5601: The Australian bowler Jeff Thomson is the 74th most prolific wicket taker in Test matches, having taken exactly 200 wickets for 5601 runs at an average of 28.00. (Olinguito)
5602: The base-7 representation of 5602 is 22222. (GuyBarry)
5603: In February 2019 Speedy Registrations were offering AXZ 5603 for £334.90. They suggest it might be ideal for initials that match AXZ. These strike me as being an unlikely combination of initials! (Big Martin)
5604: (5604) 1992 FE is an Aten-type near-Earth minor planet, discovered by Robert H. McNaught at the Siding Spring Observatory in Canberra, Australia, on March 26, 1992. (GuyBarry)
5605: LMS "Jubilee" class locomotive 5605 was named Cyprus. Here is film made by LMS of it being repaired in 1938. (Big Martin)
5606: A paper published by Shusuke Fukuzawa in 1987 gives 5606 words as the representative size of a Japanese boy's vocabulary at six years old. (GuyBarry)
5607: Randfontein in South Africa is at an elevation of 5,607 feet above sea level. (Big Martin)
5608: "Overclocking" is the practice of getting computer components to run faster than originally intended. In January 2019, HyperX's Predator DDR4 memory chip set the record for overclocking at 5608 MHz, with the help of a dose of liquid nitrogen. (GuyBarry)
5609: Open University article ID 5609 is on Five 1951 BBC Broadcasts on Automatic Calculating Machines. (Big Martin)
5610: The Nokia 5610 is a slider mobile phone from Nokia, part of the XpressMusic series, launched in 2007. (GuyBarry)
5611: Drexel 5611 is a mid C17th manuscript collection of music for the virginal. (Big Martin)
5612: In 2018 Czechs chose the Slovak cyclist Peter Sagan as Celebrity of the Century in a poll, with 10,468 votes. The 1960s singer Marta Kubišová came third with 5612 votes. (GuyBarry)
5613: Italeri model 5613 is a 1/35th scale kit of John F Kennedy's PT boat from WW2. (Big Martin)
5614: One of the longest structures in the world is the 5614-kilometre Dingo Fence, built in Australia during the 1880s to keep dingoes out of the south-eastern part of the continent and protect sheep flocks. It has been partly successful, although the exclusion of dingoes has allowed for increased pasture competition from rabbits, kangaroos and emus. (GuyBarry)
5615: NGC 5615 is a galaxy in the constellation of Boötes. It is part of the Arp 178 triplet of galaxies along with NGC 5613 and NGC 5614. (Big Martin)
5616: 5616 is the quintuple factorial of 18, written 18!!!!! and defined as 18 x (18 - 5) x ((18 - 5) - 5) x (((18 - 5) - 5) - 5), or 18 x 13 x 8 x 3. (GuyBarry)
5617: 5617 Kavanaugh is "an intimate events space in the Heights district". (Big Martin)
5618: The Best Word List contains 5618 words beginning with "de". (GuyBarry)
5619: ex-GWR 0-6-2 tank locomotive 5619 was built for coal traffic in South Wales and is now at the Midland Railway Centre in Butterley near Derby. (Big Martin)
5620: A 25-year study of 5620 people aged between 33 and 65, published online in 2014 in the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, found that middle-age migraine sufferers were more than twice as likely to develop Parkinson's disease. (GuyBarry)
5621: Griffith University course 5621 is Master of Social Work. (Big Martin)
5622: Stephen Hammond won the Wimbledon constituency for the Conservatives in 2017 with a majority of 5622 over Labour. (GuyBarry)
5623: Ex-Southern Pacific Railroad diesel locomotive 5623 was built in 1955 and withdrawn from service in 1991 and is now preserved at the Niles Canyon Railway in Sunol, California. (Big Martin)
5624: In Strong's Concordance, which is an exhaustive index of every word used in the King James Version of the Bible, the original Greek root words of the New Testament are numbered from 1 to 5624. (GuyBarry)
5625: The maximum depth of the Arctic Ocean is 5,625 metres. (Big Martin)
5626: The Orthodox rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, also known as the Tzemach Tzedek or "Righteous Sprout", died on 13 Nissan 5626 (17 March 1866 in the Gregorian calendar). (GuyBarry)
5627: SOS box 5627A is on the clockwise M25 just after J28 for the M11. 5627B is, would you believe, on the opposite carriageway. They are in Essex. (tetsabb)
5628: In 1931 the US state of Florida had 5628 miles of steam railway. (GuyBarry)
5629: No. 5629 on the UNESCO tentative world heritage sites list is the Eise Esinga Planetarium in Franeker in the Netherlands. (Big Martin)
5630: The A5630 links the A46 Leicester bypass with the A563 Leicester outer ring road - a rare example of an A-road number in the upper half of the thousand. (GuyBarry)
5631: ISO 5631-2:2008 is a standard for the determination of the colour of paper and board by diffuse reflectance. (Big Martin)
5632: The Michigan house bill 2004 5632 raised cigarette tax by 75 cents to pay for Medicaid. (astrojg)
5633: There are 5633 words in the King James Version of the Book of Esther. (GuyBarry)
5634: Merenschwand in the Swiss canton of Aargau has the postcode 5634. (Big Martin)
5635: At the 2000 census, 5635 people were living in the improbably named Cut Off, Louisiana. Historically it was named "La Coupe", and took its name from the building of a canal cutoff at that point to shorten its route. (GuyBarry)
5636: Both the Bangalore Golf Club in India and the Newlands Golf and Racquet Club in Canada have course lengths of 5,636 yards. (Big Martin)
5637: The 5637 Steam Locomotive Group is responsible for the preservation, restoration, operation and maintenance of Great Western Railway tank engine 5637, which originally worked in the South Wales coalfields. The engine is now in operation on the East Somerset Railway based near Cranmore in the Mendips. (GuyBarry)
5638: A 2010 BBC investigation revealed that the consumption of Buckfast Tonic Wine had been mentioned in 5,638 crime reports from the Strathclyde area from 2006 to 2009; an average of 3 a day. (Big Martin)
5639: In the sequence of seven consecutive prime numbers 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, the difference between the first and last is 20. The next time the difference is as small as this is the sequence 5639, 5641, 5647, 5651, 5653, 5657, 5659 (the second "prime septuplet"). (GuyBarry)
5640: The 5,640 ton deadweight offshore supply ship Nor Da Vinci is registered in the Marshall Islands. (Big Martin)
5641: The number of women convicted of crimes of domestic violence in England and Wales rose from 1850 in 2006 to 5641 in 2015. (GuyBarry)
5642: As shown on the Valve Museum website, the 5642 is an EHT rectifier diode for use in oscilloscopes. (Big Martin)
5643: The Tubbs Fire, a very destructive wildfire which occurred in Northern California in October 2017, incinerated at least 5643 structures, half of which were homes in the city of Santa Rosa. (GuyBarry)
5644: No. 5644 is a Maunsell Corridor Composite coach built in 1930 for the Southern Railway and is currently awaiting reconstruction at the Bluebell Railway. (Big Martin)
5645: UPS (United Parcel Service) has an honorary organization called the "Circle of Honor" for drivers with 25 or more years of accident-free driving. The US state of South Carolina has 192 Circle of Honor drivers with a combined 5645 years of accident-free driving. (GuyBarry)
5646: Issue 5646 of Ireland's Own magazine from 16th March, 2018, featured part 2 of a series on classic spy movies and accordingly had the young Sean Connery on the cover. (AlmondFacialBar)
5647: IHA advert 5647 is for a gite in Vagnas in the Ardeche department in France. (Big Martin)
5648: According to the Irish Independent, there were 5648 new apprenticeship registrations in Ireland in 2018. (GuyBarry)
5649: The 5,649 ton S S Cantabria was sunk in an action during the Spanish Civil War a few miles off the coast of Norfolk. (Big Martin)
5650: A woman accidentally gave a kebab shop a £5650 tip in May 2018. Russian national Olesya Shemyakova was visiting Dietikon, in the swiss canton of Zurich, and mistakenly entered her PIN number a second time instead of the amount she wanted to pay. (GuyBarry)
5651: Racing Post Soccerbase entry 5651 is for goalkeeper Carl Muggleton. (Big Martin)
5652: In cryptography, padding refers to a number of distinct practices which all include adding data to the beginning, middle, or end of a message prior to encryption, in order to obscure the fact that messages may begin and end in predictable ways. "Byte padding" means adding whole bytes to the message. One of the standard methods of byte padding, PKCS#7, is described in RFC5652. (GuyBarry)
5653: Make Me A Cocktail website's recipe 5653 is for Tropic Thunder - a mixture of Bacardi and passionfruit, mango and raspberry juices. (Big Martin)
5654: At the 2015 general election Will Straw, son of the former Home Secretary Jack Straw, stood for Labour in the Rossendale and Darwen constituency and lost to the incumbent Conservative, Jake Berry, by 5654 votes. (GuyBarry)
5655: In October last year a 5,655 carat emerald was discovered in a Zambian mine. (Big Martin)
5656: Minor planet 5656 is named after the English musician Mike Oldfield, composer of Tubular Bells. (GuyBarry)
5657: Aluminium 5657 is a non-heat-treatable alloy of the metal. (Big Martin)
5658: A by-election was held on Thursday April 4th 2019 in the constituency of Newport West to replace the former Labour MP Paul Flynn, who died on 17 February. His majority over the Conservatives was 5658. (GuyBarry)
5659: CABI Invasive Species Compendium datasheet 5659 is for Anastrepha obliqua - the West Indian Fruit Fly. (Big Martin)
5660: The total energy from geothermal power in Italy in 2015 was 5660 gigawatt-hours. (GuyBarry)
5661: UK Parliament written question 5661 from Luke Pollard (MP for Plymouth) tabled in July 2017 was on the number of statues of male and female politicians in the UK. Apparently (but perhaps unsurprisingly), this information is not held centrally. (Big Martin)
5662: The Union Multipurpose Activity Center (also known as the UMAC or John Q. Hammons Arena) is a 5662-seat multipurpose arena located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. (GuyBarry)
5663: The Empire State Building contains 5,663 cubic metres of Indiana limestone. (Big Martin)
5664: There are 5664 parallelograms on a 7 x 7 grid. (GuyBarry)
5665: British Library Manuscript Additional 5665 is a choirbook, probably copied at a Franciscan monastery in Devon. (Big Martin)
5666: Yom Tov Shel Rosh Hashana: 5666 (Hebrew: ספר המאמרים תרס״ו), or Samech Vov, is a compilation of the Chassidic treatises by Rabbi Sholom Dovber Schneersohn, the fifth Rebbe of Chabad, from the Hebrew year 5666 (1905-06). This series of Chassidic essays is considered a fundamental work of Chabad mysticism. (GuyBarry)
5667: The grimly named Massacre Peak in New Mexico has an elevation of 5,667 feet. (Big Martin)
5668: 5668 people in Great Britain committed suicide in 2016. (GuyBarry)
5669: UK Government export health certificate 5669 is required if you want to send scoured wool, animal hair, mohair or pig bristles to the People's Republic of China. (Big Martin)
5670: Lapa do Salitre, literally "cave of saltpetre", is a limestone cave 5670 metres long near the municipality of Campo Formoso in Brazil. (GuyBarry)
5671: Screen Archive South East's title 5671 is home movie footage made by the Dickins family of Oxted in 1967 - 1968. (Big Martin)
5672: The "miracle in Brest" was the name given by the media to the crash of Air France Flight 5672 from Nantes Atlantique Airport to Brest-Guipavas Airport on 22 June 2003, when nearly all the occupants survived - although the pilot was killed. (GuyBarry)
5673: According to adverts in Life magazine in 1956, Crest toothpaste was tested for 3 years on 5,673 people. (Big Martin)
5674: The Women's Party was a minor party in Israel established to fight the 1977 elections. However, it won only 5674 votes and failed to cross the electoral threshold of 1%. (GuyBarry)
5675: According to a Match.com Singles in Amercia (sic) survey, there was a correlation between emoji use and sex amongst the 5,675 people interviewed. (Big Martin)
5676: In November 2013, about 200 people from northern Sri Lanka tried to drive to the capital, Colombo, in three buses to stage a demonstration. They wanted to draw attention to the plight of 5676 people who had gone missing in Sri Lanka, giving the country more "outstanding cases" of disappearances than anywhere in the world apart from Iraq, according to the United Nations. But the buses were stopped at a roadblock outside the city. (GuyBarry)
5677: Harley MS 5677 is a 17th century Catena on the Psalms written in Ancient Greek. (Big Martin)
5678: 5,6,7,8 is the debut single by Steps, released in 1997. (GuyBarry)
5679: Greyhound bus 5679 runs from Toronto to Kitchener. (Big Martin)
5680: According to the Bristol Post website, during 2015 to 2017, a total of 5680 people left Bath for London. (GuyBarry)
5681: VUF-5681 is a potent and selective histamine antagonist. (Big Martin)
5682: Turkish passports are issued in accordance with the Passport Act (No. 5682) from 15 July 1950. (GuyBarry)
5683: The 5,683 tonne displacement Russian cruiser Vladimir Monomakh was scuttled following damage during the battle of Tsushima in 1905. (Big Martin)
5684: At the 2015 general election, the former Labour cabinet minister Douglas Alexander lost his seat in Paisley and Renfrewshire South to the 20-year-old SNP candidate Mhairi Black by a margin of 5684 votes. Mhairi Black became the youngest MP since the 19th century. (GuyBarry)
5685: The INGA soft 5685 is a chair by Pedrali. (Big Martin)
5686: Author number 5686 on GoodReads is Tony Hawks, noted for Round Ireland with a Fridge and Playing the Moldovans at Tennis. (GuyBarry)
5687: The EFDSS Vaughan Williams Memorial Library entry RN5687 is for the ballad The Irish Peasant Girl. (Big Martin)
5688: 5688 is the 48th heptagonal number, representing a pattern of 48 nested heptagons sharing a vertex (as illustrated in this diagram). It can be calculated from the formula ((5 x 482) - (3 x 48))/2. (GuyBarry)
5689: In Jordan the lowest point is the Dead Sea at 1,339 feet below sea level and the highest is Jabal Ram at 5,689 feet. (Big Martin)
5690: 5690 is the postcode of Border Village, South Australia, which lies near the border with Western Australia, and is the only place in South Australia where Daylight Saving Time is not in use. (GuyBarry)
5691: The House Designers' plan 5691 is The Manchester. Apparently it "elicits the charming appeal of a quaint cottage that you might find in an old village in the English countryside". I'm not sure that "Manchester" makes me think of country cottages! (Big Martin)
5692: The runway at Kjeller Airport in Norway is 5692 feet long. (GuyBarry)
5693: Meteorite Northwest Africa 5693 was purchased from a dealer in Morocco in 2007. (Big Martin)
5694: As of 2001, the longest known Dewey Decimal number was 301.1543012917492705694, allocated to "Arab Attitudes Towards Israel" by Yehoshafat Harkabi. (GuyBarry)
5695: Columbia 78 rpm record 5695 is parts 3 and 4 of the comedy sketch The Fourth Form At St Michael's recorded in 1930 by Will Hay and His Scholars. (Big Martin)
5696: Single-pair high-speed digital subscriber line (SHDSL) is a data communications technology for equal transmit and receive (i.e. symmetric) data rate over copper telephone lines, faster than a conventional voiceband modem can provide. An optional extended SHDSL mode allows symmetric data rates up to 5696 kbit/s on one pair. (GuyBarry)
5697: Model Power set 5697 is "Fat People" for model railway displays! (Big Martin)
5698: In July 2017, a 5698-square-kilometre, trillion-ton iceberg broke away from the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica, and floated out into the Weddell Sea. (GuyBarry)
5699: Ex-LMS Jubilee class locomotive 5699 Galatea was rescued from Barry scrapyard and is now owned by the West Coast Railway Company. (Big Martin)
5700: In 2019 the Formula 1 racing driver Lewis Hamilton was reported to earn £5700 an hour. (GuyBarry)
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