The Quite Incredible Number List: The Top 100

83: When someone reaches 83 they may celebrate a second bar mitzvah. (Strawberry)

167: Bangkok's official name, translated into English, has 167 characters: Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Yuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit. (Tas)

231: "Zimbabwe inflation hits 231 million per cent" was reported in the Daily Telegraph on 24/06/2011. (Zebra57)

359: Douglas Adams once claimed that 359 was the funniest three-digit number. (Ed.)

432: In the late 19th century, the composer Giuseppe Verdi tried to standardise orchestral pitch so that the note A above middle C was set to 432 Hz, sometimes known as "Verdi tuning". (440 Hz is now commonly used as the standard.) (Awitt)

568: Infinity tumbling is the most difficult aerobatic paragliding manoeuvre to perform, with the pilot flipping over the vertical line of the paraglide sail in consecutive loops. Paraglider Horacio Llorens flew up to 19,300 feet before jumping from a helicopter, opening his paraglider and looping for around 15 minutes, hitting an incredible 568 rotations -- breaking the previous record by 194 loops. (bemahan)

639: The John Cage Organ Project’s version of ORGAN2 /ASLSP will last for 639 years. It began on 5 September 2001 – what would have been Cage’s 89th birthday – and is scheduled to end on 5 September 2640. As the performance started, there wasn’t much to see or hear, because it began with a 17-month-long rest. Since then, notes have been added to or subtracted from the organ’s powerful drone 12 times. (bemahan)

719: The Electric Brae on the A719, south of Dunure in Ayrshire, is an example of a "gravity hill", where due to an optical illusion the apparent upward slope of the hill is actually downhill. (GuyBarry)

836: Michael Cooke, a security man guarding the main stage at the Download Festival 2011 held at Donington Park, became a minor internet celebrity through his unusual antics. He was known as 836 owing to the number "0836" on his vest. (GuyBarry)

945: According to the Urban Dictionary, Rule 945 can be invoked by anyone who hears the word "sorry" in a circumstance where the person saying it has no responsibility in the situation, e.g. "My cat died" "I'm sorry" "rule 945". Punishments vary from person to person. It originates with this xkcd cartoon (linked). (GuyBarry)

1091: Britain's first recorded tornado struck London on 17th October 1091, damaging London Bridge and St. Mary-le-Bow church. (Ian Dunn)

1212: Transmitter 1212 was installed in Luxembourg by the US Army in December 1944 and operated until April 1945, broadcasting a mix of news and speculative propaganda targeted at German soldiers and civilians in the Rhineland in an effort to undermine their morale. (AlmondFacialBar)

1258: It is believed that in 1258 there was a volcanic eruption 8 times as large as the Krakatoa eruption of 1883. The eruption has been linked to the Samalas volcano, in the Mount Rinjani Volcanic Complex on Indonesia’s Lombok Island. (Ian Dunn)

1360: In 1979, aged 16, Jadav "Molai" Payeng began planting seeds along a barren sandbar near his birthplace in India's Assam region. Now that once-barren sandbar is a sprawling 1,360 acre forest, home to several thousands of varieties of trees and an astounding diversity of wildlife -- including birds, deer, apes, rhino, elephants and even tigers. Officials in the region only learned of the forest, single-handedly planted and cultivated by Payeng and called the "Molai woods" after its creator's nickname, in 2008. (ellylles)

1411: Apparently, whilst it takes just 1,227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off and only 1,339 QI Facts To Make Your Jaw Drop, it takes 1,411 QI Facts To Knock You Sideways. (ellylles)

1549: On January 15 2009, US Airways flight 1549 ditched in the Hudson River in New York following a bird strike shortly after take-off. All passengers and crew were picked up safely. (Big Martin)

1652: Cosmographie was published in 1652 in which Peter Heylin attempted to describe the entire world in English. It is famous for containing the first description of Australia. (vanjeet)

1729: 1729 is known as the Hardy-Ramanujan number after a famous anecdote of the British mathematician G. H. Hardy regarding a visit to the hospital to see the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. In Hardy's words, "I remember once going to see him when he was ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi cab number 1729 and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavorable omen. "No," he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways."

1729 = 13 + 123 = 93 + 103

(Efros)

1777: Tu'i Malila (verified as the longest-lived tortoise) was hatched around 1777 and in the same year given by Captain Cook to the Tongan royal family. (vanjeet)

1906: In December 1906, Martha Baer became the first person to undergo sex-change surgery, and later became Karl M. Baer. (vanjeet)

2030: In the Simpsons episode "Bart to the Future", first aired in March 2000, a fortune teller gave Bart a glimpse of 2030 - just weeks after Trump vacated the White House. (bemahan)

2122: The St. Valentine's Day Massacre took place at 2122, North Clark Street. (Strawberry)

2291: It was reported in 2015 that Boris Johnson (then Mayor of London and MP for Uxbridge) was being paid £2291 per hour to write his column in the Daily Telegraph. (Wirish)

2355: The only landfall in the path of the Total Solar Eclipse of June 11 2355 (according to current prediction) is Marion Island, an area of 19 km long by 12 km wide which lies at 46°52'34" South 37°51'32" East in the Southern Indian Ocean. (ellylles)

2447: There is a legal case in the USA known as Pennsylvania v 2,447 Bottles of Wine. (Big Martin)

2557: Here's a link to an article about a man that ran 2557 miles across Australia. With a wheelbarrow. (Strawberry)

2666: 2666 is the last novel by Robert Bolaño. It was released in 2004, a year after Bolaño's death. Its themes are manifold, and it relates, among other things, the unsolved and ongoing homicides of Ciudad Juárez (called Santa Teresa in the novel), the Eastern Front in the Second World War, and the breakdown of relationships and careers. The apocalyptic 2666 explores 20th-century degeneration through a wide array of characters, locations, and stories within stories. (Strawberry)

2731: There are 2731 ways to tie a tie into a knot with 15 turns, if ways which are mirror-images of each other are counted as the same. And if the tie is long enough for 15 turns! (WordLover)

2820: A period of 2820 years is used as a base to calculate leap years in the Iranian/Persian Calendar. (JivviWesty)

2996: The September 11 attacks killed 2996 people. (Strawberry)

3039: PSR J0737-3039 is the only known double pulsar, consisting of two neutron stars in a relatavistic binary system. (Big Martin)

3147: According to a sign in Land's End, New York is 3,147 miles away. (Strawberry)

3204: 3204 Lindgren is a main belt asteroid named after the Swedish author. In what must be one of the most groanworthy puns in the history of astronomy it is also know as Asteroid Lindgren. (AlmondFacialBar)

3319: 2³³¹⁹ is the smallest thousand-digit number of the form 2ⁿ. (GuyBarry)

3454: Jungfraujoch is an underground railway station situated below the Jungfraujoch col in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland. At 3,454 metres (11,332 ft) above sea level, this is the highest railway station in Europe, and is close to the summits of the Eiger, Jungfrau and Monch mountains. (Strawberry)

3539: The Canard is listed as plane number 3539 by the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. They say: "The Canard has a long fuselage, delta wing and canard. A canard is a small wing placed on an airplane in front of the main wing. The Canard is excellent for long-distance flights and flights requiring accuracy. Its forward wings give you extra control over its flying characteristics." (Did I mention that it's a paper aeroplane?) (GuyBarry)

3652: According to the 2011 census, a total of 3,652 residents (81.7%) of Chirk in Wrexham have no skills in the Welsh language. (Strawberry)

3797: Allegedly, Nostradamus' last prophecy is about the year 3797. (Big Martin)

3849: The longest yoga chain involved 3849 participants at an event organised by the Kshatriya Vidhyasala Managing Board (India) in Tamilnadu, India, on 14 November 2014. The length of the chain measured 3852m. (Big Martin)

3906: Chronicles From the Future is the story of Paul Amadeus Dienach, a Swiss-Austrian teacher with fragile health, who falls into a one-year-long coma. During this time, his consciousness slides into the future and enters the body of another man in 3906 A.D. It purports to be a true story (and is claimed to be so on a number of internet sites) but is actually the work of George Papachatzis, later prominent Professor of Law and Rector of Panteion University of Greece. (GuyBarry)

4077: You can't let the number 4077 go by without mentioning M*A*S*H, the US film and TV series set at the fictional "4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital" in Uijeongbu, South Korea. The lyrics of its theme tune, "Suicide is Painless", were written by a 14-year-old child, Michael Altman, with no other experience of songwriting, who subsequently became a millionaire from the song. (Big Martin/GuyBarry)

4137: The '32 Lindrum cue has a badge recording the 4,137 record break scored by Walter Lindrum on January 20th 1932 when playing against Joe Davis. Link (Big Martin)

4236: The American songwriter and producer Peter Hollens claims the world record for the most names ever on an album. He credited all 4236 of his supporters who contributed financially and suggested the songs included in his album A Hollens Family Christmas.

4365: The supposed "equation" 3987¹² + 4365¹² = 4472¹² occurs briefly in an episode of The Simpsons entitled "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace". It can't be a genuine equation, because of Fermat's Last Theorem, but the two sides differ by 0.000000002% and agree to 10 decimal digits, so that the values would appear to be the same on many calculators. This is just one of a number of mathematical jokes smuggled into The Simpsons. (GuyBarry)

4385: It has been estimated that the comet Hale-Bopp will be visible from Earth again in 4385 AD. (Big Martin)

4444: Flørli in Norway is a roadless hamlet served by four ferries per day, home to a hydroelectric power station. It's known for its 4444 steps right up the mountain - the longest wooden stairway in the world. (GuyBarry)

4577: Here's a recording of the Russian "English Man" numbers station on 4577 kHz. These broadcasts are believed to be addressed to intelligence officers operating in foreign countries, though their existence has never been officially admitted. (GuyBarry)

4797: Here's a picture, taken on 27th June 2018, of children and teachers from local schools sitting on the Long Walk in Windsor Great Park in front of Windsor Castle, alongside a card prepared as a gift for the royal wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. It was a Guinness World Records record attempt for the title of the Longest Concertina Folded card, by the Busy Buttons Design Centre CIC and a wide cross-section of the local community. The card was signed by 4797 people and has an unconfirmed length of 1367 metres. (GuyBarry)

4859: Witold's Report was the first comprehensive record of a Holocaust death camp to be obtained by the Allies. It was written in 1943 by Witold Pilecki, a soldier in the Polish Army and a secret agent of the Polish resistance, who entered and escaped from the Auschwitz concentration camp. His inmate number was 4859. (GuyBarry)

4940: The prime meridian and the equator cross in the Gulf of Guinea off West Africa in a place jokingly known as Null Island. In actual fact there is no island there and the depth of the sea is around 4940 metres. (AlmondFacialBar)

5062: FactRepublic fact 5062 concerns the death of Garry Hoy in 1993 whilst trying to prove that the glass in a 24th floor office was unbreakable by throwing himself against it. (Big Martin)

5127: According to an article on Gizmodo James Dyson created 5,127 unsuccessful prototypes before getting the vacuum cleaner formula right. (Big Martin)

5345: In 2012 claims appeared on the internet that a first-century fragment of Mark's Gospel had been discovered, which would have been the earliest known manuscript of the Greek New Testament. It was revealed earlier this year that the fragment actually dates from the second or third century. It bears the number P.Oxy LXXXIII 5345 from the Egypt Exploration Society. (GuyBarry)

5412: NSC 5412, the "National Security Council Directive on Covert Operations", was secretly approved in the US on March 15 1954. It sanctioned a large programme of anti-Communist activities in Indochina and throughout the world. (GuyBarry)

5494: The world's tallest totem pole is 54.94 metres (or 5494 centimetres) high and is at the Victoria BC Museum on Vancouver Island. (Big Martin)

5614: One of the longest structures in the world is the 5614-kilometre Dingo Fence, built in Australia during the 1880s to keep dingoes out of the south-eastern part of the continent and protect sheep flocks. It has been partly successful, although the exclusion of dingoes has allowed for increased pasture competition from rabbits, kangaroos and emus. (GuyBarry)

5650: A woman accidentally gave a kebab shop a £5650 tip in May 2018. Russian national Olesya Shemyakova was visiting Dietikon, in the swiss canton of Zurich, and mistakenly entered her PIN number a second time instead of the amount she wanted to pay. (GuyBarry)

5698: In July 2017, a 5698-square-kilometre, trillion-ton iceberg broke away from the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica, and floated out into the Weddell Sea. (GuyBarry)

5844: In November 2013, 19-year-old Tyler James persuaded the Toronto Transit Commission to let him have the number identification plate 5844 from one of its subway cars so that he could give it to his grandmother as a gift. The cars were due to be scrapped, and he had had a cherished memory of that plate number ever since he first rode the subway with his grandmother when he was six years old. (GuyBarry)

5877: The Guinness World Record for the largest coconut ensemble was 5,877 people playing their coconuts to the tune of "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life" in Trafalgar Square on St George's Day 2007. (Big Martin)

6025: There are 6025 petals of the Flower of Life after the 45th iteration. The Flower of Life is a grid of overlapping circles created in the following fashion:

(i) Start with two circles of radius s with centres at the ends of a straight line of length s.

(ii) At each subsequent step, draw circles by placing centres at the intersection points of the circumferences of circles in the previous iteration, with overlaps forbidden.

(GuyBarry)

6055: John Metcalf, known as "Blind Jack of Knaresborough", was the first professional road builder to emerge during the Industrial Revolution. Despite being blinded at the age of six, he was responsible for building about 180 miles of turnpike road in the late 18th century. His career began in 1765 with a contract to build a three-mile section of road between Minskip and Ferrensby in North Yorkshire, now part of the A6055. (GuyBarry)

6174: 6174 is perhaps one of the most remarkable four-digit numbers in respect of its mathematical properties. It's sometimes known as "Kaprekar's constant" after the Indian mathematician D.R. Kaprekar.

1. Take any four-digit number whose digits are not all the same.

2. Arrange the digits in descending and then in ascending order to get two four-digit numbers (which may include leading zeros).

3. Subtract the smaller number from the bigger number.

4. Go back to step 2 and repeat.

The above process will always reach 6174 in at most seven iterations, and then stays there permanently. (GuyBarry)

6267: Whilst Chimborazo is "only" 6,267 metres high, due to its position near the equator, the top of the mountain is actually the furthest point from the earth's core. (Big Martin)

6453: The world record for fastest railed vehicle is held by a rocket sled at Holloman Airforce Base, NM, that accelerated a 87 kg payload to 2886 metres per second, which scales up to 6,453 mph. (AlmondFacialBar)

6563: NM 6563, also known as the also known as the Sunspot Scenic Byway, is one of only three four-digit state highways in New Mexico. It takes its number from the wavelength of the Hydrogen-alpha spectral line (6563 Å) used by scientists at the National Solar Observatory to study the solar chromosphere and to locate solar flares on the Sun. (Brock)

6666: It hardly needs to be mentioned that the digits of 6666 are all identical. All the more remarkable, then, that its fourth power contains a string of ten digits that are all different:

66664 = 1974518637029136

(Brock)

6706: The backyard ultra is a form of ultramarathon race where competitors must consecutively run the distance of 6706 metres in less than one hour. When each lap is completed, the remaining time within the hour is typically used to recover for the next hour's race. The distance was calculated so that a competitor who runs 24 laps covers a total of 100 miles. The race ends when the last runner or runners either concede or fail to finish the distance within the allotted time frame. (Brock)

6773: The Human Rights Tattoo project is aiming to tattoo one character each of the Declaration of Human Rights on 6,773 people around the world. (Big Martin)

6911: The Vela incident, also known as the South Atlantic Flash, was an unidentified double flash of light detected by the American Vela satellite OPS 6911 on 22 September 1979 near the Prince Edward Islands in the Indian Ocean. The cause of the flash remains officially unknown, but today most independent researchers believe that it was caused by a nuclear explosion - perhaps an undeclared nuclear test carried out by South Africa and Israel. (Brock)

7074: LCT 7074 is the last remaining landing craft tank in the UK. It was used in the Normandy landings in 1944, and served as a floating nightclub in Liverpool during the 60s and 70s. After that it fell into disrepair and sank in Birkenhead docks, but it was raised in 2014 and sent to Portsmouth for restoration. In June this year, it finally re-opened to the public as part of the D-Day Story exhibition. (Brock)

7112: When the mountaineers Ralf Dujmovits and Nancy Hansen entered the hypoxia chamber at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) in Cologne in May 2018, they were effectively climbing one of the highest peaks of their careers. After a two-week acclimatisation, they spent 16 days breathing air thinner than at Everest base camp - including four days at the equivalent of 7112 metres. (Brock)

7211: The Guinness World Record for the highest altitude cycling was set in 2009 at 7,211 metres up Mount Muztagata in China. (Big Martin)

7307: In 2021, a company calling itself "Dankwoods Dispensary", claiming to supply legal recreational marijuana, invited customers who'd paid in advance to pick supplies up from 7307 Roosevelt Road, Forest Park, Illinois. However it was actually the address of a bar whose manager knew nothing about the scam. (Brock)

7399: Jockey Hugh Morgan claimed a £7399 prize for winning on Young Dev at Navan racecourse last February after his stirrup broke at the first fence. The horse's odds went to 499-1 as bookmakers thought he had no chance at all. (Brock)

7473: In 2015, the artist Michael Mandiberg announced that he was making a 7471-volume printed version of Wikipedia available for $500,000. By the time it was uploaded for printing, it was actually 7473 volumes at 700 pages each. That's how fast it grows! (In fact it was never printed in full - he printed out 106 volumes for an exhibition and the rest was made available for print-on-demand.) (Brock)

7681: The World Record for participants in an outdoor snowball fight is 7,681 and was set in Saskatoon, Canada in January 2016. Coincidentally, the World Record for participants in a pillow fight is also 7,681 and was set in Minneapolis in May 2018. (Big Martin)

7721: The World Record for the most golf balls hit in 12 hours is 7,721. (Big Martin)

7818: The eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 caused a 50-foot tidal wave (tsunami) that travelled as far as Cape Horn, 7818 miles away. (Brock)

7946: For fictitious phone numbers for TV programmes etc. set in London, numbers in the 020 7946 0xxx range are used. (Big Martin)

8017: The Torre de Comares is the highest tower in the Alhambra. The ceiling has 8017 separate pieces of wood in 7 concentric circles with superimposed cedar-wood adornments crowned by central mocarabe boss. (bemahan)

8068: What's the safest 4-digit PIN? No one knows, but it was once 8068. In 2012 a group of researchers at Data Genetics reportedly went through 3.4 million PINs and discovered that the least common was 8068, which came up only 25 times. They then published their results, which of course meant that 8068 was no longer the safest PIN. Possibly the most counter-productive piece of research in history. (In fact they didn't get hold of 3.4 million actual PINs. Instead, they used data from released/exposed/discovered password tables and security breaches, and filtered the results to those that consisted of exactly four digits.) (Brock)

8150: The Book of Genesis does not mention the height of the Tower of Babel. However the Book of Jubilees, an ancient Jewish religious work, puts its height at 5433 cubits and 2 palms, which equates to 8150 feet. (Brock)

8239: The World's largest Time Warp dance involved 8,239 participants in West Hollywood, California for Halloween 2010. (Big Martin)

8418: Ariana Grande has "8418" tattooed on her foot. (Big Martin)

8612: 8612 is the number of a prisoner in the Stanford prisoner experiment. It's generally considered to be one of the most unethical psychology experiments in history - volunteers were randomly assigned to be either prisoners or guards to see how they behaved. After 36 hours, so-called "Prisoner 8612" was released after an apparent mental breakdown (though he later suggested that he might have simulated it). The experiment was ended early after six days. (Awitt/Brock)

8661: The Church of the SubGenius is a parody religion in the US that satirizes better-known belief systems. In July 1998 they held an event to celebrate the coming of aliens; when they didn't turn up, the leader (the Rev. Ivan Stang) speculated that they might arrive in 8661, which is 1998 turned upside-down. (Brock)

8695: Melissa Doi, who died in the September 11 attacks in 2001, is known for the recording of the 911 call she made during her final few minutes while the South Tower was engulfed in flames, which was answered by NYPD Dispatcher 8695. The recording was used during the prosecution of Zacarias Moussaoui, the only criminal trial to result from the attacks. Only the first four minutes of the 24-minute call were released by the courts, and the extract can be heard here. (Brock)

8712: A female grey wolf tagged in Oregon as OR-54 clocked up a minimum 8712 miles of wanderings between January 2018 and December 2019. She's thought to have looked for a mate. (AlmondFacialBar)

8933: The second most-edited Wikipedia page of 2016 was the one on Donald Trump, with 8933 edits. It was beaten only by "Deaths in 2016" (18,230 edits). (Brock)

9030: In January 2023, a squirrel caused a power outage that affected 9030 customers of BC Hydro in North Vancouver, Canada. (Brock)

9092: The last palindromic date in DD/MM/YYYY format before the year 10000 is Sep 29 9092 (29/09/9092). (Brock)

9271: One of the world's largest sculptures is Maman by Louise Bourgeois, at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. The sculpture, which depicts a spider, has dimensions of 9271 x 8915 x 10236 mm. (Brock)

9341: The Museum of Jurassic Technology is at 9341 Venice Boulevard in the Palms district of Los Angeles, California. Its exhibits appear to be unrelated to either the Jurassic or technology, including things like "The Garden of Eden on Wheels: Collections from Los Angeles Area Trailer Parks" and "Rotten Luck: The Decaying Dice of Ricky Jay". (Brock)

9398: Ashrita Furman is a multiple world record holder, including mountain climbing on stilts with a height achieved of 9,398 feet. (Big Martin)

[5 more to be chosen from 9501-10000]

The Quite Incredible Number List: Pick of the 0000s

9:

1 x 9 + 2 = 11

12 x 9 + 3 = 111

123 x 9 + 4 = 1 111

1234 x 9 + 5 = 11 111

12345 x 9 + 6 = 111 111

123456 x 9 + 7 = 1 111 111

1234567 x 9 + 8 = 11 111 111

12345678 x 9 + 9 = 111 111 111

(bemahan)

17: "Seventeen" was the original name of The Beatles song "I Saw Her Standing There". (bemahan)

26: According to a survey reported in the Daily Telegraph in 2009, 26th October is the most unproductive day of the year. (stee)

37: Jupiter is 37 light seconds away from the Earth. (jdean)

40: WD 40 stands for Water Displacement - 40th Attempt (it was the 40th formula tried by the inventor). (stee)

51: "Playin' solitaire 'til dawn with a deck of 51/Smokin' cigarettes and watchin' Captain Kangaroo/Now don't tell me, I've nothin' to do" are lyrics from Flowers on the Wall by the Statler Brothers. (bobwilson)

67: In the year 67 CE, Saint Peter the Apostle is supposed to have been crucified upside-down at his own request. (sjb)

74: In a 2011 study it was found that we are at our happiest when we are 74 years of age. It drops steadily from your teens until you reach 40, then it is in a trough for the next six years. After which it climbs steadily to a peak at 74 before dropping off as physical and mental illness kicks in. (tp)

83: When someone reaches 83 they may celebrate a second bar mitzvah. (Strawberry)

99: Ninety-nine is the shared name of two completely different card games, one invented by David Parlett, and the other of unknown origin. (dr bartolo)

108: Stonehenge is 108 feet in diameter. (Strawberry)

118: In 2006 Ray Parker Jr took part in a commercial for the directory enquiries company 118 118, using the theme tune of Ghostbusters, which he sang in the original film. The lyrics were adapted to "If there's something strange, going through your head, Who Ya Gonna Call? 118!", a little oddly since dialling "118" wouldn't have connected you to anything (being the prefix for several competing directory enquiries providers). (Ed., suggested by Sophie.A)

126: Gilgamesh purportedly lived to 126. (Strawberry)

133: Since 1967, the second has been defined to be the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom. (Sophie.A)

147: 147 is the highest break that can be achieved in a frame of snooker in which no foul shots are made. The fastest 147 break in a major snooker tournament was made by Ronnie O'Sullivan, who took 5 minutes 20 seconds to achieve the feat against Mick Price in the first round of the 1997 World Snooker Championship. (Sophie.A)

158: The Dick Van Dyke Show ran from 1961 to 1966 with 158 episodes. (Strawberry)

167: Bangkok's official name, translated into English, has 167 characters: Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Yuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit. (Tas)

170: For 170 days, every morning of the school year, Dale Price waved off his son's school bus wearing a different fancy dress outfit. His son was extremely embarrassed. (Zebra57)

176: A solar day on the planet Mercury lasts about 176 Earth days. (Sophie.A)

194: According to the US Department of State on April 13th 2011, there were 194 independent states in the world. (Zebra57)

206: There are 206 bones in the typical adult human body. (Strawberry)

217: In The Shining, room 217 plays a central part of the story as it is haunted. (Strawberry)

221: 221b Baker Street was of course the address of a famous fictional drug addict and violin player. (PDR)

231: "Zimbabwe inflation hits 231 million per cent" was reported in the Daily Telegraph on 24/06/2011. (Zebra57)

247: 247 = 50123 - 49876, and is the smallest number which can be expressed as the difference between two integers which together contain all digits 0-9. (Strawberry)

258: It is said that there were 258 bakers’ shops in Rome by the year 100BC. (Ed.)

263: 263 is the largest known prime whose square is strobogrammatic, i.e. appears the same upside-down (69169). (Strawberry)

273: John Cage's composition 4'33" consists of 273 seconds (four minutes and 33 seconds) of silence, in three movements. (Strawberry)

282: The M25 is not a complete circle. The section of the London Orbital across the Dartford Tunnel and QEII Bridge is actually the A282. (tetsabb)

295: In 2011 there was an increase of 295 tigers in India,according to the second all-India tiger population estimation study, carried out in the designated 39 tiger reserves across the country. The population was estimated at 1706, up from 1411 when they were counted previously. (Spoilt Victorian)

304: The early Roman calendar consisted of 304 days divided into 10 months. The remaining 61 days of the solar year do not seem to have been counted. (Ed.)

313: 313 is a palindromic prime in both decimal and binary. Binary representation: 100111001. (krollo)

325: In November 2022, A sneaker care company broke a Guinness World Record in London when 325 people cleaned shoes at the same time. (Ed.)

333: AL 333, commonly referred to as the "First Family", is a collection of prehistoric hominid teeth and bones. Discovered in 1975 by Donald Johanson's team in Hadar, Ethiopia, the "First Family" is estimated to be about 3.2 million years old and consists of the remains of at least thirteen individuals. (krollo)

346: In Dewey Decimal Classification the number 346 refers to Private Law. A personal favourite category there is: 346.94046959222 Kangaroos--resource economics--law. (AlmondFacialBar)

359: Douglas Adams once claimed that 359 was the funniest three-digit number. (Ed.)

366: 366 geometry (also called 366-degree geometry and megalithic geometry) is an hypothetical geometry (using a 366 degree as oppose to the standard 360 degree circle) that was used and created by an alleged megalithic civilization of Britain and France. This opinion is regarded, at best, as pseudoscience by all mainstream scientists. (nimravus)

376: 376 is an automorphic number, meaning that 376 x 376 (141376) ends in 376. There are only two 3-digit automorphic numbers, the other being 625. (chrisboote)

383: In the Hebrew calendar, a leap year is at least 383 days long. (GuyBarry)

394: "Turn to page 394" is a line used by Alan Rickman's character Severus Snape in the film version of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, which has become something of an internet meme. It doesn't seem to have any great significance, but Rickman repeats it several times in a rather menacing voice. (GuyBarry)

401: 401 was the hull number of the RMS Titanic. (Strawberry)

414: There are 414 steps to the top of the Campanile next to the Duomo in Florence. (chrisboote)

418: The Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol, published as an April Fool's joke in 1998, contained the error code "418 I'm a teapot". (GuyBarry)

432: In the late 19th century, the composer Giuseppe Verdi tried to standardise orchestral pitch so that the note A above middle C was set to 432 Hz, sometimes known as "Verdi tuning". (440 Hz is now commonly used as the standard.) (Awitt)

442: When the 4-4-2 formation was first introduced to German professional football it was highly controversial and cost at least one coach his job. (AlmondFacialBar)

453: 453 is the only number n such that n, 2n, and 6n together contain every digit exactly once: 453, 906, 2718. (GuyBarry)

462: In 462 CE one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia was destroyed by fire after being moved to Constantinople. (AlmondFacialBar)

475: 475 has a square that is made up of the squares of other numbers: 475 squared = 225625, 15 squared = 225, and 25 squared = 625. (Also 256 occurs inside it, which is 16 squared.) (GuyBarry)

482: 01482 (previously 0482) is the dialling code for Hull - unique because it's the only exchange not covered by the BT network. (GuyBarry)

494: St George, patron saint of England, was canonized in 494. He is also the patron saint of Georgia, Egypt, Bulgaria, Aragon, Catalonia, Romania, Ethiopia, Greece, India, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Lithuania, Palestine, Portugal, Serbia, Ukraine and Russia, as well as the cities of Genoa, Amersfoort, Beirut, Botoşani, Drobeta Turnu-Severin, Timişoara, Fakiha, Bteghrine, Cáceres, Ferrara, Freiburg im Breisgau, Kragujevac, Kumanovo, Ljubljana, Pérouges, Pomorie, Preston, Qormi, Rio de Janeiro, Lod, Lviv, Barcelona, Moscow and Victoria. Plus the Boy Scout movement, the Romany, people with skin diseases or herpes or leprosy or syphilis or the plague, agricultural workers, archers; armourers, the Bulgarian Army, butchers, cavalrymen, chivalry, The Corinthians (a Brazilian football team), Crusaders, equestrians, farmers, field workers, horses, animal husbandmen, knights, the Order of the Garter, the Portuguese Army and Navy, saddle makers, sheep and shepherds, soldiers, and the Teutonic Knights. (chrisboote)

501: 501 is the number of runs scored by Brian Lara in a match between Warwickshire and Durham at Edgbaston in June 1994, still the record for an individual score in First Class cricket. (tetsabb)

511: The mathematician Paul Erdős had 511 different collaborators during his lifetime. As a joke, people started giving other eminent mathematicians "Erdős numbers" equal to the number of collaborative links between them and Erdős. The same idea spawned the game "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon". (GuyBarry)

528: A beam of light that has a wavelength of 528nm would appear to be green in colour. (Webster100)

538: FiveThirtyEight is a polling aggregation website with a blog created by Nate Silver. Sometimes colloquially referred to as 538 dot com or just 538, the website takes its name from the number of electors in the United States electoral college. (bemahan)

545: 545 is the number of complaints the BBC received about the sound of vuvuzelas during its World Cup coverage. (bemahan)

551: 551 days after the launch of the Instagram app by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger in 2010, it was bought by Facebook for $1 billion. (GuyBarry)

568: Infinity tumbling is the most difficult aerobatic paragliding manoeuvre to perform, with the pilot flipping over the vertical line of the paraglide sail in consecutive loops. Paraglider Horacio Llorens flew up to 19,300 feet before jumping from a helicopter, opening his paraglider and looping for around 15 minutes, hitting an incredible 568 rotations -- breaking the previous record by 194 loops. (bemahan)

575: 575 Wandsworth Road was acquired by the National Trust in 2010, because of the rich and striking interiors created by Khadambi Asalache (1935-2006), a Kenyan-born poet, novelist, philosopher of mathematics and British civil servant. (bemahan)

586: The Pentium processor was originally expected to be named the 586 (as the successor to the 286, 386 and 486). Intel adopted the name to prevent its competitors from bringing out products with similar names, since you can't trademark a number in the US. (GuyBarry)

596: 596 was the codename of China's first nuclear weapons test. (GuyBarry)

604: The A604 is possibly the most important road that you won't find on any recent map. It ran for about 90 miles across East Anglia, from Kettering in Northamptonshire to Harwich in Essex, and was a major route from the Midlands to the East Coast ports. But from the 1970s onwards sections of it were gradually renumbered, and by 1998 it had completely disappeared. One section of it (including part of the Roman Via Devana) was incorporated into the new A14, which took over as the main route to the East Coast. In total it took about eight different numbers. (GuyBarry)

613: There are 613 commandments in the Torah. (chrisboote)

625: According to a 2010 White House news release, 625 people lost their health insurance every hour in 2009. (Strawberry)

639: The John Cage Organ Project’s version of ORGAN2 /ASLSP will last for 639 years. It began on 5 September 2001 – what would have been Cage’s 89th birthday – and is scheduled to end on 5 September 2640. As the performance started, there wasn’t much to see or hear, because it began with a 17-month-long rest. Since then, notes have been added to or subtracted from the organ’s powerful drone 12 times. (bemahan)

642: 642 is the smallest number with the property that its first six multiples include the digit 2: 642, 1284, 1926, 2568, 3210 and 3852. (GuyBarry)

659: Delta Flight 659 is a poem by American poet Denise Duhamel. Each line ends in a word containing 'pen'. (bemahan)

665: The Priddy Sheep Fair in Somerset was first held in 1348 and last held in 2013, 665 years later. It was only cancelled three times in its history. (GuyBarry)

670: In November 2013, the SNP published a 670-page white paper which they claimed would answer all those nagging questions over the fine details of independence. (Alfred E Neuman)

684: The 684th Fibonacci number is divisible by 684. (GuyBarry)

695: On Wednesday, the 18th of March, 1925, 695 people died in the Great Tri-State Tornado, the deadliest tornado in U.S. history. (Strawberry)

703: 703 metres is the deepest record of a Nautilus pompilius recorded feeding during daytime on red bass bait deposited by an ROV on the sea floor at Bougainville Reef. (knightmare)

712: 712 is a 1991 album by the Japanese rock trio Shonen Knife. The album was named after the contraction of the Japanese words for the numbers 7 (nana), 1 (ichi) and 2 (futatu), which, when contracted, sound like "na-i-fu". Naifu is the imported word in Japanese for "knife". (bemahan)

719: The Electric Brae on the A719, south of Dunure in Ayrshire, is an example of a "gravity hill", where due to an optical illusion the apparent upward slope of the hill is actually downhill. (GuyBarry)

730: 730 is an American slang term for "crazy". It comes from the motion a criminal defendant would have to file in order to be examined by a psychiatrist to determine whether he or she is fit to proceed to trial. (GuyBarry)

738: "Don't You Just Hate That?: 738 Annoying Things" is the title of a book, which people tend to like or dislike. The 738th thing is "finishing a book not because you're enjoying it but to prove to yourself you're not a quitter". (knightmare)

752: In season 2, episode 19 of the US political thriller series Scandal, entitled "Seven Fifty-Two", the character Huck sits on the floor repeatedly saying "752, 752, 752". (GuyBarry)

765: Manchester Corporation Tramways 765 is the only remaining electric tramcar from Manchester Corporation Tramways in regular operation. It is at Heaton Park, Manchester. (Strawberry)

775: There are 775 rooms in Buckingham Palace. (Strawberry)

786: The Arabic letters of the opening phrase of the Qur'an sum to the numerical value 786 in the system of Abjad numerals. Muslims on the Indian subcontinent use 786 as an abbreviation for the phrasm 'bism illah ir-rahman ir-rahim' which means 'in the name of Allah, the compassionate, the merciful'. (Strawberry)

797: In 2006 an email hoax circulated claiming that Boeing had developed a 1000-passenger jetliner called the "Boeing 797". It didn't exist. (GuyBarry)

801: The band 801 were put together as a temporary project in 1976 after the break up of Roxy Music. The name is taken from the refrain of a song written by band member Brian Eno. (Big Martin)

808: When written as a numeral, 808 has both horizontal and vertical axes of symmetry. In fonts where the digit "1" is asymmetric, it is one of only two three-digit numbers to have this property (the other being 888). (GuyBarry)

823: The "money bags" hoax email, which has been circulating since 2010, usually takes the form of a claim that "this year, July [or some other month] has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays. This happens only once every 823 years". In fact it happens about once every seven years on average, but it seems that people are still taken in by it. (GuyBarry)

836: Michael Cooke, a security man guarding the main stage at the Download Festival 2011 held at Donington Park, became a minor internet celebrity through his unusual antics. He was known as 836 owing to the number "0836" on his vest. (GuyBarry)

849: Gliese 849 is a red dwarf star 29 light years away in the constellation of Aquarius. In 2006 a Jupter-like planet was discovered orbiting it. (Big Martin)

853: "853-5937", written by Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford, was the fourth UK single and the second US single released from Squeeze's seventh album, Babylon and On. Whilst the song did not chart in the UK, it managed to reach number 32 on the US Hot 100 charts. (Strawberry)

860: In June 2013, the company behind photo-sharing app Snapchat was estimated to be worth US$860 million, despite being less than two years old and having precisely zero revenue. (GuyBarry)

867: "867-5309/Jenny" is a song written by Alex Call and Jim Keller and performed by Tommy Tutone that was released on the album Tommy Tutone 2, on the Columbia Records label. It peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #1 on the Billboard Top Tracks chart in 1982. The song caused a fad of people dialling "867-5309" and asking for "Jenny". (Strawberry)

880: Not counting reflections and rotations, there are 880 distinct 4x4 magic squares. (GuyBarry)

898: The M898 has been described as "one of the shortest, narrowest and [most] generally pathetic motorways that there is". It's a mile long, leading from the M8 west of Glasgow to the Erskine Bridge across the Clyde. (GuyBarry)

909: "One After 909" (sometimes called "The One After 909" in early recordings) is a song by The Beatles, written by John Lennon, with input from Sir Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon-McCartney) and originally released in 1970 on the album Let It Be. The album version is the live performance from the rooftop concert which took place on 30 January 1969. This performance is also included in the Let It Be film. The song was written as early as 1957 and is one of the first Lennon-McCartney compositions. "One After 909" is also a more American rock-and-roll sounding song than any of the other songs on the rooftop show and as a joke for the rooftop chatter, Lennon sings a variant on the opening line of "Danny Boy" after the song is finished that is unable to be entirely made out. (Strawberry)

912: In the "Homer the Great" episode of The Simpsons, Homer joins a secret organization called the Stonecutters (an obvious parody of the Freemasons), in which he is told the "real" emergency services number - 912. (The actual US emergency number is of course 911.) (GuyBarry)

921: The 921 earthquake, also known as Jiji earthquake, was an 7.3M or 7.6-7.7Mw earthquake which occurred on Tuesday, 21 September 1999 in Jiji, Nantou County, Taiwan. (Strawberry)

933: There were 933 fireworks-related New Year’s Eve injuries reported in Manila for 2013/4. Of the 933 cases, 914 were firecracker injuries, two were cases of firework ingestion. There were also eight additional cases of stray bullet injuries, bringing the total to 17 cases, most of which occurred in Metro Manila. (bemahan)

945: According to the Urban Dictionary, Rule 945 can be invoked by anyone who hears the word "sorry" in a circumstance where the person saying it has no responsibility in the situation, e.g. "My cat died" "I'm sorry" "rule 945". Punishments vary from person to person. It originates with this xkcd cartoon (linked). (GuyBarry)

952: 952 is simplified bridge for three players, with a forced card-switching twist thrown in. (Strawberry)

964: The film "Screams of Blasphemy" was formerly known as "Pinocchio 964". The eponymous hero, a lobotomised cyborg sex slave, is thrown out onto the street by his owners because of his inability to maintain an erection. (bemahan)

969: 969 is a strange number if you come from Burma. The three digits ‘969’ originally referred to the Buddha’s “three jewels”, but they are now being used as a brand name for a nationalist, anti-Muslim campaign led by a prominent monk based in Mandalay. (Efros)

980: In March 2013, two British parents managed to get a refund from Apple after their eight year-old son spent £980 buying virtual doughnuts in the iPad game The Simpsons: Tapped Out. (GuyBarry)

994: The A994 has the highest three-digit A-road number currently in use in Britain. It runs from Dunfermline in Fife to Cairneyhill, about three miles away. (GuyBarry)

The Quite Incredible Number List: Pick of the 1000s

1004: In Korean, the number 1004 (chun sa) sounds like the word for "angel". It's given its name to 1004 Virus, a campaign to support children with rare diseases in Korea. (GuyBarry)

1005: The Sonderaktion 1005, also called Aktion 1005, or Enterdungsaktion (English: Exhumation action) began in May 1942 to hide any evidence that people had been murdered by Nazi Germany in Aktion Reinhard in occupied Poland. (Strawberry)

1022: 1022 is a "Friedman number". That means that it can be expressed non-trivially using only the normal arithmetic operators and its own digits:

1022 = 210 - 2

(GuyBarry)

1027: Dragon Run 1027 was a run of over 1027 miles, carried out solo as a multi day ultramarathon, around the entire perimeter of Wales. Arry Beresford-Webb ran the entire distance, which amounts to the equivalent of 40 marathons, back to back, within 40 days. It was done to raise money for a cancer charity. (bemahan)

1033: In 1033, panic spread throughout Europe that the end of the universe might be near, on the supposed 1,000th anniversary of the crucifixion of Christ, due to some unusually harsh spring weather. The Book of Revelation predicts the end of the earth after a 1000 year period. ('yorz)

1054: In 1054 the people of Earth witnessed a supernova whose remains we now know as the Crab Nebula. (AlmondFacialBar)

1061: The Papal election of 1061 AD saw Alexander II contentiously appointed as Pope. A displeased group elected a rival Pope, Honorius II, and several years of conflict ensued before Alexander was recognised as the legitimate Pope. (Big Martin)

1073: The Neve 1073 preamp and equaliser has been in production since 1970 and is claimed to have been used on numerous famous recordings in the ensuing 40+ years. (Big Martin)

1089: Take any 3-digit number in which the first and last digits differ by 2 or more. Reverse the number, and subtract the smaller of the two numbers from the larger. Then reverse the result and add up these two numbers. The result will always be 1089. Example:

401-104=297

297+792=1089.

(Ian Dunn)

1091: Britain's first recorded tornado struck London on 17th October 1091, damaging London Bridge and St. Mary-le-Bow church. (Ian Dunn)

1104: 1104, South Wabash Avenue, built in 1891, is a City of Chicago Landmark (1996) and is listed on the National Register of Historical Places (1980). Built by William LeBaron Jenney, acknowledged as the inventor of the skyscraper for his fire-proofed metal skeleton-frame designs, the Ludington building represents his continuing experimentation as the first entirely terra cotta-clad skyscraper. The Ludington is also a rare survivor, one of only two extant loft buildings in Chicago built by Jenney. (Strawberry)

1114: 11:14 is a 2003 American indie thriller written by Greg Marcks, starring Rachael Leigh Cook, Henry Thomas, Shawn Hatosy, Stark Sands, Colin Hanks, Ben Foster, Barbara Hershey, Clark Gregg, Patrick Swayze and Hilary Swank. The film premiered at various showings at an unusual time, ending the screening exactly at 11:14 PM. (Strawberry)

1127: In the 1932 film, The Music Box, Laurel and Hardy tried to lug a piano up an outdoor staircase to 1127, Walnut Street. That scene was shot at a stairway between 932 and 935, Vendone Street (the stairs start on Vendone Street and end on Descanso Drive, at Del Monte Drive), in the Silver Lake district. In November of 1994, a plaque was put up to honour the spot. (Strawberry)

1135: The first Great Fire of London took place on Pentecost Sunday 1135. It damaged London Bridge and an under-construction St. Paul's Cathedral. (Ian Dunn)

1149: In 2022, the Birkenhead News reported that there were 1,149 sewage dumps in Wirral that affected the New Brighton coastal bathing location. (Ed.)

1158: A teenage fan ran up a bill of £1,158 voting for Lucy Pargeter on I'm A Celebrity. (Big Martin)

1164: 1164 Morning Glory Circle, Westport, Connecticut is the "home" of the TV series Bewitched. (Big Martin)

1177: The book 1177BC by Eric H Cline investigates the fall of the great Bronze Age civilisations. The title comes from the accepted date for the Sea Peoples' invasion of Egypt. (Big Martin)

1194: 1194 is the number of the Australian Speaking Clock. (AlmondFacialBar)

1195: In January, 1195 people received UK New Year's Honours. (Strawberry)

1206: In 1206 Genghis Khan, born Temujin, was proclaimed ruler of all Mongols. (bemahan)

1212: Transmitter 1212 was installed in Luxembourg by the US Army in December 1944 and operated until April 1945, broadcasting a mix of news and speculative propaganda targeted at German soldiers and civilians in the Rhineland in an effort to undermine their morale. (AlmondFacialBar)

1220: In May of 1220, Saint Francis of Assissi resigned from the leadership of the Franciscan Order. (Strawberry)

1234: The song 1234 is from Feist's 3rd album. (Big Martin)

1242: The pulmonary circulation of blood and the division of the heart into two ventricles were first described in 1242 in a paper by the Arab physician Ibn al-Nafis. (AlmondFacialBar)

1245: 1245 Sunflowers is a project to commemorate the same number of soldiers who died in the Great War, from Stockton on Tees. (Awitt)

1249: 1249 is a trimorphic number - one whose cube ends in the original number. 1249 cubed is 1948441249. (Ian Dunn)

1258: It is believed that in 1258 there was a volcanic eruption 8 times as large as the Krakatoa eruption of 1883. The eruption has been linked to the Samalas volcano, in the Mount Rinjani Volcanic Complex on Indonesia’s Lombok Island. (Ian Dunn)

1277: It is claimed that, on average, a UK child has just 1277 days between being born and starting nursery education. (Big Martin)

1294: Moby Dick Chapter 35 or 1294 times E is an artwork by Justin Quinn. (GuyBarry)

1306: 1306 = 1¹ + 3² + 0³ + 6⁴. (tommyk)

1313: The Munsters live at 1313, Mockingbird Lane, a fictional suburb in California. (Strawberry)

1321: In 1321 there was mass scare in France that lepers were poisoning wells. Not only lepers, but Jews and Muslims were attacked during this period of hysteria. (Ian Dunn)

1337: 1337 is a synonym of Leetspeak, a system of modified spellings used primarily on the internet by online gamers and computer hackers. (AlmondFacialBar)

1353: Four boxes known as the Ledge extend off the Skydeck at the Willis Tower, formerly the Sears Tower. The enclosures extend out more than four feet from the building's Skydeck and offer visitors a glass-floor view from 1,353ft above the city. (ellylles)

1360: In 1979, aged 16, Jadav "Molai" Payeng began planting seeds along a barren sandbar near his birthplace in India's Assam region. Now that once-barren sandbar is a sprawling 1,360 acre forest, home to several thousands of varieties of trees and an astounding diversity of wildlife -- including birds, deer, apes, rhino, elephants and even tigers. Officials in the region only learned of the forest, single-handedly planted and cultivated by Payeng and called the "Molai woods" after its creator's nickname, in 2008. (ellylles)

1369: The Urban Dictionary defines a "1369" as a particularly distasteful task to be given, because 13 is unlucky and, er, 69, leaves a bad taste in the mouth. (amdby)

1372: The year 1372 appears to have been the first AD date to appear on coins. These were issued by the city of Aachen. (Big Martin)

1388: The worst excesses of the "Merciless Parliament" were committed in 1388. (Big Martin)

1396: At the time of its completion in October 2014, 432 Park Avenue in midtown Manhattan was the world's tallest residential building at 1396 feet high. (It's now the third tallest.) (AlmondFacialBar)

1410: The famous astrological clock in Prague was built in 1410. (Big Martin)

1411: Apparently, whilst it takes just 1,227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off and only 1,339 QI Facts To Make Your Jaw Drop, it takes 1,411 QI Facts To Knock You Sideways. (ellylles)

1421: Some think that in 1421 the Chinese discovered America. (AlmondFacialBar)

1437: In 2012, Bangor Cathedral in North Wales broke with its ancient tradition of only allowing boys and men to sing. For the first time in 1437 years, an all-girl choir lead the services. (ellylles)

1442: On the 8th November 2014, the Washington Post published a list of the 1,442 items turned over to Metro's lost-and-found department in October. (ellylles)

1452: In March 1452 Frederick III became the last Holy Roman Emperor to actually have a coronation in Rome. (Big Martin)

1460: Dr Marten's 1460 boot is marketed as their "classic" boot. (Big Martin)

1472: On the 31st of December, 1472, the city council of Amsterdam prohibited snowball fights. (Strawberry)

1488: MIL-STD-1488 is the standard which provides standardized provisions for evaluating the quality of trousers procured for and used by the US Military. Although now unclassified at revision G, its original Revision A carried a classification which included a "US Eyes Only" constraint. So there was a time when the quality of US Army trousers was a military secret... (PDR)

1495: On June 1 1495, Friar John Cor recorded the first known batch of Scotch Whisky. (Big Martin)

1506: 15 June (15-06) is the day that annually celebrates wind energy, called Global Wind Day. (vanjeet)

1518: The Dancing Plague of Strasburg occured in 1518. (Big Martin)

1525: According to Merriam-Webster the word "spatula" was first used in the English language in 1525. (vanjeet)

1530: 1530 is a vampire number. That is a number with even digits that can be factorized into two numbers each containing half the original number of digits, such that they contain all the digits of the original number in any order. The factors are called fangs. 1530 = 30 x 51 (vanjeet)

1549: On January 15 2009, US Airways flight 1549 ditched in the Hudson River in New York following a bird strike shortly after take-off. All passengers and crew were picked up safely. (Big Martin)

1557: In 1557, the Welsh-born mathematician Robert Recorde published The Whetstone of Witte in London, containing the first recorded use of the equals sign and also the first use in English in plus and minus signs. (Strawberry)

1567: An advertisement for England's first ever National Lottery was issued in 1567 by Queen Elizabeth I. (ellylles)

1573: The 1573 Bar & Grill in Leicester is in a Grade II listed building - one of the oldest schoolhouses in England. (Big Martin)

1585: In February 2015, over 600 people beat the previous world record by building 1,585 snowmen in the Japanese city of Iiyama. (Big Martin)

1597: 1597 is an emirp ("prime" backwards), that is, a non-palindromic prime number which is prime when reversed as well. (vanjeet)

1608: In 1608 the County Antrim landowner Sir Thomas Phillipps was granted a licence to distil whiskey by King James I. (AlmondFacialBar)

1619: In 1619, René Descartes had a dream that helped him develop his ideas on analytical geometry. (Strawberry)

1624: In 1624 the French parliament passed a law making criticism of Aristotle punishable by death. (Big Martin)

1632: 1632 is a series of alternate history novels by Eric Flint, set in the fictional town of Grantville, West Virginia, in the year 2000. The town is sent back in time to central Germany in the year 1631. (vanjeet)

1638: 1638 is an Ore number, which is a positive integer whose divisors produce an integer harmonic mean. A harmonic mean is the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocal of a given set of numbers. (vanjeet)

1652: Cosmographie was published in 1652 in which Peter Heylin attempted to describe the entire world in English. It is famous for containing the first description of Australia. (vanjeet)

1662: The last widely accepted sighting of a dodo was in 1662. (Strawberry)

1677: On the 23rd April, 1677 a whale wasstranded alive in the Wivner River (thought to be the Colne River now) six miles down from Colchester, but eventually died. The event was seen as newsworthy enough for a special tract to be printed on it. (AlmondFacialBar)

1684: In 1684, Japanese poet Saikaku composed 23, 500 verses in 24 hours at the Suniyoshi Shrine at Osaka; the scribes could not keep pace with his dictation and just counted the verses. (Strawberry)

1695: In 1695, a £2 fine was imposed for swearing in England. (Strawberry)

1706: Thomas Twining opened the first tea room at No. 216 Strand in 1706. Twinings holds the world's oldest continually-used company logo and is London's longest-standing rate-payer. (vanjeet)

1724: 1724 is a brand of tonic water from Argentina, named after the height above sea level where organic quinine is harvested. (tetsabb)

1729: 1729 is known as the Hardy-Ramanujan number after a famous anecdote of the British mathematician G. H. Hardy regarding a visit to the hospital to see the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. In Hardy's words, "I remember once going to see him when he was ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi cab number 1729 and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavorable omen. "No," he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways."

1729 = 13 + 123 = 93 + 103

(Efros)

1740: In 1740, Jacques-Barthélemy Micheli du Crest created a temperature scale with 0 set at the "temperature of the terrestrial globe", measured in a cellar 26 m below Paris Observatory, and 100 set to the temperature of boiling water. (vanjeet)

1752: England and Wales lost 11 calendar days in 1752; the calendar advanced from Wednesday 2 September 1752 to Thursday 14 September 1752. This was due to the adoption of the Gregorian calendar. (vanjeet)

1761: The Transit of Venus in 1761 was widely observed by astronomers throughout the world, which allowed a lot of important calculations to be made. (Big Martin)

1770: 1770 is a village in Queensland, Australia named for Captain Cook's landing there in May of that year. (Big Martin)

1777: Tu'i Malila (verified as the longest-lived tortoise) was hatched around 1777 and in the same year given by Captain Cook to the Tongan royal family. (vanjeet)

1785: Francis Grose's 'Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue' was first published in 1785, and is a dictionary of slang words. Grose was one of the first lexicographers to collect slang words from all corners of society, not just from the professional underworld of pickpockets and bandits. (bemahan)

1797: The year 1797 saw the almost farcical French invasion at Fishguard. (Big Martin)

1807: Samuel Hahnemann introduces the term homeopathy, in 1807, in his essay Indications of the Homeopathic Employment of Medicines in Ordinary Practice. (vanjeet)

1816: 1816 was known as the 'Year Without a Summer' because of low temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere, the result of the Mount Tambora volcanic eruption in Indonesia in 1815. (Strawberry)

1829: The patent for an instrument called the accordion was applied for by Cyrill Demian on the 6th of May, 1829. It was officially approved on the 23rd of May, 1829. (Strawberry)

1839: The Boston Morning Post first recorded the use of "OK" on the 23rd of March, 1839. (Strawberry)

1841: "In eighteen hundred and forty one, I put my corduroy breeches on" are the opening lines of Paddy Works on the Railway. (Alfred E Neuman)

1852: The first public toilet for women was opened in Bedford Street, London, on the 11th of February, 1852. (Strawberry)

1860: In 1860, Dr. Albert Niemann completed a dissertation On a New Organic Base in the Coca Leaves, in which he describes cocaine as follows: "its solutions have an alkaline reaction, a bitter taste, promote the flow of saliva and leave a peculiar numbness, followed by a sense of cold when applied to the tongue". (vanjeet)

1876: The Bass Brewery Red Triangle became the world's first registered trademark in 1876. (Big Martin)

1884: In 1884, Dr. William Price attempted to cremate the body of his infant son, and was arrested for doing so. It was though that cremation was illegal, but was later discovered that it was not the case and he was freed. This case set a precedent for the Cremation Act. (vanjeet)

1899: The paperclip was patented by Johan Vaaler on the 27th of June, 1899. (Strawberry)

1906: In December 1906, Martha Baer became the first person to undergo sex-change surgery, and later became Karl M. Baer. (vanjeet)

1914: 1914 is the sum of 10 consecutive primes: 1914 = 167 + 173 + 179 + 181 + 191 + 193 + 197 + 199 + 211 + 223. (Efros)

1926: Winnie-the-Pooh was published on the 14th of October, 1926. (Strawberry)

1936: 1936 Guerra Civil (1936 civil war) is a card game in which each player plays one of the sides in the conflict, either the Republic or the Nationalists. (Awitt)

1947: In 1947, the first living organism (fruit fly) was sent to space and returned by the US Army. (vanjeet)

1955: In March 1955 Jim Henson made the first version of Kermit the Frog. (Big Martin)

1962: 1962 is the smallest value of n for which 2n and 9n together use the digits 1-9 exactly once (3924 and 17658). (Ed.)

1977: Australopithecus sediba was a South African species of hominid whose fossil remains are tightly dated to 1.977 million years ago. (AlmondFacialBar)

1982: Number 13 on IMDb's list of "Most Popular People Born In 1982" is Cobie Smulders. No, me neither. (bobwilson)

1990: In March of 2015 an Italian woman made her grandchildren ill by making them hot chocolate with packets with an expiry date of 1990. (Big Martin)

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2008: 2008 was the International Year of the Potato. (vanjeet)

2022: In the 1964 film Goldfinger, the antagonist Auric Goldfinger, states that he planned to release an atomic device over Fort Knox's gold vault, which would make the gold useless for 58 years. If the plan was set in motion, the gold would be radiated until 2022. (Strawberry)

2030: In the Simpsons episode "Bart to the Future", first aired in March 2000, a fortune teller gave Bart a glimpse of 2030 - just weeks after Trump vacated the White House. (bemahan)

2038: The Year 2038 Problem is a potential threat to computing and data storage. (Big Martin)

2048: "2048" is a fascinating and addictive online tile-shifting game. (GuyBarry)

2049: There won't be a full moon on a Friday the 13th until August 2049. (bemahan)

2056: Canadia: 2056 is a Canadian radio comedy series which premiered on CBC Radio One in April 2007. A science fiction comedy written by Matt Watts, the series centres on Max Anderson, the American liaison on board the only Canadian spaceship in an otherwise American space fleet headed towards a galactic war with the planet Ipampilash. (Strawberry)

2060: Isaac Newton predicted that the world, according to his interpretation of the Bible, would end no sooner than 2060. (Strawberry)

2069: 2069:A Sex Odyssey is a "special interest" film of 1974. (Big Martin)

2083: The maximum URL length in Internet Explorer is 2083 characters. (AlmondFacialBar)

2093: An Age (published in the U.S. as Cryptozoic!) is a 1967 science fiction novel by Brian Aldiss. The book, set principally in 2093, combines the popular science fiction themes of time travel, totalitarian dystopia, and the untapped potential of the human mind. It was nominated for a Ditmar Award in 1969 in the "Best International Science Fiction of any length, or collection" category. (Strawberry)

2107: 2107 Curious Word Origins, Sayings and Expressions from White Elephants to a Song & Dance is a book. It is an omnibus of four books previously written by Charles Earle Funk: A Hog on Ice and Other Curious Expressions (1948), Thereby Hangs a Tale (1950), Heavens to Betsy! (1955) and Horsefeathers and Other Curious Words (1958). It is illustrated by Tom Funk and was published in 1999 by Galahad Books. (Strawberry)

2122: The St. Valentine's Day Massacre took place at 2122, North Clark Street. (Strawberry)

2131: Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles broke the world record for most baseball games ever played consecutively when he played his 2131st consecutive game on 6th September, 1995, breaking a record by Lou Gehrig that had stood for 56 years and been deemed unbreakable. He still holds the record, having clocked up 2632 consecutive games by 19th September, 1998. (AlmondFacialBar)

2144: Lectionary 2144 is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on five parchment leaves. (GuyBarry/TCF)

2156: Frequency 2156 claims to be a digital radio broadcast from the year 2156, twenty years after most of humanity has been wiped out in a nuclear holocaust. None the less, the small group of Scandinavians who survive appear to have the technology to transmit signals 141 years into the past, via a "time-lapse feedback device". (GuyBarry/TCF)

2161: 2161 is a prime factor of 111111111111111111111111111111. (GuyBarry/TCF)

2174: NGC 2174 is known as the Monkey Head Nebula. (Efros)

2175: The Appalachian Trail is 2175 miles long. (AlmondFacialBar)

2182: 2182 KHz is the international frequency for marine distress calls in the MF band. (AlmondFacialBar)

2183: SOS phone 2183b is on the M50 near Ledbury in the Malverns and the wonderful placename of Redmarley d'Abitot. (tetsabb)

2201: 2201 is the only non-palindromic number known to have a palindromic cube (10662526601). (GuyBarry/TCF)

2207: NGC 2207 and IC 2163 are a pair of colliding galaxies in the constellation of Canis Major. (Big Martin)

2215: Letter 2215 of the Darwin Correspondence Project, from C.R. Darwin to W.E. Darwin and dated 11 Feb 1858, writes of domestic matters and asks WED to observe cart-horses for traces of dark stripes on spine and cross-stripes on shoulder. (bemahan)

2223: 2223 is a Kaprekar number, which means that its square can be split into two parts that sum to the original number: 2223² = 4941729, 494 + 1729 = 2223. (GuyBarry/TCF)

2240: According to a number of Jewish scholars, the year 6000 (2240) of the Hebrew calendar is the latest time for the initiation of the Messianic Age. (Strawberry)

2248: #2248 is Roseville Elk Lodge. B.P.O.E. stands for The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (or as they are affectionately known, the Best People On Earth). Elks are American Citizens who want to save its great values; who love others and want to make sure they are healthy and happy; and who love life and want to contribute to it, as well as to share it. As a member, we find there is nothing better than serving our community through the various activities and charities supported by our local Elks Lodge. (bemahan)

2265: Roman Inscriptions of Britain's RIB 2265 is a milestone of Hadrian that was found buried in a farm in Wales. (Big Martin)

2279: Flight NZ 2279 from Blenheim to Christchurch was subject to an unsuccessful hijacking attempt on 8th February, 2008. Apparently the would-be hijacker wanted the pilot to fly the plane across to Australia. Given that we're talking about a 19 seater turboprop here I fear she hadn't quite thought that through. (AlmondFacialBar)

2291: It was reported in 2015 that Boris Johnson (then Mayor of London and MP for Uxbridge) was being paid £2291 per hour to write his column in the Daily Telegraph. (Wirish)

2298: NGC 2298 is a globular cluster in the Southern constellation of Puppis. It was discovered in 1826, and could be part of the small (1 billion star) Canis Major sub- galaxy, not far from our own Milky Way. There is some dispute as to whether it is a separate body, or simply a bit of the Milky Way coming adrift. (tetsabb)

2304: 2304 = 2⁶ x 6². (WordLover)

2319: "2319! We have a 2319!" A company or factory code in the Monsters Inc. world. When an employee is contaminated with a foreign object of a human child, a 2319 goes into effect and alerts the Child Detection Agency (CDA). The CDA removes and destroys the foreign object, shaves and cleans the employee from any contamination and puts a cone around his head to protect himself from biting. (bemahan)

2324: RFC 2324 is a communications protocol for controlling, monitoring and diagnosing coffee pots in HTTP, which was published as part of an April Fools' prank in 1998. (AlmondFacialBar)

2334: The ancient Akkadian Empire, mostly in the region of modern-day Iraq, was established in approximately 2334 BC. (GuyBarry/TCF)

2341: SOS phones 2341A/B are on the M61 near Preston and Blackburn. Three places not very far away are interestingly named -- Samlesbury Bottoms, Pleasington, and Feniscowles. (tetsabb)

2355: The only landfall in the path of the Total Solar Eclipse of June 11 2355 (according to current prediction) is Marion Island, an area of 19 km long by 12 km wide which lies at 46°52'34" South 37°51'32" East in the Southern Indian Ocean. (ellylles)

2361: Vortex, a rollercoaster at Canada's Wonderland in Vaughan, Ontario, is 2361 feet long. (ellylles)

2380: In August 2015 it was revealed that 2,380 people had subsequently died after being told they were too fit to qualify for Employment and Support Allowance. (Big Martin)

2385: 2385 is the lowest integer whose 7th power (438953669202737191640625) contains the same digits as another 7th power (viz. 2514⁷ = 634683069516971272293504). (WordLover)

2392: In 1964, Paddy Hopkirk and Andrew Hedges drove the MGB 2392 miles at an average speed of 99.9 miles per hour to win the "Motor" trophy for the highest placed British entry at Le Mans. (GuyBarry/TCF)

2401: 2401 = (2+4+0+1)⁴. (WordLover)

2412: 2412 is the part number of a Lego brick often used to firm the grille at the front of a car. (bemahan)

2421: 2421 Decimal Code is a weighted code, whose weights are 2, 4, 2 and 1. A decimal number is represented in 4-bit form and total weight of the four bits = 2 + 4 + 2 + 1 = 9. Hence the 2421 code can be used to represent the decimal digits 0 to 9. (Wirish)

2434: There are 2434 legal king moves in chess. (WordLover)

2440: Louis-Sébastien Mercier's L'An 2440, rêve s'il en fut jamais (literally, "The Year 2440: A Dream If Ever There Was One" is a utopian novel first published in 1770. It was translated into English as Memoirs of the Year Two Thousand Five Hundred [sic]. (GuyBarry/TCF)

2447: There is a legal case in the USA known as Pennsylvania v 2,447 Bottles of Wine. (Big Martin)

2455: SOS phone 2455A is on the A404(M) just off J9a of the M4. This is not far from the village of Bray, which currently contains Heston Blumenthal's restaurant the Fat Duck (tetsabb)

2467: NGC 2467 is a star-forming region, popularly known as the "Skull and Crossbones nebula," whose appearance has occasionally also been likened to that of a colourful mandrill. It includes areas where large clouds of hydrogen gas incubate new stars. This region was one of the areas featured in the book Hubble's Universe: Greatest Discoveries and Latest Images by Terence Dickinson. (Strawberry)

2476: 101, 103, 107 and 109 are all prime. So are 247601, 247603, 247607 and 247609. (WordLover)

2489: Imperial War Museum catalogue number EPH 2489 is a beaded snake made by a Turkish POW. (Big Martin)

2493: In 2003 the cognitive scientist Douglas R. Hofstadter wrote an essay entitled Just Who Will We Be, in 2493? (GuyBarry/TCF)

2504: There were 2504 inmates on Death Row in the US in April 2021. (Ed.)

2512: 2512 is a monthly news magazine published in Réunion. Its name refers to the size in square kilometres of this French overseas department, which is located in the Indian Ocean. (Strawberry)

2520: 2520 is the lowest positive integer which is divisible by every positive integer up to 10:

2520 = 1 x 2520 = 2 x 1260 = 3 x 840 = 4 x 630 = 5 x 504 = 6 x 420 = 7 x 360

= 8 x 315 = 9 x 280 = 10 x 252

(WordLover)

2525: In the Year 2525 is a 1969 hit song by Zager and Evans. ('yorz)

2540: U-2540 "Wilhelm Bauer" is a German WW2 submarine. Launched at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg in January 1945 she never saw battle and was sunk off Kiel by her own crew on 4th May, 1945. (AlmondFacialBar)

2557: Here's a link to an article about a man that ran 2557 miles across Australia. With a wheelbarrow. (Strawberry)

2562: Dave Huismans, better known by his stage name as 2562, is a musician from The Hague, Netherlands. (bemahan)

2581: "2581=?" is a puzzle game on Android. (vanjeet)

2592: 2592 = 2⁵ x 9². (WordLover)

2600: 2600: The Hacker Quarterly is an American publication that specialises in publishing technical information on a variety of subjects including hacking, telephone switching systems, Internet protocols and services, as well as general news concerning the computer "underground". (Strawberry)

2601: 2601 = 51², and is also the 17th pentagonal pyramid number. (WordLover)

2609: It's 2609 miles from Dublin to Beirut. (AlmondFacialBar)

2621: In Sesame Street episode 2621 from 1989 Kermit interviews Prince Charming after Cinderella's escape and it turns out the prince doesn't want Cinderella, but her other slipper. (AlmondFacialBar)

2625: 2625 - a sex strategy. Consult the Urban Dictionary at your own peril. ('yorz)

2635: There are 2635 possible 6-bead necklaces when 5 different colours of bead are available. (WordLover)

2649: A greeting card designed by Benedict Cumberbatch for a charity auction in 2014 sold at that auction for £2649. (AlmondFacialBar)

2666: 2666 is the last novel by Robert Bolaño. It was released in 2004, a year after Bolaño's death. Its themes are manifold, and it relates, among other things, the unsolved and ongoing homicides of Ciudad Juárez (called Santa Teresa in the novel), the Eastern Front in the Second World War, and the breakdown of relationships and careers. The apocalyptic 2666 explores 20th-century degeneration through a wide array of characters, locations, and stories within stories. (Strawberry)

2675: 2675 Tolkien is a stony asteroid discovered in 1982. (Big Martin)

2688: The Egg Nebula (also known as RAFGL 2688 and CRL 2688) is a bipolar protoplanetary nebular approximately 3,000 light-years away from Earth. Its peculiar properties were first described in 1975 using the survey obtained with sounding rocket by Air Force Geophysical Laboratory (AFGL) in 1971 to 1974. (Previously, the object was catalogued by Fritz Zwicky as a pair of galaxies.) (Strawberry)

2700: Merit-Ptah, the world's first female physician, is mentioned in Egyptian records of c2700 BCE. (Big Martin)

2704: Terminal Velocity is a simulation video game set in the year 2704. (Wirish)

2711: The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin consists of 2711 concrete stelae. (AlmondFacialBar)

2714: In the USA, World War II didn't officially finish until the end of 1946. Proclamation 2714 was signed by President Harry S. Truman on December 31, 1946, to officially declare the cessation of all hostilities. The state of war was not lifted off Japan and Germany until then in order to give a reason for the necessity of occupation troops in those countries. (GuyBarry/TCF)

2727: Sesame Street episode 2727 originally aired on 17th April, 1990, and contains a segment about Sherlock Hemlock and a phonebooth. (AlmondFacialBar)

2731: There are 2731 ways to tie a tie into a knot with 15 turns, if ways which are mirror-images of each other are counted as the same. And if the tie is long enough for 15 turns! (WordLover)

2737: The British Library catalogue of illuminated manuscripts item Oriental 2737 is a Hebrew Haggadah for Passover made in Castile in the late C13th or early C14th. (Big Martin)

2753: The population of this configuration is 2753. Rules: There's a grid of squares. Each may be either black or white. A clock ticks. At tick 0, one square is black and all the other squares are white. For each square, count how many of these 5 squares are black: that square itself and the 4 squares next to it. If 1 of them is black, or if all 5 are black, then (one tick later) that square will be black; otherwise it will be white. The pic is the situation at tick 63. (WordLover)

2757: Wagon Lits carriage 2757 was used as part of a pub in Denham for a number of years. Since the pub closed it has been under restoration. (Big Martin)

2762: At 2,762 miles (4,445 km), the Golden State train had the longest route in the United States and second only to the Canadian Pacific Railway's Imperial Limited in North America. (Strawberry)

2784: On 28 July 2011, it was announced that the 2784th baby had been vaccinated in South Africa as part of a clinical trial of a new vaccine against tuberculosis - the last baby in the trial, almost two years to the day after the study was first announced. (GuyBarry/TCF)

2812: In December 2014, the sitting Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan received all 2812 votes at his party's convention to become candidate for the 2015 presidential election. However he lost the subsequent election to his rival Muhammadu Buhari. (GuyBarry/TCF)

2820: A period of 2820 years is used as a base to calculate leap years in the Iranian/Persian Calendar. (JivviWesty)

2829: 2829 Bobhope is a small main hole asteroid, which was discovered by E. L. Johnson. It is named after American comedian Bob Hope. It is estimated to measure 38.26 km in diameter. (Strawberry)

2833: The Methuselah tree, for many years considered the world's oldest living tree, has an estimated germination date of 2833 BC. (GuyBarry/TCF)

2836: New Scientist Issue 2836 came out in October 2011, with a cover story on the decline of respect for science in the USA, and a report of female monkeys indulging in 'synchronised sex'. (tetsabb)

2840: The Edward C. Waller Apartments are located from 2840 to 2858, W. Walnut Street in Chicago, Illinois. They were designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1895. Some of the oldest buildings to be used for subsidised housing in Chicago, they received Chicago Landmark status on the 2nd of March, 1994. (Strawberry)

2869: 2869 is a centred icosahedral number, or central cuboctahedral number. The first few such numbers are 1, 13, 55, 147, 309, 561, 923, 1415, 2057, 2869. And here is some info about them, with pictures of some of them in icosahedral and cuboctahedral modes. (WordLover)

2873: The American baseball player Babe Ruth scored 2873 hits during his career. (GuyBarry/TCF)

2877: According to American Scientist, hundreds of space walks have been conducted since the beginning of human space exploration, including those on the surface of the Moon, from the Space Shuttle, and from the International Space Station. Over the past 50 years more than 2,877 hours of space walks have been conducted in US space suits. (bemahan)

2894: 2894, or The Fossil Man (A Midwinter Night's Dream) is a utopian novel from 1894 that describes a human society with reversed gender roles. (AlmondFacialBar)

2910: There are 2910 ways to partition 48 into parts which all have different sizes, e.g. 1+2+3+4+5+6+8+9+10. There are also 2910 ways to partition 48 into parts which are all odd, e.g. 11+11+13+13. (The two totals are equal for any number, not just 48.) (WordLover)

2920: 2920: The Last Year of the First Era is a book by Carlovac Townway set in the World of Warcraft. (Big Martin)

2929: 2929 Productions is an American media group involved in the likes of Sex and the City. (Big Martin)

2937: On 1st July 2002 there was a mid-air collision over Uberlingen in southern Germany. One of the aircraft was Bashkirian Air Flight 2937. The enquiry found certain aspects of Air Traffic COntrol to be at fault, and a Controller was later murdered by a Russian chap who lost family members in the crash. (tetsabb)

2956: Mount Kisokoma is 2,956 m (9, 698) ft tall and is the tallest peak in the Kiso Mountains. (Strawberry)

2965: Harley manuscript 2965 is the Book of Nunnaminster, a collection of Gospel extracts and prayers dating from the early 9th century. (Big Martin)

2969: New Scientist edition 2969 came out in May 2014 with articles about a new approach to dealing with violence, insomnia and ripples in the early universe. (tetsabb)

2973: House of Commons early day motion 2973 was to note the 80th anniversary of the Kinder Scout trespass. (Big Martin)

2990: Doggon' Wheels UK are based in Woolhampton, Berkshire. They make equipment for disabled animals and the phone number is 0118 971 2990. (Strawberry)

2996: The September 11 attacks killed 2996 people. (Strawberry)