5401: Ex-BR diesel locomotive D5401 is now operated by the Great Central Railway. (Big Martin)
5402: The maximum holding capacity of Haradski Stadium in Barysaw, Belarus is 5402. (GuyBarry)
5403: PubChem CID 5403 is Terbutaline Sulfate (C12H19NO3), which appears to be good for you in various ways. (Big Martin)
5404: The electorate in the Belize Rural North constituency in the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belize at the 2012 general election was 5404. (GuyBarry)
5405: The Epping Golf Course is 5,405 yards long, with a par of 68 shots. (Big Martin)
5406: 1x2 + 3 + 4x5 + 6 + 7x8 + 9 + 10x11 + 12 + ... + 33 + 34x35 + 36 = 5406 (cf. #5370). (GuyBarry)
5407: Imperial 78 rpm record 5407 is Fats Domino's Blueberry Hill, released in September 1956. (Big Martin)
5408: As of 2012, there were 5408 Asturians (natives of the Spanish autonomous community of Asturia) living in Venezuela. (GuyBarry)
5409: Unesco tentative list site 5409 is the archaeological site of Sagalassos in Turkey. (Big Martin)
5410: The Canby Herald, a weekly newspaper published in Canby, Oregon, had a circulation of 5410 in 2014. (GuyBarry)
5411: 5411 Empanadas operates in Chicago and Houston. (Big Martin)
5412: NSC 5412, the "National Security Council Directive on Covert Operations", was secretly approved in the US on March 15 1954. It sanctioned a large programme of anti-Communist activities in Indochina and throughout the world. (GuyBarry)
5413: The Damen Responder 5413 is a range of first line assistance vessels, (Big Martin)
5414: The B5414 was once a medium-length B-road in the East Midlands. However, the middle section has now been declassified, leaving the road in two separate sections, in Rugby and south Leicestershire, some 10 miles apart. (GuyBarry)
5415: The Eppendorf 5415 range are laboratory worktop centrifuges. (Big Martin)
5416: At an elevation of 5416 metres above sea level, Thorong La Pass is the highest point on the Annapurna Circuit, a 300 km route around the Annapurna mountain range in central Nepal. (GuyBarry)
5417: A CBS News online article reported 5,417 deaths from oxycodone collated by the CDC in 2014. (Big Martin)
5418: There are only seven numbers n such that n and 7n, taken together, contain all the digits from 1-9 once and once only. They include 5418, because 7 x 5418 = 37926. (GuyBarry)
5419: The Tokyo Metropolitan area covers 5,419 square miles according to Wikipedia. (Big Martin)
5420: The PalaLido indoor arena in Milan has a seating capacity of 5420. (GuyBarry)
5421: The Digha Alipurduar Puja Special (5421) is a train running for 934 km in eastern India. (Big Martin)
5422: The Lincolnshire Poacher was a powerful English-language shortwave numbers station that transmitted from the mid-1970s to June 2008, on frequencies between 5422 and 16084 kHz. It was believed to be operated by the British Secret Intelligence Service and to emanate from the RAF base at Akrotiri on the island of Cyprus. It took its nickname from the English folk song that was used as its interval signal. (GuyBarry)
5423: LibriVox book 5423 is On War by Carl von Clausewitz. (Big Martin)
5424: The syslog standard for computer message logging was standardized by RFC 5424. (GuyBarry)
5425: There are offices available in the rather attractive looking Church House in Godalming ranging between 250 and 5,425 square feet. (Big Martin)
5426: ISO 5426 is a character set containing symbols such as ©, ♯ and ¿ . (GuyBarry)
5427: Parlophone record R 5427 is Alfie by Cilla Black, released in 1966. (Big Martin)
5428: 5428 Apparel is a brand of clothing aimed at the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community. The name comes from the digits corresponding to "LGBT" on a phone keypad. (GuyBarry)
5429: The cruise ship MSC Seaview can accommodate 5,429 passengers. (Big Martin)
5430: The temperature at the surface of the Earth's inner core is approximately 5430°C. (GuyBarry)
5431: Bailey Products item 5431 is a set of drain cleaning rods. (Big Martin)
5432: "5432" is sung to the first four notes of this song by Manfred Mann. (Hope that's not considered cheating!) (GuyBarry)
5433: Here is some YouTube footage someone has created of his electric train set running. The loco bears the number 5433. (Big Martin)
5434: There are 5434 non-square rectangles on a 12x12 chessboard. (GuyBarry)
5435: According to some sources, Brunel's ship the SS Great Eastern was designed to carry 5,435 square metres of sails in addition to the paddles and screw driving her. (Big Martin)
5436: In November 2018, a team of 20 chefs came together in Mauritius to cook the largest ever serving of scrambled eggs - 5436 pounds 9.58 ounces. (GuyBarry)
5437: Train Timetables entry 246-5437 is for Montpelier station on the Temple Meads to Severn Beach line in Bristol. (Big Martin)
5438: The height of Kaksang La pass, between Mahe and Chushul in India, is 5438 metres. It's not the highest pass in India - Marsimik La is higher - but it appears to be the highest pass you can cycle up to without a permit from the Ministry of Home Affairs. (GuyBarry)
5439: HE 0437-5439 is a massive, unbound hypervelocity star. (Big Martin)
5440: 54-40 are a Canadian alternative rock group from Tsawwassen, British Columbia. Their name comes from the slogan "54-40 or Fight!" which originated in the 19th-century Oregon boundary dispute. (GuyBarry)
5441: Statistics compiled by the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority revealed that 5,441 buses were involved in road accidents in the Philippine National Capital Region between January and August 2018. (Big Martin)
5442: You can buy this 1000-piece Piatnik 5442 Vintage Christmas Village Puzzle on Amazon. (GuyBarry)
5443: Mount Little Xuebaoding has an elevation of 5,443 metres and is the second highest peak in the Min Mountains in the Chinese province of Sichuan. (Big Martin)
5444: There are two completely unconnected roads in Wales called the B5444, about 150 miles apart: one in Mold (Flintshire) and one in Swansea. The latter would appear to be an administrative error since all other road numbers in south Wales begin with the digit 4. (GuyBarry)
5445: Tesco mail order item 591-5445 is, unfortunately, no longer available. Doesn't everybody need a teabag squeezer? (Big Martin)
5446: There are 5446 essentially different ways that the numbers 1 to 10 can be placed round a circle so that the sums of adjacent numbers are distinct. (GuyBarry)
5447: US House of Representatives bill HR 5447 is a "Music Modernization Act", which appears to deal with updating copyright law for the digital age. (Big Martin)
5448: In a referendum held in October on changing Guernsey's voting system, island-wide voting was the winning option, gaining 6017 votes in the final round of counting over 5448 for a hybrid system keeping district representation. (GuyBarry)
5449: Warner Bros. Canada record 5449 is Allan Sherman's Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh. (Big Martin)
5450: In October 2016, an American businessman, Jonathan Beall, incurred $5450 in Dubai speeding fines in a single day. Twenty-two of the 24 violations were registered in the space of 46 minutes. (GuyBarry)
5451: BMJ article 2017;359:j5451 is a spoof Christmas one on Does pride really become before a fall? Longitudinal analysis of older English adults. (Big Martin)
5452: American Eagle Flight 5452 was a commuter flight on May 8 1987 between Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico and Eugenio María de Hostos Airport in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. 600 feet short of the runway, the plane crashed, destroying the aircraft and killing both pilots, but leaving the four passengers with only minor injuries. (GuyBarry)
5453: The Clevedon Learning Trust (UID 5453) is responsible for a number of schools in the Somerset and North Somerset areas. (Big Martin)
5454: 6/11 = 0.545454545454... (GuyBarry)
5455: RainWater Harvesting can supply you with a 5,455 litre tank for £1,215.51. (Big Martin)
5456: In an eerie echo of #5452, American Eagle Flight 5456 was a scheduled commuter flight on June 7 1992 between Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico and Eugenio María de Hostos Airport in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. The plane crashed during heavy rain into a swamp, short of the runway. The crash destroyed the aircraft, killing all five people on board. (GuyBarry)
5457: According to Ports.com, it's 5,457 nautical miles from Trieste to Bonny Offshore Terminal in Nigeria. (Big Martin)
5458: The boiling point of tantalum is 5458 °C. (GuyBarry)
5459: Kitsons of Leeds works number 5459 is locomotive Austin 1 built for the Austin Motor Company at Longbridge. It is now at the Llangollen Railway. (Big Martin)
5460: The A5460 runs for about three miles from the M1/M69 junction to Leicester city centre, mostly along the route of the Roman Fosse Way. Its former number was the A46, which is cunningly concealed within the current one. (GuyBarry)
5461: Ex-New South Wales Government Railway 2-8-0 steam locomotive 5461 was built in 1916 and is now on display at the Valley Heights Locomotive Depot Museum. (Big Martin)
5462: In November 2018, the cabinet of Bihar in eastern India gave the go-ahead for Patna Medical College and Hospital to be redeveloped into the world's largest hospital, with 5462 beds. (GuyBarry)
5463: Ex-GWR 0-6-2 tank locomotive 5463 was built in Swindon in 1925 and has recently been operating on the Furness Railway. (Big Martin)
5464: The estimated length of China's Yellow River - the second longest in Asia, and the sixth longest in the world - is 5464 km. (GuyBarry)
5465: The Athenaeum people list No. 5465 is William van de Velde the Younger, a Dutch "Golden Age" painter. (Big Martin)
5466: Entry number 5466 on thefamouspeople.com is the broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough. (GuyBarry)
5467: MoveGB venue 5467 is Gert Lush Fuse - Space 238 a "studio dedicated to discovering and exploring the essence of movement, inspired by disciplines whose root are from around the world". (Big Martin)
5468: If you start with 1, and then repeatedly multiply by 5 and add 3, you get a sequence that starts as follows: 1, 8, 43, 218, 1093, 5468, ... . (GuyBarry)
5469: Hill Bagging hill 5469 is Racecourse Road in Northamptonshire. (Big Martin)
5470: The B5470 is a scenic B-road running through the Peak District across the Cheshire/Derbyshire border. The hilly and winding section between Whaley Bridge and Macclesfield is often called "The Highwayman" after a prominent roadside pub, now closed. (GuyBarry)
5471: The 5,471 gross tonnage Koyo Maru was sunk in February 1944 whilst acting as an auxiliary transport for the Japanese army. (Big Martin)
5472: 272 - 262 - 252 - 242 - ... - 22 - 12 = -5472. (GuyBarry)
5473: The phone number of Floss Dental in Houston, Texas is 832 500-5473. (Big Martin)
5474: Minor planet 5474 was named Gingasen after a railway track in Hokkaido, Japan. The name "Gingasen" means "Milky Way", so this is apparently an asteroid indirectly named after a galaxy! (GuyBarry)
5475: 5475 is the product code number for this particular wood grain. (Awitt)
5476: 5476 is exactly 74 squared. (GuyBarry)
5477: Borastapeter Ingrid 5477 is a wallpaper pattern. (Big Martin)
5478: SOS Phone 5478A is on the M25 clockwise in the Holmesdale Tunnel, North of London. Not a nice place to break down. (tetsabb)
5479: A direct flight from Abu Dhabi to London would be 5,479 kilometres. (Big Martin)
5480: It was reported in December 2018 that in the space of just one year, some 5480 people moved from London to Birmingham. (GuyBarry)
5481: Air Midwest Flight 5481 crashed at Charlotte Douglas International Airport on January 8 2003 after stalling during take-off. (Big Martin)
5482: 5482 is the postcode of Booleroo Centre, a town in the Mount Remarkable District Council area of South Australia. (Aren't some of those Australian placenames great?) (GuyBarry)
5483: Gokyo Ri, with an elevation of 5,483 metres, provides excellent views of Mount Everest apparently. (Big Martin)
5484: There are 5484 9's among the digits of all 5-digit primes. (GuyBarry)
5485: Polish built Slask 0-8-0 locomotive 5485 is now at the Nene Valley Railway. (Big Martin)
5486: In 2016 Regent House, Cambridge University's highest governing body, voted to retain publicly-displayed Class Lists giving students' degree classifications, traditionally posted outside Senate House after exams every year. The vote was 514 in favour of abolition and 727 against, meaning that 1241 votes were cast out of a total electorate of 5486. (GuyBarry)
5487: The total population of Chinchilla in Queensland, Australia is 5,487. (Big Martin)
5488: NWA 5488 is a meteorite weighing 110g that fell in October 2008 in North West Africa. The (American) site listing it seems to think that North West Africa is a country. If their scientific institutions are that clueless about political geography, no wonder the general population struggles. (Alfred E Neuman)
5489: Hassocks5489 is a Wikipedia user who specializes in articles about Sussex and general railway-related material. His user-ID comes from the National Location Code for Hassocks station in West Sussex. Some of his photos can be seen here. (GuyBarry)
5490: RAF aircraft registration N-5490 is a 1938 DH82a Tiger Moth currently being restored. (Big Martin)
5491: 5491 is the average of the smallest and largest four-digit primes: (1009+9973)/2 = 5491. (GuyBarry)
5492: Playmobil set 5492 is a Christmas Advent Calendar Unicorn Fairyland. How lovely! (Big Martin)
5493: The depth of the Tasman Sea, between Australia and New Zealand, is 5493 metres. (GuyBarry)
5494: The world's tallest totem pole is 54.94 metres (or 5494 cm) high and is at the Victoria BC Museum on Vancouver Island. (Big Martin)
5495: Ceresfjellet, the third-highest peak on Svalbard, Norway, is 5495 metres high. It takes its name from Ceres, the first asteroid to be discovered. (GuyBarry)
5496: Kew Plant Record No. 5496 is Alafia multiflora. (Big Martin)
5497: The Kwa Voki Sand Dam project in Kenya brought safe water to 5497 people, as well as conducting drinking water, sanitation and hygiene training and a food security programme. (GuyBarry)
5498: Downend Masonic Lodge is number 5498. (Big Martin)
5499: 5499 is the arithmetic mean (or average) of all four-digit positive even numbers. There are 4500 such numbers, so this means (1000+1002+1004+...+9996+9998)/4500 = 5499. (GuyBarry)
5500: BBC News has an article on students journeying 5,500 miles to thank Korean War veterans. (Big Martin)
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