1,100 military trucks, carrying 11 battalions and 11 ministries. That is how a newspaper described Burma moving its government to a new capital in 2005.
Burma's new capital, and a convoy that left on 11 November at 11:00 · Read the whole story
Think eleven is special?You’re not the only one.Not convinced? Give us eleven minutes.
Facts, stories and small coincidences about the number 11, gathered in one place.
Today Poland celebrates, Europe remembers, Poznań eats croissants and Cologne starts carnival at 11:11.
The guns of the First World War fell silent at 11:00 on 11 November 1918. Vonnegut wrote that the old men called the silence the voice of God.
The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month · Read the whole story
You glance at a clock for no reason and it says 11:11, and you smile. You are not the only one.
Catching 11:11 on the clock · Read the whole story
Carnival opens on 11.11 at 11:11, and on its last Thursday, again at 11:11, women storm the town halls and cut off men’s ties.
In the Rhineland, carnival begins on 11.11 at 11:11, and eleven is carnival's own number · Read the whole story
Of 242 people on board Air India Flight 171, one survived. He was sitting in seat 11A.
The only survivor of Air India Flight 171 sat in seat 11A · Read the whole story
“I was feeling like that number was following me everywhere I went. Every time I saw that number, I would make a wish, and every one of those wishes came true.”
— Maluma, on his album 11:11
Maluma named an album 11:11 because the number kept following him · Read the whole story
“11:11 is my favourite time of day.”
— Grzegorz Turnau, on his album 11:11 (2005)
Grzegorz Turnau's album is called 11:11, after his favourite time of day · Read the whole story
A square base, a rhombus on top, nine more faces around them: eleven in all. Two of them make a cube, and nobody had noticed the shape before 1985.
The K-dron: a shape with eleven faces that nobody had noticed before 1985 · Read the whole story
Shirt 11 at four World Cups. His father wore 11. Flat number 11 in an eleven-storey block. Primary School number 11.
Miroslav Klose: shirt 11, an eleven-storey block, flat 11, school 11 · Read the whole story
Numerology reduces every number to one digit, except the “master numbers”, and eleven is the first of them. Filed under beliefs, on purpose.
In numerology, 11 is a 'master number' · Read the whole story
“If the cosmos wanted to communicate, how would it do it? It says something, and I don’t understand. So I propose a code: show me an eleven.”
— Janusz Kapusta
The man who discovered an eleven-sided shape, and then eleven found him · Read the whole story
“Eleven found me about twenty years ago, and I have been following it ever since.” Marian11, Poland · From the wall
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Beliefs any day
Catching 11:11 on the clock
You glance at a clock for no reason and it says 11:11, and you smile. You are not the only one.
People 2012
The man who discovered an eleven-sided shape, and then eleven found him
Janusz Kapusta found an eleven-faced shape in 1985. Then eleven started following him, and he proposed a code to the cosmos: show me an eleven.
Places 2005
Burma's new capital, and a convoy that left on 11 November at 11:00
1,100 military trucks, carrying 11 battalions and 11 ministries. That is how a newspaper described Burma moving its government to a new capital in 2005.
Sport 2014
Miroslav Klose: shirt 11, an eleven-storey block, flat 11, school 11
Shirt 11 at four World Cups. His father wore 11. Flat number 11 in an eleven-storey block. Primary School number 11.
Beliefs 1900s onward
In numerology, 11 is a 'master number'
Numerology reduces every number to one digit, except the “master numbers”, and eleven is the first of them. Filed under beliefs, on purpose.
History 1918
The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month
The guns of the First World War fell silent at 11:00 on 11 November 1918. Vonnegut wrote that the old men called the silence the voice of God.
Music 2019
Maluma named an album 11:11 because the number kept following him
“Every time I saw that number, I would make a wish, and every one of those wishes came true.” So he named the album 11:11.
Places every year
In the Rhineland, carnival begins on 11.11 at 11:11, and eleven is carnival's own number
Carnival opens on 11.11 at 11:11, and on its last Thursday, again at 11:11, women storm the town halls and cut off men’s ties.
History 2025
The only survivor of Air India Flight 171 sat in seat 11A
Of 242 people on board Air India Flight 171, one survived. He was sitting in seat 11A.
Music 2005
Grzegorz Turnau's album is called 11:11, after his favourite time of day
Grzegorz Turnau named his 2005 album after the time he remembers from the first digital watch his father gave him.
Math & science 1985
The K-dron: a shape with eleven faces that nobody had noticed before 1985
A square base, a rhombus on top, nine more faces around them: eleven in all. Two of them make a cube, and nobody had noticed the shape before 1985.
Film & TV 1984
"These go to eleven."
Nigel Tufnel’s amplifier goes one louder. The phrase is now in the dictionary, and eleven is the number that means more than possible.
People 2022
ElevenLabs is named after its founders' lucky number
Two Polish school friends named their voice-AI company after their lucky number. In 2026 it was valued at, of course, eleven billion dollars.
Math & science always
Eleven, mathematically
A prime made of two ones, a quick test for spotting its multiples, and a list of things only 11 can do.
Sport 1863
Football's eleven, and the Polish word jedenastka
Eleven clubs founded English football’s first association, and a team is eleven players. In Polish, jedenastka means eleven, a football team and a penalty kick.
Film & TV 2014
In I Origins, a scientist who does not believe in signs keeps meeting elevens
A 7-Eleven, $11.11 in change, 11:11 on the clock, the number 11 bus. In Mike Cahill’s film, a scientist follows the elevens because there are too many of them to deny.
Places every 11 November
On 11 November, Poznań eats about 250 tonnes of St Martin's croissants
Saint Martin’s Day is 11 November, and the Polish city of Poznań marks it with a parade and about 250 tonnes of croissants filled with white poppy seed.
History 1918
Poland's Independence Day is the 11th of November
On 11 November 1918 Poland regained its independence, after 123 years of being divided between three empires. The date became a holiday only in 1937, was taken away under communism, and returned in 1989.
Film & TV 2019
"Really, eleven? That's my lucky number."
Told he had appeared in eleven of Patryk Vega’s films, the actor was surprised: “Really, eleven? That’s my lucky number.”
Film & TV 2018
The first episode of HBO's Here and Now is called 'Eleven Eleven'
Alan Ball’s HBO series opens with an episode called “Eleven Eleven”, in which a young man starts seeing 11:11 everywhere.
History 1969
The first people on the Moon got there on Apollo 11
Of all the numbered missions humans have flown, only one is known to everyone on Earth.
Math & science 1995
According to M-theory, the universe has eleven dimensions
If M-theory is right, spacetime has exactly eleven dimensions: the four we know and seven curled up too small to see.
Math & science since 1843
The Sun has an eleven-year heartbeat
Sunspots come and go in a rhythm of about eleven years. The man who found it, in 1843, was looking for a planet.
Sport 2007
Venus Williams called her brand EleVen, because eleven is one past perfect
If ten is perfect, eleven is what you get when you keep going anyway. That is why Venus Williams’s brand is called EleVen.
Words 2017
This site is built with a tool called Eleventy
An old jokey word for a large number, Bilbo’s eleventy-first birthday, and the tool that built this website.
People 2006
Daniel Tammet sees numbers, and to him eleven is friendly
The man who recited pi to 22,514 digits sees every number as a shape, a colour and a mood. In his memoir, eleven is friendly.
Film & TV 1960
Ocean's Eleven: the most stylish eleven ever assembled
Frank Sinatra’s crew in 1960, George Clooney’s in 2001: eleven people robbing Las Vegas, with the number in the title both times.
Music 2017
Sarsa's video for 'Motyle i ćmy' is set at 11:11 PM on 11 November 2011
A Polish pop video from 2017 opens with a timestamp: 11:11 PM, NOV 11 2011.
Film & TV 2016
Stranger Things has a heroine called Eleven
The girl who walks out of the woods has 011 tattooed on her arm, so the boys who find her call her Eleven.
Words c. 80 AD
'The eleventh hour' comes from labourers hired almost too late
The labourers hired at the eleventh hour got the full wage. Ever since, eleven has been the number of not too late.
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People who have thought, for years, that eleven is the one. Add your line.
- Marian11, Poland Eleven found me about twenty years ago, and I have been following it ever since.