21 May: 141

Today is the 141^st day of the year. 10 fun facts about the number 141:

1. London Bus route 141 runs between Palmers Green and London Bridge bus station. A bus operating on route 141 was involved in an accident near Monument station in February 2010. Eleven people including the driver were injured when the bus crashed into a set of railings and narrowly avoided falling down the steps into the station.

2. 141 is the dialling prefix for withholding one's Caller ID in the United Kingdom.

3. It’s the atomic number of unquadunium, a theoretical chemical element.

4. 141 Lumen is a carbonaceous Asteroid, approximately 130 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on January 13, 1875, by Paul and Prosper Henry, but Paul is the brother who was given the credit for this discovery. It is named for Lumen: Récits de l'infini, a book by the astronomer Camille Flammarion.

5. K-141 Kursk was a Russian nuclear cruise missile Submarine, which sank in the Barents Sea on 12 August 2000.

6. Psalm 141 is attributed to David, and is a plea to God for protection from the psalmist's enemies, and also from temptation to sin. It begins: “Lord, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.”

7. Shakespeare's Sonnet 141 has the theme of discrepancy between the poet's physical senses and wits on the one hand and his heart on the other. The "five wits" that are mentioned are common sense, imagination, fantasy, instinct, and memory. The sonnet begins: “In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes, For they in thee a thousand errors note; But ’tis my heart that loves what they despise, Who, in despite of view, is pleas’d to dote”.

8. Route 141 is a 7-mile route on the National Cycle Network, connecting Wylam and the upper reaches of the Tyne.

9. The Roman numeral for 141 is CXLI and in binary it’s 10001101.

10. In numerology this number has an energy of independence but also a sense of community. The person influenced by it tends to present as an outstanding member of the community who is determined to benefit it. Although it can go off by itself now and again, exploring new vistas or ways of doing things, it never shrugs off its sense of responsibility.

Character birthday

Flux, aka Sarah Pryor, a genetic variant probability alterer. Her father was abusive and largely absent; her mother died of cancer when she and her younger sister Alyson were still children. Sarah promised her mother on her deathbed that she would always take care of Alyson. This resulted, on one occasion, in her losing her job for taking time out to rescue her sister and missing an important meeting. Later that same day a trip to the local pub to drown their sorrows led to an altercation between Alyson and a former boyfriend who was there with another woman. Both sisters used their powers during the fight and were spotted by an employee of Llew Powell, who was at the time on the lookout for people with powers to join his Combat Team Alpha. He called upon the sisters a day later to offer them places.