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The winners are running to the finish now! Winner #18 is Sharon.NJ Author IconMail Icon Congrats to you! Join us all from the OctoPrep Challenge group and wish her congratulations!

The number 18 has some special items of note:

* 18 is a ā€œsemi-perfect numberā€ ā€“ one that is equal to the sum of some or all of its divisors. Its divisors are 1, 2, 3, 6, and 9; 3 + 6 + 9 = 18

* There are 18 holes on a golf course. There used to be no rules on the number of holes. But in 1764, the Old Course in St Andrews, in Scotland, the oldest and most famous golf course in the world, cut their 12 holes down to 10, and played eight of those holes twice. In 1857, an 18-hole course was set up, and golf courses around the world followed their lead.

* Shakespeareā€™s Sonnet 18 is perhaps the most famous and frequently quoted. Itā€™s the one that starts ā€œShall I compare thee to a summerā€™s day?ā€

* There are 18 players on each team in Australian rules football, making it the sport with the largest number of players per side.

* Mary Shelley was 18 when she wrote the short story which would later become her first novel, Frankenstein.

* The creases on your right hand look like the number 18 in Arabic: Ł”ŁØ . Made you look!

* An 18-sided shape is called an octadecagon or an octakaidecagon.

* 18 is the atomic number for the noble gas argon.

* Argon and the other noble gases appear in the last column, or group, of the periodic table ā€“ group 18.

* Horses usually have 18 pairs of ribs and 18 bones in their tails.





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