21 August: 233

Today is the 233rd day of the year. 10 things you might not know about the number 233:

1. If Ray Bradbury had used the metric system, his famous novel would have been called "Celsius 233."
2. +233 is the telephone country code for Ghana.
3. The address of the Willis Tower in Chicago is 233 South Wacker Drive.
4. The 233 Spanish Martyrs, also known as The Martyrs of Valencia or Jose Aparico Sanz and 232 Companions, were a group of martyrs from the Spanish Civil War, beatified in March 2001 by Pope John Paul II. This was the largest number of persons to be beatified at once up to that time.
5. 233 Asterope is a large main-belt asteroid, discovered in 1883 by Alphonse Borrelly and named after Asterope, one of the Pleiades.
6. The Train from Nowhere by Michel Thaler, said to be the first book with no verbs, has 233 pages.
7. The last chapter of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon is 233. The book doesn't actually have that many chapters; the author used prime numbers for all the chapters.
8. The year 233 was a common year starting on a Tuesday, known at the time as the Year of the Consulship of Claudius and Paternus.
9. The Roman numeral for 233 is CCXXXIII and in Binary it's 1110100.
10. In numerology, 233 is business oriented, creative and co-operative. People affected by the number tend to be efficient, optimistic, inspiring and focussed on building things of benefit which will last a long time.

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