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1. The inhabitants of this earth have about a million superstitions.
2. For example, I have heard dozens of times that the number 13 brings bad luck.
3. Hundreds of thousands of people share that superstition in Europe.
4. While the number four does not strike fear in many in the West, several million Chinese and
Japanese have a superstitious fear of it.
5. The reason is fairly simple: the word for death, shi, sounds just like the number four. Imagine
hearing it hundreds of times when you give your address or phone number, for instance.
6. This superstition runs so deep that tens of thousands of Chinese and Japanese Americans are
said to have a heart attack on the fourth of each month more often than on any other date.
7. I can think of a hundred and one reasons why not to believe in superstitions.
8. Still, at least a dozen people asked me why I moved to Detroit and now have the area code 313.
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1 You can make three dozen delicious cookies with this recipe.
2 My cousin has used the same recipe hundreds of times and made thousands of
cookies.
3 Hundreds of thousands of baking books contain at least one chocolate (chip) cookie
recipe.
4 If you don’t like baking / to bake, you can buy Oreo cookies in more than a hundred
countries.
5 When did Oreo celebrate its 110th birthday?
6 Oreo Way is between 9th and 10th Avenues in New York City.
7 50 per cent / percent of Oreo cookie eaters separate the halves before they eat the
cookie.
8 Oreo fans come from hundreds of countries and speak several hundred different
languages / hundreds of different languages.