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If you see the number 11 coming up to do with people in your life, they are, maybe one of your soulmates.

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Oh! Hey everyone. Welcome to another episode of We Can Be Weirdos. My name is Dan Shriver. I I am coming to you from my home at Ruffway by C.

And I thought I'd start this week's episode by mentioning a nice little bit of synchronicity that happened just now.

I'm sitting here in my office.

I'm just doing some final touches on my kids' book, which I've mentioned before.

It's called Impossible Things.

It's coming out this July.

You can get it everywhere. Anyway, I'm sitting here, I'm doing research on it, and I was looking

into the number 13. I just wanted to quickly find out if there's any notable people in modern

history who've been scared by the number 13, because we don't really talk about it enough.

I know that we'll know that it's superstitiously seen as a very bad number. We all know that, but I think we sometimes

forget how it's affecting the, the day-to-day life of, I don't know, people like architects, you know,

like it is pretty nuts that most buildings don't have a 13th floor. Not all of them, obviously, but a huge amount don't. I read this thing, which is that in 2002,

Otis, you know, the lift manufacturers, someone went through their papers and they noted that

it was something like 85% of all the elevators that they'd installed up until that point were to

buildings that didn't have a 13th floor. So, you know, it is a massive thing,

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