Japan is an amazing country with a great history and rich culture. For more than 200 years, since 1639, it remained
13 incredible facts about Japan
15:45 January 26, 2017Japan is an amazing country with a great history and rich culture. For more than 200 years, since 1639, it remained completely isolated from the outside world. The originality of the Land of the Rising Sun still surprises and fascinates us. I present to your attention 13 interesting facts about Japan that are hard to believe.
1. Capsule hotels
One of the options for Japanese hotels, which consists of small sleeping cells located one above the other. The capsule space is enough to sleep, watch TV or read a book. A night in such a hotel costs approximately $30.
2. Christmas dinner at KFC
Celebrating Christmas with dinner at KFC is a tradition that is becoming increasingly popular in Japan. Entire lines line up for a festive bucket of hot wings, salad and cake.
3. Some Japanese women deliberately crook their teeth
In Japan there is a trend called “Yaeba”, which means “double tooth”. Japanese women pay hundreds of dollars to dentists to change their completely straight and even teeth. They all want elongated and protruding fangs.
4. In Japan, the number 4 is considered unlucky.
Hotels and hospitals in Japan rarely have 4th floors. The number four is avoided by absolutely everyone, as it is consonant with the word “death.”
5. It’s impossible to be on the island of Miyakejima without a gas mask
Volcano Oyama, located in the center of the island, spews poisonous gas (sulfur dioxide), so residents simply cannot do without a gas mask.
6. Sleeping at work
Sleeping at the Inemuri workplace is a sign of seriousness about work, which is why Japanese companies encourage tired employees to take a nap for half an hour.
7. This year, 32,000 Japanese people turned 100 years old.
There are currently more than 65,000 people living in Japan who are over 100 years old. On the day of honoring old age, September 19, the government gives each new centenarian a silver dish.
8. The Japanese refuse sex
The Japanese (45% of women and 25% of men) no longer want to date, get married, or even just have sex, because everyone is obsessed only with their career.
9. Police catch criminals using paintballs
The trace of paint left after a shot on the clothing or vehicle of a criminal helps to quickly apprehend the attacker.
10. Ban on dancing in clubs after midnight
The law banning dancing after midnight was passed back in 1948 to prevent the spread of prostitution.
11. Japan is the birthplace of the oldest business in the world
The oldest business in the world is the Japanese hotel Nisiyama Onsen Keiunkan, which has been operating since 705.
12. Students clean their own classrooms
In Japan, students clean classrooms.
13. More than 70% of the entire territory of Japan is mountains
The country has many active volcanoes, as it is located on the Pacific Volcanic Ring of Fire.
Numerology, despite its name, is not a science; rather, it is alchemy using numbers. The mathematical concept of numbers, by definition, does not contain anything other than the category of quantity, while numerology assumes that numbers have certain esoteric properties.
In Russia, we often follow traditions when we consider the number “7” to be lucky, and “13” to be a number that should be avoided in every possible way so as not to “jinx it.” At a reflexive level, we already spit over our left shoulder three times, knock on wood three times and, following the saying “God loves trinities,” drink for three under the shadow of the three branches of government, crowned with the Russian tricolor. But what God doesn’t like is the “number of the beast” 666, which was recently remembered on the occasion of the introduction of INN (individual taxpayer numbers) into the lives of Russians.
Indeed, a person endows numbers with properties that, by mathematical standards, are not inherent in numbers. Some numbers become “special” due to the natural order of things. Thus, the number “1” is associated with the following concepts: primacy, uniqueness, universality, chance. Nature itself predetermined the division of the year into 12 months and the duration of the week into 7 days: the lunar year (i.e., the “month”) lasts about 30 days (more precisely, 29.5306 days), which for the 4 stages of the moon are divided into periods of 7 days, and 365 days a year (more precisely - 365.2422 days) are divided into 4 seasons, each approximately 91 days, which fit 3 full lunar years. As a result, 4 seasons of 3 months each give a 12-month calendar with 7-day weeks. The de jure creation of the world by the Christian god in seven days seems to be a de facto recognition of solar mechanics. On the other hand, the ratio of days and months in a year do not form integer proportions, which indicates a more complex structure of the world than in a clock mechanism with gears.
However, human nature knows no limits to what is reasonable. Mysticism, religion, astrology, pseudoscience have contributed to the understanding of numbers as a special form of matter. “What is the wisest thing? - Number!" - said the Pythagoreans in the west in the 5th century. In the east, wisdom, as a product of the activity of outstanding minds, was no less honored, and it, together with the magic of numbers, entered the flesh and blood of the cultures of the eastern peoples. China and Japan are proof of this.
The simplest manifestation of numerology is in vocabulary, in the formation of stable phrases with numerals. At the same time, introduced meanings are assigned to numerals, determined either by individual philosophical and religious interpretations of these numbers, or by the properties of the hieroglyphs with which the numbers are written. There are a lot of similar words in Japanese. They provide at the subconscious level such associative connections that, according to rationally thinking people, cannot exist in nature itself.
The number “2” (ni) is obviously associated with a number of philosophical concepts meaning duality. So, nigeron is “dualism”. This is based on Chinese yin and yang, as well as the complementary concepts associated with it: big-small, male-female, light-dark, etc. Among the political terms is Japan's bicameral parliamentary system, ninsei - the House of Representatives and the House of Councilors.
The hieroglyph for the number “3” (san) matches the reading of another hieroglyph for “birth”, so “3” is considered a “good” number. The number “3” is found in many words and concepts: sanze – “three worlds” (past, present, future); Sansei - three great Teachers or Teachings (Buddha - Buddhism, Confucius - Confucianism, Lao Tzu - Taoism); sanshu-no-jingi - three symbols of power of Imperial Japan (octagonal mirror, magic sword, jasper pendants); sambo – “three treasures” (images of Buddha, Buddhist sutras, property of the Buddhist monastic community); sansai - “three forces”, existence (heaven, earth, man); sankagen – triad; sansedai-tokyo - “three generations living under one roof”; sangun - “three armies”, great army (land, sea, air forces); santoseiji - “policy of three heads”, triumvirate; Sankei “3 types” – three most beautiful places in the Japanese Empire, etc.
In Japan, “4” is considered a “bad” number, since the character for this number is read like the character for “death” - si. In a number of words, the hieroglyph “4” is read not as si, but as yon, so as not to anger the gods and not bring disaster upon oneself and others. Maybe marking time in the negotiations on the South Kuril Islands is due to the fact that there is something lifeless hidden in the Japanese term yonto (“four islands”)? “9” is also considered a “bad” number, since the Japanese associate its reading – ku – with another hieroglyph meaning “torment, difficulties.” In Japanese hotels and hospitals there are no rooms with the number 49, since the word associated with this number, shiku, means “deadly torment”, “deadly agony”. During wedding ceremonies, uttering words containing these si and ku is prohibited, just as in our country it is indecent to speak ill of a deceased person at a funeral. On the other hand, the Russian call “bitter!” at a Japanese wedding, it would probably look like a fly in the ointment on the honeymoon.
The number “5” (go) is associated with a whole range of Eastern religious and philosophical concepts: godai - the five great principles in Buddhism (earth, water, fire, wind, sky), gogyo - the five moving principles (wood, fire, earth, metal, water), goaku - five sins (murder, theft, treason, perjury, alcoholism-drug addiction), gojo - five basic virtues (philanthropy, justice, courtesy, wisdom, loyalty), gojo - five passions (pleasure, joy, passion, anger , grief), gorin - five relationships between people (between father and son, master and servant, husband and wife, brothers, friends), godaishu - five continents (Asia, Africa, Europe, America, Oceania), godaiyo - five oceans, gokoku – five grains (rice, wheat, millet, hemp, beans), gosekku – five festivals (January 7 – nana-kusa “seven herbs”, 3.3 – jomi-no-sekku “girls festival”, 5.5 – tango-no- sekku “boys festival”, 7.7 – tanabata “star festival”, 9.9 – choyo-no-sekku “chrysanthemum festival”), gokyo - five Chinese classical works, etc. The five great principles of godai are also expressed in temple buildings - in five-tiered pagodas goju-no-to. In the game of Go, you need to place 5 dominoes in a row to win. In Japanese abacus, soroban does not have 10 dominoes in a row, but 5. If we add more purely human ones to the list - five fingers of goshi, five parts of the body of gotai (head, neck, chest, arms, legs), five internal organs of gozo (lungs, heart, spleen, liver, kidneys) and the five sense organs of the Gokan, then the number “5” can rightfully be called the “number of man.”
The number “7” (city, nana) in Japan, as in Russia, is also a “good” number. The “seven lucky gods” of Shichifukujin are known: the god of health Daikokuten (with a bag), the god of trade Ebisu (with fish), the god of wealth Bishamonten, the goddess of health and wisdom Benzaiten, the high-browed god of health and longevity Fukurokuju, the god of longevity Jurojin and the pot-bellied god of pleasure Hotei. According to one of the Japanese versions, the Russian nesting doll is the “daughter” of doll images of these gods, which themselves are a variant of the toy in the form of 12 nested eggs, which came to Russia in the 1880s from the Japanese port city of Hakodate, open to foreigners. The number “7” is found in many phrases: nanafushigi - seven wonders (of light), shitidogaran - seven buildings in Buddhist temples, haru-no-nanakusa - seven spring herbs, aki-no-nanakusa - seven autumn herbs, shitinan - seven (elemental ) disasters, etc.
The hieroglyph for the number “8” resembles a road leading to heaven. And isn't this a symbol of the Eightfold Path in Buddhism? The number “8” was even included in one of the ancient names of Japan - Yashimakuni, i.e. "land of eight islands" The hieroglyph for the number “10” is shaped like a cross, so it is included in words meaning: road crossing, crossfire, Red Cross or crossword. Obviously, in the Russian language there are no such associative connections due to the graphics of letters. However, the acrobatic figure from the Kama Sutra is inextricably linked with the image of the number “69” in both Europe and Asia.
Buddhism made a significant contribution to the creation of the world cult of numbers, in which, based on the laws associated with a number of numbers from 3 to 12, various number combinations are formed. In this series: “3” – triad, 4 truths of the states of nirvana, 5 scandhas, 6 senses, “7” – one step to the eightfold path, “9” – one step to the perfection of a bodhisattva, 10 perfections of a bodhisattva, “11” – one step to decimal full cycle. Buddha's omniscience can be represented by the arrangement of three rows: the first - from 3 to 12; the second, after multiplying the first row by 3, from 9 to 36; the third, after multiplying the second row by 3, is from 27 to 108 (in particular, there are 108 seeds in Buddhist rosaries). According to Buddhist canons, the deceased are remembered after 7, 14, 35 and 49 days, and not after 3, 6, 9, 20 and 40 days, as is customary among Christians. And during the Shinto marriage ceremony, according to the principle of sansankudo “3 and 3 - 9 times,” the bride and groom drink rice wine - sake - in three sips in three sips, and not as much as the soul requests.
Japanese poetry is also written according to number sequences. So, poems in the form of a tank are a poetic miniature of 31 syllables, following in the ratio 5-7-5-7-7. Haiku verses correspond to the truncated number series 5-7-5. Here the count is kept by the number of syllables - letters of the Japanese alphabet. It is obvious that versification in the Russian language is based on slightly different principles - the principles of rhythm and rhyme, and only letter-readers are capable of counting the number of letters, words or lines in “Eugene Onegin”.
Numbers also act as imprecise categories of “few,” “many,” “several,” or “various.” In the saying “get lost in three pines,” the number “3” means “a small amount.” On the other hand, in the “go all fours” idiom, the number “4” means “anywhere.” In Russia, the number “7” also has the meaning of “several” or “many”, which is reflected in the sayings: measure seven times - cut one, seven do not expect one, seven troubles - one answer, seven nannies have a child without an eye, an onion from seven ailments, etc. In Japan, numbers can also carry a similar burden. For example, Nissan “2-3” – several; shiho “4 sides”, happo “8 sides” (four cardinal directions, plus diagonal) or shiho-happo – all directions (i.e. “anywhere”); gobugobu “5 parts and 5 parts” – equally; Shitinan-hakku “7 troubles, 8 torments” – all kinds of misfortunes (compare with the idiom seven sweats); nanatsudogu “7 accessories” - everything you need for life; nana-korobi ya-oki “Fell 7 times, got up 8 times” - fight to the end; juchu-hakku “8, 9 out of 10” – almost certainly; junin-toiro “10 people, 10 wishes” – as many people, so many opinions; shihyakushibyo “404 diseases” – all kinds of diseases; jaticusa “8000 herbs” – all herbs, etc. etc.
Birthdays are not left out either. In Russia they are usually celebrated annually, with special emphasis on dates ending in zeros and fives. In Japan, every year on November 15, the Shinto holiday Shichi-go-san (“7-5-3” are “good” numbers!) is celebrated for boys who turn 3 or 5 years old this year, and for girls who turn 3 or 5 this year. 5 or 7 years. Also in January, those who turn 20 this year celebrate “coming of age.” However, it is not traditional to celebrate birthdays separately. There is a national holiday - the Birthday of the Emperor of Japan (for the current Emperor Akihito - December 23). It is possible that the Japanese do not celebrate their own birthdays due to the traditionally negative attitude in Japan towards the manifestation of any individualism, while the Birthday of the deity - the Emperor of Japan - acts as a day of national unity. But even in Japan, as a tribute to the older generation, special ages are distinguished with special names: 60 years (kanreki “return of the calendar” - the name from the 60-year Chinese cycle), 70 years (koki), 77 years (kiju “joyful longevity” ), 80 years (sanju “longevity under the umbrella”), 81 years (hanju), 88 years (beiju “rice longevity”), 90 years (sotsuju “final longevity”), 99 years (hakuju “white longevity”), 108 years (saju), etc.
In Russia, the cult of numbers is not practiced. And it’s not even customary to count anything special or outstanding. I remember only “the three components of Marxism”, “26 Baku commissars” or the spiritual table number of the “era of stagnation” - 3.62 (state price of vodka). But no one would think of talking about three, five or seven great poets, writers or musicians of Russia, thereby canonizing them and contrasting them with the rest. Moreover, not all wonderful people in Russia were on good terms with the Orthodox Church. Some Japanese, studying the Russian language and Russian culture, are engaged, in particular, in researching the poetic heritage of A. Blok. But it seems that no one in Japan studies the phenomenon of art song and the work of such songwriters as, for example, B. Okudzhava, A. Galich, V. Vysotsky or Yu. Vizbor. Is it because A. Blok has already been “counted” and labeled a “classic”, but there are no bards yet?
However, there are also positive aspects to this approach. If we recognize the significance of this or that event, then this presupposes that it is impossible not to know and impossible not to remember. Maybe numerology is the psycho-emotional “glue” that cements important concepts, facilitating their memorization and subsequently preventing the memory from getting rid of the “sad wisdom” of knowledge in parts?
Many who practice Aikido have always paid attention to such interesting things in the names of Japanese techniques, such as the fact that when counting, the number 4 sounds like si or shi (shi, 四, and the fourth control sounds like yonkyo (四教), but the throw "on four directions of the world" again sounds like shihou nage (四方投げ).
What's the matter here? It’s time to sort this out and at the same time delve deeper into this issue; maybe there are other similar types of names that are the same in meaning but different in sound and vice versa.
Firstly, as you know, the Japanese use hieroglyphs as writing. In turn, each hieroglyph has its own meaning and sound. But the sound or reading of a hieroglyph can have more than one (!). Almost every hieroglyph has an on and kun reading. Almost all Japanese characters were borrowed from the Chinese language; for this reason, Japanese has preserved similarities to the Chinese readings of hieroglyphs at the time of borrowing - onic readings of hieroglyphs. “Similarity” because these readings are very different from the readings in modern Chinese, because they come from the northern dialects, precisely those from which the borrowings originated. Kun readings, accordingly, logically, this is a native Japanese reading. As a rule, hieroglyphs representing independent words are read in kun readings, while in complex words hieroglyphs are characterized primarily by on readings. So go figure out when, how and what is read ;-)
Secondly, reading different(!) hieroglyphs can be the same. And there are many similar homonyms in Japanese writing. Which introduces even more confusion, which is almost impossible to sort out without analyzing each hieroglyph separately diligently with a dictionary.
Considering these two facts, let’s return to our number 4. When a Japanese person hears the sound of the number 4, namely Shi, and taking into account the special associative structure of the Japanese head, he hears Shi in the meaning of “death”, written with the hieroglyph 死, in contrast to the hieroglyph “four” 四 . To understand a Russian speaker, a very good example with a homonym can be given as follows. When a Russian person hears the expression “woman with a braid,” he understands “death” more than a woman with luxurious hair. Thus, the number 4 takes on an eerie meaning. According to intelligence reports, Japanese hospitals are wary of rooms numbered 4, and this also applies to some hotels where rooms are numbered 3a and 3b instead of 3 and 4.
The whole story doesn’t end there, similar things exist with the number 9 kyu (ku, 九). In terms of sound, the reading of the hieroglyph for number 9 is the same as the hieroglyph 苦, meaning “worry; excitement; torment; torment; effort; suffering; labor; difficult experiences; effort.”
Then under the sound 49 (四九, shiku, shikyu) we can hear it as “deadly torment”.
It partly becomes clear why the 4th control in Aikido does not sound like “shikyo”, but already sounds like “yonkyo”, otherwise it would sound similar to “shikyu” - which is translated as “deadly torment” (which, if performed correctly, is very likely similar ), but is written with different characters 四教.
In turn, the “shiho nage” throw can, in principle, be translated, without knowing the hieroglyphs with which it is written (四方投げ), as “throw of a deadly direction” (死方投げ) and again, with some methods of execution, this can be the case.
Some aikidokas looking dimly into the distance, listening to the mysterious Japanese mentors and their discussions about the lethality of Aikido techniques, may not be aware of the “play on words”, remaining in ignorance, not bothering to open a dictionary. Quite recently, one such aikidoka convinced me that the term irimi is “filling the void,” and tenkan is “emptying the void,” don’t you believe me? You can see for yourself in the comments.
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Here are the stories of some numbers with which many inhabitants of our planet do not associate anything good. It is traditionally believed that:
1 place. Number 666
Three sixes are also known as the number of the devil and the number of the beast. When meeting him, the number can kill. Scientists have long been trying to solve the mystery of the number. If you look at the Satanic sign, then in the middle you will see 666. Once upon a time they even predicted the end of the world on 06/06/2006. Meeting him could result in a grave.
2nd place. Number 23
A fatal number that scares people. There are many similarities with this number. The number 23 is a number that causes pain. A match with him could end in a hospital. There is even a movie called the number 23.
3rd place. Number 13
The number 13 is also known as the number of failures. Those who encounter it become losers. But fortunately, the curse of numbers can stop on its own. Friday the 13th is also known as “bad luck day”.
But in Japan:
Number 4 and number 9
The Japanese believe that the unluckiest number is "4". They avoid using it at all costs. Hospitals and houses do not have a fourth floor (the third is followed by the fifth).
The Japanese developed speech earlier than writing. According to the generally accepted version, Chinese and Japanese characters are closely related. For the first time, Chinese characters came to Japan thanks to monks who transported texts in Chinese. Because of this, the Japanese reading of some words is divided into three readings: onny reading (on'yomi), kun reading (kun'yomi) and gikun. From the readers' point of view, this means that kanji has multiple readings and multiple meanings. But gikun is a combined variant and is often found in Japanese surnames. Example. The character 道 in Chinese sounded something like [dao]. In Japanese speech it acquired the sound [do]. Thus, [do] is the onic reading of the character 道 in Japanese. The Japanese began to use this kanji (borrowed Chinese character) to represent the word path. Initially, even before the advent of writing in Japan, they already had the word path in their oral speech, it is read as [miti], i.e. [michi] is the kun reading of the character 道 in Japanese. Or the combination 一寸 can be read as issun (that is, “one sun”), but in fact it is an indivisible combination of tetto (“a little”).
Let's get back to reading the numbers in Japan.
Onny (Japaneseized Chinese) reading of the number “4”, [si], lat. , is reminiscent of the character 死 ("death"), which has the same reading. Another unlucky number for the Japanese is 9. . And all again because of bad consonance. The number “9” (九) is considered unlucky by the Japanese due to its consonance with the hieroglyph “torment” (“pain”). The Japanese call such consonance nothing other than “goroawase”.
Examples of "unlucky" two-digit numbers in Japan:
24
— ni si (二死): “double death”;
33
— sanzan (散々): “unfortunate”; “cruel, terrible”;
42
— si ni (死に): “towards death”;
49
— siku (死苦): "death pains".
Number 39
Afghans avoid the number 39 on car license plates, mobile and home phone numbers, and even on building addresses. People who have it on their house number pay calligraphers to draw a nine that looks as much like an eight as possible. If a resident of Kabul has the number 39 in his phone number, he must take care to put an anti-caller ID, otherwise no one will answer his calls. Finally, people who have turned 39 try not to mention it. When asked about their age, they answer that they are almost 40.
Number 0888 888 888
In Bulgaria, the telephone number 0888888888 is not serviced by the mobile phone company Mobitel due to superstitions. The fact is that its three ex-owners died one after another. The first to go to the next world was Vladimir Grashnov, the former head of Mobitel. According to the official version, the cause of Grashnov’s death was cancer. But there were rumors in Bulgaria that he was poisoned by competitors. The number was then handed over to drug lord Konstantin Dimitrov. Dimitrov died in Holland, where he went to inspect his possessions. The murder was blamed on rival Russian mafia clans. The third owner of the unlucky number was also drug dealer Konstantin Dishliev. A man, officially engaged in real estate activities, died near a popular restaurant in Sofia. A few days earlier, police found drugs worth a total of 130 million euros at his home. After this, Mobitel stopped servicing the “damned” number.
Number 11
The twin towers of the World Trade Center stood close together and resembled a huge number 11. Planes flown by terrorists crashed into them on September 11 (ninth month of the year). Having summed up two ones and a nine, we get, again, 11. But that’s not all. September 11 is the 254th day of the year, and the numbers 2, 5 and 4 when added together form 11. The first plane to crash into the towers was flight number 11. It carried 11 crew members, as well as 92 passengers (9+ 2=11). Finally, the English names of the city of New York and the country of Afghanistan, as you might guess, have exactly 11 letters each.
Number 17
Italians consider the number 17 unlucky. In their opinion, it symbolizes death, because it is written in Roman numerals, like XVII. "What's wrong with that?" - you ask. The fact is that such a sequence can easily be converted into the word “VIXI,” meaning “I lived.” This is what was often engraved on the graves of the ancient Romans. In addition, the number 17 is considered unlucky because February 17 is the day the global flood began (this is one of the rare events precisely dated in the Bible). Let us also mention that in one of the numerical systems used to interpret dreams, 17 means failure.
Number 250
For the Chinese, the number 250 is offensive. The fact is that in their language it is pronounced “er bai wu”, which translates as “feeble-minded”. The ancient inhabitants of the Celestial Empire probably began using these numbers as an insult. Interestingly, when copper coins were still common in the country, the amount of 1000 coins was considered an established measure of value. If the product cost 2 times less (500 coins), it was clear that it was inferior in quality. The price of 250 coins was set for goods of the lowest quality.
Number 87
The seemingly innocuous number 87 is called the "devil number of cricket" in Australian cricket. Fans of the sport believe that a server will likely be eliminated from the game soon after scoring 87 points. The roots of the superstition date back to 1929, when a 10-year-old boy, Keith Miller, watched a game with Donald Bradman, considered the "best bat" at the time. In that game, Donald scored just 87 points, after which he was taken out of the game. Fifteen years later, when Miller also became a professional cricketer, his partner Ian Johnson was also bowled out for exactly 87, allowing the superstition to take hold. The funniest thing about this story is that many years later Miller decided to once again study that same match in detail. To his surprise, he found out that Donald Bradman had scored 89 points, not 87.
Number 17
In 2014, over the course of seven days, starting from the 17th day of the seventh month (July), planes crashed in Ukraine, Mali and Taiwan. Malaysian flight MH17 was shot down at 17:17 in eastern Ukraine. It is noteworthy that the Boeing 777 aircraft was in operation for exactly 17 years (from July 17, 1997 to July 17, 2014). In the same month, an Indian military helicopter, flying over Taiwan, crashed at 17:07, killing 7 passengers in the accident. A little earlier, on July 7, 2014, a Mi-171 helicopter used by the Vietnamese military crashed at 7:37 am.
Number 26
26 is an unlucky number in India. The devastating earthquake in Gujarat, which killed 20 thousand people, dates back to January 26, 2001. On December 26, 2004, a powerful tsunami killed almost 230 thousand people. On May 26, 2007, powerful bombs exploded in northeastern India, in the city of Guwahati. On July 26, 2008, a bomb was detonated in Ahmedabad. Finally, exactly 5 months later, on November 26 of the same year, a series of bloody terrorist attacks followed in India. When adding the numbers 2 and 6, the result is 8. In numerology, eight symbolizes devastation, difficulties, and failures. Experts warn that it is better not to schedule weddings and other special ceremonies on the 8th of the month.
Number 191
Since the sixties of the last century, five different aircraft with flight number 191 have suffered accidents. In 1967, the X-15 plane, which was making its 191st experimental flight, crashed in America. Surprisingly, this plane crash was the only one in the history of the use of the X-15. Prin Flight 191 crashed at Mercedita Airport in Puerto Rico in April 1972. In 1985, tragedy struck the Delta Airlines Flight, which was also on its 191st flight. It crashed upon landing in Dallas. 137 people died then. In 1979, in the United States of America, a passenger airliner crashed just after taking off from Chicago O'Hare Airport. All 273 people on board were killed. His flight number was 191. Finally, in 2012, JetBlue Airways plane 191 had to make an emergency landing. One of the pilots suddenly began to behave inappropriately during the flight. Passengers struggled to hold him down while the co-pilot landed the plane. Major airlines Delta Airlines Flight and American Airlines have recently stopped using flights with the unlucky number 191.