So now we know, thanks to 'fact of the day' on the Ask Jeeves website. The number 17 is considered to be unlucky in Italy. When written in Roman numerals as XVII, it can be rearranged to read VIXI, which is Latin for 'I have lived'. As this is often found on tombstones, it is considered to be a bad omen
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