, to celebrate the Secular Games, Emperor Augustus commissioned ‘Carmen Saeculare’, a hymn by Horace, sang by twenty-seven boys and twenty-seven girls.
- The Roman Empire was formed in 27 BC by Augustus after Julius Caesar’s assassination.
- Book 27 of Proverbs has 27 verses.
- Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland was born on January 27th. A colored binding copy of Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark with its dust jacket is worth £27,000.
- 27 of the animals used during the filming of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey died.
- On the Waterfront, a 1954 film, won the best picture at the 27th academy awards.
- Mozart was born on January 27th, 1756. Mozart also produced 27 piano concertos and 27 concert arias.
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