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In Scotland, there is no gate 13 in any airport, instead there is a gate 12B.

Inside of a Lufthansa plane with row numbers going straight from 12 to 14.

Some airplanes skip a row 13, going straight from 12 to 14.[3]

Some tall buildings have resorted to skipping the "thirteenth floor", either by numbering it "14"[4] or as "12a"[citation needed].

Some streets do not contain a house number 13.

In some forms of motor sport, for example Formula One, there is no number 13 car.

13 () is the natural number after 12 and before 14. It is the smallest integer with eight letters in its spelled out name in English. It is also the age at which children become teenagers.

In speech, the numbers 13 and 30 are often confused. When carefully enunciated, they differ in which syllable is stressed: 13 vs 30 . However, in dates such as 1300 ("thirteen hundred") or when contrasting numbers in the teens, such as 13, 14, 15, the stress shifts to the first syllable: 13 .

Strikingly similar folkloric aspects of the number 13 have been noted in various cultures around the world: one theory is that this is due to the cultures employing lunar-solar calendars (there are approximately 12.41 lunations per solar year, and hence 12 "true months" plus a smaller, and often portentous, thirteenth month). This can be witnessed, for example, in the "12 days of Christmas" of Western European tradition. Thompson, Tok. 2002. The thirteenth number : Then, there/ here and now. 'Studia Mythological Slavica'' vol 5. 145-159.

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