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Today the Zoo Keepers have been married for 8 years... Here are eight random facts about the number eight:

*All spiders, and more generally all arachnids, have eight legs. An octopus has eight tentacles.

*August is the eighth month.

*Eight babies delivered in one birth are called octuplets. The first set of eight surviving babies, the Chukwu octuplets, were born in 1998.

*In Colombia and Venezuela, "volverse un ocho" (meaning to tie oneself in a figure 8) refers to getting in trouble or contradicting one's self.

*"Section 8" is common U.S. slang for "crazy", based on the U.S. military's Section 8 discharge for mentally unfit personnel.

*There are 8 furlongs in a mile.

*It is the retired jersey number of Baseball Hall of Fame players Cal Ripken, Jr., Joe Morgan, Willie Stargell, Carl Yastrzemski, and Yogi Berra.

*8 is the atomic number of oxygen.

Happy Anniversary Cory!
אני לדודי , ודודי לי