Wednesday, 22 April 2026

23 April: 113

Today is the 113th day of the year. Here are some fun facts about that number.

  1. 113 is the atomic number of nihonium, a synthetic chemical element with the symbol Nh.

  2. A113 is the license plate number on Andy's mother's vehicle in Toy Story.

  3. Which may be because A113 has become an inside joke and Easter egg in media developed by graphic design and character animation alumni of California Institute of the Arts, whose classroom number was A113.

  4. 113 is the Police (and general emergency) telephone number in Italy, and the non-emergency help number in the Netherlands.

  5. 113 is a French hip hop group from Vitry-Sur-Seine, whose name comes from the name of the building in a housing estate where the members spent much of their youth.

  6. No place in England is more than 113 kilometres from the sea.

  7. The star Arcturus shines 113 times more brightly than our Sun.

  8. 113 Amalthea is an Asteroid discovered in 1871 by German astronomer Robert Luther in Düsseldorf, Germany. It was named after Amalthea from Greek mythology. In Greek mythology, Amalthea or Amaltheia is the figure most commonly identified as the nurse of Zeus during his infancy.

  9. There are 113 palindromic prime numbers less than one million.

  10. File 113 is a crime fiction written by Emile Gaboriau in 1867.




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