6501: D6501 is a diesel locomotive built in 1959 by the Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Company for the Southern Region of BR. It now operates on the South Devon Railway between Buckfastleigh and Totnes. (Big Martin)
6502: When it was introduced in 1975, the MOS Technology 6502 was the least expensive microprocessor on the market by a considerable margin. (Brock)
6503: Huningue in France is a suburb of Basel in Switzerland. In 2008 it had a population of 6,503 people. (Big Martin)
6504: 6504 is the smallest number that is the sum of 10 consecutive primes and also the sum of 10 consecutive semiprimes:(A semiprime is a number that is the product of two primes, not necessarily distinct.) (Brock)
619+631+641+643+647+653+659+661+673+677 = 6504 629+633+634+635+649+655+662+667+669+671 = 6504
6505: The highest weather station in the western and southern hemispheres has recently been installed at 6,505 metres near the summit of Tupungato volcano in Chile. (Big Martin)
6506: The Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine can be contacted on 0161 276 6506. (Brock)
6507: Prometric Testing Centre 6507 is in Bristol. Being pedantic, it's St Philips (with only one "l"). (Big Martin)
6508: 1 + 1/3 + 1/5 + 1/7 + 1/9 + 1/11 = 6508/3465, in lowest terms. (Brock)
6509: Mount Gassan is the highest of the Three Mountains of Dewa in the ancient province of Dewa (modern-day Yamagata prefecture). The Gassan Shrine stands at the mountain's summit, 1,984 metres (6,509 ft) above sea level. (Strawberry)
6510: Zvezda kit 6510 is a 1/350 scale model of Christopher Columbus' flagship Santa Maria. (Big Martin)
6511: SGC-6511 Fizzle Glass is a lightly textured, transparent film made from durable polyester that provides a softened, distorted view. (Brock)
6512: The number to ring to appeal a parking charge issued on an Islington estate is 020 7527 6512. (Big Martin)
6513: The AN-6513 was the first QAC (Quick Attachable Chest) parachute harness used by the US Army Air Corps during World War II. (Brock)
6514: In 2013, Cote d'Ivoire had 6,514 km of paved roads. (Big Martin)
6515: In the Tamil Nadu assembly elections in India this month, DMK leader M. Boominathan won the assembly seat of Madurai South by a margin of 6515 votes, defeating AIADMK's S.S. Saravanan. (Brock)
6516: The Damen 6516 is a utility vessel. (Big Martin)
6517: 6517 = 193 - 192 + 19. (Brock)
6518: Colombia record SCX 6518 is This Is Reg Varney - On The 88s At Abbey Road from 1972. Not one I'll be rushing to buy! (Big Martin)
6519: This UKBus 6519 Stagecoach Gold Bus was available on eBay for £49.99. (Brock)
6520: 16mm Marlowbraid Bullrope has a breaking strain of 6,520 kg. (Big Martin)
6521: The 6521 Project was a nationwide operation initiated by the Chinese Communist Party in 2009 to ensure "social stability" by cracking down on potential dissidents during anniversaries of political significance. The digits referred to the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the 50th anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan uprising, the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests, and the 10th anniversary of the persecution of Falun Gong. (Brock)
6522: The 6522 Versatile Interface Adapter (VIA) is an integrated circuit that was designed and manufactured by MOS Technology as an I/O port controller for the 6502 family of microprocessors. (Awitt)
6523: The Whale Trail is based at 6523 California Avenue SW in Seattle. (Big Martin)
6524: 6524 is the product code for a Weber barbecue cart. (Awitt)
6525: The Hollywood Athletic Club is located at 6525 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles. The building has also been known as the University of Judaism, Berwin Entertainment Complex, and Hollywood Landmark. (Brock)
6526: The Map Shop's map 6526-1 is of Torrens Vale in South Australia. (Big Martin)
6527: In May 2021, Hillsborough County, Florida, were giving away free mosquito-eating fish. They could be picked up from various locations, including Mosquito Management Services at 6527 Eureka Springs Road, Tampa. (Brock)
6528: The Chauvin Arnoux CA 6528 is an insulation tester. (Big Martin)
6529: 6529 Rhoads, a main-belt asteroid discovered in 1993, was named in honour of R. Rhoads Stephenson for his significant contributions to the advancement of technology needed and used for the exploration of outer space by robotic spacecraft. (Brock)
6530: The Digital Index Of Middle English Verse entry 6530 is The Knight's Tale from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. (Big Martin)
6531: The constituency of Na h-Eileanan an Iar, formerly known as Western Isles, has the smallest electorate in the United Kingdom (around 21,000 registered voters). The current MP, Angus MacNeil of the SNP, was re-elected at the 2019 general election with 6531 votes out of a total of 14,447 cast. (Brock)
6532: Lladro product 6532 was A Christmas Song, produced between 1998 and 2001. (Big Martin)
6533: Primes of the form 2p - 1 are called Mersenne primes (provably, p also has to be prime). The 25th Mersenne prime is 221701 - 1, which is a number with 6533 digits. (Brock)
6534: Canberra Nature Map 6534 records the presence of Carex hebes (mountain sedge) in various places on one day in 1959. (Big Martin)
6535: In September 2020, Phil Murphy, the Governor of New Jersey, said he wasn't told about 6535 incorrectly postmarked ballots received for the Presidential primary election held on July 7 2020. (Brock)
6536: The Cemegyn Gwlyb 6536 sign provides instructions on using wet chemical fire extinguishers in Welsh and English. (Big Martin)
6537: The Red Spider Nebula, also known as NGC 6537, is a planetary nebula located near the heart of the Milky Way, in the northwest of the constellation Sagittarius. The central white dwarf produces a powerful and hot wind, which gives the nebula its unique 'spider' shape. (Brock)
6538: 6538 is the route number for a Sydney suburban school bus route. (Awitt)
6539: It's very unusual to find A-roads with numbers in the upper half of the thousand, such as the A6539, a short link road near the Yorkshire town of Castleford. This makes it the second highest-numbered A-road in England (the highest being the A6900). (Brock)
6540: In the unlikely event you were able to find an aircraft flying direct from Cape Town to North Ronaldsay airport, it's 6,540 miles. (Big Martin)
6541: There are 6541 regions inside a concave circular triangle formed by the straight line segments mutually connecting all vertices and all points that divide the sides into 11 equal parts. Rather easier to show in a diagram than to explain in words! I couldn't find one with 11 divisions on each side, but here's one with 10. (Brock)
6542: Homer and Jethro's parody song Hart Brake Motel was released by RCA Victor in 1956 as a 7" single with the catalogue number 47-6542. (Big Martin)
6543: 6543 is a nonnegative number with digits in descending order that differ exactly by 1. There are exactly 55 such numbers. (Brock)
6544: Boots store 6544 is in Longwell Green. (Big Martin)
6545: AM-6545 is a drug which acts as a peripherally selective silent antagonist for the CB1 receptor, and was developed for the treatment of obesity. (Brock)
6546: Osprey Watch nest 6546 is on a train track pole in the Knox Preserve in Connecticut. (Big Martin)
6547: The B6547 runs along Glossop Road through the Broomfield area of Sheffield, to the west of the city centre. It was originally the A57 mainline and later became part of the B6069. It was given its present designation in 2008, presumably to make the four-ended B6069 "less complicated" (in the words of SABRE). (Brock)
6548: The Security Industry Authority reported in April that a Lancashire security boss must pay £6,548 for providing unlicensed security or go to jail. (Big Martin)
6549: The longer of the two runways at Westchester County Airport, New York State, is 6549 feet long. (Brock)
6550: The 6550 tetrode is an ultra linear high power product - the American version of the KT88. I.e. it's a valve for hi-fi purists who reject the concept of anything that doesn't have to warm up and then be over-driven to provide the sound they want. (Celebaelin)
6551: There are 6551 2's in all partitions of 28. (E.g. 20 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 is a partition of 28 containing 4 2's.) (Brock)
6552: The Lac d'Artouste in the French departement of Pyrenees-Atlantique is at an elevation of 6,552 feet. (Big Martin)
6553: NGC 6553 is a globular cluster in the constellation Sagittarius. (Awitt)
6554: Lego set 6554 is "Blaze Brigade". (Big Martin)
6555: Of 6555 water sources in the Kingdom of Bhutan, 2317 are drying up while 147 sources have dried up, a study by the Watershed Management Division of the forest department revealed in May 2021. (Brock)
6556: WPC6556 in the Epsilon - Alfred Russel Wallace Collection is a letter from Wallace regarding a biography of himself. (Big Martin)
6557: Hemlington, a settlement in the Borough of Middlesbrough in north-east England, had a permanent population of 6557 in 2015. (Brock)
6558: 6558 is the code number for a Webber griddle on the South American river company site. (Awitt)
6559: Juneteenth, observed every year on June 19, has been recognized by 47 US states as a holiday to celebrate the emancipation of slaves in 1865. Amongst other events taking place in 2021 was the "Juneteenth in the D" festival at Dabis MBAD African Bead Museum, 6559 Grand River Ave., Detroit, Michigan. (Brock)
6560: First Air Flight 6560 crashed on landing at Resolute Bay Airfield in Canada on August 20 2011. (Big Martin)
6561: 6561 = 812 = 94 = 38. (Brock)
6562: Ex-GWR Brake Composite coach 6562 was built at Swindon Works in 1938 and is now operated by the Severn Valley Railway. (Big Martin)
6563: NM 6563, also known as the Sunspot Scenic Byway, begins at the National Solar Observatory at Sunspot in the Lincoln National Forest. It's one of only three four-digit state highways in New Mexico, taking its number from the wavelength of the Hydrogen-alpha spectral line (6563 Å) used by scientists at the observatory to locate solar flares on the Sun. (Brock)
6564: The Arthrex AR-6564 is a crystal cannula. (Big Martin)
6565: According to the lyrics of In the Year 2525 by Zager and Evans, in the year 6565 "You'll pick your son, your daughter too, from the bottom of a long glass tube". (Big Martin)
6566: The American folk song Lazarus and the Rich Man (or The Rich Man and Lazarus) is listed as number 6566 in the Roud Folk Song Index. Its first line is "There was a man in ancient times". (Brock)
6567: Tahtlum Peak is a 6,567-foot mountain summit located east-southeast of Chinook Pass in the William O. Douglas Wilderness. (Strawberry)
6568: Canadian Pacific diesel electric switcher locomotive 6568 was built by Montreal Locomotive Works in 1957 and is now at the Saskachewan Railway Museum near Saskatoon. (Big Martin)
6569: Brady Haran, the producer of the Numberphile videos on YouTube, was asked to come up with two random numbers to start a Fibonacci-like sequence. He chose 2308 and 4261, and thus inadvertently created the Brady Sequence, of which the third member is 2308 + 4261 = 6569. (Brock)
6570: City and Guilds course 6570 is Trowel Occupations (Construction). (Big Martin)
6571: In the period to July 2020, Project Waterfall provided 6571 people in the Jabi Tehnan district of Ethiopia with clean drinking water and improved hygiene education. (Brock)
6572: SNCF CC6500 class electric locomotive CC6572 was named Resistance-Fer in honour of the WW2 railway workers resistance group. (Big Martin)
6573: 6573 is the only four-digit number with this property: split 6573 into 65 and 73. The 65th prime is 313, and the number of primes up to and including 73 is 21. Multiply them together: 313 x 21 = 6573. (Brock)
6574: Westminster City Council parking location 6574 is in Rochester Row. (Big Martin)
6575: 6575 is the item number for this train carriage. (Awitt)
6576: On March 10th last year, the Japanese rock band the GazettE had planned to hold a concert called 18TH ANNIVERSARY DAY/6576, but it was cancelled owing to the Covid-19 pandemic. (Brock)
6577: ISO 6577 is a standard for nutmeg and mace, but only from Myristica fragrans. (Big Martin)
6578: Wimbledon High School in south-west London, a private girls' prep school which charges £6578 per term, has dropped the name Draxmont for its sports hall because of the family's association with a slave plantation owner who died more than 130 years ago. (Brock)
6579: Lot 6579 in the "Railwayana with Bygones" auction at T W Gaze in May was 10 lettuce cloches. (Big Martin)
6580: Imagine slicing up a cube-shaped cake with a series of planar cuts. The cake numbers represent the maximum number of pieces that it's possible to have after each successive cut. After 34 cuts, the maximum is 6580 pieces. (Brock)
6581: 6581 is the beginning of the phone number for the local taxi service in Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia. (Awitt)
6582: Iran's presidential election takes place tomorrow, with some activists urging a boycott. The latest poll by the government-affiliated Iranian Students Polling Agency (ISPA), taken June 15-16 with a sample of 6582, found 42 per cent saying they would vote or were likely to vote, with 33 per cent saying they would not vote. (Brock)
6583: The British Museum's object Oc.6583 is a fish spear from the Solomon Islands collected in 1865. (Big Martin)
6584: NGC 6584 is a globular cluster in the constellation Telescopium that lies near Theta Arae and is 45000 light-years distant. (Brock)
6585: 6585 is the product code for a brand of house paint called 'Coming up roses'. (Awitt)
6586: BR locomotive D6586 was the first numbered of a batch of BRCW locomotives (see my earlier entry) with narrower bodies to allow them to work through the tunnels between Tunbridge Wells and Hastings. It is now used by the Battlefield Line Railway in Leicestershire. (Big Martin)
6587: (((((((((((1+2)x3)-4)+5)x6)-7)+8)x9)-10)+11)x12)-13 = 6587. (Brock)
6588: 6588 is the product code number for this Playmobil set. (Awitt)
6589: Record number PCOM 3/62/6589 in the National Archives at Kew is a licence granted to Joseph Fisher alias Bell Tinker, convicted of "stealing from the person two half crowns and ten shillings after a previous conviction of felony at the Quarter Sessions at Northallerton, Yorkshire on 19 October 1852". He was sentenced to 10 years transportation, and the licence was granted 31 October 1856, for early release from Portland prison. (Brock)
6590: National Portrait Gallery painting npg6590 is of Baron Sainsbury. (Big Martin)
6591: The highway network in Oman was expanded from 6591 km in 1996 to 25,926 km at the end of 2009. (Brock)
6592: 6592 is the street number for this old church, on the outskirts of Melbourne, Australia. (Awitt)
6593: The mission of the US Air Force's 6593d Test Squadron was directed at recovering film imaged by the Corona strategic reconnaissance satellites produced and operated by the Air Force and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). It was disbanded in 1972. (Brock)
6594: According to this website overriding the tax deducted from interest causes the error 6492 and/or 6594. (Big Martin)
6595: A jumble sale was recently organized to raise money for residents affected by a fire in Pollokshields, Glasgow. A GoFundMe page was also launched, and raised £6595 by Monday 7 June. (Brock)
6596: The 6596 bus runs between Saint John XXIII Primary School and Riverstone Station on weekdays in Sydney. (Big Martin)
6597: If you reverse the digits of 26597, the result is prime. (It's 1986 digits long, so I have no intention of checking the above!) (Brock)
6598: Dynasylan 6598 is an oligomeric siloxane containing vinyl, propyl and ethoxy groups. (Big Martin)
6599: Austra Skujyté is a Lithuanian heptathlete and decathlete. Her personal best in the heptathlon of 6599 was set on 4 August at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. (Brock)
6600: The Nokia 6600 phone was released in 2003. (Awitt)
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