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)