5801: 5801 Video Lounge and Cafe is in Pittsburgh. (Big Martin)
5802: 5802 people registered for the 15th Pravasi Bhartiya Divas (Non-Resident Indian Day) held from 21-23 January 2019 at Varanasi, India. (GuyBarry)
5803: Lansdown Golf Club near Bath (where "work" have held their pre-season meetings for the last couple of years) has a course length of 5,803 metres. (Big Martin)
5804: When Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon visited Charing Palace in Kent on 24th May 1520, they were accompanied by 5804 courtiers, attendants and servants. (GuyBarry)
5805: P & O Ferries operate from harbour 5805 at Europoort near Rotterdam. (Big Martin)
5806: 5806 people were provided protection under resettlement schemes in the UK in 2018. (GuyBarry)
5807: The Shops at 5807 is a collection of boutiques operating at 5807 Patterson Avenue, Richmond, Virginia. (Big Martin)
5808: The Japanese anime series YAT Anshin! Uchū Ryokō (YAT Untroubled Space Tours) is set in the year 5808. (GuyBarry)
5809: Between June 2014 and December 2017 5,809 takeaways opened in the UK. (Big Martin)
5810: Introduced in March 2002, the BlackBerry 5810 was one of the first mobile phones with email capabilities. (GuyBarry)
5811: There are an estimated 5,811 Baniwa people living in Brazil. (Big Martin)
5812: The 1964 short film Meander in Maidstone from Screen Archive South East (title ID 5812) includes scenes including a person wading in the River Medway; a four-man row boat; people fishing; a horse-drawn carriage; a policeman directing traffic and various busy street scenes (including a lorry with huge reels of paper) on Maidstone Bridge. (GuyBarry)
5813: GWR Collett Full Third coach 5813 was built at Swindon in 1934 and is currently used as a funds charity shop on the Dean Forest Railway. (Big Martin)
5814: 5814 = 17 x 18 x 19. (GuyBarry)
5815: Train Simulator website features GWR 0-4-2 tank locomotive 5815. (Big Martin)
5816: Insulting the memory of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, first president of Turkey, is punishable by up to three years in jail. Turkish Law 5816 ("The Law Concerning Crimes Committed Against Atatürk") was passed 13 years after Atatürk's death on July 25, 1951 by Prime Minister Adnan Menderes's government, and protects "Atatürk's memory" from being offended by any Turkish citizen. In 2011, there were 48 convictions for "insulting Atatürk". (GuyBarry)
5817: Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2C 5817 crashed on the 19th of May 1917 at Hounslow, killing the pilot 2nd Lt. Nicholson of the RFC. (Big Martin)
5818: In 2014 there were 5818 people who used food banks in Scotland. (GuyBarry)
5819: Swiss locomotive 5819 was built in 1912 and is now preserved as part of the SBB historic collection. (Big Martin)
5820: The record attendance at Highland Football League team Keith FC's ground at Kynoch Park was 5820 against Celtic on 4 February 1928 in the Scottish Cup. Celtic won 6-1. (GuyBarry)
5821: 5821 is the product number of an HP deskjet printer. (Awitt)
5822: With its highest point at 5822 metres above sea level, Misti is a volcano in southern Peru which last erupted in 1985. (GuyBarry)
5823: National Library of Scotland moving image 5823 is a 1954 silent film of biscuits being packed into tins. (Big Martin)
5824: 5824 is the debut album by the Californian hip-hop band MOP, available on the Smoking Room label. (GuyBarry)
5825: According to Statistics Canada there were 5,825 people aged 100 and over in Canada in 2011 - up from 4,635 in 2006. (Big Martin)
5826: Władysław Siwek was a Polish artist who is known for his depictions of the Auschwitz concentration camp where he was held during the Nazi occupation of Poland. He was sent to Auschwitz in October 1940 and given prisoner number 5826. He died in 1983. (GuyBarry)
5827: Dutch Imports product 5827 is a "drunken (or druken!) people crossing" sign. (Big Martin)
5828: The Honeywell 5828 is a wireless security keypad. (GuyBarry)
5829: Enobia 5829 panties apparently "reveal your rebellious side". Presumably, most wearers won't want them revealing much else! (Big Martin)
5830: In a 2010 New York Times article, reporter Nick Bilton noted that Facebook's privacy policy was 5830 words long - almost 1300 words longer than the US Constitution (without any of its amendments). (GuyBarry)
5831: For the doctor who wants to be colour coordinated, the Littmann Classic III Stethoscope model 5831 comes with plum coloured tubing. (Big Martin)
5832: 5832 is a perfect cube: 183. (GuyBarry)
5833: Human gene 5833 is phosphate cytidylyltransferase 2, enatholamine. (Big Martin)
5834: A paper entitled Are Women Really More Talkative Than Men? was published in the 6 July 2007 edition of Science, volume 317, issue 5834. (GuyBarry)
5835: Callebaut recipe 5835 is a dark chocolate of high fluidity. (Big Martin)
5836: The population of Milan, Michigan is 5836. Unlike the similarly named Italian city, it's pronounced "MY-lan", and has been placed at number 2 in a list of America's most commonly mispronounced towns and cities. (GuyBarry)
5837: BS 5837:2012 is the British Standard for trees in relation to construction. (Big Martin)
5838: Project Rio Blanco was an underground nuclear test that took place on May 17, 1973 in Rio Blanco County, Colorado. Three 33-kiloton nuclear devices were detonated nearly simultaneously in a single emplacement well at depths of 5838, 6230, and 6689 feet below ground level. (GuyBarry)
5839: Rareoldprints.com reference P/5839 is an 1804 aquatint of Bath Old Bridge. (Big Martin)
5840: No sniggering, please: the summit of the Wank in southern Germany is 5840 feet above sea level. (GuyBarry)
5841: 5841 people died in NHS hospitals in Wales during the first seven weeks of 2018. (Olinguito)
5842: The Padovan sequence is similar to the Fibonacci sequence, but each term in the sequence is equal to the sum of the terms two and three places before it. Starting with 1, 1, 1, the sequence proceeds as follows: 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 12, 16, 21, 28, 37, 49, 65, 86, 114, 151, 200, 265, 351, 465, 616, 816, 1081, 1432, 1897, 2513, 3329, 4410, 5842, ... (GuyBarry)
5843: Gloucestershire County Council Heritage Gateway Monument No. 5843 is Cannop Colliery in the Forest of Dean. (Big Martin)
5844: In November 2013, 19-year-old Tyler James persuaded the Toronto Transit Commission to let him have the number identification plate 5844 from one of its subway cars so that he could give it to his grandmother as a gift. The cars were due to be scrapped, and he had had a cherished memory of that plate number ever since he first rode the subway with his grandmother when he was six years old. (GuyBarry)
5845: The Guinness World Record for the number of different dishes on display is 5,845 and was set by Kraft Foods Philippines in 2009. (Big Martin)
5846: As of 2014, 1 in 5846 of United States residents had the surname Clay. (GuyBarry)
5847: The Great Northern Railway (Ireland) V Class locomotives cost £5,847 when delivered from Beyer Peacock in 1932. (Big Martin)
5848: The Sungai Kim Kim river in Johor, Malaysia was the scene of a serious pollution incident this year. The dumping of chemical substances on March 7 caused 5848 people to seek medical treatment after inhaling toxic fumes wafting from the river. The last victim was released from hospital on March 25. (GuyBarry)
5849: Edison Record 5849 is Camp Songs of the US Army No. 1 from 1918. (Big Martin)
5850: The attendance at the 38th World Science Fiction Convention, held in 1980 in Boston, Massachusetts, was 5850. (GuyBarry)
5851: UK sport for employment charity Street League has supported 5,851 young people into work since 2010. (Big Martin)
5852: 5852 = 76 x 77, making it a pronic number - the product of two consecutive integers. (Also called "oblong numbers", "heteromecic numbers" or "rectangular numbers".) (GuyBarry)
5853: In 2014 the Advertising Standards Authority banned a Wonga advert for implying that a 5,853% interest rate was "irrelevant". (Big Martin)
5854: The slowest-spinning pulsar ever found, rotating at a rate of once every 23.5 seconds, is radio pulsar PSR J0250+5854, about 14 million light-years away. (GuyBarry)
5855: Phillip Jeffries wallcovering pattern 5855 is Chain Mail. Sorry, but that doesn't look like any chainmail I've ever seen. (Big Martin)
5856: Drexel 5856 is a music manuscript containing works composed by George Frideric Handel, dating from 1720-21. (GuyBarry)
5857: Dursley - a little north from me in Gloucestershire proper - is, apparently, 5,857 km from Kabul. (Big Martin)
5858: The Best Word List contains 5858 words with P as the second letter. (GuyBarry)
5859: Part of A universal gazetter; or Geographical dictionary of the World, written by George Thomas Landman in 1840, deals with varying measures of distance from different countries, From this we learn that a short German mile near the Rhine is 5859 yards. (Big Martin)
5860: 5860 is the sum of squares of four consecutive primes: 312 + 372 + 412 + 432. (GuyBarry)
5861: According to a new UCL-led study, bus passes are linked to increased happiness in older adults. 5,861 people were involved in the study. (Big Martin)
5862: Empresa Brasileira de Infraestrutura Aeroportuária - or Infraero for short - is a Brazilian government corporation responsible for operating the main Brazilian commercial airports, founded in 1973 and authorized by Law 5862. (GuyBarry)
5863: House 5863 is a bed and breakfast establishment in Chicago. (Big Martin)
5864: The capacity of the Sevastopol Sports Complex in Crimea is 5864. (GuyBarry)
5865: Here is some YouTube footage of Norwegian locomotive 5865 being unloaded at Bressingham Hall in Norfolk. (Big Martin)
5866: NGC 5866 (also called the Spindle Galaxy or Messier 102) is a relatively bright lenticular or spiral galaxy in the constellation Draco. One of its most outstanding features is the extended dust disk. (GuyBarry)
5867: Trigpointing.uk waypoint TP5867 is a pillar-type trigpoint at Sellatyn near Oswestry. (Big Martin)
5868: 5868 victims of modern slavery were referred to the Salvation Army's government-contracted victim support service between July 2011 and June 2017. (GuyBarry)
5869: Mobile phone mast 5869 is on Sourton Down near Okehampton. (Big Martin)
5870: In the 2002 Washington House of Representatives Primary for the 26th Legislative District, Ed Mitchell defeated Kevin Entze by one vote: 5870 to 5869. Unfortunately for Entze one of his friends admitted that he never mailed his ballot. "He left his ballot on his kitchen counter and it never got sent out," Entze said. (GuyBarry)
5871: Airfix kit AO5871 is a model of Richard Trevithick's 1804 steam loco. (Big Martin)
5872: When House of Fraser filed for administration on August 9 last year, it employed 5872 people, in addition to just over 10,000 staff employed in its concessions. (GuyBarry)
5873: The Taylor Model 5873 is a super-loud (95 db) kitchen timer. Given that 95 decibels is a level that can cause permanent hearing damage, I think I might stick with the one I've got. (Big Martin)
5874: 5874 (styled Five 8 Seven 4) is a digital marketing agency based in Birmingham, with the strapline "Success by Design". (GuyBarry)
5875: The Arabian Basin in the southern Arabian Sea has a maximum depth of 5,875 metres. (Big Martin)
5876: During the tax year 2017-18, the lower level of annual earnings for automatic enrolment into a workplace pension scheme was £5876. (GuyBarry)
5877: A Guinness World Record for the largest coconut ensemble was set when 5,877 people played their coconuts to the tune of "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life" in Trafalgar Square on St George's Day 2007. [It may subsequently have been broken - Ed.] (Big Martin)
5878: WordMaker lists 5878 words made out of the letters of "anthropocentricities". (GuyBarry)
5879: With an average elevation of 5,879 feet, Armenia is the 10th highest country in the world. (Big Martin)
5880: RA 5880 is a set of UK procedures covering aircraft that in some senses are not or have not been confirmed as suitable for flight. (tetsabb)
5881: Have you ever wondered about the difference between a 5881 valve and a 6L6GC valve? Well, wonder no longer, as this article on guitar amplifier valves tells you all. Among other things, the 5881 is built to withstand high g-forces as it was used in Russian fighter jets amongst other applications. So if you're thinking of subjecting your amplifier to high g-forces, you know which one to choose! (GuyBarry)
5882: National Portrait Gallery portrait npg 5882(3) is an Andy Warhol screenprint of Elizabeth II from 1985. (Big Martin)
5883: Canadian football's 24th Grey Cup was played on December 5, 1936, before 5883 fans at Varsity Stadium at Toronto. The Sarnia Imperials defeated the Ottawa Rough Riders 26 to 20. (GuyBarry)
5884: South Australian postcode 5884 is reserved for non-standard use. (Big Martin)
5885: With a prominence of 5885 metres, Kilimanjaro is the fourth most prominent peak in the world. (GuyBarry)
5886: The Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo or CA2M, in Madrid covers a total area of 5,886 square metres. (Big Martin)
5887: In 2004, the episode "My Malpractical Decision" of the US comedy series Scrubs gave the character Dr. Turk's phone number as (916) CALL-TUR[K], i.e. 916-225-5887, with an extraneous 5 at the end to make Turk's full name. This was for a time an active cell phone number, which would play a message urging fans to keep watching the show and to vote for it at the People's Choice Awards. (GuyBarry)
5888: Dirty Dicks pub in Bishopsgate dates back to 1745 and is famous for its unusual decor (dead cats). I went there many years ago (1970s) with my aunt. Its phone number is 020 7283 5888. (Big Martin)
5889: During its first year of operation from July 2015 to July 2016, Forward Leeds, a drug and alcohol problem support service commissioned by Leeds City Council, worked with a total of 5889 people. (GuyBarry)
5890: Traces of peanuts have been found as early as 5,890 B.C. (RolloTreadway)
5891: In 2006 Richard Brunstrom, Chief Constable of North Wales, launched his internet blog by revealing how he spent his day off. While his wife was away, he took the opportunity to "sneak off and have some fun" by getting back into uniform and spending an uninterrupted 12-hour shift stopping cars on the A497 on the outskirts of Pwllheli. "The camera read 5891 number plates, from which we had 321 'hits', resulting in us stopping 109 cars," he wrote. "During the course of the day the team arrested 22 people, mostly for possession of relatively small amounts of cannabis." (GuyBarry)
5892: John Lennon's Power to the People was released on Apple Records in March 1971 as R5892. (Big Martin)
5893: Wang ocheonchukguk jeon ("An account of travel to the five Indian kingdoms") is a travelogue by Buddhist monk Hyecho, who travelled from Korea to India in the years 723 - 727/728 AD. The manuscript scroll contains 5893 classical Chinese characters in 227 lines, and is now owned by the National Library of France, having been thought to be lost until the early 20th century. (GuyBarry)
5894: USAF Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar registration 52-5894 crashed on February 26th 1954 after clipping a building whilst buzzing the courthouse at the pilot's hometown of Huntingdon, Tennessee. (Big Martin)
5895: (211)! has 5895 digits. (211 = 2048, so (211)! = 2048 x 2047 x 2046 x ... x 3 x 2 x 1.) (GuyBarry)
5896: Joseph Manton shotgun serial number 5896 was made in 1813 and was once owned by Prince Adolphus, the 10th child of George III. (Big Martin)
5897: Earlier this month the city of Parma, Ohio voted to uphold a ban on pit bulls within city limits by 5897 to 5876. (GuyBarry)
5898: The pipe organ at Suntory Hall, Tokyo, has 5,898 pipes. (RolloTreadway)
5899: Linwood House, a drug and alcohol detox and rehabilitation centre in Barnsley, offers a 28-day residential programme for £5899. (GuyBarry)
5900: On 5th September 2000 (5/9/00), the Haverstraw-Ossining Ferry began its first voyage. (RolloTreadway)
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