9008: To many people, Glenlivet is just a type of malt whisky; however there's a real place of that name, on the route of the B9008, a cross-country road in south Banffshire, running from Tomintoul to Bridge of Avon. Unfortunately you can't see the distillery from the road as it's hidden behind trees. (Brock)
9010: Baldwin Street in Dunedin, New Zealand, is listed by the Guinness Book of Records as the steepest residential street in the world, with an average gradient of 1:3.41. It's of interest here because it falls in postcode area 9010. (Brock)
9019: The Society of the 9019 was founded as the first honor society at Trinity College in North Carolina in 1890. (Big Martin)
9030: In January this year, a squirrel caused a power outage that affected 9030 customers of BC Hydro in North Vancouver, Canada. (Brock)
9051: UK government health certificate 9051 is required to export anteaters to Germany. (Big Martin)
9062: 9062 was the number of the cabin occupied by George Smith, an American man who disappeared overboard from the Royal Caribbean International cruise ship MS Brilliance of the Seas in July 2005 under suspicious circumstances. (Brock)
9068: The highest paved pass in the Alps is the Col de l'Iseran with an elevation of 9,068 feet. (Big Martin)
9080: Apparently the TikTok code 9080 means "I want you with me". (Big Martin)
9084: In 2018, the Allegra World Coffee Portal estimated that there were 9084 coffee shops in the Middle East. (Brock)
9092: The last palindromic date in DD/MM/YYYY format before the year 10000 is Sep 29 9092 (29/09/9092). (Brock)
9115: Here are some photos of lithic hammerstone 9115 discovered in Malta and dating to the "Temple Period" between 4,000 and 2,500 BCE. (Big Martin)
9119: The A9119 is the highest-numbered A-road in Great Britain. It's one of the main routes radiating out of Aberdeen, covering a distance of 4.1 miles as far as Kingswells. (Brock)
9126: In 2018 Kevin Mayer became the first athlete to break the 9100 score barrier for the decathlon, scoring 9126 points at Decastar in Talence, France. [As of June 2023, this is the world record - Ed.] (Big Martin)
9135: In a survey of 2258 climate-related scientific articles published in peer-reviewed journals between November 2012 and December 2013, James Lawrence Powell found that 9135 out of the 9136 authors accepted that human activity contributed to global warming. The solitary exception was S. V. Avakyan who, writing for the Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences, concluded that "contribution of the greenhouse effect of carbon-containing gases to global warming turns out to be insignificant". (Brock)
9144: Swildon's Hole, at 9,144 metres in length, is the longest cave system in the Mendips. (Big Martin)
9156: On December 29th 2015, grain train 9156 was derailed at Ouyen in Victoria, Australia due to rail creep, closing the line for 5 days. (Big Martin)
9166: Unfortunately, DSM 9166 - Pseudoalteromonas tetraodonis, which was isolated from the skin slime of a pufferfish - can't be exported from Germany due to their war weapons control act. (Big Martin)
9171: The sum of the first 9171 digits of pi (including the initial 3) is equal to the sum of the first 9171 digits of e (including the initial 2), namely 41294. (Brock)
9187: During the whole of 2008, the daily and Saturday Times newspapers carried 313 crosswords with a total of 9187 clues (an average of 29.35 per puzzle). (Brock)
9199: The Tank Museum at Bovington in Dorset displays a Mark V Male, Number 9199, one of only two British World War I tanks still in working order. (Brock)
9210: The volcano Paricutin in Mexico has an elevation of 9,210 feet. It is a fairly new volcano, having only first erupted in 1943 and attaining its current height by 1952. (Big Martin)
9219: The largest Bollywood dance is by 9219 participants, achieved by Maratha Mandal Group of Institutions (India), at Maratha Mandal Engineering College, in Belgaum, India, on 5 February 2017. (Brock)
9223: 9223 is the greatest product of primes made up of the digits 0-4, once each: 9223 = 401 x 23. (Brock)
9239: There were 9239 elephants in the North East region of India in 2012. (Brock)
9242: Loco Mountain in Montana has an elevation of 9,242 feet and is on the eastern face of the Crazy Mountains. (Big Martin)
9253: On July 16 1999, John F. Kennedy Jr., son of the late US President, died while flying a light aircraft, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. Its call sign was "Saratoga 9253 November". (Brock)
9265: The oldest private shortwave radio station in the United States still in operation is the Christian broadcaster WINB in Red Lion, Pennsylvania, operating on 9.265 MHz (9265 kHz). (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)
9289: There are a number of competing claims about the length of the Trans-Siberian Railway, but Wikipedia claims that it's (at least) 9289 kilometres long. (Brock)
9292: 9292 is the most widely used public transport planner in the Netherlands. (Big Martin)
9301: The (geographic) South Pole is 9301 feet above sea level. (Brock)
9318: In 2013, Raul Fernando Gomez Circunegui was found in a shelter at 9,318 feet above sea level after having been lost in the Andes for 4 months. (Big Martin)
9325: Minor planet 9325 is named after Stonehenge. One lump of rock named after another. (Brock)
9335: The Panorama of the City of New York, at the Queens Museum in the city, is a 9335-square-foot model including every single building constructed before 1992 in all five boroughs, at a scale of 1:1200. (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)
9350: With an elevation of 9,350 feet, Quito is the highest official capital city in the world. (Big Martin)
9364: On August 21st 2015 a gunman on board of Thalys train 9364, en route from Amsterdam to Paris, attacked 3 people before being overpowered by passengers. (Big Martin)
9370: The glass roofed hall of the Grand Palais des Champs Elysees is supported by 9,370 tons of green painted steel. (Big Martin)
9382: According to this article, Matt LeBlanc bought a jeroboam of champagne at a London club for the equivalent of $9,382 whilst on a night out with friends in 2011. (Big Martin)
9398: Ashrita Furman is a multiple world record holder, including mountain climbing on stilts with a height achieved of 9,398 feet. (Big Martin)
9408: When the Ariane 5 rocket, launched in April 2008, reached the desired altitude of 588 kilometres it was travelling at 9,408 metres per second. (Big Martin)
9413: The Life and Death of 9413: a Hollywood Extra is a 1928 American silent experimental short film. It tells the story of a man who comes to Hollywood with dreams of becoming a star; he fails and becomes dehumanized, with studio executives reducing him to the role of an extra and writing the number "9413" on his forehead. (Brock)
9430: In Victor Hugo's Les Miserables, Jean Valjean is assigned prisoner number 9430 during his brief recapture. (Big Martin)
9439: The Pic du Midi Observatory is situated at a height of 9439 feet, on top of the Pic du Midi de Bigorre, a mountain in the French Pyrenees. (Brock)
9443: 325 ends in the digits 9443 (it's in fact 847,288,609,443). (Brock)
9456: 9,456 greater butterfly orchids were counted at Caeau Tan y Bwlch nature reserve in June 2023. (Big Martin)
9464: In 2016, 9,464 tonnes of aubergines were consumed in Switzerland. (Big Martin)
9470: The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima was released by the B29 bomber Enola Gay at 9,470 metres above the city. (Big Martin)
9487: 9487 is the smallest number whose square is greater than 90,000,000. (Brock)
9499: Minor planet 9499 is named Excalibur after King Arthur's legendary sword. (Brock)
9501: A "magic cube" is the 3-dimensional equivalent of a magic square, that is, 27 distinct integers arranged in a 3 x 3 x 3 grid such that the sum of the integers in each row, each column, each pillar, and the four main space diagonals is equal to the same number, called the "magic constant" of the cube. 9501 is the magic constant of a 3 X 3 X 3 magic cube composed entirely of prime numbers. (Brock)
9522: 9,522 people have attempted the Bildeston full hill ride segment in Suffolk. (Big Martin)
9525: In March 2015, Germanwings Flight 9525 was deliberately crashed by the co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, who had suicidal tendencies. Shortly after reaching cruise altitude and while the captain was out of the cockpit, Lubitz locked the cockpit door and initiated a controlled descent that continued until the aircraft hit a mountainside. All 144 passengers and all six crew members were killed. (Brock)
9534: In 2018 the world's longest flight was a 19-hour, 9,534 mile journey from Singapore to Newark, New Jersey. (Big Martin)
9550: Old Tjikko is a 9550-year-old Norway spruce, located on Fulufjället Mountain of Dalarna province in Sweden. It originally gained fame as the "world's oldest tree", but is in fact a clonal tree that has regenerated new trunks, branches and roots over millennia rather than an individual tree of great age. (Brock)
9551: 9,551 foot high Mount Merapi in Indonesia is one of the most active volcanoes in the world. (Big Martin)
9564: In the mythical Theosophical cosmology, Atlantis was a continent that covered a significant part of what is now the Atlantic Ocean, which perished through flooding and submergence in 9564 BC. (Brock)
9570: 9570 votes were cast in a ballot to name a snow plough in Washington State in April 2022. The winner was Betty Whiteout, beating contenders that included Plow Chicka Plow Plow, Snosquatch and Sleddie Vedder. (Brock)
9594: In a controversial experiment conducted in 1964, sometimes known as Operation Bongo II, a series of sonic booms were generated over Oklahoma City in order to test public attitudes and their effects on structures in the city. During this time there were 9594 complaints of damage to buildings, and the experiment was ended prematurely after six months. (Brock)
9595: The year 9595 is the last mentioned in Zager and Evans' 1969 hit In The Year 2525. (Big Martin)
9601: In November 2017, 9,601 tonnes of cheese were produced in Belgium. (Big Martin)
9620: In 2015 there were 9620 speakers of Zuni, a language isolate spoken mainly in Zuni Pueblo in western New Mexico, and in neighbouring eastern Arizona. (A "language isolate" is a language with no demonstrable relationship with any other language.) (Brock)
9627: The Just Eat phishing scammer Grant West defrauded 9,627 people in 2015. (Big Martin)
9636: At 9636 feet, Mount Paget on South Georgia is the fourth highest point in the UK and all of its overseas territories. If you exclude the British Antarctic Territory, it's the highest. (Brock)
9643: By September 2022, the Lutterworth Rotary Club's knitted teddy appeal had distributed 9,643 of the toys to 48 countries around the world. (Big Martin)
9648: 9648 is divisible by all four of its digits: 9648 / 4 = 2412, 9648 / 6 = 1608, 9648 / 8 = 1206, 9648 / 9 = 1072. (Brock)
9661: As a result of the Zhao Jianmin Spy Case in 1968-9 in China, large numbers of people were killed or injured including 9,661 people left disabled in the city of Kunming alone. (Big Martin)
9670: In Kansas in 2022, there were 9670 deer crashes that killed four people and injured 471 others. (Brock)
9693: 9,693 people voted for the 2022 Chortle Awards. (Big Martin)
9700: In August 2023 Brian Shaw, four times the World's Strongest Man, revealed his new diet of 9700 calories per day. (Brock)
9703: In April 2017, Romanian Gabriel-Dan Chiriac broke the European skydiving record with a jump from 9,703 metres. (Big Martin)
9711: The most extreme weather station in Germany is at 9,711 feet on the country's highest peak, Zugspitze. (Big Martin)
9720: 9720 = (3+3) x (3+3+3) x (3+3+3+3) x (3+3+3+3+3). (Brock)
9728: Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, on average there were 9728 aeroplanes in the sky at any one time, carrying more than 1.2 million passengers (2017 figures). (Brock)
9740: Piz Gloria is a revolving restaurant at the 9740-foot-high summit of the Schilthorn near Mürren in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland. The name originated in Ian Fleming's James Bond novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and the building was used in the making of the 1969 film. After filming the restaurant retained the name, and the lower floor still houses a James Bond exhibition. (Brock)
9746: At approximately 5100 metres, La Rinconada in Peru is the world's highest settlement, with 9746 inhabitants at the 2017 census. (Brock)
9753: The world's largest Easter egg hunt involved 9,753 children looking for 501,000 eggs at Cypress Gardens in Florida on April 1st 2007. (Big Martin)
9765: Air Tahiti Nui Flight 64 set a record as the world's longest domestic flight at 9,765 miles. As French Polynesia is part of the French Republic, this makes it a "domestic flight". (Big Martin)
9777: The Metro Alpin underground funicular in Switzerland is the highest funicular and subway in the world, with the lower station at 9,777 feet and the top one at 11,339 feet. (Big Martin)
9792: In the year 1826-27, the Bladnoch Distillery in Galloway produced 9792 imperial gallons of whisky. (Brock)
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