37

In numerology, the 3 is associated with Mystery, the 7, with Completeness. Hence, 37 could be seen as Mysterious Completeness.

Movies/Television

When Hollywood needs a number, more times than not, they'll use 37.
Why? Your guess is as good as mine.  Human nature?

Here are some examples:

Cool Hand Luke

Luke's prisoner number is 37

Bull Durham

Tim Robbins' number is 37

The Sentinel (UPN)

A thief highjacks an elevator as a diversion while he steals gold buillion from the depository on floor 37

Alien

When Tom Skerritt talks to "Mother," the ship's computer, the selection he makes on the screen is Interface 2037

Chasing Amy

In the prologue, 37 is prominent in a newspaper headline

The Shining

The woman in the bathtub was in room 237

(In King's TV version, it was room 217)

Sprite Commercial

Showing the Cleaning Power of Sprite.  At one point, the screen reads, "37 Simulated Minutes Later"

Star Trek Voyager

In the January 18, 2001 episode, the ship is split into separate time frames, so that each frame is a different time, some in the future, some in the past and one in the present. When the captain goes into a future time frame area on the ship, the people there have analysed the problem and tell her the ship has been fragmented into 37 different time frames.

Real Life - Events We Remember

The Clinton-Lewinsky Affair

Monica Lewinsky visited the White House 37 times after leaving the intern program

Execution of Karla Faye Tucker

37 people were executed in Texas in 1997

Elton John's "Candle In The Wind '97" becomes the Top Selling Single of All Time

Elton's tribute to Princess Diana took 37 days to outsell Bing Crosby's "White Christmas"

A CSX locomotive falls into a river in Charlotte, NC after Hurricane Danny washes out supports of a bridge

The locomotive was number 237

TWA 800 explodes off Long Island, New York

The radar blip's last identifier read "TWA800:137", Flight TWA 800, flight level 137, or 13,700 feet ASL

One President has resigned

Richard Nixon - 37th President

Compressed Air tank explodes in the pits at Atlanta International Raceway, killing 1.

The car coming into the pits was number 37

One of the Texas Seven prison escapees, Larry Harper, kills himself.

Harper was 37 years old.

The finalization of the 2000 presidential vote drags on and on.

The time between election day and Al Gore's concession speech was 37 days.

Search your own experience. Ever noticed 37 popping up at mysteriously complete moments?

One more thing - Celsius took the freezing and boiling temperatures of water, divided the distance between into 100 even parts, or degrees, with 0 for freezing and 100 for boiling.  What is a human's normal temperature?  37.0°

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