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1 .This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute.
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2 .It's Friday the 13th.
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3 ."You've gotta ask yourself a question: 'Do I feel lucky?'"
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4 .If you don't, you could be suffering from triskaidekaphobia.
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5 .That's a fear of the number 13.
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6 .Napoleon, Herbert Hoover and FDR are well-documented triskaidekaphobics.
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7 .But why do folks think 13 is unlucky?
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8 .Particularly when it falls on a Friday, as it will three times this year?
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9 .The University of Delaware's Thomas Fernsler is known as Dr.13.
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10 .He's an expert on the number's bad reputation, which may date back to biblical times.
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11 .After all, the 13th guest at the Last Supper was Judas.
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12 .And you know how that worked out for Jesus, who was crucified on a Friday.
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13 .Other factoids from Fernsler:
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14 .The first person to die in a car accident was killed in New York City on September the 13th in 1899, although that was a Wednesday.
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15 .And the ill-fated flight of Apollo 13 launched at the 13th minute of the 13th hour Central Standard Time on April 11th, 1970.
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16 .And the numerals in the date 4/11/70 add up to 13!
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17 .As long as you don't include the 19 in 1970.
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18 .Hey, sometimes superstition can be hard work.
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19 .Today, some tall buildings lack a 13th floor.
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20 .Well, they have a 13th floor, but they call it the 14th floor.
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21 .Because the purveyors of bad luck are apparently easily fooled.
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22 .Meanwhile, over in France, panicky Parisian party-throwers can even hire a quatorziижme, a professional 14th guest.
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23 .Like Judas, Mark Twain was allegedly once poised to be the 13th guest at a dinner party.
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24 .A superstitious friend warned the very rational Twain not to go.
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25 .But Twain went.
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26 ."It was bad lucky,' he later remarked."They only had food for 12. "
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27 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.
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