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The Greatest Numbers of All Time The Curse of 13

Ideas by CBC

Jun 22, 202600:54:08Society & Culture

Has there ever been a number more maligned in western culture than 13? So feared, it's got its own horror-film franchise. So infamously unlucky, a good many of us avoid it en masse. We've just blindly accepted its bad re...

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The Greatest Numbers of All Time The Curse of 13 is an episode from Ideas by CBC. Has there ever been a number more maligned in western culture than 13? So feared, it's got its own horror-film franchise. So infamously unlucky, a good many o...

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Published Jun 22, 2026, 00:54:08 long, audio available.