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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute.

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It's Friday the 13th.

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"You've gotta ask yourself a question: 'Do I feel lucky?'"

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If you don't, you could be suffering from triskaidekaphobia.

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That's a fear of the number 13.

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Napoleon, Herbert Hoover and FDR are well-documented triskaidekaphobics.

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But why do folks think 13 is unlucky?

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Particularly when it falls on a Friday, as it will three times this year?

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The University of Delaware's Thomas Fernsler is known as Dr.13.

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He's an expert on the number's bad reputation, which may date back to biblical times.

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After all, the 13th guest at the Last Supper was Judas.

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And you know how that worked out for Jesus, who was crucified on a Friday.

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Other factoids from Fernsler:

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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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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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And the numerals in the date 4/11/70 add up to 13!

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As long as you don't include the 19 in 1970.

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Hey, sometimes superstition can be hard work.

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Today, some tall buildings lack a 13th floor.

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Well, they have a 13th floor, but they call it the 14th floor.

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Because the purveyors of bad luck are apparently easily fooled.

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Meanwhile, over in France, panicky Parisian party-throwers can even hire a quatorziижme, a professional 14th guest.

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Like Judas, Mark Twain was allegedly once poised to be the 13th guest at a dinner party.

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A superstitious friend warned the very rational Twain not to go.

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But Twain went.

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"It was bad lucky,' he later remarked."They only had food for 12. "

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Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.

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