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[–] Preventer79@sh.itjust.works 9 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

It's the highest degree of freemasonry, and also believed to be the age Jesus was when he died. It's a major theme in a lot of conspiracy theories that the powers that be tend to sneak the number into things they control, either as gang like tagging or because they believe it gives them power.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Man, whatever happened to good old-fashioned 5 and 23? Does the Illuminati mean nothing to people any more?

[–] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

What's up with 5 and 23? Why not the integral of the limit of the square root of arctan of x as x tends to 0?

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

i want my conspiracies to involve horses like the good old days

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

The only numbers I've seen snuck into things are 42 and 47.

Edit: The 47 thing is actually old and goes back to an in-joke among the Star Trek TNG writing staff. Not that other thing.