The most number of goals scored in the World Cup tournament was in 1998 when a total of 171 goals were scored. (Note - That record still stands as only 145 goals were scored in the 2010 World Cup.)

Pi has been calculated to its two-quadrillionth digit. (Yes, using computers at Yahoo to crunch the numbers, a researcher, Nicholas Sze, has calculated the 2,000,000,000,000,000th digit of the mathematical constant pi.  It took 23 days on 1,000 of Yahoo's computers, but don't try this at home, on a standard PC, the calculation would take around […]

111,111,111 multiplied by itself equals 12,345,678,987,654,321. (The result is  the same forwards and backwards, and it contains all the numbers from 1 to 9, which  first increase and then decrease.  If you don't believe me, try it.) Thanks to  Julliet

If you add the numbers 1 to 36 on a roulette wheel, they add up to 666. ("666" is the "Number of the Beast".) Thanks to Drago.

Roulette wheels used to be numbered 1 to 36, but in 1842, Frenchmen François and Louis Blanc added the "0" to the roulette wheel in order to achieve a house advantage. (And it gets worse, in the early 1800s, roulette was brought into the U.S. where, to further increase house odds, a second zero, "00", […]

Today is the first Friday the 13th of the year, and it's got the inter web thingy in a spin, but not everyone thinks the number 13 is unlucky. Triskaidekaphobia, is the phobia of the number 13, and there are a number of theories behind the cause of this association between thirteen and bad luck, […]