The Quite Incredible Number List: Pick of the 8000s

8008: The written numeral 8008 is both a palindrome and a strobogrammatic number (the same upside-down), and also has both vertical. and horizontal axes of symmetry. Quite elegant! (Brock)

8012: Sanu Sherpa has become the first climber in the world to summit the planet's 14 highest mountains, not once, but twice. It started in 2006, when he became a mountaineer after successfully climbing Cho Oyu (8012 metres) on his first attempt. (Brock)

8017: The Torre de Comares is the highest tower in the Alhambra. The ceiling has 8017 separate pieces of wood in 7 concentric circles with superimposed cedar-wood adornments crowned by central mocarabe boss. (bemahan)

8023: Wales has a total area of 8,023 square miles [...an area the size of Wales! - Ed.]. (Big Martin)

8026: Last month Loughborough University won its 41st consecutive title at British Universities and Colleges Sport, with a record total score of 8026 points. It's a wonder that the other universities bother to turn up. (Brock)

8034: Starting from Port of Menteith at its northern end, the B8034 skirts the eastern edge of the Lake of Menteith, often referred to as "Scotland's only natural Lake" (rather than Loch). It continues south for about five miles, across the old stone-arch Cardross Bridge, to the A811 at Arnprior. (Brock)

8043: The City of London has a resident population of 8,043 people. That's the "square mile" figure. (Big Martin)

8046: The longest railway freight route in the world is the Yiwu-Madrid line, which is 8046 miles long. (Brock)

8063: At the time of the 2016 census, Kangaroo Point in Queensland had a population of 8,063 people. (Big Martin)

8068: What's the safest 4-digit PIN? No one knows, but it was once 8068. In 2012 a group of researchers at Data Genetics reportedly went through 3.4 million PINs and discovered that the least common was 8068, which came up only 25 times. They then published their results, which of course meant that 8068 was no longer the safest PIN. Possibly the most counter-productive piece of research in history. (In fact they didn't get hold of 3.4 million actual PINs. Instead, they used data from released/exposed/discovered password tables and security breaches, and filtered the results to those that consisted of exactly four digits.) (Brock)

8080: The Intel 8080 was the second 8-bit microprocessor designed and manufactured by Intel, first appearing in April 1974. Proving that astronomers have a sense of humour, there is a minor planet called 8080 Intel. (Brock)

8104: There are 8104 circles on this drawing of The Fire Bird by Robert Joseph Moreau. (The artist counted them as he drew them.) (Brock)

8113: The Crypt of Civilization is an impenetrable airtight chamber, built between 1937 and 1940 at the Oglethorpe University in Georgia that is not meant to be opened before 8113 AD. (Big Martin)

8128: A real rarity now: 8128 is the 4th perfect number (after 6, 28 and 496). Perfect numbers were known to the ancient Greeks. A number is defined as perfect if it's equal to the sum of its positive divisors, including 1 but excluding the number itself:

8128 = 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 16 + 32 + 64 + 127 + 254 + 508 + 1016 + 2032 + 4064

The next perfect number is 33,550,336, so it's safe to say we won't see another one in the list! (Brock)

8130: Sherry Groom of Alliance, Ohio, is a record-breaking collector of troll figurines. As of September 2018 there were 8130 unique trolls in her collection, now displayed in the "Troll Hole" Museum. (Brock)

8133: The record for the longest rollercoaster is held by Steel Dragon 2000 in Nagashima Spa Land which is 8,133 feet and 2 inches long. (Big Martin)

8134: In 2020 Clyst St Mary Primary School in Devon embarked on a virtual fundraising journey called "Clyst to Cape". The aim was to raise £8134 for charity, by recording how far everyone was running, cycling or walking until they covered 8134 miles, the distance from Clyst St Mary to Cape Town in South Africa. (They covered the whole distance but in the end only raised £2624.) (Brock)

8145: Another deepest fish claim is for a type of snailfish with wing-like fins at 8,145 metres discovered in 2014. (Big Martin)

8150: The Book of Genesis does not mention the height of the Tower of Babel. However the Book of Jubilees, an ancient Jewish religious work, puts its height at 5433 cubits and 2 palms, which equates to 8150 feet. (Brock)

8164: Every pair of consecutive digits in 8164 forms a perfect square (81, 16 and 64). The only higher number with this property is 81649. (Brock)

8176: 8176 appears as "glib" on an upside-down calculator (seven-segment display). (Brock)

8197: Apparently, the meaning of the Unicode Han character U+8197 is "ugly and fat, too fat to move". (Big Martin)

8198: In April 1945 the U.S. Third Army captured the village of Merkers, 200 miles south of Berlin, where the Nazis had hidden most of their stolen treasure in a potassium mine. They found 8198 bars of gold bullion in the mine along with gold coins, silver bars, and paper money. The total value (in 1945 dollars) was estimated to be over $520 million. (Brock)

8208: 8208 is a (base-10) narcissistic number. A narcissistic (or Armstrong) n-digit number is one that's equal to the sum of the nth powers of its digits. In this case n = 4, so 8208 = 8⁴ + 2⁴ + 0⁴ + 8⁴. See original post for a bonus Simpsons fact. (Brock)

8219: In his last competitive throw before retirement, Jan Zelezny's javelin travelled 82.19 metres. (Big Martin)

8229: The first, self-titled, album by Crosby, Stills and Nash was released in 1969 by Atlantic with the catalogue number SD 8229. (Big Martin)

8239: The World's largest Time Warp dance involved 8,239 participants in West Hollywood, California for Halloween 2010. (Big Martin)

8259: The total length between abutments of the Forth Road Bridge is 8,259 feet. (Big Martin)

8266: There are 8266 tilings of a 3 x 10 rectangle with 10 trominoes. (A tromino is a shape made of three connected squares joined edge to edge. There are two types, one rectangular and one in an L-shape.) (Brock)

8304: Elon Musk travelled 8304 miles by private jet during his first week at Twitter. (Brock)

8305: UK Government certificate 8305 is required to export processed pet food to the EU. (Big Martin)

8312: According to the Urban Dictionary, 8312 means "I miss you"; 8 letters, 3 words, 1 meaning, 2nd version. (What was the first version?) (Brock)

8316: 8316 has a factorization which, when written backwards, gives you a different factorization of the same number:

8316 = 11 x 12 x 63

8316 = 36 x 21 x 11

(Brock)

8322: In December 2010, 8322 rugby fans at Munster's stadium of Thomond Park broke the world record for the greatest number of people wearing Santa hats. (Brock)

8328: 0131 225 8328 is the phone number of Greyfriars Bobby's Bar in Candlemaker Row, Edinburgh. The pub, next to Greyfriars Kirkyard, is named after the legendary dog Greyfriars Bobby, who is said to have faithfully watched over his owner's grave every night for fourteen years until he was buried next to his master.(Brock)

8343: Maja Tat in the Accursed Mountains range in Albania has an elevation of 8,343 feet. (Big Martin)

8355: The 8355 Method is a way of solving Rubik's Cube. (Big Martin)

8363: Following the famous 1980 eruption, the elevation of Mount St. Helens was reduced from 9,677 feet to 8,363 feet. (Big Martin)

8368: Roud folk song number 8368 is the American drinking song "The Ballad of Lydia Pinkham", which formed the basis for the Scaffold's 1968 hit "Lily the Pink". (Brock)

8374: In 1802 France held a referendum ratifying the new constitution, which made Napoleon Bonaparte First Consul for life. The result was 3,568,885 votes in favour and only 8374 votes (0.24%) against. Nearly half the eligible voters abstained. (Brock)

8387: 8387 is a street number on the Rabbit Proof Fence Road, in Western Australia. (Awitt)

8393: At 180 lines, the Laudatio Turiae (ILS 8393) is currently the longest surviving personal inscription from Classical Rome. It is a tombstone engraved with a carved epitaph that is a husband's eulogy of his wife. (ILS numbers refer to the Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae, a three-volume selection of Latin inscriptions published from 1892 to 1916.) (Brock)

8404: In 2020, 8,404 people crossed the English Channel in small boats. This year the figure has exceeded 40,000. (Big Martin)

8418: Ariana Grande has "8418" tattooed on her foot. (Big Martin)

8424: The 8424 watermelon, also known as the Zaojia watermelon, is claimed to be "the king of the watermelons". (Big Martin)

8426: Recently a Bar Tailed Godwit set the world record for a non-stop migration flight of 8,426 miles from Alaska to Tasmania. (Big Martin)

8455: In 2000, there were 8455 grains of pollen per cubic metre in the United States. It is estimated that by 2040, this number will bypass 21,000 grains per cubic metre. (Brock)

8461: As of the beginning of 2020, there were 8461 bison in the world, according to the European Bison Pedigree Book. (Brock)

8465: In 1904, there were 8465 motor cars in use in the whole of Great Britain. (Brock)

8470: Makalu 8470 Metres: The Highest Peak Yet Conquered By An Entire Team is a book be Jean Franco about the 1955 climbing of the mountain by a French team. These days, Makalu is actually reckoned to be 8481 metres high. (Big Martin)

8479: Over the entire celestial sphere there are 8479 stars within magnitude limit 6.5, often said to be the average naked eye limit. (Brock)

8485: 8485 cases of gout were diagnosed in the Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire area during the year to March 2022. (Brock)

8495: Letter beacons are radio transmissions of uncertain origin and unknown purpose, consisting of only a single repeating Morse code letter. A group of them has been reported around the frequency of 8495 kHz. (Brock)

8507: In 1961 8,507 people fled over the border from East Germany to West Germany. (Big Martin)

8510: The sum of the first 8510 primes is 352888253, which is a palindrome (see also OEIS). (Brock)

8513: Asian Paints shade 8513 is apparently "like a mermaid’s tail, glistening and fantastical, a fairy tale shade of blue-green, seawater and moonlit sky, merging, blending, melding, to create a wondrous shade, endless blue and endless green. Concentrated and full toned, a colour that will captivate and fill your senses." Donner-indeed-knispel! (AlmondFacialBar)

8528: Should you choose to insert QRS word roll 8528 into a pianola, it'll play you the Huckle Buck. (AlmondFacialBar)

8539: The 8539 equal temperament divides the octave into 8539 equal parts of 0.1405 cents each, an interval known as a "tina". That's far too small for the human ear to perceive, but it's been proposed as a bookkeeping device to keep track of larger intervals. (Brock)

8553: The Kremsbruecke Pressingberg is the longest bridge in Austria at 8,553 feet long. (Big Martin)

8558: A study by Yamagata University in Japan of 20,969 people above the age of 40, consisting of 8558 men and 12,411 women, concluded that men who lack interest in sex are at risk of early death. Oh well, that's me heading for an early grave then... (Brock)

8563: 8563: One Story, Four Endings is a mystery book targeted at kids between 10 and 13. It was nominated for the Peek-a-book Children's Choice Award in 2018. (AlmondFacialBar)

8573: According to the ethnic heritage section of the 2000 US Federal Census, 50% of residents of Thief River Falls, Minnesota identify themselves as Norwegian-American, making Thief River Falls one of the most ethnically concentrated towns in the nation. Its total population at the 2010 census was 8573. (Brock)

8612: 8612 is the number of a prisoner in the Stanford prisoner experiment. It's generally considered to be one of the most unethical psychology experiments in history - volunteers were randomly assigned to be either prisoners or guards to see how they behaved. After 36 hours, so-called "Prisoner 8612" was released after an apparent mental breakdown (though he later suggested that he might have simulated it). The experiment was ended early after six days. (Awitt/Brock)

8620: A survey of 8620 people, carried out in 2022 at the University of California, Davis, found that one in five adults in the US believe that political violence is now justified in some circumstances. (Brock)

8627: Should you wish to breed Angus cows and save yourself the hassle of actually getting an Angus bull for the job, you can order semen from the bull SydGen Liberty GA 8627, at $8.00 a squirt. (AlmondFacialBar)

8630: There are 8630 cannabis farms in Oklahoma. (Brock)

8632: 8632 square miles of Tasmania are covered by water. (Brock)

8645: According to Urban Dictionary displaying the number 8645 is supposed to indicate opposition to Donald Trump. (Big Martin)

8658: In November 2022 Turkish TV cult preacher Adnan Oktar was sentenced to 8,658 years in prison. (Big Martin)

8661: The Church of the SubGenius is a parody religion in the US that satirizes better-known belief systems. In July 1998 they held an event to celebrate the coming of aliens; when they didn't turn up, the leader (the Rev. Ivan Stang) speculated that they might arrive in 8661, which is 1998 turned upside-down. (Brock)

8665: There are 8665 notes in the piece A+: A "Precise" Prelude and An "Excellent" March by Thomas Duffy. The March is a simple little commencement-like processional which is repeated. The ensemble players are instructed to make one mistake in the repetition - a mistake of pitch or dynamic or rhythm or articulation. (Brock)

8693: In 2011 there were 8693 romance scams in Japan. (Brock)

8695: Melissa Doi, who died in the September 11 attacks in 2001, is known for the recording of the 911 call she made during her final few minutes while the South Tower was engulfed in flames, which was answered by NYPD Dispatcher 8695. The recording was used during the prosecution of Zacarias Moussaoui, the only criminal trial to result from the attacks. Only the first four minutes of the 24-minute call were released by the courts, and the extract can be heard here. (Brock)

8712: A female grey wolf tagged in Oregon as OR-54 clocked up a minimum 8712 miles of wanderings between January 2018 and December 2019. She's thought to have looked for a mate. (AlmondFacialBar)

8727: The North American Moth Photographers Group listing 8727 is Parallelia bistrialis, the Maple Looper. (Big Martin)

8732: 8732 is a former clothing brand by the rapper Young Jeezy. It's the alphanumeric keypad encoding of "USDA", which in turn stands for "United Street Dopeboys of America", and is meant to examine the roots of hiphop by embodying the spirit of the urban street hustler. The brand was originally called USDA, but had to be renamed because the US Department of Agriculture got there first and trademarked the acronym. (AlmondFacialBar)

8736: 2⁸⁷³⁶ ends in the digits 8736. (Brock)

8749: Minor planet 8749 is called Beatles after the group. (Big Martin)

8760: There are 8760 hours in a year (except leap years). Source: a calculator. (Brock)

8780: A 2022 survey of 8,780 people concluded that smokers become lonelier than non-smokers as they get older. (Big Martin)

8787: 87.87. is the usual notation to indicate the metre of a hymn such as Love Divine, All Loves Excelling. It refers to the fact that each stanza has a line of eight syllables, then seven, then eight, then seven (usually in trochaic metre). (Brock)

8789: Lucy, the guitar given to George Harrison by Eric Clapton in 1968, had the serial number 7-8789. (Brock)

8801: The KZED 8801 is a forehead thermometer. (Big Martin)

8804: Au in the Swiss canton of Zürich has the postcode 8804, and thus is shorter than its postcode. (Brock)

8816: The IUCN Red List currently brings up 8816 species as Near Threatened. Among them are Bilbo's rain frog (Breviceps bagginsi), the Hasenpusch Family Stick-insect (Parapodacanthus hasenpuschorum), Imperial Mushroom (Catathelasma imperiale), Dupain's Bolete (Rubroboletus dupainii), Mountain Masdevallia (Masdevallia oreas), and, quite terribly, Deh a Mbine (Coffea montekupensis). (AlmondFacialBar)

8824: From the top of Talking Mountain in the Lake Tahoe area at 8,824 feet you can ski down over the Echo Lakes if they are frozen enough. (Big Martin)

8830: The world's highest weather station was installed 8,830 metres up Mount Everest in 2022. (Big Martin)

8833: 8833 = 88² + 33². Very neat! (Brock)

8841: Should you wish to compact medium ground coffee into a 1 cm³ cube, you'll need precisely 8841 grains of it. Assuming a perfect grinder with an evenly sized result that is. (AlmondFacialBar)

8848: For many years the height of Everest was often given as 8848 metres, but in 2020 Nepal and China officially agreed that the height of Mount Everest is 8848.86 metres. (Brock)

8858: The Queensferry Crossing over the Forth is 8,858 feet long. (Big Martin)

8866: It was announced at the end of last year the an oil well in the Sichuan Basin in China broke the record for a vertical well, with a depth of 8,866 metres. (Big Martin)

8883: If you want to search for romantic movies on Netflix, you'll need the "secret code" 8883. (Not sure what's so secret about it!) (Brock)

8894: There are 8894 self-avoiding walks of 15 steps on a Manhattan square lattice. "Self-avoiding" means that the route doesn't visit the same point twice. A "Manhattan lattice" is a network made up of alternating one-way "streets" and "avenues" similar to the Manhattan area of New York City, looking like this. As an illustration, here are the 14 self-avoiding walks of 4 steps. (Brock)

8901: At the time of the Argentinian invasion in 1982, the Falkland Islands were defended by Naval Party 8901, a small group lightly armed with small arms, machine guns and a few mortars and anti-tank weapons. There were about 43 men in each division, but as it happened the invasion took place around the time of the annual changeover, so there were actually two detachments on the islands at the time. (Brock)

8933: The second most-edited Wikipedia page of 2016 was the one on Donald Trump, with 8933 edits. It was beaten only by "Deaths in 2016" (18,230 edits). (Brock)

8954: 8954 Eureka Lock Road is an old corn crib listed by the Wisconsin Historical Society. (Big Martin)

8955: The civil rights activist Rosa Parks was honoured in December 2019 with a plaque inside San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency bus 8955. (Brock)

8962: The World Record for the most people making snow angels simultaneously was set at the State Capitol Grounds in Bismarck, North Dakota on February 17th 2007 by 8,962 people. (Big Martin)

8973: In 2018, a man called William Taylor posted a video to YouTube claiming that he had visited the year 8973 and seen "something horrifying". At the time of writing, I'm not entirely sure what it was! (Brock)

8980: 8980 is a song by Gabriel Kahane inspired by a journey of that many miles across the USA. (Big Martin)

8990: Minor planet 8990 was named Compassion to honour the victims of the 9/11 attacks. (Brock)

8999: In 2018 Tatachem Dav Public School in India set a record for writing 8,999 slogans for a save birds campaign in 2 hours. (Big Martin)

The Quite Incredible Number List: Pick of the 9000s

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)