March 27: 86

Today is the 86^th day of the year. 10 fun facts about the number 86:

1. There are 86 metals on the modern Periodic Table.
2. However, the element with the atomic number 86 is not a metal. It’s radon, a radioactive, colourless, odourless, tasteless noble gas.
3. 86 in Roman numerals is LXXXVI. In binary it’s 1010110.
4. "86" is a song by Green Day from the album Insomniac.
5. In London, the 86 Bus runs between Stratford Bus Station and Romford Station.
6. 86 -Eighty Six- is a Japanese science fiction light novel series written by Asato Asato and illustrated by Shirabii.
7. +86 is the code for international direct dial phone calls to China.
8. 86 is an American slang term, primarily in the food and restaurant industry, indicating that something is not available or out of stock. It has by extension come to mean a customer who is barred. Something that has been eighty-sixed has been got rid of. The 1989 novel Eighty-sixed by David B. Feinberg, for example, refers to the gay community being wiped out by AIDS.
9. The 86 Gallery is an art gallery based in Ventura, California in which all but about four of the artworks on display contain the number 86.
10. In numerology, a person with the number 86 in a major position of their numerology chart tends to have an adventurous outlook on life. Maintaining a balanced outlook on life is important to them. They are realistic and tends to make a good executive with appropriate education and experience.

Character Birthday

Arrow, member of Combat Team Epsilon. He and his adoptive siblings Touchstone and Questor get their powers from a fragment of a meteorite they picked up after the meteor destroyed the orphanage they’d been living in. The only survivors, they were adopted by one of the firefighters who attended the scene. Arrow’s power is superspeed. However, both he and his siblings have developed a dependency on the fragment and cannot be parted from it, or each other.