Or at least in the past 476 years. All of the digits in today’s date add up to 13.

(1+0)+(1+3)+(2+0+0+6)=13

“The phenomenon hasn’t happened in 476 years, said Heinrich Hemme, a physicist at Germany’s University of Aachen who crunched the numbers to find that the double-whammy last occurred Jan. 13, 1520.”

What does this have to do with film? Absolutely nothing, unless you’re just finishing a draft and dating it today. But it’s pretty cool. Happy haunting.

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