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Person
Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian (1869-1955) was an Armenian businessman and philanthropist. He was involved in founding the Shell Group, and his habit of retaining five per cent of the shares of the oil companies he developed earned him the nickname, "Mr. Five Per Cent".
Source: Wikipedia

History
The Arabic numeral system is considered one of the most significant developments in mathematics. Most historians agree that it was first conceived of in India and was then transmitted to the Islamic world and thence, via North Africa and Spain, to Europe.
Source: Wikipedia

Film
The Magnificent Seven (1960): directed by John Sturges and starring Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen and Charles Bronson. Tagline: They were seven - And they fought like seven hundred! Source: IMDb

Number
213,466,917 –1 is the largest prime number known to mathematicians, and was discovered by 20 year-old Canadian, Michael Cameron in 2001.To get this, you would need to keep multiplying 2 by itself 13,466,917 times, and then subtract 1 from the result. When written down it's 4,053,900 digits long and fills 2 telephone directories.
Source: BBC

Thing
E number: any of a variety of numbers with the letter E in front of them which are used on containers of food in the European Union to show which particular approved chemical has been added to the food.
Source: Cambridge Dictionaries Online

Song
Don’t Lose My Number by Phil Collins
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Recipe
Ragged Pasta With A Thousand Herbs
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Wordplay
Eleven plus two
is an anagram of
twelve plus one
Source: Anagram Genius

Literature
Number poetry: a number poem is a poem in which the total number of letters, words, lines, and/or stanzas is decided beforehand.
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Proverbs
Look after number one. (Traditional)
He who can predict winning numbers should not set off fire crackers. (Chinese)
Our hairs are numbered. (French)
Source: Creative Proverbs

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