Friday, 23 February 2024

24 February: 55

Today is the 55th day of the year. 10 facts about the number 55:

  1. The address of The Élysée, the official residency of the French Republic president, is 55 rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré in Paris.

  2. +55 is the code for international direct dial phone calls to Brazil.

  3. 55 is the atomic number of Caesium (Cs). It is a soft, silvery-golden alkali metal with a melting point of 28.5 °C (83.3 °F), which makes it one of only five elemental metals that are liquid at or near room temperature.

  4. 55 metres is a sprint event in track and field. It is a relatively uncommon non-championship event for indoor track and field. It's a metrification of the 60-yard dash, which is about 5 inches shorter than 55 metres.

  5. 55 Days at Peking is a 1963 American epic historical war film dramatising the siege of the foreign legations' compounds in Peking during the Boxer Uprising.

  6. In the United States, the National Maximum Speed Law prohibited speed limits higher than 55 miles per hour (90 km/h) from 1974 to 1987.

  7. Orphan 55 is the third episode of the twelfth series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who, first broadcast on BBC One on 12 January 2020.

  8. Kasabian and Mac Miller both released songs called 55. I Can't Drive 55 is a song by Sammy Hagar, and Ol' '55 is a song by Tom Waits.

  9. 55 Tufton Street is a four-storey Georgian-era town-house in Westminster, London, owned by businessman Richard Smith. The building hosts pro-Brex-shit and climate science denial think tanks and is therefore in part responsible for everything that’s wrong with the UK these days.

  10. The essence of the number 55 in numerology is independence, self-sufficiency, aloneness, curiosity, and self-determination. It is witty, keen to explore new things, and adventurous with a focus on expression of personal freedom.

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