The Quite Incredible Number List: 8801-8900

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

8802: Seedball, a North London business which describes itself as "a simpler way to grow from seed", can be contacted on 020 8802 5565. (Brock)

8803: The book Genteel Women from Manchester University Press's Studies in Imperialism series can be ordered with the ISBN 978-0-7190-8803-2. (AlmondFacialBar)

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

8805: St Charles, Missouri, is 8805 km away from Buenos Aires. (AlmondFacialBar)

8806: Drivers in the Shropshire Council area triggered fixed cameras for "prosecutable offences" 8806 times in the period 2013-16. (Brock)

8807: Decca F. 8807 is When Your Hair has Turned to Silver by not yet Dame Vera Lynn, released in October 1947. (AlmondFacialBar)

8808: Malaysia’s Shariah courts allowed 8808 cases of Muslim husbands who applied for polygamy between 2010 and 2016. (Ed.)

8809: The Gibson F4 mandolin (be still my beating heart) was originally produced under the factory order number 8809. (AlmondFacialBar)

8810: There were 8810 bank branches in Britain in 2021. (Brock)

8811: 22-8811 is the serial number of a Mitsubishi F-15J fighter jet built under licence from McDonnell Douglas and operated by the JASDF. It made its maiden flight in 1982 and appears to still be in service. (AlmondFacialBar)

8812: National Portrait Gallery image NPG D8812 is an engraving of William Wordsworth from the early 1830s. (Big Martin)

8813: There are 8813 ways to dissect a square into 14 squares, up to symmetry. (Brock)

8814: US Internal Revenue Service 8814 serves for parents to report their underaged child(ren)'s passive income. (AlmondFacialBar)

8815: Erki Nool, the Estonian decathlete and former politician, has a personal best of 8815 set at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton. (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)

8817: Jeremy Hunt, who is currently Chancellor of the Exchequer, held the South West Surrey seat at the 2019 election with a majority of 8817 over the Liberal Democrats. (Brock)

8818: The basal diet for a breeding turkey hen contains 8818 IU vitamin A per kg of feed. (AlmondFacialBar)

8819: A Guardian article from 2002 highlights the disappearance of high street butcher's shops. In 1981, 21,500 butchers had 56% of the market share; 20 years later, there were 8819 commanding only 17.3%. (Brock)

8820: Specimen 8820-9220 of the research collection at the zoological institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences is a marine annelid worm (that being earthworm type critters) of the species Volvobrachia beklemischevi. (AlmondFacialBar)

8821: In 1961, the newly formed borough of Huntingdon and Godmanchester (then in Huntingdonshire, now in Cambridgeshire) had a population of 8821. It didn't last long though; it reverted to a parish in 1974, and then became two separate parishes in 1982. (Brock)

8822: A work of art that depicts Bathsheba kneeling before David and asking him to proclaim Solomon king would have the Iconclass classification code 71H8822. (AlmondFacialBar)

8823: Ken Kuronuma wrote scripts for one of Japan's first television science fiction series, Undersea Man 8823, broadcast in 1960. (Brock)

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)

8825: The sum of the divisors of 8825 is two less than the sum of the divisors of (8825 + 2):

1 + 5 + 25 + 353 + 1765 + 8825 = 10974

1 + 7 + 13 + 91 + 97 + 679 + 1261 + 8827 = 10976

This is remarkable because nearly all other numbers with this property are prime, with only 434 and 8575 as the other known non-prime solutions below 10¹³. (Brock)

8826: After WW2 the Dutch NS railway acquired a number of ex-WD Hunslet built 0-6-0 tank engines which they operated as their 8800 class. A number of these are still in existence, including 8826 which is at the Zuid-Limburgse Stoomtrein Maatschappij. (Big Martin)

8827: On 31 May 2002, there were 8827 sentenced young offenders in prisons in England and Wales. (Brock)

8828: Livex Lighting part 8828-64 is described as a Bristol Manor Island Chandelier in Palacial [sic] Bronze with Gilded Accents. (Big Martin)

8829: South Kensington had a population of 8829 in 2020. Yeah, I know, it's an unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland, USA. What were you expecting? (Brock)

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

8831: A 1891 "Letter on the Oyster Question of Virginia" states that "in 1888 there were 8831 tongers and about 400 dredgers operating on our rock". (A "tonger" is someone who goes round collecting oysters with tongs.) (Brock)

8832: Here is one of a number of websites offering help to complete US tax form 8832. (Big Martin)

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

8834: Shakespeare's Globe theatre in London currently has 8834 reviews on Trip Advisor, 7913 of which are above average. (AlmondFacialBar)

8835: Last Sunday evening, Pacific Gas and Electric reported that 8835 customers lost power in its Sierra Division, which includes Nevada, El Dorado and Placer counties in California. (Brock)

8836: On Tuesday, 08-June-2021, 8836 people officially recovered from Covid in the Indian state of Odisha. (AlmondFacialBar)

8837: EPSG 8837 is coordinate system for Saudi Arabia. (Big Martin)

8838: The emergency phone number for UK Power Networks is 0800 783 8838. (Brock)

8839: In April 2022, the Malaysian car maker Proton sold 8839 units, which was down 41.1% YoY owing to chip supply issues. (AlmondFacialBar)

8840: In 1856, Andrew Waugh, the British Surveyor General of India, announced Mount Everest (then known as Peak XV) as 8840 metres (29,002 ft) high, after several years of calculations based on observations made by the Great Trigonometrical Survey. (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)

8842: There were 8842 people with the surname Owen listed in the 1850 US census. (Brock)

8843: The lead article of the Evening Echo's issue 8843 as sold to the good people of Cork on Wednesday, 23-August-1922, concerned itself with the assassination of Michael Collins. (As I dare say did the Cork Examiner and a non-trivial number of other Irish papers.) (AlmondFacialBar)

8844: 8844 is a juggling move which is probably better explained by this animation than in words! (Brock)

8845: The Iveco Stralis X-WAY Super Loader is specifically designed to haul concrete mixers and has a tested kerb weight of 8845 kg. (AlmondFacialBar)

8846: 44-8846 is the serial number of a bomber nicknamed the Pink Lady, which flew several missions for the US Army Air Forces near the end of World War II. (Brock)

8847: This rather interesting Ricky 260 has the serial number F7 8847 (and to me, being a solid body, rather defies the point of getting one in the first place). (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. Hence the figure in the following post... (Brock)

8849: From April 2022, 8849: Massentourismus, Tod und Ausbeutung am Mount Everest is a critical analysis of modern adventure tourism with Everest as its focus. (AlmondFacialBar)

8850: But that figure is also disputed. In May 1999, an American Everest expedition directed by Bradford Washburn anchored a GPS unit into the highest bedrock, to give an elevation of 8850 metres. (Ed.)

8851: Simulations have shown that the object that created Stickney crater on Mars's moon Phobos must have hit it with a relation of r_i = 8851v_i^−0.41 between impactor radius and impact velocity. Which I'm sure explains a whole lot about the behaviour of rocks to the geophysicists the paper I found it in was written by and for... (AlmondFacialBar)

8852: US Federal Occupation 8852 is as an aircraft mechanic. (Big Martin)

8853: The monoclonal antibody AZD8853 targets growth/differentiation factor 15, a protein whose oversecretion is associated with poor outcomes in cancer. It's therefore currently in the clinical trial stage for the treatment of various solid tumours. (AlmondFacialBar)

8854: A 2019 article states that £8,854 is level of debt British people reckon to be "unmanageable". (Big Martin)

8855: In 2012 there were 8855 criminal gun homicides in the USA. (Brock)

8856: The FIA 8856-2018 is the latest homologation for fire retardant clothing for drivers. (Big Martin)

8857: There were more than 23,600 cases of fraudulent online change of address requests and attempted identity theft in the US in 2021. That is a 167 per cent jump from 2020, when just 8857 cases were reported. (Brock)

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

8859: ISO/IEC 8859 is a joint ISO and IEC series of standards for 8-bit character encodings. (Brock)

8860: Marine chronometer number 8860 by Victor Kullberg is held by the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. (Big Martin)

8861: In Venezuela, since the first case was confirmed in EW (epidemiological week) 26 of 2017 and up to EW 7 of 2018, there were 8861 confirmed cases of measles. (Brock)

8862: Here is a YouTube video entitled "Life Is Good At 8,862 Feet". (Big Martin)

8863: 8863 is in the OEIS list of primes such that swapping some pair of digits gives a square - the square in question being 8836. (I missed the actual entry so this is the next best thing!) (Brock)

8864: Maine Memory Network artefact 8864 is an 1894 photograph of the bark "Dirigo". I did wonder how they managed to build quite such a big vessel in Bath, until I realised it's the one in Maine! (Big Martin)

8865: Runway 10R/28L at Aarhus Airport is 8865 feet long. (Or 8864 feet, depending on whether you read the main text or the infobox.) (Brock)

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)

8867: The area of Belize is 8867 square miles. (Brock)

8868: Between resuming direct international flights on 03-Sep-2020 and 24-Oct of the same year, Beijing Daxing International airport received 61 such flights carrying 8868 passengers. (AlmondFacialBar)

8869: Between August 2020 and July 2021, there were 8869 mail items received in Scottish prisons which tested positive for an illicit substance. (Brock)

8870: CVE-2015-8870 is a vulnerability in older versions of the LibTIFF software that can enable evil doers to cause denial of service attacks or syphon off sensitive data. (AlmondFacialBar)

8871: The phone number at Wandsworth Borough Council for Parking and Streets is 020 8871 8871. Do I get double points? (Brock)

8872: The Tristar PD-8872 is a Belgian waffle iron. (Big Martin)

8873: H.R. 8873, the Presidential Election Reform Act, is a bipartisan piece of US legislation seeking to improve the integrity of the process of appointing Presidential electors and of tallying those electors' votes. (Brock)

8874: 8874 is a video game. (Big Martin)

8875: Last year, the University of Maryland raised $3.75 million at its Giving Day from 8875 donors. (This year, it broke the record with 8967 donors.) (Brock)

8876: UK government VAT manual entry VATGPB8876 concerns whether VAT applies to weddings and civil partnership ceremonies. (Big Martin)

8877: In England, 8877 fixed penalty notices for breaching Covid-19 regulations were issued between 27 March and 27 April 2020. (Brock)

8878: BS 8878 is a web accessibility code of practice. (Big Martin)

8879: The predecessor of HTML was SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language), defined in ISO standard 8879:1986. (Brock)

8880: Aveling & Porter locomotive 8880 was built for Vickers Armstrong in Erith and named Sir Michael. It is supposed to have been the only standard gauge preserved steam loco to have run during the 2020 Covid-19 lockdown, having been driven 1.5 miles by its owners. The photos reveal that Aveling & Porter usually made traction engines! (Big Martin)

8881: If you multiply 8881 by its successor, the result includes 8881 as a substring:

8881 x 8882 = 78881042

(Brock)

8882: Hitchcock Gallery image 8882 shows Alfred Hitchcock flanked by William Hartnell and Dennis Price in 1949. (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)

8884: The 8884 sponge cake recipe calls for 8oz butter, 8oz sugar, 8oz self-raising flour and 4 eggs. (Big Martin)

8885: GB reg GY 8885 is a 1931 Bentley 2 seater refitted with an 8 litre engine in the mid-2010s to give it enough traction for its heavy chassis. (AlmondFacialBar)

8886: According to Dr. Oliver L. Johnson Jr. in his book Isaiah the Prophet, The Imminent Return of Christ, there are 8886 promises of God in the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. (Brock)

8887: The average petrol car releases 8887 grams of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere for every gallon of fuel burned. (AlmondFacialBar)

8888: The 8888 Uprising was a series of nationwide protests, marches and riots in Burma (present-day Myanmar) that peaked on 8 August 1988 (hence the name). During the protests, Aung San Suu Kyi emerged as a national icon. (Brock)

8889: Flying Fortress 44-8889 was sold to the French Institut Geographique Nationale after WW2 for aerial surveys. It was last reported to be in storage at the Musee de l'Air in Le Bourget. (Big Martin)

8890: In September 1954 there were reportedly 8890 blood donors in Dundee. (Brock)

8891: According to the International Boundary Commission the USA/Canada border is 8,891 km long. (Big Martin)

8892: There were 8892 US troops in Iraq as of late September 2017. (Brock)

8893: 8893 Food Catering is based in George Town, Malaysia. (Big Martin)

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)

8895: TGV train route 8895 runs from Paris Montparnasse to Le Mans. (Big Martin)

8896: Here are the lyrics to 8896 by Låpsley. (Brock)

8897: ISO 8897 covers oil of juniper berry. (Big Martin)

8898: 8898 is a song by the late Puerto Rican Drill artist Yeruza. (AlmondFacialBar)

8899: Two people were critically injured last Saturday in a road accident near the Lake Hodges Dam, San Diego, California. It was reported at 11:04 a.m. at 8899 Del Dios Highway. (Brock)

8900: The Volvo 8900 is a single-decker bus produced since 2010. (Big Martin)

The Quite Incredible Number List: 8901-9000

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)

8902: 8902 Records is a Japanese record label. (Big Martin)

8903: There have been 8903 episodes of Neighbours. (Brock)

8904: The British Journal of Sports Medicine carried an article on the "analysis of water polo injuries during 8904 player matches at FINA World Championships and Olympic games to make the sport safer". (Big Martin)

8905: 8905 times its successor gives the concatenation of a number with itself: 8905 x 8906 = 79307930. 8905 is the only four-digit number with this property. (Brock)

8906: Here is a link to an article about a cinema that closed down in 1961. Its address was 8906, W. Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90035, United States. (Strawberry)

8907: David Watts, the Liberal Democrat candidate in Broxtowe at the 2010 general election, came third with 8907 votes. The winner was the Conservative Anna Soubry, who only squeaked home by 389 votes. (Brock)

8908: Nickel has a density of 8908 kg·m^-3. (AlmondFacialBar)

8909: The South African digital agency 8909 recently appointed Nigel Matthews as executive creative director. (Brock)

8910: The General Instrument AY-3-8910 is a 3-voice programmable sound generator produced from 1978 and used in many arcade games. (Big Martin)

8911: SA Airlink Flight 8911 crashed into the grounds of Merebank Secondary School, Durban, South Africa shortly after take-off on 24 September 2009, injuring the three occupants of the aircraft and one on the ground. There were no passengers on the flight, and the school was closed for a public holiday. The captain subsequently died of his injuries. (Brock)

8912: 3M product 8912 is "Scotchlite" - the stuff for doing reflective strips on clothes etc. (Big Martin)

8913: Iran, Russia and China have recently started joint naval exercises off the coast of Oman. The Russian naval group includes the medium sea tanker Kama, which has a full load displacement of 8913 tons. (Brock)

8914: The Cambridge American Cemetery commemorates 8,914 people. (Big Martin)

8915: Another election result - but I've actually managed to track down a copy of the official Declaration of Result of Poll. This was in Richmond (Yorks) at the 2005 general election, when the Labour candidate Neil Foster polled 8915 votes, coming a distant second to William Hague, the former Conservative leader and future Foreign Secretary. The seat is currently held by Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister. (Brock)

8916: The highest point in Parsnip Peak Wilderness in Nevada is at an elevation of 8,916 feet. (Big Martin)

8917: In 2019, there were 8917 serious injuries caused by motor vehicle accidents in Canada. (Brock)

8918: Baguley 0-4-0 diesel locomotive 3410 cost £8,918 when it was purchased by Marston's brewery in 1955. It subsequently shunted coal wagons near my house at Filton coal depot, before ending up at the Chasewater Railway. (Big Martin)

8919: The London Fog was a 1960s nightclub located at 8919 Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood, California. It is notable for being the venue where The Doors had their first regular gigs for several months in early 1966. Today the location is occupied by a barbershop. (Brock)

8920: The wreck of the fishing vessel Katmai lies in 8,920 feet of water in the Gulf of Mexico. (Big Martin)

8921: There are 8921 sets of integer-sided rectangular pieces that can tile a 2x14 rectangle. (Brock)

8922: Here is a photo of bus ODZ 8922 driving around the Centre in Bristol. It had a Dennis Lance SLF chassis and Wright Pathfinder bodywork. (Big Martin)

8923: The Bermuda Police Service issued 8923 traffic tickets from 6 July 2021 (the start of "Operation Vega") to the end of February 2023. (Brock)

8924: The London Borough of Haringey has a population density of 8,924 people per square kilometre. (Big Martin)

8925: Female genital mutilation (FGM) has been illegal in the UK since 1985, yet (as of April 2018) there has not been a single successful prosecution for the offence. In England, there were 8925 attendances where FGM was identified or a procedure for FGM was carried out in 2017. (Brock)

8926: In the referendum for the Twenty-third Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland on 07-Jun-2001, 8926 voters in the Dublin Central constituency voted No, unsuccessfully trying to prevent Ireland from becoming party to the International Criminal Court. (AlmondFacialBar)

8927: The Invicta Pro Diver 8927 Unisex Stainless Automatic Watch is available on Amazon for £104.40. (Brock)

8928: According to the Reuse Network 8,928 people are supported by the charity reuse sector. (Big Martin)

8929: 8929 is a prime which is the concatenation of two two-digit primes (89 and 29). (Brock)

8930: John Potter Photography's image 8930 is of Selwick Bay in Yorkshire. (Big Martin)

8931: The revenue of the construction group Balfour Beatty in 2022 was £8931 million. (Brock)

8932: The Wellcome Collection's MS.8932 is a medieval embroidered folded almanac. (Big Martin)

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)

8934: Between January and March 2022, 1,549 out of 8,934 flights arriving at or departing from Bristol Airport experienced delays. (Big Martin)

8935: 8935 spectators attended Vicarage Road for Watford's third-round FA Cup match against Bradford on 7 January 2012. (Brock)

8936: Numbering some 8,936 people, the largest French Australian community is in New South Wales. (Big Martin)

8937: 8937 = 33³ - (33-3)³. (Brock)

8938: Question 8938 in the Minutes of Evidence from the Select Committee on the Crossrail Bill makes reference to the bells of St Dunstan's church being the "Bells of Stepney" from the famous nursery rhyme. (Big Martin)

8939: In 2019, 8939 breeding and store sheep were imported from Great Britain to Northern Ireland. (Brock)

8940: Mount Flanuten in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica has an elevation of 8,940 feet. (Big Martin)

8941: In 2019 the RNLI launched its lifeboats 8941 times around the coast of the UK and Ireland, aiding 9379 people. (Brock)

8942: British Airways flight BA8942 is a regular flight from Dublin to Bristol. (Big Martin)

8943: In Oxford West and Abingdon at the 2019 general election, the sitting Liberal Democrat MP Layla Moran increased her majority over the Conservatives to 8943. (Brock)

8944: This is Andertoons turkey cartoon 8944. (Big Martin)

8945: There were 8945 cases of fare evasion on Singapore's bus and train services in 2015. (Brock)

8946: In 2020, cyclist Fiona Cockburn set a new Scottish Everesting record of 8,946 metres in 12 hours and 48 minutes by cycling up a hill near Garelochhead 63 times non-stop. (Big Martin)

8947: LibriVox author 8947 is the former British Labour Prime Minister Clement Attlee. (Brock)

8948: McDonnell Douglas DC9 aircraft N8948E was written off after a bad landing at Pensacola on December 27 1987. (Big Martin)

8949: The Samuel Goldwyn Theater is located at 8949 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, California. (Brock)

8950: 8950 is the product code for a Dell desktop computer. (Awitt)

8951: In modern Western music, a perfect fifth is generally taken to be equivalent to 7/12 of an octave; but a much better approximation to its "true" value is 5236/8951 of an octave. More in the original post. (Brock)

8952: Edison Gold Moulded Record 8952 from 1905 is of the Edison Military Band performing the "There's A Dark Man Coming With A Bundle" medley. (Big Martin)

8953: Arapaho Pass, elevation 8953 feet, is a mountain pass that crosses the Continental Divide in the Rabbit Ears Range of the Rocky Mountains of northern Colorado in the United States. (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)

8956: 8956 Hotdogs is in St Petersburg, Russia. (Big Martin)

8957: 8957 fraud and computer misuse offences were referred to Surrey Police in 2021. (Brock)

8958: Breguet product 8958 is the Reine de Naples wristwatch priced at £63,500. (Big Martin)

8959: Minor planet 8959 Oenanthe takes its name from Oenanthe oenanthe, the biological name for the wheatear. (Brock)

8960: 8960 is a 2021 album by Hash. (Big Martin)

8961: The concatenation of 7 and 8961 is a perfect square (78961 = 281²). (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)

8963: The German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania) covers an area of 8963 square miles. (Brock)

8964: Apparently, 8964 is code referring to the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre. (Big Martin)

8965: In 1997, there were 8965 novels published in Britain. (Brock)

8966: The 1971 Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation is Document 8966. (Big Martin)

8967: 8967 complaints of illegal fireworks were reported to the New York authorities from June 1 to June 22 2020. The equivalent number in 2019 was 28. (Brock)

8968: 8968 hours comes to 373 days and 16 hours. (Awitt)

8969: Air France Flight 8969 was an Air France flight that was hijacked on 24 December 1994 by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria (GIA) at Houari Boumediene Airport, Algiers. (Brock)

8970: The US military's survival, abandon ship ration has an order number of 8970-01-434-3192. (Big Martin)

8971: There is a gap of 28 between the prime number 8971 and the next prime number (whose value is left as an exercise to the reader). (Brock)

8972: Portable Antiquities Scheme item SUSS-5E8972 is a letter opener in the form of a sword discovered by a metal detectorist in Kent. (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)

8974: The 8974 is a power tetrode designed for megawatt power levels in industrial and broadcast applications. (Big Martin)

8975: The Reber Vertical Professional Sausage Stuffer 8975 V. has a capacity of 15 litres and is made of stainless steel. (Brock)

8976: Wideopen in Northumberland has a population of 8,976 people. (Big Martin)

8977: 8977 foreigners (mostly Haitians) were repatriated from the Dominican Republic during the first weeks of January 2023 (report dated Jan. 18). (Brock)

8978: 8978 Barbatus is an asteroid of 13.84 absolute magnitude. (Big Martin)

8979: The digits 8979 occur at the 11th place of the decimal expansion of pi: 3.14159265358979323846... (Brock)

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

8981: The total length of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge from abutment to abutment is 8981 feet (only 8980 feet if you read the infobox!). (Brock)

8982: Hawsker was a railway station on the Scarborough to Whitby line. It was never well used and only sold 8,982 tickets in 1922. The line was, inevitably, axed during the Beeching cuts in the 1960s. (Big Martin)

8983: The area of Yellowstone National Park is 8983 square kilometres. (Brock)

8984: DEFRA monitoring site 8984 is at on the Sydling Water in Dorset. (Big Martin)

8985: There were 8985 finishers in the 2009 Greifenseelauf half marathon in the Swiss canton of Zurich. (Brock)

8986: Pyriform Mountain is an 8,986 feet high mountain summit in the Highwood Range of the Canadian Rockies. (Big Martin)

8987: A previous post asserted that 5398 is a member of the "sort then add" sequence beginning with 5 (put the digits in ascending numerical order, then add to the original number). The next member of the sequence is therefore 3589 + 5398 = 8987. (Brock)

8988: Fowler road locomotive "Nightmare" has the registration SV 8988. (Big Martin)

8989: 8989 is in the title for the movie 8989 Redstone. (Awitt)

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

8991: ICAO Doc 8991 is the Manual on Air Traffic Forecasting and is available for $102 from their online store if anyone's so inclined. (Big Martin)

8992: 8992 kHz is one of the voice frequencies used by the High Frequency Global Communications System, a network of shortwave transmitters used by the US Air Force to communicate with aircraft in flight. (Brock)

8993: The 73 night Grand Africa Voyage on the Zuiderdam departing from Fort Lauderdale on October 10th this year costs £8,993. (Big Martin)

8994: There were 8994 staff based at the Bletchley Park codebreaking centre during World War II. (Brock)

8995: In 2008 the North Bristol Trampoline Club was awarded a grant of £8,995 from the National Lottery Community Fund. (Big Martin)

8996: In 1996 there were 8996 exposures to mushrooms reported to poison centres across the US. (Brock)

8997: London Remembers memorial 8997 is for Longman's Ship Binding Works which ceased production after being hit by a bomb in WW2. (Big Martin)

8998: 8998 is the largest four-digit palindrome k such that k + 11 is also a palindrome (in this case 9009, obviously). (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)

9000: The A9000 is one of the few classified roads in Britain that don't carry regular motor traffic. It's the number that was allocated to the (1964) Forth Road Bridge, after the new Queensferry Crossing was opened in 2017. The new bridge forms part of the M90, and since its opening the old bridge has been limited to public transport vehicles and non-motorway users for its entire length. The old bridge retains the facility to accept motorway traffic in the case of a closure of the new bridge. (Brock)

The Quite Incredible Number List: 9001-9100

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The Quite Incredible Number List: 9101-9200

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The Quite Incredible Number List - introduction

In this blog I intend to post a list of facts associated with each of the natural numbers from 1 to 10,000. The aim is to transfer the material to a dedicated website which will provide a permanent showcase for them. The facts were first posted online by contributors to the QI Forums' New Number Fact Game thread, which started in 2009. As of 6 August 2023, the thread stands at 9469 and I expect it to hit 10,000 some time in early 2024, though it continues indefinitely.

The purpose of this blog is to allow the authors and other interested people to comment on the information, correct any errors, provide sources if they haven't been given, and raise any objections to my editing. It is not intended as the final home for the project.

For the avoidance of doubt, this site and all of its contents are completely unconnected with Quite Interesting Limited, who are the owners of the QI Forums. This site is not sponsored, associated, approved, endorsed nor in any way affiliated with Quite Interesting Limited.

A few administrative matters:

Copyright: In all cases copyright lies with the original author of the post, who is identified by his or her screen name. I have attempted to contact all the authors to get their permission but this has not always been possible. I am grateful to those authors who have already given their permission. If any author actively chooses to withhold their material then it will be withdrawn and an editorial replacement will be provided. Otherwise material is included on a provisional basis, until such time as I am able to contact the author.

Order of presentation: The entries from 1-9000 are being posted in blocks of 100, running in reverse order (i.e. 8901-9000, 8801-8900, ..., 1-100). This allows the entries to appear in numerical sequence, since the latest post appears first. The entries from 9001 onwards are being posted in a separate blog here, since it wasn't possible to accommodate them in the original blog format without breaking the sequence.

Selections: As I go along, I've been making a selection of the 1000 most interesting or unusual facts (and there may possibly be a top 100 as well). Obviously there's an element of subjectivity to this and I'm particularly interested in other people's comments. I've taken roughly 100 facts from each 1000 and posted them on a third blog here, although the full "pick of the 9000s" will obviously have to wait until the end.

Format: In order to standardize the variety of formats used by the different authors, each entry is introduced by the "key" number in bold, including a link to the source if one was provided. The QI Forums screen name of the author is given in brackets at the end of the entry. I have tried as far as possible to preserve the author's original wording but a small amount of editing has been necessary here and there. Some entries have been edited for length.

Duplicate entries: This list includes one fact per number. In some cases the original thread has more than one fact for a number, either because of accidental cross-posting or because the author decided to provide additional facts. In those cases I have used my discretion to choose the one I consider most interesting.

Absent or unsuitable entries: A small number of entries are absent because they were withdrawn by the original poster. Also, a small number of entries have been omitted as unsuitable. This may be for a number of reasons, including the following:

• the information is relative to the date of posting (e.g. "Stanley Matthews died 8292 days ago today") or to the poster's location (e.g. "I'm sitting 8625 km away from Steinhausen, Namibia");
• the information is out of date or unverifiable;
• the post was clearly intended as a joke or a facetious comment.

In each case an editorial replacement has been provided, indicated by "Ed." in the authorship information.

Thousands separators: There are a number of different conventions used by the various authors for indicating the thousands in four-digit numbers (other than serial numbers or year numbers, which never use a thousands separator). There is no ideal solution to this, but I have adopted the following approach:

• for consistency, no thousands separator in the "key" number;
• where the number appears in the text, include a comma if the author included one, but not otherwise;
• never use spaces in numbers as they can lead to confusion.

I have a feeling that this last point may be the most contentious one!

Finally, I would like to express my thanks to all the contributors to the New Number Fact Game, and to Quite Interesting Ltd for making it possible. I have been a contributor myself for ten years now, and find it to be a most rewarding and absorbing pastime. I hope that readers will find it as interesting as I have.