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= 2 x 2 x 2 x 2
= 4 x 4
= 2 x 8
= 1 + 3 + 5 + 7
There are 16 ounces in a pound.
Sixteenmo is the size of a book made by folding each sheet of paper into 16 leaves.
In biology, if a cell divides itself in half every 30 minutes, you will have 16 cells in 2 hours.
16 pieces are used by each player in a game of chess.
Caterpillars typically have 16 legs. But when they emerge from their chrysalis as a butterfly or moth, they have only six legs.
Under British law, when you reach the age of 16 -
* you can leave school,
* you can marry with parental consent (or without it in Scotland),
* if you are convicted of an imprisonable offence, you can be given a community service order,
* if you are a boy, you can join the armed forces with parental consent,
* you can drive an invalid carriage or a moped,
* you can buy cigarettes and tobacco,
* you can have beer, cider or wine with a meal in a restaurant,
* you may become a street trader.
16 as a 4 by 4 square.
This compass rose is divided into 16 points: north, north-north-east, north-east, east-north-east, east ... and so on. Old maps and charts often included a rose like this to show the compass directions.
16 pebbles feature in Samuel Becket's novel Molloy which has one of the longest and most detailed accounts of someone working at a mathematical problem in a work of fiction -
I took advantage of being at the seaside to lay in a store of sucking-stones. They were pebbles but I call them stones. Yes, on this occasion I laid in a considerable store. I distributed them equally between my four pockets, and sucked them turn and turn about. This raised a problem...
The following six pages of the novel describe different solutions to the problem of ensuring all 16 pebbles are sucked equally often.
16 chocolates packed as 2 by 2 by 4.
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The number of birthday cakes I've had.
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The legal age to go out and get laid by anyone.
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The legal age to go out and get laid by anyone.
but if shes under eighteen she can only get laid by me :)
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The legal age to go out and get laid by anyone.
It's actually 16...
Oh and TWENTY
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In the United States (excluding insular areas), 21 is the minimum legal age at which one can purchase and drink alcoholic beverages and gamble.
It is also the age at which it is legal to work as a prostitute. Prostitution is illegal everywhere in the US except licensed brothels in Nevada (except in Storey County and Lyon County, where the legal age is 18).
Twenty-one was the minimum age of suffrage in the majority of states until the introduction of the Twenty-sixth Amendment.
It is also the minimum age at which one can purchase a handgun or rent/use one without supervision in most states.
Age at which one can purchase fireworks in the U.S state of New Hampshire.
Age at which one can generally get married in the U.S state of Mississippi.
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whatever, law does not apply :P
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Zealous, so you're American now are you?
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No i am not american, it was just what came up when i typed 21 in google lol.
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everytime i put a number in someone beats me to it!
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