7

Not to be confused with James Bond, agent 007.

7 is a letter too; don't forget it.

Trivia

• There are 7 days in a week, named after 7 celestial bodies.
  • Sunday was named after the sun.
    • In Spanish, Sunday is named domingo, meaning "the Lord's day".
      • The same biblical root applies to other languages, such as the French term dimanche.
  • Monday was named after the moon.
  • Tuesday was named after Mars; see French mardi.
    • In English specifically, Tuesday was named after the Germanic god of war, Týr.
    • Maybe Tuesday was named after Tuesday.
  • Wednesday was named after Mercury; see French mercredi.
    • In English specifically, Wednesday was named after Odin, another Germanic god of war.
      • In contrast, the Roman deity Mercury was the god of translators.
  • Thursday was named after Jupiter; see French jeudi.
    • In English specifically, Thursday was named after Thor.
  • Friday was named after Venus; see French vendredi.
    • In English specifically, Friday was named after Odin's wife Frigga, the Germanic goddess of love.
  • Saturday was named after Saturn.
• The rainbow has 7 colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.
• The opposite sides of a D6 always add up to 7.
• There are 7 Kingdoms: the United Kingdom, the Magic Kingdom, the Animal Kingdom, the Evil Mushroom Kingdom, the Kingdom of Cats, Sammer's Kingdom, and the Kingdom of Far Far Away.
• Furthermore, there are 7 biological kingdoms: animals, plants, archaea, bacteria, chromista, fungi, and protozoa.
• There are 7 continents: North and South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Antarctica.
  • In popular culture, Oceania is substituted for Australia due to the difference between countries in both regions.
    • To put it into perspective, the Australian continent includes New Guinea, which is divided between Indonesia in the west and Papua New Guinea in the east.
• The guqin, an ancient Chinese zither, has 7 strings.
• The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World are the Great Pyramid of Giza, the Colossus of Rhodes, the Lighthouse of Alexandria, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Temple of Artemis, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
  • Of those 7, only the Great Pyramid of Giza remains intact.
• Element number 7 is nitrogen.
• 7 swans a-swimming.

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