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Thank you! I was still a little confused so I did a little googling based on your comment and came across this old reddit post (which linked to this wikipedia page). 39 is a common text term in Japanese because phonetically the numbers read as "San-kyu" (as you wrote) which is the term used for "thank you."
My day is much improved by this information.
much more wholesome than my interpretation, that's for sure