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Thirty Seven	2025-01-14	name src title eta-bootes eta-bootes.png Eta Boötes, indicated by the target reticle. Screenshot of Stellarium, an open source planetarium package. name src title params ngc2169 ngc2169.jpg NGC 2169. Taken by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/buenosaires_skies/">Sergio Eguivar</a>. source url https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240514.html	Me Birthdays

Today is my birthday! 🥳

37 is prime, and also sexy prime. It has the interesting property of being the number most likely offered when you ask someone to pick a number between 1 and 100¹. Thirty seven is neat!

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Dennis is 37. He's not old!

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Eta Boötes, 37 lightyears away, is now in my light cone. NGC 2169 is an open star cluster in Orion that looks remarkably like the number 37.

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thirty-seven.org is a website dedicated to the collection of artifacts marked with the number 37.

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This Veritasium video is a cool roundup of the interesting things about 37.

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1. When you control for 69 and 42, which have certain culteral significance. ↩︎