Useless Information! AKA Trivia that you cannot live without!

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Originally Posted by girl_dee

A 13th guest at a table is considered unlucky, and in Paris sometimes a quatorzieme is hired to be a professional 14th guest and balance out the luck.

Forgot about this. Some buildings, especially older ones, are constructed with no floor being referred to as the 13th floor. The buttons on the elevator may be numbered so that there is a 12th floor button then one for the 14th floor.