Just for fun:
Seventeen is the only prime number such that it is the sum of the four preceding prime numbers, 2+3+5+7.
Seventeen is the seventh prime number.
The Platonists hated 17, according to Plutarch.
There have been 35 musical songs called 17 or with 17 in the title.
17 has been described by MIT scientists as the least random number as it is the most common choice among subjects asked to choose a number between 1 and 20.
According to Leon Kass, 17 has some significant meaning (as yet not known exactly) in the book of Genesis.
Interesting. I am dumm at math though.