Just a few off the top of my head, here's some useless facts about the number 88
1. Eighty-eight is considered a refactorable number, a primitive semiperfect number and an untouchable number.
2. It is a palindrome!
3. During oral sex it means performed twice (ate twice).
4. The number of constellations in the sky as defined by the International Astronomical Union.
5. Approximately the number of days it takes Mercury to complete its orbit.
6. Eighty-eight (88) symbolizes fortune and good luck since the word 8 sounds similar to the word F? ( which implies wealth, in Mandarin). The number 8 is considered to be the luckiest number of all in Chinese culture and prices in Chinese supermarkets can often be found containing many 8's. The Chinese government has even been auctioning auto license plates containing many 8s for tens of thousands of dollars. The 2008 Beijing Olympics opened on 8/8/08 at 8 p.m.
7. It is the atomic number of radium.
8. It is the number of keys on a piano (36 black and 52 white).
9. There is a town called Eighty Eight, Kentucky, Zip code 42130.
10. In Star Wars, part of the name of the four IG-88 robots.
11. In Kill Bill, the name of O-Ren Ishii's Army, the Crazy 88's.
12. It is the ISBN Group Identifier for books published in Italy and Switzerland.
13. In miles per hour, the speed the DeLorean automobile must attain in order to travel in time, in the movie Back to the Future trilogy.
14. In Bingo, 88 is known as "Two Fat Ladies"!
15. Used to say "kisses and hugs" among morse code and amateur radio users, as it resembles an image of two lips kissing.
16. 88 Footwear is a skate shoe company developed by skateboarder Kris Markovich, and skateboard photographer Ed Dominick. The name was chosen because 1988 was their favorite year in skateboarding.
17. It resembles double infinity!
18. Chinese speakers also use 88 as a shorthand for "good bye" in SMS and IM chats; the mandarin pronunciation of 88 is "baba" which sounds like "bye bye".
19. Theme of four songs-
'88th Street Blues'- Smokey Wilson
'Rocket 88' by Sam Philips
'88' by Sum 41
'88 Lines about 44 Women' by The Nails
20. It is the only number known whose square has no isolated digits.
21. It is a hotel called Hotel Number 88 in Dublin, Ireland
22. It is referred to as (88) double trouble.
23. It is considered a lucky number in sports.
24. Olds 88 the model number of the Oldsmobile Eighty-Eight automobile.
25. The caliber of the 88 mm anti-aircraft gun used in World War II, commonly known as 88 (acht-acht in German)
26. The designation of two freeways named Interstate 88: one in Illinois and the other in New York.
27. The number of temples on the Shikoku Pilgrimage in Japan.
28. in Japanese, often used to mean "a great many" or "countless"; numbers such as eighteen, eighty, eighty thousand,
29. In hip hop, in the case of which 88 = HH = hiphop
30. A popular ice cream bar manufactured by GB Glace as part of their Nogger product line.
31. In the TV series Black Books (Series 2, Episode 2: "Fever"), the temperature (presumably in fahrenheit) above which Manny's case of Dave's Syndrome will trigger. This is suspected to be a parody of the use of the number 88 in the Back to the Future trilogy (See preceding point)
32. The number of Athena's saints (knights) in Saint Seiya (Knights of the Zodiac)
33. The number of floors of the Petronas Towers, as of 2005 the world's tallest twin buildings.
34. 'The House of 88th Street' is a children's book by Bernard Waber first published in 1962.
35. 'The 88' is a power pop band from Los Angeles
36. Often referred to as Lucky 88.
37. The Cardinal number 7 is used 88 times in The New Testament.
38. This symbol is closely associated with Chinese beliefs that the figure 8 is also known as the symbol of Infinity. Therefore, putting these two together, we have the symbolic meaning of “Endless/forever Prosperity”.
39. Eight triangles of the I-Ching or book of changes,
40. Eighty- Eight also resembles the Chinese pictograph for “Double Happiness.” depicted in a bright red color since red enhances love and romance in a person’s life.
41. The figure 8 is also a Remedial Symbol to help balance occupants when negative symbols or a bad Feng Shui house affects them. The use of Two Eights just doubles the effectiveness of the cure.
42. The 88 symbol is also used universally to help create a flow of energy and unblock stagnant chi.
43. This symbol signifies undying love.
44. 1988 was a leap year.
45. In the movie Donnie Darko, The movie takes place in 1988. Frank tells Donnie the world will end in 28 days,
06 hours, 42 minutes, and 12 seconds. If you add these numbers, the sum is 88.
46. Stephen Hawking's book A Brief History of Time was published in 1988.
47. In The Bible, Wisdom 8:8 reads: "If a man desires much knowledge, she knows the past,
and foretells the future; she knows the subtleties of speeches, and the solutions of
riddles; she foresees signs and wonders, and the outcome of times and ages."
48. In the theory of time travel, the E(8) x E(8) string theory, well-known to many mathematicians, is often referred to
in the study of time travel.
49. There are 88 symbols along with essences, gemstones and affirmations, colors and parts of the holistic body to focus upon in the study of Wicca.
50. 'H' is the 8th letter in the alphabet. Used by Neo Nazi's 'H-H' meaning Heil Hitler.
51. As a tattoo symbol it means salvation.
52. It symbolizes the double directions of the infinity of the Universe.
53. In MahJong, the number of hands designated in these rules is 81. Each hand, depending upon its difficulty, is scored from 1 to 88 points. The points for each hand are added together in a simple sum. In the Chinese Official version, there is a minimum of 8 points needed to declare mahjong.
54. The name of a radio station called Radio88 in Hungary.
55. Star Trek theme composer, Alexander "Sandy" Courage, dies at 88.
56. Starbase 88 was a Federation Starbase in operation during the late 24th Century. The Starbase served as home base of the Seventh Fleet during the Dominion War in Star Trek.
57. Study: 88% of IT Pros Would Steal Passwords or Data if Fired!
58. In numerology, 8 is the number of building, and in some theories, also the number of destruction.
59. Michael Phelps won 8 for 8 Gold Medals.
60. The Philadelphia Flyers once had a line called the Crazy Eights with Eric Lindros at center (88)
61. In the game of eights or crazy eights, each successive player must play a card either of the same suit or of the same rank as that played by the preceding player, or may play an eight and call for any suit. The object is to get rid of all one's cards first.
62. A figure eight is a type of knot frequently used by climbers. Double it and it is doubly safe.
63. "Section 88" means REALLY crazy!
64. Sonnet 88 by Shakespeare "Doing thee vantage, double vantage me."
65. Chinese earthquake occurred exactly 88 days before the Beijing Olympics 2008
66. A dog survived 88 days in building rubble after blast.
67. A California Power Plant was built in Only 88 Days.
68. OMD song 88 Seconds In Greensboro :
88 seconds
Is all it takes
88 seconds
Don't make mistakes
69. '88 Bagel Cartoons' is a book by Mike Clarke.
70. Brahm's composed String Quintets Opus 88 & 111.
71. Term used by jazz and blues musicians to desribe a Piano. Piano's have 88 keys.
72. Started when people used to sign off their e-mails w/the term l8r. (later) Which then became l8r g8r. (later gator) Then was shortened to just 88. See you 88. Catch you later, 88.
73. When experiencing loss and/or dejection: "Fucking 88 man."
74. The speed at which a flux capacitor kicks your time-traveling ass through time.
75. 88 mph can mean some serious shit. "This party just hit 88 mph".
76. A euphamism for a woman's breasts.
77. To DOMINATE taken from the form "DOM in 8's" as the word DOM is sandwich by two 8's. 8DOM8 is also used widely with DOMINING as another former term meaning that one is "dominating".
78. '88'd' which means doubly fucked!
79. '88s&3'- A normal-sized piano (88 keys). The 3 stands for the pedals.
80. 88 Cups Coffee & Tea, is the name of a coffee house in Minden, NV
81. The 88 Million Hidden Truths of Cartoons - By Sundeep Waslekar
82. In the game Warcraft, it is a weapon called the sword of 88 truths.
83. Sonny Bono was elected as mayor of Palm Springs California in 1988.
84. 1988 deaths:
Charles Keeping (illustrator)
Nico (singer)
Chet Baker (Jazz artist)
Jean-Michel Basquait (artist)
Roy Orbison (singer)
John Carrandine (actor)
85. 'The Crazy 88' is a New Zealand Club
86. The Intel 8088 is an Intel x86 microprocessor based on the 8086, with 16-bit registers and an 8-bit external data bus. It can address up to 1 MB of memory. The 8088 was introduced on July 1, 1979
87. A Modern Firearm - Type 88 (QJY 88) general purpose machine gun.
88.There have been 88 people who live in airports, like Iranian Merhan Nasseri, who lived at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport for 18 years because of passport problems and who inspired the Tom Hanks film “The Terminal”
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