6601: The B6601 is one of Britain's newest B-roads, having been given that number in 2020. Before that, it was - unbelievably - a motorway, connecting junction 35 of the M6 with the quarries at Over Kellet in Lancashire. It was (and still is) entirely single carriageway and less than half a mile long, but it was given motorway status because at its northern end you had no choice but to join another motorway. This problem was resolved by downgrading the circulatory carriageway of the roundabout, allowing non-motorway traffic to turn round and come back. (Brock)
6602: According to this website Reading is home to 6,602 millionaires. (Big Martin)
6603: The Seaboard Air Line Railroad Lounge Car number 6603 is on display next to the former Florida East Coast Railway Depot in Boca Raton, Florida. (Brock)
6604: Star 6604 is a hot pepper hybrid. (Big Martin)
6605: Recently up for auction at Heritage Auctions was a Rolex Ref. 6605 gold watch, depicting the Thunderbird, a mythical creature that appears in the oral and written traditions of Indigenous-American tribes across North America. It was previously owned by Captain Herman Griffin, a United States Air Force officer and pilot with the Air Force's flight demonstration team, the Thunderbirds. (Brock)
6606: 6606 is the product code for a Weber stainless steel grill. (Awitt)
6607: Point 6607, on the Bridge Creek Wilderness Hike in eastern Oregon, lies at a height of 6607 feet. (Brock)
6608: Gibraltar Hardware product 6608 is a motorcycle-seated style of drum throne (or a fancy drummer's seat!). (Big Martin)
6609: The Gretsch Players Edition 6609 Broadkaster (sic) is in many ways atypical for its make and has opened it up for guitarists not as wed to rockabilly creds as its usual target demographic. (AlmondFacialBar)
6610: This is 6610-miles by DeepSeaDuck. (Big Martin)
6611: 12 + 52 + 92 + 132 + 172 + 212 + 252 + 292 + 332 + 372 + 412 = 6611. (Brock)
6612: The Morsø 6612 is a Danish-made wood-burning stove whose USP are beautiful wooden legs. (AlmondFacialBar)
6613: Toy Tractors have the Britains 1:32 scale Massey Ferguson 6613 in stock at £24.00. (Big Martin)
6614: The Fiat Type 6614 is a 4x4 wheeled armoured personnel carrier developed as a joint venture between Fiat and Oto Melara of Italy. The first prototype was built in 1972. (Brock)
6615: The BASF D-6615 stereo amplifier, marketed as part of the BASF 1980 Variosystem, was a rebranded Aiwa S-A22. (AlmondFacialBar)
6616: 6616 is the product code number for several items for Massey Ferguson tractor parts. (Awitt)
6617: The Laser 6617 is an engine timing kit for the Vauxhall/Opel 1.6 CDTi diesel engine. (Big Martin)
6618: On 28 May, the Trinidad and Tobago Guardian reported that 6618 people had received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in the previous 24 hours. (Brock)
6619: Ex-GWR locomotive 6619 was built in 1928 and now appears to be getting an overhaul at the works of the Kent & East Sussex Railway in Rolvenden. (Big Martin)
6620: Figures published by the Home Office on 28 January 2021 showed that an extra 6620 police officers had joined forces in England and Wales between the start of the campaign and the end of December 2020, exceeding the target to recruit 6000 officers by March 2021. But if you look at the announcement of the start of the recruitment campaign, dated 5 September 2019, it says "Up to 6000 officers to be recruited in the first year", which would suggest that the target was supposed to be reached by September 2020. Not that I would wish to suggest that the government was responsible for moving any goalposts... (Brock)
6621: Canadian National Occupational Classification 6621 applies to service station attendants. (Big Martin)
6622: Maria Caulfield, who now serves as the Conservative MP for Lewes, came second in the Caerphilly constituency at the 2010 general election, polling 6622 votes. (Brock)
6623: 6623 is the product code number for this item from an Australian craft store. (Awitt)
6624: 6624 = 2 x (2+7) x (2+7+7) x (2+7+7+7). (Brock)
6625: In the 1956 Chester-le-Street by-election, 6,625 people voted for William Rees-Mogg. (Strawberry)
6626: "DVV-pigeons - Johan De Vroe (Moortsele, BE) win 1st Zone Bourges of 6626 young birds," says the headline on this Belgian Pigeon Paradise article from September 2020. (It may have lost something in translation!) The second most important victory for DVV Pigeons in 2020, according to them. (Brock)
6627: There is a photograph for sale on ebay of ex-GWR locomotive 6627 taken in 1963 from the field access bridge over the South Wales line near Patchway Station. (Big Martin)
6628: The Type 032 submarine (NATO reporting name: Qing-class) is a class of diesel-electric submarine currently undergoing testing in China's People's Liberation Army Navy. It is said to be the world's largest conventional submarine, at a submerged displacement of 6628 tonnes and is able to submerge for a maximum of 30 days. (Brock)
6629: The King's Singers 1980 album New Day was released by EMI as catalogue number SCX 6629. (Big Martin)
6630: The Nokia 6630, released in 2004, is the first phone ever that allows truly global roaming. (Brock)
6631: Angel number 6631 apparently reveals that you worked so hard to reach where you are today. (AlmondFacialBar)
6632: 6632 is the product code number for an Australian health text book. (Awitt)
6633: There are places available to compete in the 2022 6633 Arctic Ultra. I don't think a 120 or 380 mile footrace with potential temperatures of -40 is really for me! (Big Martin)
6634: Applicants for Northern Ireland's Forest Expansion Scheme and Small Woodland Grant Scheme can contact the Forest Service on 028 6634 3103. (Brock)
6635: Sherwin-Williams paint colour SW 6635 is determined orange. I can't say I've ever met a determined orange before! (Big Martin)
6636: You can split the digits of 6636 into a multiplication sum: 6 x 6 = 36. (OEIS suggests they might be called "area numbers"; see also #6742.) (Brock)
6637: The ASW Handicap Chase was a horse race run on New Year's Day (weather permitting) between 1953 and 2004 at Cheltenham Racecourse over a distance of 4 miles and 1 furlong or 6,637 metres. (Big Martin)
6638: Mount Kailash is a 6638 metre high peak in the Kailash Range, which forms part of the Transhimalaya in the Ngari Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. It is considered to be sacred in four religions: Hinduism, Bon, Buddhism, and Jainism. (Brock)
6639: CVE-2017-6639 is a vulnerability in the role-based access control (RBAC) functionality of Cisco Prime Data Center Network Manager that could facilitate unauthorised access to sensitive information owing to a lack of authentication mechanism for an inadvertently enabled debugging tool. (AlmondFacialBar)
6640: 66/40 is a Bible teaching programme developed by Dr Chuck Missler, an American evangelist who died in 2018. The name refers to "66 books penned by 40 authors over thousands of years". (Brock)
6641: A 2018 study of 6,641 people revealed that as many as 40% had a fictional first memory. (Big Martin)
6642: 6642 Henze is a main-belt asteroid discovered by Takeshi Urata in 1990. (AlmondFacialBar)
6643: Matchitecture kit 6643 is of a Chinese Junk. (Big Martin)
6644: Before reaching the last 16 of Euro 2020, Sweden had travelled 6644 miles, coming second only to Switzerland who travelled 7245 miles. England were bottom of the table at 0 miles. (Brock)
6645: Ashton Eaton set a world record with a score of 6645 points for the heptathlon in the Tallinn World Indoor Championships in 2012. (Big Martin)
6646: Episode 6646 of the Australian soap Neighbours, also known as "The Eclipse", was broadcast in May 2013 in Australia and the following month in the UK. It was no ordinary episode: during an annular eclipse, Detective Mark Brennan returned from the dead, Kyle Canning did serious damage to his eyesight by looking at the sun (after his dog Bossy ran away with his safety glasses) and there was also a child kidnapping. (Brock)
6647: ISO 6647-2:2020 concerns itself with simplified routine methods to measure the amylose content in rice. (AlmondFacialBar)
6648: In the 1997 general election, the Liberal Democrat Paul Keetch captured the marginal seat of Hereford from the Conservatives by a majority of 6648. He kept it until 2010. (Brock)
6649: CAS number 6649-26-9 is 4-(2,3,5,6-Tetrahydroimidazo[2,1-b]thiazol-6-yl)phenol (YAY, IUPAC), a compound used in pharmaco analytics. (AlmondFacialBar)
6650: According to Auto Express motorbike users are 6,650% more likely to die on the road than car users. (Big Martin)
6651: Siegfried Nagl became the longest-serving mayor of Graz in Austria last month, when he achieved 6651 days in office. (Article in German.) (Brock)
6652: §6652 of the US internal revenue code concerns itself with the failure to file certain information returns, registration statements, etc. (AlmondFacialBar)
6653: 6653 is the smaller of the two prime factors of (71! + 1). The other is 99 digits long. (Brock)
6654: D-6654 was a Lockheed F-104G Starfighter in the service of the Dutch Airforce from 1965 to 1982. (AlmondFacialBar)
6655: Tainhas State Park in Brazil has an area of approximately 6655 hectares. (Ed.)
6656: No. 6656 on the North American Moth Photographers Group's website is Hypagyrtis piniata - the Pine Measuringworm Moth. (Big Martin)
6657: Out of 39,629 new property millionaires created in Britain in 2020, 6657 were in London. (Brock)
6658: The SRY-box transcription factor 3 gene in Homo sapiens codes for several transcription factors involved n embryonic development and mutations in it have been associated with with X-linked cognitive disability as well as growth hormone deficiency. Its gene ID is 6658. (AlmondFacialBar)
6659: Hunslet shunter (works number 6659) was originally used at the MOD munitions store at Dean Hill Park before being bought for the Ffestiniog Railway and is now named Moel y Gest. (Big Martin)
6660: Meru Peak, elevation 6660 metres, is a mountain located in the Garhwal Himalayas, in the state of Uttarakhand in India. The name Meru probably originated from the Tamil word for "peak", making it "Peak Peak". (Brock)
6661: 6661 is 1999, upside down. (Awitt)
6662: Ballinasloe is one of the largest towns in County Galway, with a population of 6662 people as of the 2016 census. (Brock)
6663: Here is a recipe for a Victoria sponge cake using the 6663 method. i.e. 6 ounces each of flour, butter and sugar and 3 eggs. (Big Martin)
6664: You'll need the UK Government's Export Health Certificate 6664 to export captive and pet birds like falcons, pigeons, parrots, macaws, cockatoos, budgies, canaries and doves (but not poultry) to Pakistan. (Brock)
6665: Roud ballad 6665 in the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library is Sailing In The Boat. (Big Martin)
6666: It hardly needs to be mentioned that the digits of 6666 are all identical. All the more remarkable, then, that its fourth power contains a string of ten digits that are all different: 66664 = 1974518637029136. (Brock)
6667: 6667 is the pattern code number for this shirt. (Awitt)
6668: Syngenta S 6668 Plus is a maize hybrid. (Big Martin)
6669: H.R.6669 is a congressional bill providing for federal government financial support to the States for costs associated with sustaining some mandated state services under risk due to COVID. (PDR)
6670: Zak Mapes, of Pennington in the New Forest, Hampshire, narrowly avoided a custodial sentence for drug-dealing in May this year, after police discovered 667 bags of ecstasy tablets at his address with an estimated street value of £6670. (Brock)
6671: The Golden Eagle 6671 is an airsoft machine gun replica. Looks a bit too realistic for comfort (says someone who actually owns a gun*). * A mid-C19th Indian army smoothbore, muzzle-loading cavalry carbine - so not quite the same league. (Big Martin)
6672: Some 62,000 pupils in 6672 schools across England will receive the Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI) during the current academic year. The fully-funded programme has been offered to state-funded schools by the Department for Education in response to disruption to schooling caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. (Article dated 27 April 2021.) (Brock)
6673: Fowler steam road locomotive 14100 "Empress" has the registration number J 6673. (Big Martin)
6674: And from railways to buses: The Transport Library has a photo of SELNEC PTE Leyland Titan PD3A 6674 on route 19, registration UBN907, at Bolton, Deansgate. (Brock)
6675: 6675 is the route number for the train from New York to Dover, New Jersey. (Awitt)
6676: On February 8, 1960, the director Vincente Minnelli received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the motion picture industry at 6676 Hollywood Boulevard. (Brock)
6677: Huntley Film Archives' film 6677 is Mining in Somerset from 1960. (Big Martin)
6678: There are 6678 distinct ways to arrange two pawns on an 18x18 chessboard (two arrangements being considered equivalent if one can be rotated or reflected to give the other). (Brock)
6679: Vela 4B (also known as OPS 6679) was an American satellite launched in 1967 to detect nuclear tests. (Big Martin)
6680: In May 2021, plans to bring ultrafast full fibre broadband to 6680 premises in Gordon, north-east Scotland, were welcomed by the local MP, Richard Thomson. (Brock)
6681: In the 1920 Barcelona City Council election, 6,681 people voted for the National Monarchical Union (UMN). (Strawberry)
6682: The USS Maine, the sinking of which in Havana harbour in 1898 contributed towards the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, displaced 6,682 long tons. (Big Martin)
6683: Lara de Wit is a South African-born Australian musician, known for her covers of music from video games and film soundtracks on her YouTube channel lara6683. (The reference is to her birth date, 6 June 1983.) (Brock)
6684: 6,684 metre high Mount Longshan in China appears to have never been climbed. (Big Martin)
6685: Puerto Rico Highway 6685 (PR-6685) connects the town of Ciales with Manatà on Puerto Rico's north coast. (Brock)
6686: 6686 is the product code number for this Australian text book. (Awitt)
6687: 6687 children seeking asylum in the UK had been waiting more than a year for an initial decision on their case in 2020, compared with 563 a decade earlier. (Brock)
6688: In 2015, India evacuated 6,688 people from Yemen under operation "Raahat". (Big Martin)
6689: 6689 is a so-called invertible prime; not only is it prime, but it can be turned upside-down to give a different prime (6899). (Brock)
6690: Indian jewellers set a world record in 2018 by setting a ring with 6,690 diamonds. (Big Martin)
6691: BAY 73-6691 is a drug developed by Bayer for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. (Brock)
6692: 6692 Pisces the Sailfish is a book by Don Darkes. (Big Martin)
6693: According to the New Indian Express, there are 6693 buses in Delhi. (See picture caption.) (Brock)
6694: Al Rashid Mosque is at 13070 113 Street, Edmonton, Canada. The phone number is 780 451 6694. (Strawberry)
6695: Take a moment, if you will, to marvel at the features of Casa 6695 in Pinecrest, Miami, Florida. The two-storey luxury residence features two separate car garages, a high-tech media room, and a spacious wine cellar. It also has an open living area with 20-foot ceilings and porcelain Castellon flooring from Spain. Additionally, the 31,798-square foot lot also includes an in-ground swimming pool to entertain guests as well as smart home appliances that can be controlled via smart phone. If all of that was not enough, the team in charge of the project decided to include a brand-new Lamborghini Urus as part of the listing. Sadly, it's not for sale. It was purchased for $3.5 million by a "renowned professional athlete" whose identity can not be disclosed. (Brock)
6696: This Auto Repair Log Book has space for 6,696 entries. I'm not sure I'd want a car that needs that many repairs! (Big Martin)
6697: In June 2021, the Ghana and Simba SC (Tanzania) striker Bernard Morrison was named the Emirate Aluminum Simba Fans Player of the Month. He received 6697 votes out of the 9356 cast. (Brock)
6698: The email address for the Mercure Bristol Holland House Hotel is H6698@ACCOR.COM. (Big Martin)
6699: And so to one of my favourite words: strobogrammatic. It refers to numbers that appear the same when viewed upside-down, such as 6699. (Brock)
6700: English Electric diesel locomotive D6700 was the first of its class built for BR in 1960 and is now preserved as part of the Science Museum Group Collection. (Big Martin)
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