5 April: 95

Today is the 95^th day of the year. 10 things you might not know about the number 95:

1. Interstate 95 is a freeway that runs from Florida to Maine.
2. +95 is the dialling code for the Union of Myanmar.
3. It’s the racing number of Lightning McQueen, the main character in Disney-Pixar's film Cars.
4. It’s also the number on the steam locomotive Woody is seen driving at the beginning of Toy Story 3. This is a reference to Lightning McQueen’s racing number and the year the first Toy Story was released.
5. The Bay Ridge–95th Street is the southern terminal station on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. The station is located in Brooklyn and is served by the R train.
6. In London, the 95 bus route runs between Southall Broadway and Shepherds Bush Green.
7. The STS-95 Space Shuttle Discovery mission was the historic second space flight for Senator John Glenn.
8. 95 is the atomic number of Americium, a synthetic radioactive chemical element with the symbol Am. In the periodic table, it is located under the element europium, and thus by analogy was named after the Americas.
9. The Ninety-five Theses or Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences was written by Martin Luther, professor of moral theology at the University of Wittenberg, Germany in 1517.
10. In numerology the influence of 95 brings intelligence and curiosity and an interest in many things. Interests can change quickly and often, but there will always be an interest in the right of everyone to be free and express themselves freely. The circumstances of the number 95 tend to have a preponderance of changing life circumstances — travel, meeting new people, being exposed to new ideas, being enticed by new ways of looking at things. 95 endeavours to try as many different things as possible; not to become an expert, but for the experience.

Character Birthday

Sea Raven, aka Roberta Swanson. She has the power of flight and can survive underwater. She is from the Channel Island of Jersey, and went to school in England where she was part of the friendship group which included Ivory, Jade and Gloria. After school she returned home and joined the coastguard. Her powers were a gift from some grateful aliens she helped rescue when their spacecraft crash landed in the Channel.