24 May: 144

Today is the 144th day of the year. 10 things you didn't know about the number 144:

1. 144 is the square of 12, a dozen dozen, also known as a gross, a word which may have originated from French (grosse) or Latin (grossus) meaning thick. A dozen gross (1728) is called a great gross.
2. 144 is the twelfth Fibonacci number, and the largest one to also be a square.
3. 144 is the smallest number to have 15 divisors: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 12, 16, 18, 24, 36, 48, 72 and 144.
4. It's the telephone number for directory assistance in Israel; for medical emergencies in Austria and Switzerland; and for animals in danger in the Netherlands.
5. The wall of New Jerusalem, shown by the seventh angel in the book of Revelation was 144 cubits long.
6. It's the atomic number of unquadquadium, a theoretical chemical element.
7. Mahjong is usually played with a set of 144 tiles.
8. Tupolev Tu-144 was a Russian supersonic aircraft, sometimes referred to as "The Russian Concorde".
9. Asteroid 144 Vibilia was discovered on 3 June 1875, by Christian Peters at Litchfield Observatory of the Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. He named it after Vibilia, the Roman goddess of travelling, because he had recently returned from a journey across the world to observe the transit of Venus.
10. In numerology 144 is a number which relates to humanitarianism, tolerance and exploration. Those affected by the number are pragmatic and methodic; they think through the stages needed to achieve their goals and they get things done.

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