"It Happened in Eighty-Eight" is a 2016 novelby Bettye Griffin about a schoolteacher who returns to the Mississippi town that had been her salvation after a traumatic experience ten years before when she was just fifteen.

Italian artist Michelangelo died at 88

in official shot put competitions the women's ball weighs 8.8lb

the orbital period of planet Mercury is about 88 days

the state of Ohio is divided into 88 counties

there are 8 furlongs in a mile

there are 8 bits in a byte

number 88 symbolizes fortune and good luck in Chinese culture

the density of protactinium is 8.88 oz per cubic inch

the word "noise" appears 88 times in the JKV Bible

in the "Back to the Future" films, 88 mph is the speed that the DeLorean car must attain in order to travel in time

the Romans of the Republic, like the Etruscans, used a week of eight days, marked as A to H in the calendar