in Japanese, 88 is often used to mean "a great many" or "countless" or infinite numbers

88 is a 2015 thriller about a young woman comes to in a roadside diner with no idea where she is or how she got there

"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.

the word "forth" appears 888 times in the JKV Bible

the 8 institutions in the Ivy League are: Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Yale University

korfball is a ball sport, with similarities to netball and basketball, played by two teams of 8 players (four females and four males)

88 Bars is an episode (s6e7) in the crime drama TV series "77 Sunset Strip", in which Stu Bailey is hired by one of the richest women in the world to investigate a series of attempts on the life of her brother

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

"8888 Uprising" is the name given to a series of nationwide demonstrations, marches, and protests in Burma (Myanmar) that peaked on 8 August 1988

there are 8 planets in the Solar System (since Pluto has been demoted)