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Most Skyscrapers Secretly Running Floor Ponzi Scheme

Fear of the number 13 has a proper name — triskaidekaphobia — and it's baked into the buildings around you. In 2002, an Otis Elevator executive estimated that among buildings with 13 or more floors and Otis elevators, 85% had no floor labeled the 13th. Read the rest The post Why…