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)
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