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You can find some buildings in the US with no 13th floor.

Yeah. Lots of them have twelve floors or fewer.

Har!

I'd like to see one that starts on the 14th floor. I mean, if we're going to indulge arbitrary biases, let's go all-out.

And while we're at it, let's have at least a few cases where we number the ceilings, too.

"I’m staying at a hotel right now, there’s no 13th floor because of superstition. But come on man, the people on the 14th floor, you know what floor you’re really on. If you jump out of the 14th floor hoping to kill yourself, you will die earlier." ~Mitch Hedberg

He makes a fair point though--if you're so superstitious that you're uncomfortable with the thirteenth floor, shouldn't you be uncomfortable about it regardless of its nomenclature?

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