9:(bemahan)
1 x 9 + 2 = 11 12 x 9 + 3 = 111 123 x 9 + 4 = 1 111 1234 x 9 + 5 = 11 111 12345 x 9 + 6 = 111 111 123456 x 9 + 7 = 1 111 111 1234567 x 9 + 8 = 11 111 111 12345678 x 9 + 9 = 111 111 111
17: "Seventeen" was the original name of The Beatles song "I Saw Her Standing There". (bemahan)
26: According to a survey reported in the Daily Telegraph in 2009, 26th October is the most unproductive day of the year. (stee)
37: Jupiter is 37 light seconds away from the Earth. (jdean)
40: WD 40 stands for Water Displacement - 40th Attempt (it was the 40th formula tried by the inventor). (stee)
51: "Playin' solitaire 'til dawn with a deck of 51/Smokin' cigarettes and watchin' Captain Kangaroo/Now don't tell me, I've nothin' to do" are lyrics from Flowers on the Wall by the Statler Brothers. (bobwilson)
67: In the year 67 CE, Saint Peter the Apostle is supposed to have been crucified upside-down at his own request. (sjb)
74: In a 2011 study it was found that we are at our happiest when we are 74 years of age. It drops steadily from your teens until you reach 40, then it is in a trough for the next six years. After which it climbs steadily to a peak at 74 before dropping off as physical and mental illness kicks in. (tp)
83: When someone reaches 83 they may celebrate a second bar mitzvah. (Strawberry)
99: Ninety-nine is the shared name of two completely different card games, one invented by David Parlett, and the other of unknown origin. (dr bartolo)
108: Stonehenge is 108 feet in diameter. (Strawberry)
118: In 2006 Ray Parker Jr took part in a commercial for the directory enquiries company 118 118, using the theme tune of Ghostbusters, which he sang in the original film. The lyrics were adapted to "If there's something strange, going through your head, Who Ya Gonna Call? 118!", a little oddly since dialling "118" wouldn't have connected you to anything (being the prefix for several competing directory enquiries providers). (Ed., suggested by Sophie.A)
126: Gilgamesh purportedly lived to 126. (Strawberry)
133: Since 1967, the second has been defined to be the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom. (Sophie.A)
147: 147 is the highest break that can be achieved in a frame of snooker in which no foul shots are made. The fastest 147 break in a major snooker tournament was made by Ronnie O'Sullivan, who took 5 minutes 20 seconds to achieve the feat against Mick Price in the first round of the 1997 World Snooker Championship. (Sophie.A)
158: The Dick Van Dyke Show ran from 1961 to 1966 with 158 episodes. (Strawberry)
167: Bangkok's official name, translated into English, has 167 characters: Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Yuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit. (Tas)
170: For 170 days, every morning of the school year, Dale Price waved off his son's school bus wearing a different fancy dress outfit. His son was extremely embarrassed. (Zebra57)
176: A solar day on the planet Mercury lasts about 176 Earth days. (Sophie.A)
194: According to the US Department of State on April 13th 2011, there were 194 independent states in the world. (Zebra57)
206: There are 206 bones in the typical adult human body. (Strawberry)
217: In The Shining, room 217 plays a central part of the story as it is haunted. (Strawberry)
221: 221b Baker Street was of course the address of a famous fictional drug addict and violin player. (PDR)
231: "Zimbabwe inflation hits 231 million per cent" was reported in the Daily Telegraph on 24/06/2011. (Zebra57)
247: 247 = 50123 - 49876, and is the smallest number which can be expressed as the difference between two integers which together contain all digits 0-9. (Strawberry)
258: It is said that there were 258 bakers’ shops in Rome by the year 100BC. (Ed.)
263: 263 is the largest known prime whose square is strobogrammatic, i.e. appears the same upside-down (69169). (Strawberry)
273: John Cage's composition 4'33" consists of 273 seconds (four minutes and 33 seconds) of silence, in three movements. (Strawberry)
282: The M25 is not a complete circle. The section of the London Orbital across the Dartford Tunnel and QEII Bridge is actually the A282. (tetsabb)
295: In 2011 there was an increase of 295 tigers in India,according to the second all-India tiger population estimation study, carried out in the designated 39 tiger reserves across the country. The population was estimated at 1706, up from 1411 when they were counted previously. (Spoilt Victorian)
304: The early Roman calendar consisted of 304 days divided into 10 months. The remaining 61 days of the solar year do not seem to have been counted. (Ed.)
313: 313 is a palindromic prime in both decimal and binary. Binary representation: 100111001. (krollo)
325: In November 2022, A sneaker care company broke a Guinness World Record in London when 325 people cleaned shoes at the same time. (Ed.)
333: AL 333, commonly referred to as the "First Family", is a collection of prehistoric hominid teeth and bones. Discovered in 1975 by Donald Johanson's team in Hadar, Ethiopia, the "First Family" is estimated to be about 3.2 million years old and consists of the remains of at least thirteen individuals. (krollo)
346: In Dewey Decimal Classification the number 346 refers to Private Law. A personal favourite category there is: 346.94046959222 Kangaroos--resource economics--law. (AlmondFacialBar)
359: Douglas Adams once claimed that 359 was the funniest three-digit number. (Ed.)
366: 366 geometry (also called 366-degree geometry and megalithic geometry) is an hypothetical geometry (using a 366 degree as oppose to the standard 360 degree circle) that was used and created by an alleged megalithic civilization of Britain and France. This opinion is regarded, at best, as pseudoscience by all mainstream scientists. (nimravus)
376: 376 is an automorphic number, meaning that 376 x 376 (141376) ends in 376. There are only two 3-digit automorphic numbers, the other being 625. (chrisboote)
383: In the Hebrew calendar, a leap year is at least 383 days long. (GuyBarry)
394: "Turn to page 394" is a line used by Alan Rickman's character Severus Snape in the film version of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, which has become something of an internet meme. It doesn't seem to have any great significance, but Rickman repeats it several times in a rather menacing voice. (GuyBarry)
401: 401 was the hull number of the RMS Titanic. (Strawberry)
414: There are 414 steps to the top of the Campanile next to the Duomo in Florence. (chrisboote)
418: The Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol, published as an April Fool's joke in 1998, contained the error code "418 I'm a teapot". (GuyBarry)
432: In the late 19th century, the composer Giuseppe Verdi tried to standardise orchestral pitch so that the note A above middle C was set to 432 Hz, sometimes known as "Verdi tuning". (440 Hz is now commonly used as the standard.) (Awitt)
442: When the 4-4-2 formation was first introduced to German professional football it was highly controversial and cost at least one coach his job. (AlmondFacialBar)
453: 453 is the only number n such that n, 2n, and 6n together contain every digit exactly once: 453, 906, 2718. (GuyBarry)
462: In 462 CE one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia was destroyed by fire after being moved to Constantinople. (AlmondFacialBar)
475: 475 has a square that is made up of the squares of other numbers: 475 squared = 225625, 15 squared = 225, and 25 squared = 625. (Also 256 occurs inside it, which is 16 squared.) (GuyBarry)
482: 01482 (previously 0482) is the dialling code for Hull - unique because it's the only exchange not covered by the BT network. (GuyBarry)
494: St George, patron saint of England, was canonized in 494. He is also the patron saint of Georgia, Egypt, Bulgaria, Aragon, Catalonia, Romania, Ethiopia, Greece, India, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Lithuania, Palestine, Portugal, Serbia, Ukraine and Russia, as well as the cities of Genoa, Amersfoort, Beirut, Botoşani, Drobeta Turnu-Severin, Timişoara, Fakiha, Bteghrine, Cáceres, Ferrara, Freiburg im Breisgau, Kragujevac, Kumanovo, Ljubljana, Pérouges, Pomorie, Preston, Qormi, Rio de Janeiro, Lod, Lviv, Barcelona, Moscow and Victoria. Plus the Boy Scout movement, the Romany, people with skin diseases or herpes or leprosy or syphilis or the plague, agricultural workers, archers; armourers, the Bulgarian Army, butchers, cavalrymen, chivalry, The Corinthians (a Brazilian football team), Crusaders, equestrians, farmers, field workers, horses, animal husbandmen, knights, the Order of the Garter, the Portuguese Army and Navy, saddle makers, sheep and shepherds, soldiers, and the Teutonic Knights. (chrisboote)
501: 501 is the number of runs scored by Brian Lara in a match between Warwickshire and Durham at Edgbaston in June 1994, still the record for an individual score in First Class cricket. (tetsabb)
511: The mathematician Paul Erdős had 511 different collaborators during his lifetime. As a joke, people started giving other eminent mathematicians "Erdős numbers" equal to the number of collaborative links between them and Erdős. The same idea spawned the game "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon". (GuyBarry)
528: A beam of light that has a wavelength of 528nm would appear to be green in colour. (Webster100)
538: FiveThirtyEight is a polling aggregation website with a blog created by Nate Silver. Sometimes colloquially referred to as 538 dot com or just 538, the website takes its name from the number of electors in the United States electoral college. (bemahan)
545: 545 is the number of complaints the BBC received about the sound of vuvuzelas during its World Cup coverage. (bemahan)
551: 551 days after the launch of the Instagram app by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger in 2010, it was bought by Facebook for $1 billion. (GuyBarry)
568: Infinity tumbling is the most difficult aerobatic paragliding manoeuvre to perform, with the pilot flipping over the vertical line of the paraglide sail in consecutive loops. Paraglider Horacio Llorens flew up to 19,300 feet before jumping from a helicopter, opening his paraglider and looping for around 15 minutes, hitting an incredible 568 rotations -- breaking the previous record by 194 loops. (bemahan)
575: 575 Wandsworth Road was acquired by the National Trust in 2010, because of the rich and striking interiors created by Khadambi Asalache (1935-2006), a Kenyan-born poet, novelist, philosopher of mathematics and British civil servant. (bemahan)
586: The Pentium processor was originally expected to be named the 586 (as the successor to the 286, 386 and 486). Intel adopted the name to prevent its competitors from bringing out products with similar names, since you can't trademark a number in the US. (GuyBarry)
596: 596 was the codename of China's first nuclear weapons test. (GuyBarry)
604: The A604 is possibly the most important road that you won't find on any recent map. It ran for about 90 miles across East Anglia, from Kettering in Northamptonshire to Harwich in Essex, and was a major route from the Midlands to the East Coast ports. But from the 1970s onwards sections of it were gradually renumbered, and by 1998 it had completely disappeared. One section of it (including part of the Roman Via Devana) was incorporated into the new A14, which took over as the main route to the East Coast. In total it took about eight different numbers. (GuyBarry)
613: There are 613 commandments in the Torah. (chrisboote)
625: According to a 2010 White House news release, 625 people lost their health insurance every hour in 2009. (Strawberry)
639: The John Cage Organ Project’s version of ORGAN2 /ASLSP will last for 639 years. It began on 5 September 2001 – what would have been Cage’s 89th birthday – and is scheduled to end on 5 September 2640. As the performance started, there wasn’t much to see or hear, because it began with a 17-month-long rest. Since then, notes have been added to or subtracted from the organ’s powerful drone 12 times. (bemahan)
642: 642 is the smallest number with the property that its first six multiples include the digit 2: 642, 1284, 1926, 2568, 3210 and 3852. (GuyBarry)
659: Delta Flight 659 is a poem by American poet Denise Duhamel. Each line ends in a word containing 'pen'. (bemahan)
665: The Priddy Sheep Fair in Somerset was first held in 1348 and last held in 2013, 665 years later. It was only cancelled three times in its history. (GuyBarry)
670: In November 2013, the SNP published a 670-page white paper which they claimed would answer all those nagging questions over the fine details of independence. (Alfred E Neuman)
684: The 684th Fibonacci number is divisible by 684. (GuyBarry)
695: On Wednesday, the 18th of March, 1925, 695 people died in the Great Tri-State Tornado, the deadliest tornado in U.S. history. (Strawberry)
703: 703 metres is the deepest record of a Nautilus pompilius recorded feeding during daytime on red bass bait deposited by an ROV on the sea floor at Bougainville Reef. (knightmare)
712: 712 is a 1991 album by the Japanese rock trio Shonen Knife. The album was named after the contraction of the Japanese words for the numbers 7 (nana), 1 (ichi) and 2 (futatu), which, when contracted, sound like "na-i-fu". Naifu is the imported word in Japanese for "knife". (bemahan)
719: The Electric Brae on the A719, south of Dunure in Ayrshire, is an example of a "gravity hill", where due to an optical illusion the apparent upward slope of the hill is actually downhill. (GuyBarry)
730: 730 is an American slang term for "crazy". It comes from the motion a criminal defendant would have to file in order to be examined by a psychiatrist to determine whether he or she is fit to proceed to trial. (GuyBarry)
738: "Don't You Just Hate That?: 738 Annoying Things" is the title of a book, which people tend to like or dislike. The 738th thing is "finishing a book not because you're enjoying it but to prove to yourself you're not a quitter". (knightmare)
752: In season 2, episode 19 of the US political thriller series Scandal, entitled "Seven Fifty-Two", the character Huck sits on the floor repeatedly saying "752, 752, 752". (GuyBarry)
765: Manchester Corporation Tramways 765 is the only remaining electric tramcar from Manchester Corporation Tramways in regular operation. It is at Heaton Park, Manchester. (Strawberry)
775: There are 775 rooms in Buckingham Palace. (Strawberry)
786: The Arabic letters of the opening phrase of the Qur'an sum to the numerical value 786 in the system of Abjad numerals. Muslims on the Indian subcontinent use 786 as an abbreviation for the phrasm 'bism illah ir-rahman ir-rahim' which means 'in the name of Allah, the compassionate, the merciful'. (Strawberry)
797: In 2006 an email hoax circulated claiming that Boeing had developed a 1000-passenger jetliner called the "Boeing 797". It didn't exist. (GuyBarry)
801: The band 801 were put together as a temporary project in 1976 after the break up of Roxy Music. The name is taken from the refrain of a song written by band member Brian Eno. (Big Martin)
808: When written as a numeral, 808 has both horizontal and vertical axes of symmetry. In fonts where the digit "1" is asymmetric, it is one of only two three-digit numbers to have this property (the other being 888). (GuyBarry)
823: The "money bags" hoax email, which has been circulating since 2010, usually takes the form of a claim that "this year, July [or some other month] has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays. This happens only once every 823 years". In fact it happens about once every seven years on average, but it seems that people are still taken in by it. (GuyBarry)
836: Michael Cooke, a security man guarding the main stage at the Download Festival 2011 held at Donington Park, became a minor internet celebrity through his unusual antics. He was known as 836 owing to the number "0836" on his vest. (GuyBarry)
849: Gliese 849 is a red dwarf star 29 light years away in the constellation of Aquarius. In 2006 a Jupter-like planet was discovered orbiting it. (Big Martin)
853: "853-5937", written by Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford, was the fourth UK single and the second US single released from Squeeze's seventh album, Babylon and On. Whilst the song did not chart in the UK, it managed to reach number 32 on the US Hot 100 charts. (Strawberry)
860: In June 2013, the company behind photo-sharing app Snapchat was estimated to be worth US$860 million, despite being less than two years old and having precisely zero revenue. (GuyBarry)
867: "867-5309/Jenny" is a song written by Alex Call and Jim Keller and performed by Tommy Tutone that was released on the album Tommy Tutone 2, on the Columbia Records label. It peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #1 on the Billboard Top Tracks chart in 1982. The song caused a fad of people dialling "867-5309" and asking for "Jenny". (Strawberry)
880: Not counting reflections and rotations, there are 880 distinct 4x4 magic squares. (GuyBarry)
898: The M898 has been described as "one of the shortest, narrowest and [most] generally pathetic motorways that there is". It's a mile long, leading from the M8 west of Glasgow to the Erskine Bridge across the Clyde. (GuyBarry)
909: "One After 909" (sometimes called "The One After 909" in early recordings) is a song by The Beatles, written by John Lennon, with input from Sir Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon-McCartney) and originally released in 1970 on the album Let It Be. The album version is the live performance from the rooftop concert which took place on 30 January 1969. This performance is also included in the Let It Be film. The song was written as early as 1957 and is one of the first Lennon-McCartney compositions. "One After 909" is also a more American rock-and-roll sounding song than any of the other songs on the rooftop show and as a joke for the rooftop chatter, Lennon sings a variant on the opening line of "Danny Boy" after the song is finished that is unable to be entirely made out. (Strawberry)
912: In the "Homer the Great" episode of The Simpsons, Homer joins a secret organization called the Stonecutters (an obvious parody of the Freemasons), in which he is told the "real" emergency services number - 912. (The actual US emergency number is of course 911.) (GuyBarry)
921: The 921 earthquake, also known as Jiji earthquake, was an 7.3M or 7.6-7.7Mw earthquake which occurred on Tuesday, 21 September 1999 in Jiji, Nantou County, Taiwan. (Strawberry)
933: There were 933 fireworks-related New Year’s Eve injuries reported in Manila for 2013/4. Of the 933 cases, 914 were firecracker injuries, two were cases of firework ingestion. There were also eight additional cases of stray bullet injuries, bringing the total to 17 cases, most of which occurred in Metro Manila. (bemahan)
945: According to the Urban Dictionary, Rule 945 can be invoked by anyone who hears the word "sorry" in a circumstance where the person saying it has no responsibility in the situation, e.g. "My cat died" "I'm sorry" "rule 945". Punishments vary from person to person. It originates with this xkcd cartoon (linked). (GuyBarry)
952: 952 is simplified bridge for three players, with a forced card-switching twist thrown in. (Strawberry)
964: The film "Screams of Blasphemy" was formerly known as "Pinocchio 964". The eponymous hero, a lobotomised cyborg sex slave, is thrown out onto the street by his owners because of his inability to maintain an erection. (bemahan)
969: 969 is a strange number if you come from Burma. The three digits ‘969’ originally referred to the Buddha’s “three jewels”, but they are now being used as a brand name for a nationalist, anti-Muslim campaign led by a prominent monk based in Mandalay. (Efros)
980: In March 2013, two British parents managed to get a refund from Apple after their eight year-old son spent £980 buying virtual doughnuts in the iPad game The Simpsons: Tapped Out. (GuyBarry)
994: The A994 has the highest three-digit A-road number currently in use in Britain. It runs from Dunfermline in Fife to Cairneyhill, about three miles away. (GuyBarry)
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