7 April: 97

 Today is the 97^th day of the year. 10 fun facts about 97.

1. 97 is the only prime number in the 90s and the highest prime number less than 100.

2. Jack Reacher likes the number 97 for just this reason and it forms the last two digits of his ATM card PIN in the novel Bad Luck and Trouble by Lee Child.

3. The 10-97 police code means "arrived on the scene".

4. 97 Klotho is a main-belt Asteroid discovered by Ernst Tempel in 1868. It is named after Klotho or Clotho, one of the three Moirai, or Fates, in Greek mythology.

5. It’s the atomic number of Berkelium, a synthetic chemical element which has the symbol Bk and is a member of the actinide and transuranium element series. It is named after the city of Berkeley, California.

6. The A97 is a major road in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It runs south from Banff on the north coast to its junction with the A93 road at Dinnet.

7. British logician, mathematician, and philosopher Bertrand Russell lived to be 97.

8. "Process 97" was the fictional secret formula in the film The House On 92nd Street.

9. The seventh word of the seventh line of Shakespeare's Sonnet XCVII (97) is “prime”.

10. 97 is the decimal unicode number representing the Latin lowercase "a".

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