Sixteen is the minimum age for being allowed an official driver's license in many U.S. states. In Australia and Canada, it is the age one can begin to get a learner's license.
Sixteen is the minimum age for getting an adult job in most states and provinces (as well as, complementarity, for dropping out of school).
In the United States, female sixteen year olds earn the right to privacy laws surrounding OBGYN practices.
In the Netherlands it is the legal minimum age for a person to purchase any tobacco product.
Sixteen is the age of consent for many jurisdictions around the world.
For its "coming of age" signification, this age has inspired the titles of many songs, such as "Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen", "You're Sixteen", "Sweet Sixteen", "Sweet Little Sixteen" and "Sixteen Candles", the last of which was borrowed as the title of a John Hughes movie. (This last one was also parodied in a novelty song by The Mothers, titled "Eddie Are You Kidding?", a tribute to the Los Angeles clothing store Zachary All; the tag line is "Sixteen Tailors...")
Sixteen is the minimum age to get married with parental consent in many countries.
Sixteen is the legal drinking age in France, Germany, Austria, The Netherlands and Portugal.
In The Netherlands sixteen is the age when all adult rights are granted but the age of majority is 18.
The current Roman Catholic Pope is Pope Benedict XVI (16).
There are sixteen ounces in an avoirdupois pound.
There are sixteen pawns in a chess set and each player in a chess game starts with sixteen pieces
Sixteen frames of images"The Sixteen" is an English choir performing early religious music.
Sixteen is a Polish band that represented Poland in the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest.
Greg Biffle's NASCAR Nextel Cup car number.
The Cadillac Sixteen.
There are sixteen 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.
Canada's Yellowhead Highway is designated as Highway 16.
Interstate 16 is the designation for a US interstate highway in Georgia.
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 one of the "Lost Numbers" on the television show Lost, along with 4, 8, 15, 23, and 42.
16 is a song by Green Day on their album 39/Smooth.
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.
In tarot, card No. 16 is "the Tower".
A sixteen is a slang term for a verse in a hip hop song, which are often written in sixteen-bar stanzas.[2]
Android 16 of the Dragonball Z television 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.
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