Notable triva regarding the Number Seven:
1) It's the number of Deadly Sins: Gluttony, Lust, Sloth, Envy, Pride, Avarice, Wrath
2) There are seven day in the week
3) There are seven layers in Dante's Hell
4) Seven is a prime number
5) There are seven wonders of the ancient world listed chronolgically (source: http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/list.html)

1. The Great Pyramid of Giza
2. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
3. The Statue of Zeus at Olympia
4. The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
5. The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
6. The Colossus of Rhodes
7. The Lighthouse of Alexandria
   

6) "..the span of absolute judgment, and I maintain that for unidimensional judgments this span is usually somewhere in the neighborhood of seven." (The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information
by George A. Miller - originally published in The Psychological Review, 1956, vol. 63, pp. 81-97) (http://www.well.com/user/smalin/miller.html#memory)
7) It's the most items I have ever juggled at one time by myself

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