4901: The Corral Fire, a wildfire that lasted from November 24 until November 27 2007 in the Malibu Creek State Park, burned 4901 acres of land. (GuyBarry)
4902: LNER locomotive 4902 was an A4 pacific named Seagull and was built at Doncaster in 1938. (Big Martin)
4903: The first occurrence of the string "2222" in the decimal expansion of pi is at the 4903rd digit, if you count the initial "3" as the first. (See also here.) (GuyBarry)
4904: SOS phone 4904A is on the clockwise side of tye M25 near J14 for Heathrow Terminal 5 and Cargo Village (tetsabb)
4905: The Ecotive Metrocab, 4905 mm long, is the first authorized electric-powered London black cab. (GuyBarry)
4906: The EagleMonk Pub and Brewery is at 4906 W Mt Hope Hwy, Lansing MI. (Big Martin)
4907: A media consumption survey of 4907 people across Haiti, conducted by the local market research firm DAGMAR in November 2010, found that 96% in Port-au-Prince listened to the radio every day. (GuyBarry)
4908: Amsterdam has a population density of 4,908 people per square kilometre. (Big Martin)
4909: The UKIP candidate Mal Lingley came third with 4909 votes in the Warrington South constituency in the 2015 general election. (GuyBarry)
4910: The Patapampa Pass in Peru is 4,910 metres above sea level. (Big Martin)
4911: On Sunday night, a 22-year-old man was hospitalized after he accidentally shot himself in a Chuck E. Cheese's restaurant at 4911 Tacoma Mall Boulevard, Tacoma, Washington. (GuyBarry)
4912: Waymark Code WM4912 is Ship of Fools - a bronze sculpture in Nuremberg based on Sebastian Brant's 1494 book Das Narrenschiff. (Big Martin)
4913: 4913 is 17 cubed. (GuyBarry)
4914: 4914 is a biography by Jorge E Taracido. (Big Martin)
4915: El Gordo (Spanish for "The Fat One"), officially ACT-CL J0102-4915, is the largest distant galaxy cluster observed at its distance or beyond, as of 2014. It is located more than 7 billion light-years from Earth. (GuyBarry)
4916: Girod Medical offer a horse skeleton for £4,916. (Big Martin)
4917: 0800 917 4917 is the phone number for Ellisons Travel, based in St Helens, which provides coach hire throughout the UK. (GuyBarry)
4918: 4918 is an album by Loyd Watson Jr. (Big Martin)
4919: The closest pair of primes that add up to 10,000 are 4919 and 5081. (GuyBarry)
4920: The Dutch naval vessel Jacob van Heemskerk was launched in 1906 and displaced 4,920 tons. (Big Martin)
4921: An ultra-prominent peak is defined as one with a height of at least 4921 feet (1500 metres). The term was introduced by earth scientist Stephen Fry (no, not that one!) in the 1980s, and was originally used for mountains exceeding 5000 feet in prominence. (GuyBarry)
4922: Woodland Trust site 4922 is Dutchies Orchard in Somerset. (Big Martin)
4923: Minor planet 4923 is named after Arthur C. Clarke. (It's a shame he didn't get number 2001, but that went to some bloke called Albert Einstein!) (GuyBarry)
4924: Here is some YouTube footage of New York bus 4924 picking up passengers at a bus stop. Thrilling! (Big Martin)
4925: As of July 31 this year, Elon Musk had tweeted 4925 times. (GuyBarry)
4926: British Library Or 4926 is a 4th century codex of Gnostic Christian texts in Coptic. (Big Martin)
4927: Starting with 0, 1, 1, 0, you can form the following 4-step Fibonacci sequence where each term is the sum of the four preceding ones: 0, 1, 1, 0, 2, 4, 7, 13, 26, 50, 96, 185, 357, 688, 1326, 2556, 4927... (GuyBarry)
4928: The German 8.8 cm KwK 36 L/56 was the gun used on the Tiger I tank in WW2. Being 88mm in calibre and a barrel length 56 times this (hence L/56) the barrel was 4,928 mm in length. (Big Martin)
4929: CRIME, or Compression Ratio Info-leak Made Easy, is a security exploit against secret web cookies. In the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures list, it was assigned the number CVE-2012-4929. (GuyBarry)
4930: GWR locomotive 4930 is Hagley Hall which is currently undergoing restoration at the Severn Valley Railway in Kidderminster. (Big Martin)
4931: Carrier pigeons delivered 4931 mail messages in the Indian state of Odisha during 1992. (GuyBarry)
4932: Taxon Identifier 4932 is Saccharomyces cerevisiae or Baker's yeast. (Big Martin)
4933: Joseph Swan devised a method of treating cotton to produce "parchmentised thread", and obtained British Patent 4933 on 27 November 1880. (GuyBarry)
4934: Goodreads book 4934 is The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. (Big Martin)
4935: The Loft at 4935 describes itself as a "vibrant and exciting event space located in the heart of Bethesda" (Maryland). Available for bar/bat mitzvahs, engagement parties, bridal party luncheons, etc., etc. (GuyBarry)
4936: Car registration JV 4936 is an Austin 18 York Saloon first registered in Grimsby in 1936. It is currently being rewired. (Big Martin)
4937: Rental fees for football matches at the Sam Nujoma Stadium in Katutura, Windhoek, Namibia, have recently been increased from 3630 to 4937 Namibian dollars per day. (GuyBarry)
4938: The town of Ault in Colorado is at an elevation of 4,938 feet. (Big Martin)
4939: The shortest distance by air between Vancouver and Paris is 4939 miles. (GuyBarry)
4940: The prime meridian and the equator cross in the Gulf of Guinea off West Africa in a place jokingly known as Null Island. In actual fact there is no island there and the depth of the sea is 4940 metres. (AlmondFacialBar)
4941: 4941 = 133 + 143, making it a centred cube number. (GuyBarry)
4942: The Saint Project is the plan to back convert a GWR Hall class steam locomotive to the specification of the earlier Saint class (the first Hall was a conversion of a Saint). The loco being used for this is 4942 Maindy Hall. (Big Martin)
4943: The Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act or CLOUD Act (H.R. 4943) is a United States federal law enacted in 2018 on access to data by foreign governments. (GuyBarry)
4943: On average an Austrian PAYE worker has to earn a monthly gross salary of €8712.89 to make €4943 net. (AlmondFacialBar)
4944: The speed of sound in water is 4,944 feet per second according to this question on Brainly. Actually, the figure varies around this level depending on salinity etc. (Big Martin)
4945: As well as being a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Centaurus, NGC 4945 is the title of a song by Brett Domino on the album "Funk". (GuyBarry)
4946: Super-Dreadnought Girl 4946 is a Japanese manga series. The title comes from the girl being 49.46 metres tall. (Big Martin)
4947: The Polish river Gwda has a basin area of 4947 square kilometres. (GuyBarry)
4948: The original release of The Shadows' Dance On! on Columbia had the catalogue number DB4948. (AlmondFacialBar)
4949: Mount Sanford in the Wrangell Mountains of Alaska is 4,949 metres in height. (Big Martin)
4950: The village that today forms the focus of the archaeological site of Jarmo in northern Iraq was abandoned approximately in 4950 BCE. (AlmondFacialBar)
4951: Open Plaques entry 4951 is for 2 blue plaques commemorating master potter Josiah Wedgwood. (Big Martin)
4952: Were a person of average fitness weighing 90 kilos to walk from Buncrana to Creeslough in Donegal they'd use up about 4952 calories. (AlmondFacialBar)
4953: A vaccination programme in the Australian state of Victoria led to a large drop in cases of flu, from 35,346 in 2017 to 4953 in 2018. (GuyBarry)
4954: Asteroid 4954 is named Eric - after the discoverer's son apparently. (Big Martin)
4955: In Austria in 2015, there were 4955 people per million of the population engaged in R & D (research and development). (GuyBarry)
4956: Tablet 4956 is a record of astronomical observations dating to the 37th year of the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar. (Big Martin)
4957: Earlier this month, the Jaipur Municipal Corporation conducted its first-ever large-scale recruitment of sanitation workers, providing 4957 jobs. (GuyBarry)
4958: The phone number for the Nevis Bungy - billed as NZ's highest - is 0800 286 4958. (Big Martin)
4959: 4959 is the decuple factorial of 29, written 29!!!!!!!!!! and defined as follows: 29 x (29-10) x ((29-10)-10). (GuyBarry)
4960: SG 4960 is a motorised roller blind system. The SG stands for Silent Gliss. (Strawberry)
4961: According to a 2017 Stanford University study of 68 million days' worth of minute-by-minute data from smartphones across the world, the average number of footsteps taken per day is 4961. (GuyBarry)
4962: Lego Duplo set 4962 is a zoo display of baby animals and their keeper. (AlmondFacialBar)
4963: Founded in 1971, the 49/63 Neighborhood Coalition is the oldest continuously active neighbourhood association in the Kansas City metro. (GuyBarry)
4964: Across England there were 4964 people in hospital with Covid as of November 30 2022. (Ed.)
4965: In June 2018, Laura Miller Werley and Greg P. Metzger tied in a primary vote for the Gallatin Co. Clerk and Recorder's Office in Montana, USA, gaining 4965 votes each. After a recount, Metzger won by just six votes - but he still has to challenge Democrat Eric Semerad for the Clerk and Recorder position in November. (GuyBarry)
4966: At www.skyscrapernews.com, the Reference No. for The Tower, Tudor Road, Cwmbran, is 4966. (Strawberry)
4967: On Calisphere is a photograph, believed to be taken in 1861, of the 4,967 feet high Half Dome in Yosemite. (Big Martin)
4968: The temperature of the star Kappa Telescopii, in the southern constellation of Telescopium, is 4968 kelvin. (GuyBarry)
4969: According to a 2015 Daily Post article, Stephen Crabb, the Preseli Pembrokeshire MP, took his seat from Labour in 2005 by 607 votes but was re-elected with a majority of 4,969. (Strawberry)
4970: Heljan produce an OO gauge model of an LMS 2-6-0 0-6-2 Beyer Garratt locomotive marked up with the number 4970. (Big Martin)
4971: The chief minister of Karnataka, HD Kumaraswamy, on Tuesday allotted 4971 sites to applicants in Nadaprabhu Kempegowda Layout developed by the Bangalore Development Authority. ("Bengaluru" in the headline is the official name for Bangalore.) (GuyBarry)
4972: Mamina Pizzeria is at 4972, Boulevard Léger, Montreal-Nord, QC H1G 1JD, Canada. (Strawberry)
4973: In 2009 there were 4973 miles of freight railroad in Pennsylvania, USA. (GuyBarry)
4974: Open Domesday place SE4974 is Thormanby in Yorkshire, which was assessed as having fallen in value from £32 in 1066 to just £1 in 1086, probably as a result of William the Conqueror's "harrying of the north". (Big Martin)
4975: The Avrocar 59-4975 was the second testing craft of the Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar project, an attempt to create a VTOL based on the ground effect principle (so essentially a Harrier that starts like a Hovercraft) that ultimately failed. (AlmondFacialBar)
4976: NGC 4976 is a peculiar elliptical galaxy in the constellation Centaurus. (Ed.)
4977: PubChem ID 4977 is Proxyphylline, a bronchodilator prescribed to patients with asthma, bronchospastic disorders, or emphysema. Its molecular formula is C10H14N4O3. (AlmondFacialBar)
4978: In 2017-18 Italy faced one of the most severe outbreaks of measles, with 4978 cases reported from February 2017 to January 2018. (GuyBarry)
4979: GWR locomotive 4979 Wootton Hall is another preserved Hall class engine. (Big Martin)
4980: Course BIOMG 4980 at Cornell University is designed to give teaching experience to undergraduate biology students. (AlmondFacialBar)
4981: Entry number 4981 on Goodreads is Kurt Vonnegut's classic novel Slaughterhouse-Five. (GuyBarry)
4982: At www.prismaticpowders.com, the Crown Blue Powder Coat, is numbered PPB-4982. (Strawberry)
4983: 4983 is a divisor of 230 - 1. (It divides 215,481 times.) (GuyBarry)
4984: The postcode for Weilbach, a municipality in Austria, is 4984. (Strawberry)
4985: Radio Brasil Central broadcasts via a transmitter in the city of Goiânia on 4985 kHz/60 metres AM. (AlmondFacialBar)
4986: ISO 4986:2010 is a standard for magnetic particle inspection of steel castings. (Big Martin)
4987: Canchacanchajasa is a 4987-metre-high mountain in the Urubamba range in the Andes of Peru. (GuyBarry)
4988: Parks and Gardens UK Id 4988 is for Avebury Manor in Wiltshire. (Big Martin)
4989: A study of three Macmillan Social Work services found that they led to productivity gains of between £4989 and £32,165 per year. (GuyBarry)
4990: Dublin Bus stop 4990 is on the junction between Damastown Road and Damastown Drive in... wait for it... Damastown, which is by and large a typical M50 industrial estate in Northwest Dublin. It's served by the 38 to Burlington Road in Donnybrook and the 38a to the Gate Theatre on Parnell Square. (AlmondFacialBar)
4991: With an annual net output of 4991 gigawatt-hours, the Huntly Power Station is the largest thermal power station in New Zealand. (GuyBarry)
4992: In episode 4992 of Home and Away Nicole broke up with Liam. (AlmondFacialBar)
4993: Icahn Enterprises, based in New York City, have just sold Tropicana Entertainment to Gaming and Leisure Properties and Eldorado Resorts for approximately $1.85 billion. The combined properties include 350,000 casino square feet, 7416 slot machines, 237 table games and 4993 hotel rooms. (GuyBarry)
4994: In 1984, the year of its market introduction, the Case 4994 was the most powerful tractor that manufacturer had ever built, with a 400 hp, Saab Scania 14.2 litre V8 Diesel engine, and the first one with a digital instrument panel. (AlmondFacialBar)
4995: For a starting price of £4995, St Donats Arts Centre, at Atlantic College in the Vale of Glamorgan, offers a complete wedding package comprising a three course wedding breakfast, drinks package, evening catering and chair cover with your choice of bows for 50 guests on selected dates throughout the year. (GuyBarry)
4996: The Item ID for the Kimura Tsukemono Japanese Restaurant Style Pickled Radish, 180 g, is #4996. (Strawberry)
4997: In the period April 2015 to March 2016, 4997 people were referred to the Government's "Prevent" programme for Islamist extremism - 65% of the total. (GuyBarry)
4998: Were you to fly from Copenhagen to the Inuit community of Salluit in Quebec, you could honestly say that you travelled approximately 0.0000000004998 lightyears. (AlmondFacialBar)
4999: The maximum number of Confederate prisoners of war held at Camp Morton near Indianapolis during the American Civil War was 4,999. (Big Martin)
5000: The 5000 Series is a series of Chicago "L" car built by Bombardier Transportation of Plattsburgh, New York. (Strawberry)
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