Here’s a list of some of the completely random, slightly interesting nuggets of information I found out about the number 23.

I made a list like this on my birthday last year when I turned 22, so I thought I would do it again this year since I’m 23 today.

Need to kill some time? Read on…

23 is the atomic number of vanadium, a silvery gray, soft, ductile transition metal.

It takes 23 seconds for blood to circulate through the human body.

23 is one of The Numbers (4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42) featured in the show Lost.

According to what is known as the “Birthday Paradox,” in a group of 23 or more randomly chosen people, the probability is more than 50% that some pair of them will have the same birthday.

The number 23 is the TCP/IP port used for telnet and is the default for the telnet command.

As of this writing, the most popular book gifted on Amazon was Margaret Wise Brown’s Goodnight Moon.

There are 23 letters in the Latin alphabet.

In the film The Matrix Reloaded, the Architect tells Neo it is of the utmost importance to choose 23 people to repopulate Zion.

Normal human sex cells have 23 chromosomes. Other human cells have 46 chromosomes arranged in 23 pairs.

Ceasar was stabbed 23 times when he was assassinated.

The first person to reply to a tweet I tweeted out a few minutes ago that contained the number 23 was Jeff. The second was Scott.

The 23rd letter of the English alphabet is W. On a QWERTY keyboard, W lies directly below the two and three.

The two recovered seats from TWA Flight 800 with shrapnel damage were seats 23J and 23K.

Number 23 on Billboard’s Top Radio Songs Chart, as of this writing, was OneRepublic’s All the Right Moves.

The human arm has 23 joints.

Tonight, at 8:47pm, I’ll officially be 23 years old.

There’s no need to thank me for learning something new today. :-)