39

I just turned 39 (2.3.1970).  Here are interesting facts about 39.

• According to David Wells in The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers, 39 is the smallest mathematically uninteresting number. The book claims that it is also the first number that is simultaneously both interesting and uninteresting, thereby avoiding the paradox.


• The atomic number of yttrium


• The number of books in the Old Testament


• The number of signers to the United States Constitution, out of 55 members of the Philadelphia Convention delegates


• The traditional number of times citizens of Ancient Rome hit their slaves when beating them, referred to as "Forty save one"


• The duration, in nanoseconds, of the nuclear reaction in the largest nuclear explosion ever performed (Tsar bomb)


• Japanese Internet chat slang for "thank you" when written with numbers (3=san 9=kyu)