The Quite Incredible Number List: Pick of the 4000s

4001: The Rickenbacker 4001 bass guitar was favoured by quite a number of rock band bassists. Charisma record CDS4001 is The Trick of the Tail by Genesis, on which Mike Rutherford plays a Rickenbacker 4001. (Big Martin)

4002: In contrast to prevailing thought, the Rickenbacker 4002 was not a limited edition. Being a luxury edition of the 4001, a lot of bass players simply didn't see the point of buying one and so it was discontinued unusually quickly. (AlmondFacialBar)

4034: In June 2017, the Kepler space telescope found 219 new exoplanets, boosting the total to 4034. (GuyBarry)

4037: The Brilliant Maps website has a map of the 4,037 cities in the world with over 100,000 people. (Big Martin)

4041: Vodka 4041 is described as "the result of 119 years of experience and expertise in alcohol production and distillation by the oldest and only Greek distillery, B.G. Spiliopoulos". (GuyBarry)

4053: The A4053 Coventry ring road has been described as one of the scariest roads in the country. Eight out of its nine junctions are multi-level, and the average distance between junctions is 430 yards. Only one road sign actually shows the number. (GuyBarry)

4066: 4066 (four thousand and sixty-six) is the highest number below 6000 that does not have the letter "e" in its English name. (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)

4089: 4089: Ghost Within is a computer game. (Big Martin)

4096: 4096 = 2¹² = 4⁶ = 8⁴ = 16³ = 64². (GuyBarry)

4107: The Cambridge Institute of Dog Behaviour & Training's course CIDBT4107 is Dogs and the Law. (Big Martin)

4115: 4115/33333 = 0.12345123451234512345... (GuyBarry)

4125: Swiss postcode area 4125 is the locality of Riehen in Basel. It's only ten minutes from Lörrach in Germany, where wanting anything like a swimming pool involves crossing the German/Swiss border. (Big Martin)

4134: The longest surviving letter by the Roman author Seneca is 4134 words long. (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)

4147: This online atlas shows all 4,147 hillforts in the UK and Ireland. (Big Martin)

4166: If you collected a million pre-decimal pennies, you'd have ended up with £4166 13s 4d (or just under £4166.67 in decimal). (GuyBarry)

4181: 4181 is the 19th member of the Fibonacci Sequence. (Big Martin)

4195: The main character in Antz, voiced by Woody Allen, is called Z-4195 (or "Z" for short). (GuyBarry)

4208: HD 4208 is an 8th magnitude star in the constellation of Sculptor. It is slightly cooler and dimmer than the Sun and a planet orbiting it has been observed. (Big Martin)

4220: According to NASA the equatorial diameter of Mars is 4,220 miles. Other sources put it at 4,222 miles. (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.

4244: There are 4244 ways to lace a shoe that has four pairs of eyelets, assuming the lacing follows a Hamiltonian path through the eight eyelets and does not pass in order though three adjacent eyelets that are in a line. (GuyBarry)

4257: Drexel 4257 is a music manuscript commonplace book and an unrivalled source on early C17th English songs. (Big Martin)

4258: The Nile is 4258 miles long. It's either the longest or the second-longest river in the world, depending on who you believe. (GuyBarry)

4266: Barack Obama's farewell address in Chicago in January 2017 was 4266 words long, the longest televised address by an outgoing US President. (GuyBarry)

4272: Project Gutenberg eBook 4272 is The Christian Year by John Keble. (Big Martin)

4283: In December last year, the Chief Justice of Nigeria addressed 4,283 new lawyers called to the Bar. Link (Big Martin)

4291: "4291" was how Victor Meldrew always answered the phone in One Foot in the Grave - notably in this classic clip. (GuyBarry)

4297: A Stanford University study of walking activity in 46 countries around the world showed that Indians were among the laziest. They were ranked 39th and took an average of only 4297 steps a day. (GuyBarry)

4304: Acqualagna in the Italian region of Marche is one of the major Italian centres for truffles. As at December 31 2004 it had a population of 4,304. (Big Martin)

4309: 4309 is the smallest integer whose cube is greater than 80,000,000,000 (4309³ = 80,007,275,629). (GuyBarry)

4314: As of March 2017, there were 4,314 postcodes that were split across local authority boundaries. (Big Martin)

4324: In August 2017 Watts Up With That reported that a 4,324 day major hurricane drought had ended with the arrival of Hurricane Harvey in Texas. (Big Martin)

4333: To the nearest whole number, the orbital period of Jupiter is 4333 Earth days. (GuyBarry)

4338: The Year 4338: Petersburg Letters is a novel written in 1835 by Vladimir Odoevsky. (Big Martin)

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)

4379: Harley manuscript 4379 is part of Froissart's Chronicles and dates to the early 1470s. (Big Martin)

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

4400: The 4400 was a CBS TV series that ran from 2004 to 2007. (Big Martin)

4403: This example of how to divide 11531457 by 4403 using logarithms comes from James Dodson's 1742 work The Antilogarithmic Canon, Being a Table of Numbers to which is Prefix'd an Introduction. (GuyBarry)

4415: The bony-eared assfish, acanthonus armatus, holds the record for the smallest brain-to-body weight ratio of all vertebrates. (It looks as strange as its name sounds.) It's a bathypelagic species of cusk-eel found in tropical and sub-tropical oceans at depths from 1171 to 4415 metres. (GuyBarry)

4432: Minor planet 4432 McGraw-Hill could be said to have commercial sponsorship! It's named after the McGraw-Hill telescope located on the southwestern ridge of Kitt Peak, Arizona. The telescope was moved to its current location in 1975 with the financial support of McGraw-Hill Incorporated, an American educational publishing company, and the Sloan Foundation. (GuyBarry)

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)

4454: 4454 is the smallest integer requiring 38 letters to write in Spanish: cuatro mil cuatrocientos cincuenta y cuatro. (GuyBarry)

4458: Master of Malt offer a Tantalus bottled 1968 whisky from cask 4458 at the Macduff distillery for a mere £1,500. (Big Martin)

4464: On 29 June 2013, the LNER 4464 Bittern became the fastest British preserved steam locomotive when it hit a top speed of 149.3 kilometres per hour. (Olinguito)

4476: 4476 is the sum of the first 1000 decimal digits of pi. (GuyBarry)

4478: The summit of the Matterhorn is 4478 metres high. (GuyBarry)

4493: There are 4493 ways, counted up to symmetry, to build a contiguous building with 5 LEGO blocks of size 1 X 2. (GuyBarry)

4500: 4500 Miles From Delhi have Indian restaurants in Bristol and Oxford. (Big Martin)

4502: The English cricketer Ted Dexter scored a total of 4502 Test runs in his career. (Olinguito)

4528: According to an article on the Rolling Stone website, it takes 4,528 hours of play to unlock all options in the Star Wars Battlefront II game. (Big Martin)

4531: There were 4531 episodes of the US talk show The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. (GuyBarry)

4543: The original version of the United States Constitution contains 4543 words, including the signatures of 39 of the 55 delegates representing the states. (GuyBarry)

4553: Brooklyn Museum's object 4553 is the painting Our Lord Jesus Christ by James Tissot. (Big Martin)

4556: The Urban Dictionary claims that when we still used pagers, 4556 used to be the code for "good night and sweet dreams". (GuyBarry)

4560: Love in the Fog of the Future. The story of a romance in the year 4560 is a dystopian novel by the Russian writer Andrei Marsov, published in the 1920s. (GuyBarry)

4565: The Roller Coaster Database entry 4565 gives details of the roller coasters at Six Flags in New England. (Big Martin)

4574: The B4574 is a road linking the villages of Pont-rhyd-y-groes in Ceredigion, Wales, and Devil's Bridge, 12 miles east of Aberystwyth, and noted for three bridges built one above each other as well as for its falls and narrow gauge steam railway. Its odd V-shaped route can be seen clearly on the map here - another road, the B4343, is much more direct. The route is six miles long, and has been described by the AA as one of the ten most scenic drives 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)

4594: NGC 4594 is known as the Sombrero Galaxy. It is in the constellation of Virgo and was first observed in 1781. (Big Martin)

4609: 4609 is a Cullen number - a number of the form (n × 2ⁿ) + 1, with n = 9 in this case. They were named after the Reverend James Cullen, who noticed they are nearly all composite - for instance 4609 = 11 x 419. The first prime Cullen number greater than 3 is (141 × 2¹⁴¹) + 1, which has 45 digits. (GuyBarry)

4616: The American TV soap opera Melrose Place was set in an apartment complex in 4616 Melrose Place, West Hollywood. (Big Martin)

4625: UVB-76, also known as "The Buzzer", is the nickname given by radio listeners to a shortwave radio station that broadcasts on the frequency 4625 kHz. It broadcasts a short, monotonous tone, repeating at a rate of approximately 25 tones per minute, 24 hours per day. (GuyBarry)

4655: A decomino is a plane figure made of ten equal squares connected edge-to-edge. When rotations and reflections are not considered to be distinct shapes, there are 4655 different decominoes (195 with holes and 4460 without holes). These are known as the "free" decominoes. (GuyBarry)

4663: The area of Adelaide Island in Antarctica is 4,663 square kilometres. (Big Martin)

4670: It was reported in March 2018 that the Russian space agency was looking for somebody to extract precious metals from decommissioned ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles) stored at its facility. Each missile contains 198g of gold, 4670g of silver and 5g of platinum. (GuyBarry)

4683: The base of One Vanderbilt, a skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, contains 4683 pieces of steel. (GuyBarry)

4690: According to The Difference Between the average depth of the Mediterranean is 4,690 feet. (Big Martin)

4699: To the nearest whole number, the frequency of the musical note D₈ (four octaves and a whole tone above middle C) is 4699 Hz. (GuyBarry)

4711: 4711 is a traditional German Eau de Cologne by Mäurer & Wirtz. (GuyBarry)

4712: Strong's Greek entry 4712 is stadion - literally a measure of length, but also used figuratively as a racecourse and used both ways in the bible in Greek. (Big Martin)

4731: Monica Grady is a leading space scientist, primarily known for her work on meteorites. Asteroid 4731 was named Monicagrady in her honour. (GuyBarry)

4738: Faroe Petroleum's Fogelberg appraisal well has been drilled to a depth of 4,738 metres. (Big Martin)

4755: The Jewel Box star cluster, in the constellation Crux and originally discovered by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1751-1752, was so named by John Herschel when he described its telescopic appearance as "...a superb piece of fancy jewellery". Other names for it are the "Kappa Crucis" cluster and the more prosaic NGC 4755. (GuyBarry)

4766: Sylvanian Families set 4766 is the kangaroo family. (Big Martin)

4773: In 2013, the golden eagle was voted Scotland's top wild animal with 4773 votes, ahead of the red squirrel, red deer, otter and harbour seal. (GuyBarry)

4785: It was reported in January 2018 that a Cypriot company is to lay a 4785-mile undersea internet cable connecting Israel with Spain, powerful enough to handle up to 60 per cent of the world's internet traffic at peak time. It has not yet come online. (GuyBarry)

4790: The address of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is 4790 West 16th Street, Speedway, Indiana. (Big Martin)

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)

4800: The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies carried news of the discovery of a 4,800 year old artificial eye discovered by archaeologists at the "Burnt City" site in south-east Iran. (Big Martin)

4810: The Montblanc 4810 collection of wristwatches takes its name from the height of Mont Blanc (approx. 4808.7 m above sea level). (Olinguito)

4830: Lake Vostok, an Antarctic subglacial lake, has a surface area of 4,830 square miles, making it the world's 16th largest lake by surface area. Due to its depth, however, it's the 6th largest lake by volume. (Big Martin)

4840: An acre is 4,840 square yards. [Something that everyone would have learned at school once, and hardly anyone knows now! - Ed.] (Big Martin)

4848: The Space Shuttle Atlantis completed 4,848 orbits of the Earth. (Big Martin)

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)

4866: According to a The Wall Street Journal article, 4,866 people drowned in the bath at home in Japan in 2014; a 70% increase in 10 years. (Big Martin)

4869: The premise of the Japanese manga series Case Closed is that the detective Jimmy Kudo is forced to ingest the experimental poison APTX-4869, which is supposed to kill him. Instead it shrinks him into the form of a young child. (GuyBarry)

4875: The capture of point 4875, a strategically important peak located in the Mushkoh Valley in Kashmir, took place under Captain Vikram Batra during the 1999 Kargil War between India and Pakistan. (GuyBarry)

4879: 4879 is a Kaprekar number, which means that its square can be split into two parts that sum to the original number:

48792 = 23804641

238 + 04641 = 4879

(In this case the second part has a leading zero, but it still counts.) (GuyBarry)

4881: It's hard to believe that much of what we know as New York City was once rural. The oldest remaining farmhouse on Manhattan Island, built around 1785, is the Dyckman House, now the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, at 4881 Broadway, Inwood, Manhattan. (GuyBarry)

4901: The Corral Fire, a wildfire that lasted from November 24 until November 27 2007 in the Malibu Creek State Park, burned 4901 acres of land. (GuyBarry)

4921: An ultra-prominent peak is defined as one with a height of at least 4921 feet (1500 metres). The term was introduced by earth scientist Stephen Fry (no, not that one!) in the 1980s, and was originally used for mountains exceeding 5000 feet in prominence. (GuyBarry)

4931: Carrier pigeons delivered 4931 mail messages in the Indian state of Odisha during 1992. (GuyBarry)

4933: Joseph Swan devised a method of treating cotton to produce "parchmentised thread", and obtained British Patent 4933 on 27 November 1880. (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)

4946: Super-Dreadnought Girl 4946 is a Japanese manga series. The title comes from the girl being 49.46 metres tall. (Big Martin)

4961: According to a 2017 Stanford University study of 68 million days' worth of minute-by-minute data from smartphones across the world, the average number of footsteps taken per day is 4961. (GuyBarry)

4989: 4989 Joegoldstein is an asteroid discovered by the American astronomer S.J. Bus on 28th February 1981. Dr Bus clearly had a productive time back then because two days later he also discovered asteroids 4659 Roddenberry and 4923 Clarke. (AlmondFacialBar)

4994: In 1984, the year of its market introduction, the Case 4994 was the most powerful tractor that manufacturer had ever built, with a 400 hp, Saab Scania 14.2 litre V8 Diesel engine, and the first one with a digital instrument panel. (AlmondFacialBar)

The Quite Incredible Number List: Pick of the 5000s

5015: EastEnders Live Week, broadcast in February 2015 to mark the programme's 30th anniversary, started with episode 5015. (GuyBarry)

5021: The 2001 film Planet of the Apes takes place predominantly in the year 5021. (GuyBarry)

5034: The ZIP Code for Janiuay, a municipality in the Philippines, is 5034. (Strawberry)

5040: According to Save The Rhino the population of Black Rhinos is somewhere between 5040 and 5458. (Big Martin)

5041: 5041 is 71 squared, and it's also 7! + 1. This makes 7 and 71 a so-called Brown number pair, only three of which are known. (GuyBarry)

5050: The Voyage Municipal Subway 5050 Series is a Rapid transit electric municipal unit (EMU) train type operated by the Transportation Bureau City of Nagoya on the Nagoya Subway Higashiyamo Line in Japan since 1992. (Strawberry)

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)

5072: The world's highest point on a railway is the Tanggula Pass, 5072 metres above sea level, on the Qinghai-Tibet railway. (GuyBarry)

5079: According to the late Bulgarian soothsayer Baba Vanga the world will end in 5079. (AlmondFacialBar)

5096: Stolperstein (stumbling block) 5096 in Hamburg commemorates Günter von Borstel, a young man with an intellectual disability who was murdered as part of the Nazi "euthanasia" programme on 9th March, 1944. His family was told he had died of a violent GI infection. (AlmondFacialBar)

5097: 5097 animal and plant species have been identified in the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea, including 106 that are labelled as endangered or protected. (GuyBarry)

5115: Add up all the odd primes in sequence, starting with 3, until you get a palindromic result of more than one digit. This doesn't happen until 3 + 5 + 7 + 11 + 13 + 17 + ... + 229 = 5115. (GuyBarry)

5121: 5121 is the postcode of the village of Fugging in the municipality of Tarsdorf in Upper Austria. Until 2021 the name of the village was spelt with a "ck" rather than "gg", which drew a lot of unwelcome attention from English-speaking visitors who would sometimes steal its road signs. (GuyBarry)

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

5142: Mount Harmukh in the western Himalayas is 5142 metres high and a sacred place in Hinduism. (AlmondFacialBar)

5150: The oldest wooden wheel yet discovered, the Ljubljana Marshes Wheel, has been carbon dated to approximately 5150 years old. (AlmondFacialBar)

5164: There are 5164 stone steps on the Great Wall of China. (Olinguito)

5185: Flin Flon, a mining city in Canada with a population of 5185 in 2016, lies partly in Manitoba and partly in Saskatchewan. The town's name is taken from the lead character in J. E. Preston Muddock's novel The Sunless City, Josiah Flintabbatey Flonatin, who piloted a submarine through a bottomless lake where he passed into a strange underground world through a hole lined with gold. A statue representing "Flinty" is one of the points of interest of the city. (GuyBarry)

5187: 5187 is the product of the 2nd, 4th, 6th and 8th primes: 3 x 7 x 13 x 19. (GuyBarry)

5210: The 5210 programme is aimed at healthy eating, especially in children. (Big Martin)

5211: As part of the preparation for the Omagh bombing of August 1998, the perpetrators stole a maroon Vauxhall Cavalier and fitted it with the false Northern Ireland number plate MDZ 5211. (GuyBarry)

5232: 5232 is the magazine of the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland. (Big Martin)

5235: Londonderry Township in Pennsylvania (population 5,235) is the site of the infamous Three Mile Island power station. (Big Martin)

5251: The Hoover Dam was built in five years, from 1931 to 1936, with 5251 people employed at peak construction. (GuyBarry)

5260: One of the few artefacts left intact by September's fire at Brazil's Museu Nacional in Rio de Janeiro was the Bendegó meteorite, which at 5260 kilograms is the largest meteorite ever found on Brazilian soil. (GuyBarry)

5269: During an 1899 mission to measure the depth of the Mariana Trench the converted collier USS Nero arrived at a figure of 5,269 fathoms using weighted sounding equipment. More recent measurements using then unknown techniques have put the depth much greater. (Big Martin)

5281: The exact number of feet in a mile is 5280... but I don't blame the owners of Mile High Views on Sugar Mountain in North Carolina, 5281 feet above sea level, for taking a small liberty with the exact value. (GuyBarry)

5302: Lameroo in South Australia used to be known as Wow Wow Plain. (Which name do you think sounds better?) 5302 is its postcode. (GuyBarry)

5319: Issue 5319 of Science magazine from June 1997 contained an article on the Multiple and Ancient Origins of the Domestic Dog. (Big Martin)

5328: There are 5328 possible noughts and crosses games ending on the sixth move. (GuyBarry)

5330: In 2015, Alienor Le Gouvello embarked on her longest solo journey: 5330 km along the Bicentennial National trail, Australia's longest trekking route, beginning in Healesville in Victoria and ending in Cooktown, Queensland, with just three wild horses and her dog for company. Since it opened in 1988, only 35 people have completed the trail. Le Gouvello is the second woman to complete the trip and the only person to have the same horses from beginning to end. (GuyBarry)

5334: Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games is a book that claims to be the most complete collections of chess problems ever published. (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)

5357: Robot Lilliput 5357 was the first tin toy robot, originally produced in Japan just before WW2. (Big Martin)

5359: Khardung-la, at 5,359 metres above sea level, is reckoned to be the highest motorable pass in the world. (Big Martin)

5362: There are 5362 possible chess positions after White's second move. (GuyBarry)

5369: Rabbi Judah Loew, known as the "Maharal of Prague" died in the year 5369 (or 1609 CE). (Big Martin)

5380: Lake Van, the largest lake in Turkey, lies at an altitude of 5380 feet. Its high salinity prevents most of it from freezing, and even the shallow northern section freezes only rarely. It is also one of the world's largest endorheic lakes (i.e. one with no outlet). (GuyBarry)

5390: Shortly after British Airways Flight 5390 left Birmingham Airport for Málaga Airport on 10 June 1990, an improperly installed windscreen panel separated from its frame, causing the plane's captain to be blown partially out of the aircraft. With the captain pinned against the window frame for twenty minutes, the first officer managed to land at Southampton Airport with no loss of life. (GuyBarry)

5407: Imperial 78 rpm record 5407 is Fats Domino's Blueberry Hill, released in September 1956. (Big Martin)

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)

5422: The Lincolnshire Poacher was a powerful English-language shortwave numbers station that transmitted from the mid-1970s to June 2008, on frequencies between 5422 and 16084 kHz. It was believed to be operated by the British Secret Intelligence Service and to emanate from the RAF base at Akrotiri on the island of Cyprus. It took its nickname from the English folk song that was used as its interval signal. (GuyBarry)

5430: The temperature at the surface of the Earth's inner core is approximately 5430°C. (GuyBarry)

5436: In November 2018, a team of 20 chefs came together in Mauritius to cook the largest ever serving of scrambled eggs - 5436 pounds 9.58 ounces. (GuyBarry)

5449: Warner Bros. Canada record 5449 is Allan Sherman's Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh. (Big Martin)

5464: The estimated length of China's Yellow River - the second longest in Asia, and the sixth longest in the world - is 5464 km. (GuyBarry)

5479: A direct flight from Abu Dhabi to London would be 5,479 kilometres. (Big Martin)

5493: The depth of the Tasman Sea, between Australia and New Zealand, is 5493 metres. (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)

5505: The surface temperature of the Sun is approximately 5505°C. (GuyBarry)

5513: This Rolex Submariner 5513 watch from the 1960s sold for £8,950. (Big Martin)

5525: The Slash is a 20 feet wide clearing that stretches for 5,525 miles along the US/Canadian border. (Big Martin)

5540: The highest pass on the ancient caravan route between Leh in Ladakh, India and Yarkand in the Tarim Basin, China, is the 5540-metre-high Karakoram Pass. (GuyBarry)

5546: Emily Brothers, the first openly transgender candidate to stand for the Labour party in a general election, polled 5546 votes in the Sutton and Cheam constituency in 2015. (GuyBarry)

5551: The LMS-Patriot Project is a "new build" project to build a steam locomotive to be numbered 5551 and named The Unknown Warrior. (Big Martin)

5568: A tetraquark, in particle physics, is an exotic meson composed of four valence quarks. In February 2016 evidence was reported of a narrow tetraquark candidate, named X(5568). (GuyBarry)

5578: According to Distance24 it's 5,578 kilometres between London and New York. (Big Martin)

5579: There are 5579 words in the King James version of the Book of Ecclesiastes. (GuyBarry)

5589: Bahij Chancey wanted to see a bike counter installed on the Manhattan Bridge over the East River in New York. So, on 23rd May 2016, he sat at one end of the bridge collecting signatures, and counted everyone who cycled over between 6.30am and 8pm - a total of 5589 cyclists. (GuyBarry)

5601: The Australian bowler Jeff Thomson is the 74th most prolific wicket taker in Test matches, having taken exactly 200 wickets for 5601 runs at an average of 28.00. (Olinguito)

5607: Randfontein in South Africa is at an elevation of 5,607 feet above sea level. (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)

5624: In Strong's Concordance, which is an exhaustive index of every word used in the King James Version of the Bible, the original Greek root words of the New Testament are numbered from 1 to 5624. (GuyBarry)

5625: The maximum depth of the Arctic Ocean is 5,625 metres. (Big Martin)

5638: A 2010 BBC investigation revealed that the consumption of Buckfast Tonic Wine had been mentioned in 5,638 crime reports from the Strathclyde area from 2006 to 2009; an average of three a day. (Big Martin)

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)

5669: UK Government export health certificate 5669 is required if you want to send scoured wool, animal hair, mohair or pig bristles to the People's Republic of China. (Big Martin)

5676: In November 2013, about 200 people from northern Sri Lanka tried to drive to the capital, Colombo, in three buses to stage a demonstration. They wanted to draw attention to the plight of 5676 people who had gone missing in Sri Lanka, giving the country more "outstanding cases" of disappearances than anywhere in the world apart from Iraq, according to the United Nations. But the buses were stopped at a roadblock outside the city. (GuyBarry)

5689: In Jordan the lowest point is the Dead Sea at 1,339 feet below sea level and the highest is Jabal Ram at 5,689 feet. (Big Martin)

5690: 5690 is the postcode of Border Village, South Australia, which lies near the border with Western Australia, and is the only place in South Australia where Daylight Saving Time is not in use. (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)

5703: Warszawa. Annee 5703 is a French film about a young couple fleeing the fall of the Warsaw Ghetto. (Big Martin)

5712: In 2015, Project Everyone co-created Tell Everybody, Africa's first ever crowdsourced song. During the two-week competition, 5712 people from 24 African countries submitted lyrics via text. The winners received a $500 prize each and songwriting credit. (GuyBarry)

5730: The half-life of carbon-14 is approximately 5730 years (to within about 40 years each way). After 5730 years half the carbon-14 in any organic material will have changed to nitrogen, and so half the original amount will be left; after a further 5730 years only one-quarter of the original amount will be left; after a further 5730 only one-eighth of the original amount will be left; and so on. This is the principle behind radiocarbon dating. (GuyBarry)

5738: The total seating in the 6 performance venues at the Sydney Opera House is 5,738. (Big Martin)

5766: According to The Big Noisy Book of Trains it is 5,766 miles from Moscow to Vladivostok on the Trans-Siberian Express. (Big Martin)

5769: Birkat Hachama ("Blessing of the Sun") refers to a rare Jewish blessing that is recited to the Creator, thanking Him for creating the sun. The blessing is recited when the sun completes its cycle every 28 years on a Tuesday at sundown. The last time that it was recited was on April 8, 2009, or 14 Nisan 5769 in the Hebrew calendar. (GuyBarry)

5776: The square of 5776 is 33362176 and the square root is 76. All three numbers end in 76 because 76 is an automorphic number, i.e. one whose square ends in the same digits as the number itself. (Big Martin/GuyBarry)

5777: The sun's photosphere - its outer shell from which light is radiated - has an effective temperature of 5777 kelvin. (GuyBarry)

5794: Nailsworth in Gloucestershire had a population of 5794 in 2011. It's known for being home to Forest Green Rovers, the smallest settlement ever to host an English Football League team. Their stadium capacity is 5141 - nearly 89% of the town's population! (GuyBarry)

5825: According to Statistics Canada there were 5,825 people aged 100 and over in Canada in 2011 - up from 4,635 in 2006. (Big Martin)

5838: Project Rio Blanco was an underground nuclear test that took place on May 17, 1973 in Rio Blanco County, Colorado. Three 33-kiloton nuclear devices were detonated nearly simultaneously in a single emplacement well at depths of 5838, 6230, and 6689 feet below ground level. (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)

5845: The Guinness World Record for the number of different dishes on display is 5,845 and was set by Kraft Foods Philippines in 2009. (Big Martin)

5853: In 2014 the Advertising Standards Authority banned a Wonga advert for implying that a 5,853% interest rate was "irrelevant". (Big Martin)

5854: The slowest-spinning pulsar ever found, rotating at a rate of once every 23.5 seconds, is radio pulsar PSR J0250+5854, about 14 million light-years away. (GuyBarry)

5861: According to a new UCL-led study, bus passes are linked to increased happiness in older adults. 5,861 people were involved in the study. (Big Martin)

5870: In the 2002 Washington House of Representatives Primary for the 26th Legislative District, Ed Mitchell defeated Kevin Entze by one vote: 5870 to 5869. Unfortunately for Entze one of his friends admitted that he never mailed his ballot. (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)

5890: Traces of peanuts have been found as early as 5890 B.C. (RolloTreadway)

5891: In 2006 Richard Brunstrom, Chief Constable of North Wales, launched his internet blog by revealing how he spent his day off. While his wife was away, he took the opportunity to "sneak off and have some fun" by getting back into uniform and spending an uninterrupted 12-hour shift stopping cars on the A497 on the outskirts of Pwllheli. "The camera read 5891 number plates, from which we had 321 'hits', resulting in us stopping 109 cars," he wrote. "During the course of the day the team arrested 22 people, mostly for possession of relatively small amounts of cannabis." (GuyBarry)

5898: The pipe organ at Suntory Hall, Tokyo, has 5,898 pipes. (RolloTreadway)

5905: Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir 4: Fly to Paradise is made up of 8409 videos featuring 5905 singers from 101 countries. (GuyBarry)

5922: The Lego Taj Mahal is made up of 5,922 (or possibly 5,923) individual pieces. (RolloTreadway)

5933: Launched in 1962, Telstar 1 was the satellite that allowed the first live broadcast of television images between the United States and Europe. It had an elliptical orbit, with closest distance to the Earth (perigee) at 952 km and furthest distance from the Earth (apogee) at 5933 km. Transatlantic communications were only possible for 30 minutes during each orbit of 2 hours and 37 minutes. It remained active for only 7 months but is still in the orbit of the Earth. (GuyBarry)

5943: Bill Barich's book Long Way Home: On the Trail of Steinbeck's America describes his 5943-mile cross-country drive from New York to San Francisco in the autumn of 2008 on Route 50, a road twisting through the American heartland. (GuyBarry)

5958: Yading Nature Reserve in Sichuan Province, China, contains three unclimbed mountains which are considered holy in Tibetan Buddhism: Xiannairi (6032 metres), Yangmaiyong and Xianuoduoji (both 5958 metres). (GuyBarry)

5980: In 1998 Benoit Lecomte claimed to be the first man to swim the Atlantic ocean without a kickboard. The swim covered 5,980 km in 73 days and the claim is still controversial. (Big Martin)

5984: With a height difference along its tracks of 5,984 feet, the Bernina railway has the highest railway crossing in Europe. (Big Martin)

The Quite Incredible Number List: Pick of the 6000s

6002: In September 2011 a new world record for the most participants at a Mongolian wrestling tournament was set, with a total of 6,002 competitors. (Big Martin)

6009: Anyone who was around in the year 1961 may have noticed that the year number looked the same when turned upside-down. It won't happen again until the year 6009; that's the first strobogrammatic number after 1961. (GuyBarry)

6016: In 2011 Niek Vermeulen's collection of 6,016 airline sickbags set a world record. (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)

6041: The Historia belli sacri (History of the Holy War) is a chronicle of the First Crusade written by an anonymous monk of the Abbey of Montecassino, some time after 1131. A second fragment of the Historia belli sacri was discovered in Latin manuscript 6041 A of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. (GuyBarry)

6048: The UK Government export health certificate 6048 is required to supply animal based fire fighting foam to Taiwan. (Big Martin)

6049: The former Millers Dale Station, which closed in 1967, is situated at the west end of the viaduct that crosses the B6049 in the Derbyshire Peak District. The station's name was immortalized as "Millers Dale for Tideswell" in the introduction to the Flanders and Swann song Slow Train. (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)

6057: Where can you find High Wycombe next to Maida Vale? In Perth, Western Australia, where they're both in postcode area 6057. (GuyBarry)

6062: In 2017 a Rolex 6062 watch owned by the last emperor of Vietnam sold for £3.95 million. (Big Martin)

6079: Winston Smith, the lead character in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, is referred to as "6079 Smith W" whenever he appears in front of a telescreen. (GuyBarry)

6090: The Manhattan Bridge is 6,090 feet long. (Big Martin)

6097: In September 2018, two new particles known as bottom baryons were discovered at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN: Σb(6097)+, consisting of two up quarks and one bottom quark; and Σb(6097)-, consisting of two down quarks and one bottom quark. A third particle called a "tetraquark" may also have been detected. (GuyBarry)

6109: SOS Phone 6109A is the very first one on the M11 northbound near Woodford in North London. (tetsabb)

6116: At the time of the battle of Trafalgar a nautical mile was 6,116 feet. (Big Martin)

6137: The original Broadway production of A Chorus Line ran for 6137 performances, becoming the longest-running production in Broadway history until surpassed by Cats in 1997. (GuyBarry)

6144: From 1987 to 2006, the A6144(M) in the Trafford district of Manchester bore the dubious distinction of being the country's only fully single-carriageway motorway. (GuyBarry)

6162: 6162 is the concatenation of two consecutive integers, 61 and 62; it's also the product of two consecutive integers, 78 x 79 (a so-called "pronic number"). No other four-digit number has both these properties. (GuyBarry)

6163: According to the Cyclopaedia of 1819, a Montpellier pound weight equated to 6,163 English grains. (Big Martin)

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)

6176: Crater Lake in Oregon has an elevation of 6,176 feet and, with a depth of 1,932 feet, is also the deepest in the USA. (Big Martin)

6190: In 2016 Rob Woodall reached the final trig pillar in his attempt to reach all 6,190 of them known and still existing in Britain. (Big Martin)

6207: No. 6207; A Study in Steel is a 1935 British documentary film which documents the construction of the steam locomotive, LMS Princess Royal Class No. 6207 Princess Arthur of Connaught, at the London Midland and Scottish Railway's Crewe Works. You can watch the full 17 minutes on YouTube. (GuyBarry)

6209: There are 6209 letters in the Book of Habakkuk in the King James Bible. (GuyBarry)

6219: In 2019, the small Western Australian town of Cookernup won a "hard-slog" battle with Australia Post to have its postcode returned. In 1974 Cookernup merged into the neighbouring Harvey postcode of 6220, but several years ago locals began the fight to have their 6219 postcode reinstated. Australia Post believes this is the first time it has ever returned a town's postcode. (GuyBarry)

6220: On the opening day of Bristol's Clifton Rocks Railway on March 11th 1893, 6,220 people travelled up and down the line. It closed in 1934. (Big Martin)

6242: 2011 census figures from England and Wales reveal that 6242 people identify as members of the Heavy Metal religion. (GuyBarry)

6251: The 6,251 metre high Trango Tower in Pakistan is the largest rock wall in the world. (Big Martin)

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)

6272: There are 6272 ways to toss a coin 14 times and not get a run of four (heads or tails). (Brock)

6283: 2π = 6.283 to three decimal places, so a circle with a radius of 1000 units has a circumference of approximately 6283 units. (Brock)

6288: The top station of the Mount Washington Cog Railway is just below the summit of the mountain at 6,288 feet above sea level. (Big Martin)

6311: 6311⁴ contains a pandigital substring, which means that means that it contains a sequence of ten digits that are all different:

63114 = 1586327016495841

(Brock)

6330: On Instagram there is a photo of the world's longest pizza, at over 6330 feet. (Big Martin)

6340: After a deer cull in Toledo, Ohio in 2021, 131 deer were field dressed and processed into 6340 pounds of venison that was donated to area charities that provide food for the needy. (Brock)

6356: Including the two digits before the point, the first 32 digits of the binary expansion of π are:

11.001001000011111101101010100010...

16 of these are 0's and 16 of these are 1's. However you have to get to 6356 digits before there are an equal number of 0's and 1's again. This statistical anomaly is exploited in the construction of the Lady Pi picture. (Brock)

6360: One of the largest land vehicles ever built was the Marion 6360, a giant power shovel also known as "The Captain". It started work with the Southwestern Illinois Coal Corporation in 1965. (Brock)

6371: Taking all its wobbliness into account, the average radius of our home planet is 6371 kilometres. (AlmondFacialBar)

6373: In 2019 Hong Kong had 6,373 registered franchised buses. (Big Martin)

6384: As already noted in #6271, the top of Chimborazo is the furthest distance on Earth from the Earth's centre - that distance being 6384 km to the nearest kilometre. (Brock)

6397: A chiffon scarf depicting the NGC 6397 globular cluster of stars is available. (Big Martin)

6418: Prior to being on Apollo 11, Neil Armstrong had piloted the X-15 rocket ship at 6,418 kilometres per hour on one occasion. (Big Martin)

6420: In 2012, BASE jumper Valery Rozov set a world record after jumping from a launch pad at 6,420 metres on Shivling mountain in a wing suit. (Big Martin)

6432: 6432 is divisible by each of its digits:

6432/6 = 1072

6432/4 = 1608

6432/3 = 2144

6432/2 = 3216

(Brock)

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)

6456: The deepest known shipwreck is that of the USS Johnston, at 6,456 metres. The Johnston was a destroyer sunk by the Japanese Navy in 1944. (Big Martin)

6459: The 6459th prime is 64591. (Brock)

6475: Messier 7 or M7, also designated NGC 6475 and sometimes known as the Ptolemy Cluster, is an open cluster of stars in the constellation of Scorpius. It was first recorded by Ptolemy in 130 AD. (Brock)

6484: Te Ara (The Encyclopaedia of New Zealand) document 6484 is about Frying Pan Lake at Waimangu. (Big Martin)

6505: The highest weather station in the western and southern hemispheres has recently been installed at 6,505 metres near the summit of Tupungato volcano in Chile. (Big Martin)

6508: 1 + 1/3 + 1/5 + 1/7 + 1/9 + 1/11 = 6508/3465 in lowest terms. (Brock)

6514: In 2013, Cote d'Ivoire had 6,514 km of paved roads. (Big Martin)

6521: The 6521 Project was a nationwide operation initiated by the Chinese Communist Party in 2009 to ensure "social stability" by cracking down on potential dissidents during anniversaries of political significance. The digits referred to the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the 50th anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan uprising, the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests, and the 10th anniversary of the persecution of Falun Gong. (Brock)

6531: The constituency of Na h-Eileanan an Iar, formerly known as Western Isles, has the smallest electorate in the United Kingdom (around 21,000 registered voters). The current MP, Angus MacNeil of the SNP, was re-elected at the 2019 general election with 6531 votes out of a total of 14,447 cast. (Brock)

6537: The Red Spider Nebula, also known as NGC 6537, is a planetary nebula located near the heart of the Milky Way, in the northwest of the constellation Sagittarius. The central white dwarf produces a powerful and hot wind, which gives the nebula its unique 'spider' shape. (Brock)

6556: WPC6556 in the Epsilon - Alfred Russel Wallace Collection is a letter from Wallace regarding a biography of himself. (Big Martin)

6563: NM 6563, 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)

6580: Imagine slicing up a cube-shaped cake with a series of planar cuts. The cake numbers represent the maximum number of pieces that it's possible to have after each successive cut. After 34 cuts, the maximum is 6580 pieces. (Brock)

6601: The B6601 is one of Britain's newest B-roads, having been given that number in 2020. Before that, it was... a motorway! To be precise, it was the Carnforth Link, connecting junction 35 of the M6 with the quarries at Over Kellet in Lancashire. It was, and still is, entirely single carriageway and less than half a mile long, but it was given motorway status because at its northern end you had no choice but to join another motorway. (Brock)

6602: According to this website Reading is home to 6,602 millionaires. (Big Martin)

6618: On 28 May 2021, the Trinidad and Tobago Guardian reported that 6618 people had received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in the previous 24 hours. (Brock)

6625: In the 1956 Chester-le-Street by-election, 6,625 people voted for the Conservative candidate William Rees-Mogg, who went on to become editor of The Times (and father of Jacob). (Strawberry)

6641: A 2018 study of 6,641 people revealed that as many as 40% had a fictional first memory. (Big Martin)

6646: Episode 6646 of the Australian soap Neighbours, also known as "The Eclipse", was broadcast in May 2013 in Australia and the following month in the UK. It was no ordinary episode: during an annular eclipse, Detective Mark Brennan returned from the dead, Kyle Canning did serious damage to his eyesight by looking at the sun (after his dog Bossy ran away with his safety glasses) and there was also a child kidnapping. (Brock)

6651: Siegfried Nagl became the longest-serving mayor of Graz in Austria in June 2021, when he achieved 6651 days in office. (Article in German.) (Brock)

6656: No. 6656 on the North American Moth Photographers Group's website is Hypagyrtis piniata - the Pine Measuringworm Moth. (Big Martin)

6660: Meru Peak, elevation 6660 metres, is a mountain located in the Garhwal Himalayas, in the state of Uttarakhand in India. The name Meru probably originated from the Tamil word for "peak", making it "Peak Peak". (Brock)

6663: The 6663 method for making a Victoria sponge cake uses 6 ounces each of flour, butter and sugar and 3 eggs. (Big Martin)

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)

6690: Indian jewellers set a world record in 2018 by setting a ring with 6,690 diamonds. (Big Martin)

6692: 6692 Pisces the Sailfish is a book by Don Darkes. (Big Martin)

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)

6720: The Transgrancanaria Classic is run over almost 130 Km, has a positive slope of 6,720 metres and has to be completed by runners in a maximum of 30 hours. (Big Martin)

6732: Glendronach 1993 26 year-old cask 6732 whisky is available at a mere £275.00 a bottle. (Big Martin)

6748: In the astronomical catalogue New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars, NGC 6748 doesn't exist. It was a misrecorded observation of NGC 6751. (Brock)

6764: 6764 is one less than the 20th Fibonacci number. The properties of the Fibonacci numbers are well known, but the numbers before them are significant in their own right. For instance, 6764 is the number of allowable transition rules for passing from one change to the next (on 19 bells) in the English art of bell-ringing. (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)

6778: The world coding record was set in 2017 by 6,778 people in Knoxville, Tennessee. (Big Martin)

6801: Here's a new twist on an old trick. Ask a friend to do the following:

(1) Write down any three-digit number whose first and last digits differ by two or more.

(2) Reverse the number, and subtract the smaller number from the larger.

(3) Take the result, reverse it, and add it to the previous result.

(4) Write the answer on a piece of paper and seal it in an envelope.

You then think very hard and announce "Was your answer 6801?" They say no. Puzzled, you ask them to give you the envelope. You take out the sheet of paper, hold it upside-down and say "Well that's what it says here!" (Source: The 1089 trick.) (Brock)

6813: An estimated 8% of scientists who participated in an anonymous survey of research practices at Dutch universities confessed to falsifying and/or fabricating data at least once between 2017 and 2020. Between October and December 2020, study authors contacted nearly 64,000 researchers at 22 universities in the Netherlands, 6813 of whom completed the survey. (Brock)

6819: HR 6819, also known as HD 167128 or QV Telescopii, is a double or triple star system in the southern constellation of Telescopium. A May 2020 study hypothesized that the system has the closest known black hole, and the first one in a system visible to the naked eye, although three later papers argued that it consists of two mainstream stars and no black hole at all. (Brock)

6822: In 2005, a Ukrainian team set a world depth record by reaching 6,822 feet below ground in a cave in Georgia. (Big Martin)

6831: Denise Lewis's personal best score for the heptathlon is 6831 points, set at the Décastar meeting in 2000. (Brock)

6846: In 2001, 6,846 young people from 159 schools sang at Manchester Evening News Arena, setting a Guinness World Record. (Big Martin)

6866: According to The Free Dictionary, 6866 is a New Zealand police radio code meaning "uses firearm to prevent or resist arrest". (Brock)

6872: Kebnekaise, Sweden's highest mountain, is now 6,872 feet high - having shrunk by nearly 6.5 feet since 2020 due to melting of its icy peak from global warming. (Big Martin)

6888: The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was an all-black unit of the U.S. Women's Army Corps operational in late WW2 and just after. (Big Martin)

6889: 6889 is not only a perfect square (83²), but also strobogrammatic (the same upside-down). It's the first such number greater than 1, and only two higher numbers of this type are known: 69169 and 109181601. (Brock)

6905: Russia's new hypersonic Tsirkon missile is able to fly at Mach 9, or around 6905 mph. (Brock)

6906: The cricketer Fred Grace, the younger brother of the more well-known W G Grace, had a career run tally of 6,906 before his untimely death at only 29. (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)

6930: Q0906+6930 was the most distant known blazar at the time of its discovery in July, 2004. The engine of the blazar is a supermassive black hole approximately 2 billion times the mass of the Sun. It is one of the most massive black holes on record. (Brock)

6940: At the Hartlepool by-election in May 2021, the Conservative candidate Jill Mortimer gained the seat from Labour with a majority of 6940 - only the second time since 1982 that the governing party had gained a seat from the opposition in a by-election, and the first Conservative win in the seat since it was created in 1974. (Brock)

6954: According to a recent report, 6,954 people are serving life sentences in UK prisons. (Big Martin)

6961: The record for blowing party blowers simultaneously was set by 6,961 people in Tokyo on November 21 2009. (Big Martin)

6962: The tallest mountain in the world outside Asia is Mount Aconcagua in Argentina, at 6962 metres above sea level (according to Giorgio Poretti, who measured its height using GPS technology in 2001). (Brock)

6973: An article about the possible distance travelled by football fans reveals that Middlesbrough supporters would have to travel 6,973 miles to attend all of the club's away games in a season. (Big Martin)

6982: The sum of the first 6982 composite numbers is a perfect square, namely 28,185,481 = 5309². The only smaller values of n for which the sum of the first n composite numbers is a perfect square are 6, 21 and 80. (Brock)

6988: The largest cruise ship in the world, Royal Caribbean's Wonder of the Seas, completed its first sea trials in September 2021. It can accommodate 6988 guests across 16 decks with 24 guest elevators and 2300 crew members. (Brock)

6992: The Austrian town of Mittelberg lies in a valley that is only accessible by road from Germany, even though it is contiguous with the rest of Austria. It thus has a German postcode in addition to its Austrian postcode of 6992. (Brock)

The Quite Incredible Number List: Pick of the 7000s

7007: Daniel Craig was honoured in 2021 with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame - appropriately enough at 7007 Hollywood Boulevard. (Brock)

7029: Icicle Ridge in Washington state has an elevation of 7,029 feet. (Big Martin)

7034: Nicknamed "Black Beauty" and estimated to be two billion years old, Northwest Africa 7034 is a Martian meteorite, believed to be the second oldest yet discovered. It contains the most water of any Martian meteorite found on Earth. (Brock)

7041: The minor planet 7041 Nantucket takes its name from the island in Massachusetts where the Maria Mitchell Observatory is located. (Anyone who immediately thought "There once was a man from..." is forgiven!) (Brock)

7049: Indian train 7049 runs from Hyderabad to Aurangabad - a journey of 582 km in around 14 and a half hours. (Big Martin)

7053: The iconic photograph of Rosa Parks following her arrest after her bus protest shows her holding up the number 7053. (Big Martin)

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)

7078: The B7078 in South Lanarkshire runs parallel to the M74 for the whole of its length. Unusually for a B-road, substantial sections of it are dual carriageway. This is because, prior to the construction of the M74, it formed part of the A74, the main route from Glasgow to Carlisle. (Some parts have been converted to single carriageway with a parallel cycle track.) (Brock)

7091: Earlier this year, props from the Harry Potter films were being auctioned to raise money for J K Rowling's charity Lumos. Included was Harry's Hogwarts acceptance letter which had a pre-sale estimate of between £5,672 and £7,091. (Big Martin)

7094: A recording made at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey on an IBM 7094 mainframe computer in 1961 is the earliest known recording of a computer-synthesized voice singing a song - Daisy Bell, also known as "Bicycle Built for Two". (It was later incorporated into 2001 - A Space Odyssey.) (Brock)

7104: 7104 = 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 222. (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)

7125: This meme maintains that if you are 1 in a million, then there are 7,125 people like you. (Big Martin)

7138: At the start of 2021, the Bonner family from Bellshill, North Lanarkshire embarked on a challenge to collectively walk 7138 miles over the course of the year to raise funds for the food charity Mary's Meals - the same distance as from Bellshill to Blantyre in Malawi. (Brock)

7152: Hellas Planitia is a plain located within the huge, roughly circular impact basin (or crater) Hellas located in the southern hemisphere of the planet Mars. The basin floor is about 7152 metres deep. (Brock)

7155: In 2007 Bristol Zoo had 7,155 animals. (Big Martin)

7165: At the height of the Great Plague in September of 1665, 7,165 people are recorded as dying from it across London in a single week. (Big Martin)

7172: A Gulfstream G700 twinjet aircraft set a city-pair speed record on October 23, flying 7172 nautical miles from Houston to Riyadh in 13 hours 40 minutes - its longest flight to date. (Brock)

7182: The digits 7182 appear at the start of the decimal expansion of the mathematical constant e: 2.7182818284... (Brock)

7189: A yellow fever epidemic in New Orleans in 1852 - 1853 killed 7,189 people. (Big Martin)

7201: The Estadio Azteca in Mexico City is 7,201 feet above sea level. (Big Martin)

7208: The second deepest known cave in the world is the Krubera Cave, located in the Arabika Massif of the Gagra Range of the Western Caucasus. The difference in elevation between the cave's entrance and its deepest explored point is 7208 feet (± 66 ft). (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)

7224: There are 7224 primes between 900,000 and 1,000,000. Curiously, there are also 7224 primes between 1,100,000 and 1,200,000. (Brock)

7237: The deepest point of the Black Sea is 7,237 feet deep. (Big Martin)

7265: At 7,265 feet long, Tay Road Bridge 4 was the longest road bridge in Britain at the time of its construction. (Big Martin)

7276: A record 7276 vehicles crossed the Atal Tunnel in the Himalayas on June 27 2021. (Brock)

7283: The Roman league was one and a half Roman miles in length, making it about 7,283 feet. (Big Martin)

7289: YBC 7289 is a Babylonian clay tablet dating to somewhere between 1800 and 1600 BCE which illustrates remarkably accurate mathematical solutions, including an astonishingly close approximation to the square root of 2. (Big Martin)

7306: In 2016, 17 year old Andrew Shapiro set a world record of 7,306 pull-ups in 18 hours. (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)

7317: 7317 Cabot is a background asteroid in a resonance with Jupiter, located in the inner regions of the asteroid belt. It was named after the Italian explorer John Cabot, who sailed to the coast of North America from Bristol in 1497. (Brock)

7322: Harley Manuscript 7322 contains Latin theological texts interspersed with English verses written largely in a Warwickshire dialect. (Big Martin)

7328: UK government certificate 7328 is required to export live laboratory mice to Zambia. (Big Martin)

7333: The 7333 pattern is a method of juggling four balls, demonstrated in this video. (Brock)

7344: 7344 is the only four-digit 4-automorphic number, which means that if you square it and multiply by 4 the final digits are the same as the original number:

4 x 73442 = 215737344

(Brock)

7351: The Poetry Society had poems submitted form at least 7,351 young people in 2012. (Big Martin)

7362: 7362 is a short film by Pat O'Neill, lasting for 10 minutes, released in 1967. It uses images similar to Rorschach inkblots, which appear abstract at first but are gradually revealed to be human forms, split down the centre of the frame with their mirror images. (Strawberry)

7375: The stations currently broadcasting on 7375 kHz short wave across the world include CNR 2-China Business Radio, Radio Algerienne Chaine 1, Radio Algerienne Holy Quran, Radio Marti (a Spanish-language US station) and Radio Romania International. (Brock)

7389: According to the Index of Objects Launched into Outer Space, maintained by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, there were 7389 individual satellites in space at the end of April 2021. (Brock)

7392: The highest point of the Bernina Railway between Switzerland and Italy is 7,392 feet above sea level. (Big Martin)

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)

7408: The article Opposition in Nazi Germany reveals that 7,408 people were arrested for refusing to work in one month alone. (Big Martin)

7419: In April 2021 the Mirror reported that a seven-day stay for four in Newquay in August was being advertised for £7419 - more than twice as much as a trip to New York. (Brock)

7433: Amongst the world records held by Triton Submarines is the deepest dive in the Southern Ocean, at 7,433 metres. (Big Martin)

7450: The Java Trench is the deepest part of the Indian Ocean, with a maximum depth of 7,450 metres. (Big Martin)

7451: In Chinese internet slang, 7451 or 7456 means "I'm angry". (Brock)

7462: There are 7,462 lights in the Mersey Tunnels. (Big Martin)

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)

7490: With a drop of 7,490 feet, the world's tallest elevator is at Mponeng Gold Mine in South Africa, (Big Martin)

7495: The highest mountain in Tajikistan is Ismoil Somoni Peak, with an elevation of 7495 metres. Before Tajikistan became independent, it was the highest mountain in the Soviet Union. It was previously known as Communism Peak, and before 1962 as Stalin Peak. (Brock)

7515: The dying rabbits problem: assume that rabbits become mature after 4 months and then give birth to one pair of rabbits per month for 7 months, after which they die. If you start with one pair in the first month, after 31 months there will be 7515 pairs. (Brock)

7520: According to the Child Wall website on the solar system and planets, Venus has a diameter of 7,520 miles. (Big Martin)

7524: NPS.42.NS.7524 was a pigeon awarded the Dickin Medal for carrying messages in WW2. (Big Martin)

7527: The coastline of Ireland is 7527 km long. (Brock)

7532: The Prince William Railway was an early horse-drawn narrow gauge line that ran for a Prussian mile (7,532 metres) along the Deilbach valley in Germany. (Big Martin)

7545: A signal known as The Buzz was broadcast on various short-wave frequencies, including 7545 kHz, until 1999. It consisted of a soft buzzing sound on the frequency, although there were some reports of white noise bursts heard. It could easily have been mistaken for interference. (Brock)

7548: In 2016, 7,548 musicians were brought together on a football field in Frankfurt to break the record for the world's largest orchestra. (Big Martin)

7561: In March and April 2001, the Swiss artists Hendrikje Kühne and Beat Klein staged an exhibition at Gasworks in Vauxhall, London, entitled Life is a Mystery Tour (Part II). It included a restaging of Autos (7561 cars - 7561 possible journeys), in which thousands of magazine images of cars were collected and meticulously arranged as a seemingly endless carpark. (Brock)

7567: In 2021 there were 7567 Taco Bell franchises available worldwide. (Brock)

7575: 1/7575 is a repeating decimal with a period of 4:

1/7575 = 0.0001320132013201320...

(Brock)

7586: 7,586 plush toys were gathered together in Aberdeen in January 2014 to set a world record. (Big Martin)

7591: The US Constitution is 7591 words long, including its 27 amendments. (Brock)

7620: On May 31st 2021, air diver Luke Aikins broke the world record by jumping from 7,620 metres without a parachute. (Big Martin)

7631: Only 5% of the 7631 people referred to the Government's Prevent counter-extremism programme in 2015-16 ended up in specialist support to turn them away from terrorism. (Brock)

7637: In the (Gregorian) year 7637, Ascension Day will fall in April (in the Western Christian calendar). This is a pretty rare occurrence as Ascension Day is 39 days after Easter and can only fall in April if Easter Day is on its earliest possible date, March 22. (This last happened in 1818 and won't happen again until 2285.) (Brock)

7640: Tollmann's bolide hypothesis postulates that one or more asteroids or comets struck the Earth around 7640 BCE. It has been largely rejected by specialist scientists. (Big Martin)

7656: Kantar, the data analytics and brand consulting company, can be contacted on 020 7656 5700 and has the great address of 6 More London Place, London SE1 6TY. (Brock)

7665: Recording AV7665 on AVoCet is of the wonderfully named Lesser Racket-tailed Drongo (Dicrurus remifer tectirostris). (Big Martin)

7672: During a quarter of each year on Uranus, the sun is directly over each pole of the planet, which causes the other half of the planet to experience a perpetually dark winter that lasts almost 7672 Earth days. (Brock)

7673: In 2016, 7,673 people in England got taken to hospital after being mauled by a dog. (Big Martin)

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)

7700: A "squawk code" is a code assigned by Air Traffic Control that pilots enter into their transponder that identifies the aircraft on the controller's screen. Squawk code 7700 is reserved for emergency situations and immediately alerts Air Traffic Control and other units that the aircraft squawking 7700 is in distress. (Brock)

7709: The Royal Museums Greenwich possess a marine chronometer made by A Johannsen & Co. numbered 7709. (Big Martin)

7717: 7 U.S. Code 7717 covers the control of grasshoppers and Mormon crickets. Can you recognise Mormon crickets by their little name badges? (Big Martin)

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

7734: Calculator spelling is a game that I'm sure we all played when we were younger - and one of the most popular sequences was probably 7734, which when inverted spells "hell". (Try it for yourself at the Topsy-Turvy Calculator site! The top-right button inverts the display.) (Brock)

7744: 7744 is the smallest square all of whose digits occur exactly twice, and the only one with four digits. (It's 88², in case you were wondering.) (Brock)

7756: And now to the impenetrable topic of non-fungible tokens: the rare CryptoPunk #7756 sold on April 14th for $3.2 million. Personally I'd give about 10p for it :-) (Brock)

7774: All 7774 tickets were sold for Edinburgh Rugby's home match against Ulster last month at the DAM Health Stadium - the first time the venue sold out since the club moved there at the start of this season. (Brock)

7792: Imagine a cube similar to the one in this video, but with dimensions of 6 x 6 x 6. There are markers at all the points with integer coordinates, from (0,0,0) up to (6,6,6). As the guy says, "doesn't look very 'triangly', does it?" Well actually there are 7792 equilateral triangles that can be formed by joining up the markers in one way or another. (Brock)

7795: The Selfie City Museum is at 7795 Allentown Boulevard, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. (Big Martin)

7796: In Plymouth, Massachusetts, glass eels have been making their way up Town Brook in record numbers, after an eel ladder was installed in 2019. Only 7796 eels were recorded through the ladder in 2020, but more than 39,000 have already been recorded for this year. (Brock)

7804: There are 7804 ways of getting a flush (five cards of the same suit, not all sequential) in wild-card poker with one joker. (Brock)

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)

7821: There are discussions under way about repatriating the Benin Bronze head (object number Ea7821) in Bristol Museum to Nigeria once a suitable future "home" is agreed upon. (Big Martin)

7825: There is a video called The Problem with 7825 on Numberphile, explaining the Boolean Pythagorean triples problem. (Big Martin)

7831: The World Record for the fastest crossing of Canada on foot (female) is held by Ann Keane who covered the 7,831 km in 143 days in 2002. (Big Martin)

7836: According to Word Unscrambler, you can make 7836 words from the letters in "bacteriochlorophylls". (Brock)

7848: Americans who want help to give up smoking can call the National Cancer Institute on 877-44U-QUIT (877-448-7848). (Brock)

7852: 78/52 is a 2017 film that takes an in-depth look at the infamous shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. The title is a reference to the 78 setups and 52 cuts involved in filming the scene. (Brock)

7875: The Columbus was a disposable ship built in Canada in 1824. In addition to carrying 7,875 long tons of timber, the plan was for the ship to be dismantled as well to partially get around the import duty on timber. (Big Martin)

7883: The deepest part of the Indian Ocean in the area where flight MH370 appears to have gone down is the Wallaby-Zenith fracture zone at 7,883 metres deep. (Big Martin)

7892: Les Hommes de bonne volonté (translated as Men of Good Will) is an epic roman-fleuve by French writer Jules Romains, published in 27 volumes between 1932 and 1946. It has been classified both as a novel cycle and a novel, and, at two million words and 7892 pages, has been cited as one of the longest novels ever written. (Brock)

7916: The phone number for the London Sewing Machine Museum in Tooting is 020 8682 7916. As it appears to only open for 3 hours on one Saturday a month, ringing beforehand if you want to visit might be a good idea! (Big Martin)

7929: Last December Adam Wide, originally from Hastings but now resident in Berlin, broke the record for the largest collection of Christmas brooches - 7929 of them since 1984, together worth £350,000. (Brock)

7944: The original cost of the locomotive Flying Scotsman was £7,944. (Big Martin)

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

7951: A new Guinness World Record was set in October 2006 in the northeast Indian city of Shillong when 7951 people took part in a drum ensemble. (Brock)

7955: The British Columbia Ministry of Health has been unable to recruit any physicians to work at a brand new primary care centre, which opened in May at 7955 Evans Road, Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada. (Brock)

7966: In 2017, the snailfish species Pseudoliparis swirei was discovered at a depth of 7,966 metres in the Mariana Trench. (Big Martin)

7969: The Furka Pass in the Swiss Alps, elevation 7969 feet, was used as a location in the James Bond film Goldfinger. One curve on the east side of the pass is even named "James Bond Strasse". (Brock)