Mathematics

Science

• The atomic number ofsulfur

• Group 16 of the periodic table are the chalcogens

Religion

Hinduism

• According to legend, Saint Markandeya was granted the boon of living to the age of 16. However, when he reached this age, the god of death, Yama, came to claim him and placed a noose around the saint. In a desperate act, Saint Markandeya clung to the idol of Lord Shiva, which he worshipped fervently. As a result, the noose wrapped around both the saint and the deity, enraging Lord Shiva. In his fierce form, Lord Shiva confronted and defeated Yama, temporarily preventing death and causing a disturbance in the natural order. Eventually, Yama was revived, and in recognition of Saint Markandeya’s devotion, he was granted immortality at the age of sixteen. The idol of Lord Shiva, around which the saint clung, is said to reside in the Amritaghateswarar-Abirami Temple in Thirukkadaiyur, Tamil Nadu, India.

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Age 16

• Sixteen serves as the minimum age requirement for obtaining an official beginner’s driver’s license in numerous U.S. states and in Canada. Similarly, in Australia, Iceland, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, and the Isle of Man, this age marks the eligibility to obtain a learner’s license, initiating the process of learning to drive under supervised conditions.

• In the United States, many sixteen-year-old girls celebrate a “sweet sixteen,” a coming-of-age celebration that symbolizes their transition into womanhood. This milestone event holds cultural significance and has inspired numerous songs, including “Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen,” “You’re Sixteen,” “Sweet Sixteen,” “U16 Girls,” “Sweet Little Sixteen,” and “Sixteen Candles.”

• 16 is the minimum age that one can leave school in many states of the United States and Canada (however, restrictions apply and vary depending on state or province)^[2]

• In the United States, sixteen-year-old girls earn the right to privacy laws surrounding OBGYN practices

• In Belgium, the legal minimum age for purchasing any tobacco product is 16 years old.

• In both the United States and Canada, as well as in the United Kingdom, 16 is commonly recognized as the age of sexual consent.^[3][4]

• Sixteen is the minimum age to get married, with parental consent in many countries, and without parental consent in Scotland.

• In Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, and Portugal, the legal drinking age is sixteen.

• Minimum age at which one can buy, rent, purchase, buy tickets to, or view a 16+ rated film in the Canadian province of Quebec. It is also the minimum age at which one can accompany a minor under-13 while buying, renting, or purchasing tickets to a 13+ rated movie in the province of Quebec.

• Minimum age at which one can donate blood (with parental consent) in many U.S. states

• Minimum age at which one can obtain an adult passport (which lasts ten years) in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

• In the United Kingdom, the minimum age at which one can join the Armed Forces is 16 years old. However, deployment is only allowed at the age of 18 or older.

• In Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Cuba, Ecuador, the Isle of Man, and Nicaragua, the voting age is sixteen.

• In Cambodia, Cuba, Kyrgyzstan, and Vietnam, sixteen is considered the age of majority.

In sports

• FIFA World Cupfinals from 1934 through 1978 (although for various reasons, only 15 competed in the 1938 and 1950 finals)

• FIFA Women’s World Cup finals from 1999 through 2011

• The season-ending playoffs in the NASCAR Cup Series

• The National League of Major League Baseballfrom 1998 to 2012

In other fields

• 16 steps make up the average bar of music in a 4/4 musical arrangement. The Roland TR-808, for instance, has 16 buttons that light up representing 16 16th notes making up a drum pattern.

• Sixteen, Kentucky, a community in the United States

• King of France (August 1754 – 21 January 1793) Louis XVI of France

• There are 16 ounces in an avoirdupois pound

• There are 16 pawns in a chess set and each player in a chess game starts with sixteen pieces

• “The Sixteen” is an English choir performing early religious music

• Sixteen is a Polish band that represented Poland in the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest

• The Cadillac Sixteen

• There are 16 different personality types in the Myers-Briggs classification system

• A note played for one-sixteenth the duration of a whole note is called a sixteenth note or a semiquaver

• In the 16-bit era, 16-bit microprocessor ran 16-bit applications

• Sixteen Kingdoms, part of Chinese history

• The fighter jet, the F-16 Fighting Falcon

• 16 mm film was originally an amateur movie format, but is now used by professionals

• “16” is a song by American band Green Day

• The M16 rifle

• The number 16 is the symbol of the Day of solidarity with political prisoners and victims of the Lukashenka regime in Belarus, which is commemorated on 16th of every months by demonstrations and flash mobs worldwide

• A sixteen is a slang term for a verse in a hip hop song, which are often written in 16-bar stanzas.^[5]

• Android 16, a fictional character in theDragon Ballmanga and anime series

• The amount of waking hours in a day in an “8 hours of sleep” schedule

• In the story of the Sleeping Beauty, a spell is placed on the princess that when she reaches her 16th birthday, she will “prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die”

• 16 is the number of the French department Charente

• Many bank card numbers are 16 digits long

• There is a No Doubt song titled “Sixteen” on the album Tragic Kingdom

• The metalcore band Demon Hunter has a song titled “Sixteen” on their Storm the Gates of Hell album

• In Belgium, 16 is colloquially used to refer to the Belgian government or Prime Minister, especially in media, because of the official seat of the Belgian federal government being located on 16, rue de la Loi in Brussels. The full address is also sometimes used, in a similar way as 10, Downing Street in England.^[6]

• The number of rays in the Vergina Sun, symbol by Philip’s Argead dynasty, possible religious symbol representing the Olympian gods.

• There are sixteen petals on the Imperial Seal of Japan.

• There were sixteen lands created by Ahura Mazda, according to Avestan geography, which were then followed by sixteen negative counter-creations of Angra Mainyu.