The Quite Incredible Number List: 5901-6000

5901: The Hohhot Ring Expressway, designated as G5901, is an expressway in Inner Mongolia, Northern China orbiting the city of Hohhot. (GuyBarry)

5902: Ivy Nails is at 5902 North Kings Highway, Alexandria, Virginia, United States. (Strawberry)

5903: 5903 is the 777th prime. (GuyBarry)

5904: NGC 5904 is a globular cluster in the constellation Serpens discovered in 1702. (Big Martin)

5905: Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir 4: Fly to Paradise is made up of 8409 videos featuring 5905 singers from 101 countries. (GuyBarry)

5906: 99-5906 is a 1918 0-4-4-0T Mallet-type steam locomotive operated by Harz Narrow Gauge Railways in Germany. (Big Martin)

5907: To celebrate Manchester City's 2019 success in winning the domestic treble (league title, FA Cup and League Cup), Alex Bidolak and James Windle spent 80 hours crafting a LEGO model of City's players and staff on their parade bus, as well as the three trophies the team won. Including the trophies, 5907 bricks were used in the model, which was displayed at LEGOLAND Discovery Centre Manchester. (GuyBarry)

5908: Back to Manchester - Tesco Express store 5908 is in Whalley Range. (Big Martin)

5909: Format, the 2012 compilation album by the Pet Shop Boys, sold 5909 copies during its first week of release in the UK. (GuyBarry)

5910: New South Wales Government Railways 2-8-2 steam locomotive 5910 was built by Baldwin - Lima - Hamilton of Philadelphia in 1952 and is now on static display at Trainworks, Thirlmere, NSW. (Big Martin)

5911: Between 2013 and 2016, 5911 people watched a Community Company production at London's Old Vic theatre for free. (GuyBarry)

5912: Metlink stop 5912 is on Aurora Terrace, Mairangi NZ. (Big Martin)

5913: 5913 = 1! + 2! + 3! + 4! + 5! + 6! + 7!. (GuyBarry)

5914: The Irish Central Statistics Office code 5914 is for "motion picture projection activities". (Big Martin)

5915: According to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, in the year 2000, 5915 people died at work - including those who had a heart attack at their desks. (GuyBarry)

5916: The clipper ship Mimosa, which carried the first Welsh emigrants to South America in 1865, cost £5,916 when built in 1853. (Big Martin)

5917: A video of locomotive 5917 on the Blue Mountains in 2014. It was built in the United States by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the New South Wales Government Railways (NSWGR) entering service on 12 March 1953, and is one of the five D59 class locomotives that were preserved. (GuyBarry)

5918: Chicago based 5918, Inc. Catering & Events specialise in soul and creole cooking. (Big Martin)

5919: The total length of the Finnish railway network is 5919 km. (GuyBarry)

5920: The ALDOT 5920 Bridge Project website covers progress on bridge upgrades on the I-65 and I-59/20 junction in Birmingham, Alabama. Also, not to miss it, 5920 is another NSWGR D59 class loco saved from the scrapyard. (Big Martin)

5921: Independent Voter Research was the name of a fictitious company run by the Mitt Romney US presidential campaign in 2012. It employed an automated calling system which connected "MyMitt" political volunteers to people who were most likely to be independent voters. The system obscured the volunteers' phone numbers to allow the caller to remain anonymous (the number displayed was either 651-319-5921 or 866-540-3140). (GuyBarry)

5922: The Lego Taj Mahal is made up of 5,922 individual pieces (although according to this page it's 5,923 pieces). (RolloTreadway)

5923: Originally titled the Iniki Boost, the Adidas I-5923 Silhouette is inspired by 70s running shoes. (GuyBarry)

5924: Tanaga is a 5924-foot stratovolcano in the Aleutian Range of the U.S. state of Alaska. (Ed.)

5925: In Quincy, Illinois, United Express Flight 5925 collided on landing with a private King Air that was taking off from another runway on November 19, 1996. All fourteen occupants of both planes were killed as a result. (GuyBarry)

5926: The 5926 Kayleight Navy Ships dress is available from Gentlemen's Affair. I don't speak Danish, but the description looks pretty international. (Big Martin)

5927: There were 5927 reports of missing children to police in Quebec in 2018. (GuyBarry)

5928: The Marx Army Train Set #5928 was produced in the 1940s and is now highly collectable. (Big Martin)

5929: 5929 = 77². (GuyBarry)

5930: Branchineta brushi is a species of fairy shrimp discovered during an attempt at the world record for the highest scuba dive in a pool 5,930 metres up in the Chilean Andes. (Big Martin)

5931: Bayshore Beautiful is a neighbourhood within the city limits of Tampa, Florida, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 5931. (GuyBarry)

5932: The coordinates of Bristol bus station are 51.4592 degrees North and 2.5932 degrees West. (Big Martin)

5933: Launched in 1962, Telstar 1 was the satellite that allowed the first live broadcast of television images between the United States and Europe. It had an elliptical orbit, with closest distance to the Earth (perigee) at 952 km and furthest distance from the Earth (apogee) at 5933 km. Transatlantic communications were only possible for 30 minutes during each orbit of 2 hours and 37 minutes. It remained active for only 7 months but is still in the orbit of the Earth. (GuyBarry)

5934: Tyne and Wear Historic Environment Record 5934 is for the WW2 "Starfish" Bombing Decoy site at Ryhope. (Big Martin)

5935: Radio Romania International broadcasts in the English language from 1800-1900 UTC on 5935 and 7350 kHz short wave. (GuyBarry)

5936: In December 2018 the Irish Times carried an article on Cork council's defence of its spending during the visit of Prince Charles earlier in the year. The headline stated "5,936 Euros to polish door handles". (Big Martin)

5937: "853-5937" was the fourth UK single and the second US single released from Squeeze's seventh album, Babylon and On. It failed to chart in the UK but got to #32 in the US. (GuyBarry)

5938: Royal Museums Greenwich object ZAZ5938 is a plan for a Water Tank Vessel from 1804. (Big Martin)

5939: 5939 is a right-truncatable prime, which means that if you repeatedly delete digits from the right-hand side the results are all also prime (593, 59 and 5). (GuyBarry)

5940: The sum of the interior angles of a triacontakaipentagon (35-sided polygon) is 5940°. (Olinguito)

5941: According to official data from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística in 2016, Uriarte occurs in Spain as a first surname for 5941 individuals. It comes from the Gipuzkoan dialect of the Basque language. (GuyBarry)

5942: The National Archives catalogue number V5942 relates to documentation regarding the contested capture of the ship Vrouw Anna Catharina of Hamburg in the Azores by the privateer Victory in 1803. (Big Martin)

5943: Bill Barich's book Long Way Home: On the Trail of Steinbeck's America describes his 5943-mile cross-country drive from New York to San Francisco in the autumn of 2008 on Route 50, a road twisting through the American heartland. (GuyBarry)

5944: MIL-S-5944C was the military specification for slings to transport aircraft or parts. It has been superseded by SAE-AS5944. (Big Martin)

5945: In 1999, according to a report published by the Department of Trade and Industry, trousers caused 5945 accidents. (GuyBarry)

5946: UNESCO World Heritage tentative list site 5946 is the Eastern Mongolian Steppes. (Big Martin)

5947: In 1991, the Roper Organization conducted a survey of 5947 adults across the United States to estimate the number of people who might have experienced alien abduction. In the initial results, they reported (amongst other things) that 18% had wakened paralysed with a strange figure in the room, that 15% had seen a terrifying figure, and that 14% had left their body. The psychologist Susan Blackmore subsequently published a paper attributing the findings to the common phenomenon of sleep paralysis, and concluded that "the claim of the Roper Poll, that 3.7 million Americans have probably been abducted, is false." (GuyBarry)

5948: The GWR 2-8-0 28XX class of freight locomotives cost £5,948 each when they were built at Swindon works in the early C20th. (Big Martin)

5949: The boiling point of titanium is 5949 degrees Fahrenheit. (GuyBarry)

5950: The 2019 Legal Team Pub Quiz was won by a team from Bishop and Sewell, who also raised £5,950 for the Little Havens Hospice. (Big Martin)

5951: 5951 is the 35th centred decagonal number - the number of dots in a pattern with one dot in the centre and 34 surrounding layers in the shape of a ten-sided polygon. (GuyBarry)

5952: GWR locomotive 5952 Cogan Hall is a 4-6-0 Hall class locomotive built at Swindon in 1935 and named after a building near Penarth. Parts of the loco are being used to assist in the creation of a new Grange class locomotive, though it it planned to put Cogan Hall back into service eventually as well. (Big Martin)

5953: On August 10, 1958, seven USAF F-101 Voodoos set a formation distance record of 5953 miles, flying from Austin, Texas, to Brentwood, England. (GuyBarry)

5954: In 1992, there were 5954 recorded road accidents in Ghana. (Olinguito)

5955: HR 5955 is an orange giant star in the far southern constellation of Apus. (Big Martin)

5956: This name directory lists 5956 relatives of George Washington, the first US President. (GuyBarry)

5957: Kelly & Lewis diesel locomotive 5957 was built in 1936 and is now one of the oldest extant diesel locos still operational in Australia. It now resides at the Alexandra Timber Tramway to the north-east of Melbourne. (Big Martin)

5958: Yading Nature Reserve in Sichuan Province, China, contains three unclimbed mountains which are considered holy in Tibetan Buddhism: Xiannairi (6032 metres), Yangmaiyong and Xianuoduoji (both 5958 metres). (GuyBarry)

5959: The 5959 Escape Room is in Jerusalem. (Big Martin)

5960: When European route E78 is fully upgraded to expressway, it will pass through the 5960-metre Galleria della Guinza tunnel across the Apennines between Mercatello sul Metauro and Lama di San Giustino, still under construction. (GuyBarry)

5961: Bridgegate Lodge No. 5961 presented a cheque for £5,961 to the Masonic Samaritan Fund in 2013. (Big Martin)

5962: 5962² contains only the digits 3, 4 and 5 (35,545,444). The next number whose square contains only those digits is 230962 (OEIS). (GuyBarry)

5963: One each of the numberplates and nameplates from GWR Hall class loco 5963 Wimpole Hall were sold at auction for £7,200 in 2018. (Big Martin)

5964: ISO 5964 was the ISO standard for the establishment and development of multilingual thesauri, replaced in 2011 by ISO 25964-1. (GuyBarry)

5965: When renting out property in England and Wales, you have to pay Class 2 National Insurance if your profits are over £5,965 a year. (Big Martin)

5966: Thirteen people were killed when Corporate Airlines Flight 5966 crashed on approach to Kirksville Regional Airport due to pilot error on October 19, 2004. (GuyBarry)

5967: A 2011 study showed that living at high altitude reduces the risk of dying from heart disease. A number of the counties studied in Colorado and Utah with the highest life expectancies were at a mean 5,967 feet above sea level. (Big Martin)

5968: SOS Box 5968B is on the M6 southbound where it runs between Walsall and Wolverhampton. (tetsabb)

5969: In Northern Ireland on 1 March 2017, a total of 5969 persons were reported to be in treatment for misuse of alcohol and/or drugs. (GuyBarry)

5970: In 2018 Nova Scotia welcomed 5,970 new permanent residents. (Big Martin)

5971: 5971 = 29² + 30² + 31² + 32² + 33² + 34². (GuyBarry)

5972: Some medieval wall at the junction of Ferry Street and Redcliff Street, Bristol (ST5972) is a Grade II listed building. (Big Martin)

5973: 11 Aquarii is a sun-like star in the zodiac constellation of Aquarius, located 88.5 light years away from the Sun. It radiates 2.24 times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 5973 kelvin. (GuyBarry)

5974: The longest runway at Predannack Airfield in Cornwall is 5,974 feet. (Big Martin)

5975: In June 2016 Oxford University Students' Union voted to remain affiliated to the National Union of Students. A total of 5975 students voted, with 2430 for disaffiliation and 3409 against - a turnout of 27.7%. (GuyBarry)

5976: The Print Show at the NEC in Birmingham in September 2018 attracted a record 5,976 attendees. (Big Martin)

5977: 5977 pedestrians were killed in the United States during 2017. (GuyBarry)

5978: National Archive WORK 30/5978 is a plan of Coldbath Fields Prison from 1884. (Big Martin)

5979: The mission of 5979 Youth Ministry in Marietta, Georgia, USA is "to love God with all our heart, to do in-depth studies in the Word of God and to pursue Jesus with a radical and abandoned lifestyle". (GuyBarry)

5980: In 1998 Benoit Lecomte claimed to be the first man to swim the Atlantic ocean without a kickboard. The swim covered 5,980 km in 73 days and the claim is still controversial. (Big Martin)

5981: In 2012, 5981 suicides in people aged 15 and over were registered in the UK. (GuyBarry)

5982: Page 5982 is the last page of the Bath Burial Index and lists people with forenames from Zechary to Zygmunt. (Big Martin)

5983: The file Goat Meat 5983 on Wikimedia Commons is described as "cleaned mutton (castrated male goat meat) ready for cooking curry. It is costly food in India. The price at Kolkata is INR 250 per Kilogram as on shooting date". (GuyBarry)

5984: With a height difference along its tracks of 5,984 feet, the Bernina railway has the highest railway crossing in Europe. (Big Martin)

5985: 5985 is the binomial coefficient that appears in the 21st row and 4th column of Pascal's triangle. This means that there are 5985 ways of choosing four objects from a group of 21, if the order is unimportant. The value can be calculated as follows: (21 x 20 x 19 x 18)/(1 x 2 x 3 x 4). (GuyBarry)

5986: The Rasta Imposta 5986 is a brown reindeer handbag. (Big Martin)

5987: USA-233 or WGS-4 is an American military communications satellite which was launched in 2012. The 5987-kilogram satellite is expected to operate for 14 years. (GuyBarry)

5988: Lego set 5988 Pharaoh's Forbidden Ruins is also marketed as The Temple of Anubis. (Big Martin)

5989: There were 5989 casualties amongst Allied ground forces during the Siege of Tobruk in 1941. (GuyBarry)

5990: The village of Udënisht, Albania had a population of 5990 at the time of the census in 2011. (Olinguito)

5991: "What year is it really? Is it 5991?", asked Stephanie Dawn in 2018 on Red Moon Rapture, a Scriptural prophecy site. According to her calculations there were 1656 years before the Flood and 4335 between then and 2018. (GuyBarry)

5992: Interspeed 5992 is an antifouling preparation for application to aluminium hulled vessels. (Big Martin)

5993: 5993 is one of only two known odd composite numbers that cannot be written as the sum of a prime and twice a square. (The other is 5777.) The next such number, if it exists, must be greater than 2 x 10¹³. (GuyBarry)

5994: A CNN Business report in April 2019 noted that US retailers had announced 5,994 store closures so far that year. (Big Martin)

5995: In 2018, a Peter Rabbit 50p coin was sold for £5995 on eBay. (GuyBarry)

5996: Former Forest Coach Lines 1971 Volvo bus 5996 is now at Sydney Bus Museum. It is the oldest Volvo bus still operational in Australia. (Big Martin)

5997: 5997 feet is the length of the longest runway at Port Alfred Airport in South Africa, the longer runway at Alice International Airport in Texas, and the single runway at Grand Strand Airport in South Carolina. (GuyBarry)

5998: ACE Glass product 5998-14 is a Liebig condenser. (Big Martin)

5999: When the A527 northern bypass of Tunstall, Staffordshire was built, the original route from A50 in the town centre through Longport to the A500 in Porthill was renumbered. Currently, it is shown on maps as part of the A5271, which is a number that appears very rarely on road signs. None the less, some mapmakers originally showed the new number as the B5999 - this may simply have been a holding number, or even a "copyright trap" to stop other mapmakers from copying the data. We may never know if there was actually a B5999 on the ground. (GuyBarry)

6000: Six Thousand Miles to Home is a novel inspired by a true story of World War II by Kim Dana Kupperman. (Olinguito)