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):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)
1 + 5 + 25 + 353 + 1765 + 8825 = 10974 1 + 7 + 13 + 91 + 97 + 679 + 1261 + 8827 = 10976
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 ri = 8851vi−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:(Brock)
8881 x 8882 = 78881042
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)
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