TORONTO – Today might be a typical Wednesday for most people but for some, December 12, 2012 is a day of luck, good faith and love.
Whether you are running off to the chapel to mark today with a marriage or off to the hospital to try and push out a child on this auspicious day, 12/12/12 is the last date when each calendar number will be the same for the next 88 years.
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Global News takes a look at 12 random things that involve the number 12:
1. Unless you lived in the Garden of Eden, the rest of us have 12 pairs of ribs.
2. In search of sobriety in your life? Alcoholics Anonymous, an international group the helps people recover from alcoholism, has 12 steps, 12 traditions and
12 concepts in its program to achieve sobriety and to stay sober.
3. Former Toronto Blue Jays player Roberto Alomar, who wore the number 12, was a 12-time Major League Baseball All-Star and is the first player to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame as a Blue Jay.
4. For all you gamers out there, you may remember the brief appearance of the shape-shifting character Twelve in Street Fighter III.
5. Brad Pitt was nominated of an Academy Award for his role as wacky Jeffrey Goines in the 1995 movie 12 Monkeys.
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6. 12 people have walked on the moon. Neil Armstrong was the first in 1969 and Harrison Schmitt the last in 1972.
7. King Arthur had 12 knights sit at the round table.
8. Do you remember your disco days? DJs got people feelin’ alive on the dance floor by spinning 12-inch vinyl records.
9. If you have been hiding under a rock all these years and haven’t heard of the sci-fi television series Battlestar Galactica, then you wouldn’t know the human characters in the series hail from a group of planets known as the Twelve Colonies.
10. On the 12th day of Christmas, my true love gave to me…12 drummers drumming.
11. It takes 12 strikes to bowl a perfect game. The Dude Abides.
12: Take a trip down memory lane with this classic Sesame Street pinball animation of the number 12.
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