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Can a full moon really bring bad luck? What about Friday the 13th?

Jeffrey Rosenthal was a young professor at the University of Toronto when he discovered he was born on a Friday—though not just any Friday.

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Can a full moon really bring bad luck? What about Friday the 13th?
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