In some countries today is known as Black Friday. The unlucky day for Hispanic and Greek culture is Tuesday the 13th. A day of bad luck for the Italian culture is Friday the 17th.
When I was young, I was told if I crossed my eyes that they'd eventually stick like that and the docs would have to perform surgery on me to free them! Man, gotta say I was duped by this next old wive's tale too
Apparently at RIT there exists a staircase that you can descend to the top of and ascend to the bottom of. Yeah you read that right! In other words you can ascend and descend practically forever, yet go nowhere at the same time.