10 most terrible numbers from around the world

Do you think that number may not be scary? Even as they can! The numbers on our list - not banal 13 or 666, but they inspire fear on the people of many countries.

Here is a history of some numbers with which many inhabitants of our planet no good associates.

39

Afghans avoid the number 39 in the presence of machines available in rooms and mobile home phones and even the addresses of buildings. People who have it stated on the house number, pay calligraphy, so that they have drawn nine, as much as possible resembling a figure eight.

If Kabul resident in the phone number is the number 39, he must take care to put CLIR, otherwise it calls no one will answer.

Finally, people who have reached 39 years old, trying not to mention it. On the question of age meet, they almost 40.

0888 888 888

In Bulgaria, 0888888888 phone number is not in service mobile phone company Mobitel due to superstition. The fact that three of his former owner died one after the other. First the light went on Vladimir Grashnov, the former head of Mobitel. According to the official version, the cause of death Grashnova become cancer. But in Bulgaria, there were rumors that he was poisoned by competitors.

Then the number has been transferred drug lord Konstantin Dimitrov. Dimitrov died in Holland, where he went to inspect their possessions. The blame for the killing was blamed on competing with them Russian mafia clans.

The third owner of the unlucky number has also become a drug dealer Konstantin Dishliev. The man officially engaged in real estate activities, died near a popular restaurant in Sofia. In just a few days before police found drugs in his house for a total of 130 million euros. After that the company "Mobitel" ceased to serve the "cursed" number.

11

The twin towers of the World Trade Center stood close to each other and were like a huge number 11. The aircraft operated by terrorists crashed into them on September 11 (the ninth month of the year). We find again summing two units and nine just 11. But that's not all. September 11 - is the 254th day of the year in a row, and the numbers 2, 5 and 4, with the addition of form 11. The first plane crashed into the towers, was flight number 11. In it were 11 crew members and 92 passengers (9+ 2 = 11). Finally, in the English name of the city of New York and the country of Afghanistan, as you might guess, exactly 11 letters.

17

Italians consider the number 17 unlucky. According to them, it symbolizes death, as recorded in Roman numerals as XVII. "What's wrong with that?" - you ask. The fact that such a sequence can easily be transformed into the word "Vixi", meaning "I lived." It is often beaten out on the tombs of the ancient Romans. In addition, the number 17 is considered unlucky because that on February 17 - the day of the beginning of the Flood (this is one of the rare events, precisely dated in the Bible).

We should also mention that in one of the number systems used for the interpretation of dreams, 17 means failure.

250

For the Chinese, the number 250 is offensive. The fact is that in their language, it is pronounced as "er bai wu", which translates as "moronic".

Use this number as an insult, probably started more ancient inhabitants of the Middle Kingdom. Interestingly, when the country was more common copper coins, the amount of 1000 coins were considered fixed measure of value. If the goods cost less than 2 times (500 chips), it was clear that it is inferior in quality. The price of 250 coins exhibited at the products of the lowest quality.

87

Seemingly innocuous number 87 in the Australian cricket called "diabolical number of cricket." Fans of the sport believe that supply is likely after a set of 87 points will soon depart from the game.

The roots of superstition dates back to 1929, when 10-year-old boy Kate Miller watched the game with Donald Bredmenom, is considered "the best bat" at that time. In that game, Donald scored just 87 points, after which he was taken out of the game. After 15 years, when Miller also became a professional cricketer, his partner Ian Johnson, too, once out of the game, gaining exactly 87 points, allowing superstition to gain a foothold.

The funny thing in this story - the fact that after many years Miller has decided to once again examine the details of the same match. To his surprise, he found that when Don Bradman scored 89 points, not 87.

17

In 2014, for seven days, starting with the 17th of the seventh month (July), the aircraft crashed in Ukraine, Mali and Taiwan. Malaysian flight MH17 was shot down in 17 hours, 17 minutes East of Ukraine. It is noteworthy that the Boeing 777 aircraft operated by exactly 17 years (from 17 July 1997 to 17 July 2014).

In the same month, an Indian military helicopter flying over Taiwan, crashed in 17 hours, 7 minutes, 7 passengers died in the accident. A little earlier, July 7, 2014, the Mi-171 helicopter, used by the Vietnamese military, crashed at 7 hours and 37 minutes.

26

26 - an unlucky number in India. The devastating earthquake in Gujarat due to the deaths of 20,000 people, is dated January 26, 2001. December 26, 2004 a powerful tsunami killed nearly 230,000 people. May 26, 2007 a powerful bomb exploded in the north-east of India in Guwahati. July 26, 2008 a bomb exploded in Ahmedabad. Finally, exactly 5 months, 26 November of the same year in India followed by a series of bloody terrorist attacks. When adding the numbers 2 and 6 turns 8. Eight symbol numerology devastation difficulties failure. Experts warn that the marriage and other ceremonies is better not to appoint 8 of the month.

191

Since the sixties of the last century are five different aircraft with a 191-m flight number crashed.

In 1967, the American crashed a plane X-15, which is made of 191-th in a row experimental flight. Surprisingly, this crash was the only one in the history of the use of X-15.

Flight 191 crashed at the airport Prin "Mersedita" (Puerto Rico) in April 1972. In 1985, tragedy overtook liner Delta Airlines Flight, which also made the 191st flight. He crashed when landing in Dallas. Then killed 137 people.

In 1979 in the United States, nearly taking off from Chicago's O'Hare Airport, crashed airliner. Killing all 273 people on board. The number of his flight - 191.

Finally, in 2012, the aircraft 191 JetBlue Airways had to make an emergency landing. One of the pilots during the flight suddenly began to behave inappropriately. Passengers with difficulty restrained him, while the co-pilot landed the liner.

Major airlines Delta Airlines Flight American Airlines and more recently, do not use the flights to unlucky number 191.