Tomorrow, 19 January 2019, Supercool will turn a whopping 15 years old.
To mark this milestone, here’re fifteen facts related to the number fifteen (which may come in handy for a pub quiz one day).
Fifteen is:
- the atomic number of phosphorus – used on the rough striking surface to light safety matches
- represented as ‘F’ or (0xF) in hexadecimal
- a triangular number
- the number of Shostakovich’s last symphony
- the number of tiles in a 15 puzzle
- the first point scored in modern tennis
- the number of minutes everyone will be famous for, according to Andy Warhol
- the emergency number in Pakistan
- a song by Taylor Swift
- the number of blooms in Van Gogh’s famous vase of Sunflowers
- the name of the first Jacobite rising, in 1715
- when pluralised, a type of Irish fridge cake
- one of the British Board of Film Classification's ratings
- the number of miles to the Love Shack, baby!
- traditionally celebrated with the gift of Crystal …
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Cheers – here's to the next 15 years!