Elevenarium For everyone who thinks eleven is special. And for those who don’t, yet. 2026-09-18T00:00:00Z https://elevenarium.com/ Marian Catching 11:11 on the clock https://elevenarium.com/facts/1111-clock/ 2026-09-18T00:00:00Z You glance at a clock for no reason and it says 11:11, and you smile. You are not the only one. The man who discovered an eleven-sided shape, and then eleven found him https://elevenarium.com/facts/kapusta-kdron/ 2026-09-18T00:00:00Z 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. Burma's new capital, and a convoy that left on 11 November at 11:00 https://elevenarium.com/facts/naypyidaw/ 2026-09-18T00:00:00Z 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. Miroslav Klose: shirt 11, an eleven-storey block, flat 11, school 11 https://elevenarium.com/facts/klose-eleven/ 2026-09-18T00:00:00Z Shirt 11 at four World Cups. His father wore 11. Flat number 11 in an eleven-storey block. Primary School number 11. In numerology, 11 is a 'master number' https://elevenarium.com/facts/master-number/ 2026-09-18T00:00:00Z Numerology reduces every number to one digit, except the “master numbers”, and eleven is the first of them. Filed under beliefs, on purpose. The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month https://elevenarium.com/facts/armistice-1918/ 2026-09-18T00:00:00Z 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. Maluma named an album 11:11 because the number kept following him https://elevenarium.com/facts/maluma-1111/ 2026-09-18T00:00:00Z “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. In the Rhineland, carnival begins on 11.11 at 11:11, and eleven is carnival's own number https://elevenarium.com/facts/weiberfastnacht/ 2026-09-18T00:00:00Z 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. The only survivor of Air India Flight 171 sat in seat 11A https://elevenarium.com/facts/air-india-11a/ 2026-09-18T00:00:00Z Of 242 people on board Air India Flight 171, one survived. He was sitting in seat 11A. Grzegorz Turnau's album is called 11:11, after his favourite time of day https://elevenarium.com/facts/turnau-1111/ 2026-09-18T00:00:00Z Grzegorz Turnau named his 2005 album after the time he remembers from the first digital watch his father gave him. The K-dron: a shape with eleven faces that nobody had noticed before 1985 https://elevenarium.com/facts/kdron-shape/ 2026-09-18T00:00:00Z 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. "These go to eleven." https://elevenarium.com/facts/spinal-tap-goes-to-eleven/ 2026-09-18T00:00:00Z Nigel Tufnel’s amplifier goes one louder. The phrase is now in the dictionary, and eleven is the number that means more than possible. ElevenLabs is named after its founders' lucky number https://elevenarium.com/facts/elevenlabs/ 2026-09-18T00:00:00Z Two Polish school friends named their voice-AI company after their lucky number. In 2026 it was valued at, of course, eleven billion dollars. Eleven, mathematically https://elevenarium.com/facts/eleven-in-mathematics/ 2026-09-18T00:00:00Z A prime made of two ones, a quick test for spotting its multiples, and a list of things only 11 can do. Football's eleven, and the Polish word jedenastka https://elevenarium.com/facts/football-eleven/ 2026-09-18T00:00:00Z 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. In I Origins, a scientist who does not believe in signs keeps meeting elevens https://elevenarium.com/facts/i-origins/ 2026-09-18T00:00:00Z 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. On 11 November, Poznań eats about 250 tonnes of St Martin's croissants https://elevenarium.com/facts/poznan-croissants/ 2026-09-18T00:00:00Z 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. Poland's Independence Day is the 11th of November https://elevenarium.com/facts/poland-independence-day/ 2026-09-18T00:00:00Z 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. "Really, eleven? That's my lucky number." https://elevenarium.com/facts/chabior-eleven-films/ 2026-09-18T00:00:00Z Told he had appeared in eleven of Patryk Vega’s films, the actor was surprised: “Really, eleven? That’s my lucky number.” The first episode of HBO's Here and Now is called 'Eleven Eleven' https://elevenarium.com/facts/here-and-now-eleven-eleven/ 2026-09-18T00:00:00Z Alan Ball’s HBO series opens with an episode called “Eleven Eleven”, in which a young man starts seeing 11:11 everywhere. The first people on the Moon got there on Apollo 11 https://elevenarium.com/facts/apollo-11/ 2026-09-18T00:00:00Z Of all the numbered missions humans have flown, only one is known to everyone on Earth. According to M-theory, the universe has eleven dimensions https://elevenarium.com/facts/m-theory-eleven-dimensions/ 2026-09-18T00:00:00Z If M-theory is right, spacetime has exactly eleven dimensions: the four we know and seven curled up too small to see. The Sun has an eleven-year heartbeat https://elevenarium.com/facts/solar-cycle/ 2026-09-18T00:00:00Z Sunspots come and go in a rhythm of about eleven years. The man who found it, in 1843, was looking for a planet. Venus Williams called her brand EleVen, because eleven is one past perfect https://elevenarium.com/facts/eleven-by-venus/ 2026-09-18T00:00:00Z If ten is perfect, eleven is what you get when you keep going anyway. That is why Venus Williams’s brand is called EleVen. This site is built with a tool called Eleventy https://elevenarium.com/facts/eleventy/ 2026-09-18T00:00:00Z An old jokey word for a large number, Bilbo’s eleventy-first birthday, and the tool that built this website. Daniel Tammet sees numbers, and to him eleven is friendly https://elevenarium.com/facts/tammet-eleven-friendly/ 2026-09-18T00:00:00Z 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. Ocean's Eleven: the most stylish eleven ever assembled https://elevenarium.com/facts/oceans-eleven/ 2026-09-18T00:00:00Z Frank Sinatra's crew in 1960, George Clooney's in 2001: eleven people robbing Las Vegas, with the number in the title both times. Sarsa's video for 'Motyle i ćmy' is set at 11:11 PM on 11 November 2011 https://elevenarium.com/facts/sarsa-motyle-i-cmy/ 2026-09-18T00:00:00Z A Polish pop video from 2017 opens with a timestamp: 11:11 PM, NOV 11 2011. Stranger Things has a heroine called Eleven https://elevenarium.com/facts/stranger-things-eleven/ 2026-09-18T00:00:00Z The girl who walks out of the woods has 011 tattooed on her arm, so the boys who find her call her Eleven. 'The eleventh hour' comes from labourers hired almost too late https://elevenarium.com/facts/eleventh-hour/ 2026-09-18T00:00:00Z The labourers hired at the eleventh hour got the full wage. Ever since, eleven has been the number of not too late.