1. “If you wish to live to the age of 99, please walk. 100 steps after each meal,” (Chinese proverb).
2. The sum of the first 11 integers, from 1 to 11, is equal to 66. If you turn that upside down, you get 99.
3. If you add together the cubes of 2, 3 and 4, you get 8+27+64 which is also equal to 99.
4. 99 is the atomic number of Einsteinium. It was discovered in 1952 in the debris of the first H-bomb explosion and named after Albert Einstein.
5. The Qur’an refers to the 99 Beautiful Names of Allah.
6. In 1977, the computer scientist Donald Knuth wrote a paper The Complexity Of Songs applying mathematical complexity theory to the structure of the song 99 Bottles Of Beer On The Wall.
7. The earliest known reference to a 99-flake ice-cream with a chocolate flake was in 1935.
8. The origin of its name is unclear. One idea links it to a shop in Scotland at 99 Portobello High St which added chocolate flakes to its ice-creams.
9. Another theory says it derives from a guard of the King of Italy which comprised 99 men.
10. Maria von Trapp, the last of the family of fingers that inspired The Sound of Music, died in February this year at the age of 99
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