The Quite Incredible Number List: 6901-7000

6901: Cottage World offer 6901 holiday cottages in Wales. (Big Martin)

6902: 6902 is the code number for this novelty trophy. (Awitt)

6903: 6903 is the 117th triangular number:

1 + 2 + 3 + ... + 116 + 117 = 6903

Furthermore, if you delete its left-hand digit you get another triangular number, 903; and if you carry on you get 03 and 3, both of which represent 3, another triangular number. This puts 6903 in the select category of left-truncatable nonzero triangular numbers, of which only 17 examples are known. (Brock)

6904: The Amano 6904 is a time clock ribbon. (Big Martin)

6905: Russia's new hypersonic Tsirkon missile is able to fly at Mach 9, or around 6905 mph. (Brock)

6906: The cricketer Fred Grace, the younger brother of the more well-known W G Grace, had a career run tally of 6,906 before his untimely death at only 29. (Big Martin)

6907: In September 2021 the Labour MP for Portsmouth South, Stephen Morgan, said that 6907 children in his constituency would be affected by the Government's planned £20-a-week cut to Universal Credit. (Brock)

6908: 6908 is the product code for this piece of indigenous art. (Awitt)

6909: At 6909 feet, the Gotthard Pass is a mountain pass in the Alps traversing the Saint-Gotthard Massif and connecting northern and southern Switzerland. Since 2016, it has been traversed by the Gotthard Base Tunnel, the world's longest railway tunnel and deepest traffic tunnel. (Brock)

6910: IRAS 05280-6910 is a red supergiant star located in the Large Magellanic Cloud. It has been calculated to have a radius of 1,000 times that of the Sun, making it one of the largest discovered so far. (Big Martin)

6911: The Vela incident, also known as the South Atlantic Flash, was an unidentified double flash of light detected by the American Vela satellite OPS 6911 on 22 September 1979 near the Prince Edward Islands in the Indian Ocean. The cause of the flash remains officially unknown, but today most independent researchers believe that it was caused by a nuclear explosion - perhaps an undeclared nuclear test carried out by South Africa and Israel. (Brock)

6912: According to this factsheet there are 6,912 languages in the world. (Big Martin)

6913: Up until 31 August 2021, 6913 fires have burned through 1.76 million acres of land in California. (Brock)

6914: Southern Railway diesel locomotive 6914 was built by General Motors in 1953 and is currently being restored at the Tennessee Valley Railroad in Chattanooga. (Big Martin)

6915: The subject of portrait number 6915 in the National Portrait Gallery is Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, himself the artist of 14 portraits. (The artist of this portrait is William Packer, who didn't do any others.) (Brock)

6916: Museum of London item 6916 is a medieval floor tile. (Big Martin)

6917: 6917! - 1 is prime: a so-called factorial prime, with 23560 digits. (Brock)

6918: Historic England project 6918 was commissioned to consider increasing the potential of results from submerged prehistory sites by looking at the Bristol Channel/Somerset Levels/Severn Estuary area. (Big Martin)

6919: 6919 is the product code for this Playmobil police station set. (Awitt)

6920: Israel experienced the highest rate of property price growth amongst OECD countries over the last decade. Average house prices rose by 345.7%, from £1553 per square metre in 2010 to £6920 in 2020. (Brock)

6921: Hvannadalshnjukur is the highest mountain in Iceland at 6,921 feet. (Big Martin)

6922: Between 2001 and 2011, the number of people in Bristol stating their ethnic group as "Black Other" rose from 936 to 6922. This is assumed to be due to an increase in the Somali population. (Brock)

6923: Despite being listed as a "ship" on the Marine Traffic website, SAR 6923 is a search and rescue aircraft operating on the west coast of India. (Big Martin)

6924: Write out the natural numbers in groups, increasing in size by 1 each time, and sum each group:

1 = 1

2 + 3 = 5

4 + 5 + 6 = 15

7 + 8 + 9 + 10 = 34

and so on. The 24th group will be

277 + 278 + ... + 299 + 300 = 6924

(Brock)

6925: The famous Grauman's Chinese Theatre is at 6925 Hollywood Boulevard. (Big Martin)

6926: The state with the smallest margin of victory in the 1940 US presidential election was Michigan, where the Republican Wendell Willkie led Franklin D. Roosevelt by 6926 votes (0.33% of the total). Roosevelt nonetheless won comfortably. (Brock)

6927: The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird on display at the California Science Centre had the USAF serial number 60-6927. (Big Martin)

6928: Michael Mandiberg has written software that parses the entirety of the English-language Wikipedia database and programmatically lays out nearly 7500 volumes, complete with covers, and then uploads them to Lulu.com for print-on-demand. Volume 6928, Trio Music Live in Europe to Triple K Cooperative, is available for 80 US dollars. (Brock)

6929: 6929 is the product code number for the Lego Star fleet Voyager. (Awitt)

6930: A blazar is an active galactic nucleus with a relativistic jet (a jet composed of ionized matter traveling at nearly the speed of light) directed very nearly towards an observer. Q0906+6930 was the most distant known blazar at the time of its discovery in July, 2004. The engine of the blazar is a supermassive black hole approximately 2 billion times the mass of the Sun. It is one of the most massive black holes on record. (Brock)

6931: Garden Home-Whitford is a census designated place in Oregon and had a population of 6,931 as at the 2000 census. (Big Martin)

6932: To assure a greater than 1/2 chance of finding an individual with an IQ in the top one out of 10,000, you must select at least 6932 individuals. (Brock)

6933: Export Health Certificate 6933 is required to export feathers for fishing flies to Sri Lanka. Is there actually somebody doing that? (Big Martin)

6934: In September 2021, Mark Doak of Envision Elkins, a coalition of local commercial property owners in Elkins, West Virginia, addressed the city council thus: "Elkins now has a population of less than 7000: 6934 to be exact. A decline in population also leads to a decline in businesses. The challenge is to reverse this trend and grow the population of Elkins." He didn't spell out exactly how he was planning to do this. (Brock)

6935: Issue 6935 of The Lancet magazine, was published in 1956. (Awitt)

6936: Union Pacific 6936 was for decades the largest operational diesel-electric locomotive in the world. Today it is preserved in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and is believed to be still operable, although its last excursion was in 2015. (Brock)

6937: ISO/IEC 6937 covers a coded graphic character set for the Latin alphabet. (Big Martin)

6938: 6938 deaths by euthanasia were reported in the Netherlands during 2020 - the highest figure ever. (Brock)

6939: The Roman well under the old chocolate factory in Keynsham is at Grid Ref. ST 6571 6939. (Big Martin)

6940: At the Hartlepool by-election in May this year, the Conservative candidate Jill Mortimer gained the seat from Labour with a majority of 6940 - only the second time since 1982 that the governing party had gained a seat from the opposition in a by-election, and the first Conservative win in the seat since it was created in 1974. (Brock)

6941: The township hall of Wexford County, Michigan, is at 6941 W6 Rd, Mesick, MI. (AlmondFacialBar)

6942: Elon Musk hosted Saturday Night Live exactly 6942 days after SpaceX was founded. (The author of that article clearly attaches rather more significance to the event than I do.) (Brock)

6943: Lodge of Fidelity (Masonic Lodge No. 6943) meets at Stapleton Masonic Hall. (Big Martin)

6944: 6944 head of cattle were sold in Saskatchewan for the week ending August 27, about 2700 fewer than the previous week. (Brock)

6945: In 2014, 6,945 people were slightly injured in accidents on Welsh roads. (Big Martin)

6946: Ten supernovae have been observed in NGC 6946 in the 20th and early 21st centuries. For this reason, it has sometimes been referred to as the Fireworks Galaxy. (Brock)

6947: In September 2006, there were 6,947 children in temporary housing in Newham, east London. (Ed.)

6948: Issue 6948 of the British medical journal was published in 1994. (Awitt)

6949: Not only is 6949 prime, but 69491, 69493, 69497 and 69499 are all prime. 6949 is the first prime number after 19 with this property. (Brock)

6950: This office in Cotham, Bristol is available to rent at £6,950 per annum. (Big Martin)

6951: To contact the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) from outside the UK, phone +44 20 7238 6951. (Brock)

6952: The book Epidemics Resulting From Wars reveals that 6,952 people in the Luebeck area died in a typhus outbreak during the Thirty Years War. (Big Martin)

6953: Humberside Police seized 6953 cannabis plants last year - an increase of 82% on the previous year. (Brock)

6954: According to a recent report, 6,954 people are serving life sentences in UK prisons. (Big Martin)

6955: "6955 kHz" is the sixth episode of the third season of the American science fiction drama television series Fringe. It followed the team's investigation into a numbers station that mysteriously gave its listeners amnesia. (Brock)

6956: Windows 7 build 6956 is a pre-beta build of Windows 7 shared online in 2008. (Big Martin)

6957: KOI-6957 is a candidate planet about 6898 light years away from us. (AlmondFacialBar)

6958: Before August 15 1947, India had 40,524 miles of railways. On partition, 6958 miles out of the total went to Pakistan. (Brock)

6959: The GWR 6959 Class (or modified Hall) locomotives were a 1940s redesign by Frederick Hawksworth of Charles Collet's earlier Hall Class. (Big Martin)

6960: There are 6960 ways to place a non-attacking white and black queen on a 10x10 chessboard. (Brock)

6961: The record for blowing party blowers simultaneously was set by 6,961 people in Tokyo on November 21 2009. (Big Martin)

6962: The tallest mountain in the world outside Asia is Mount Aconcagua in Argentina, at 6962 metres above sea level (according to Giorgio Poretti, who measured its height using GPS technology in 2001). (Brock)

6963: NWA 6963 is a Martian Shergottite meteorite found in Morocco in 2011. (Big Martin)

6964: The most common type of biodegradable plastic products in Taiwan, made from polylactic acid (PLA), amounted to 6964 tonnes last year. Only 363 tonnes were recycled. (Brock)

6965: The Institute of Scottish Historical Research record SSNE 6965 concerns George Forbes of Tolquhon who served as a lieutenant colonel in a Scottish regiment in Swedish service in the 1630s. (Big Martin)

6966: The Burmese authorities released 6966 people as part of a Presidential prisoner amnesty in July 2015. (Brock)

6967: The Californian Department of Industrial Relations order 6967 concerns the certification of safety representatives at underground mines. (Big Martin)

6968: On June 18, 2011, the Cassini spacecraft performed a flyby of Saturn's moon Helene, passing at a distance of 6968 km. (Brock)

6969: 6969 is a song by Ninja Sex Party. (Big Martin)

6970: Fans of Leyton Orient will be delighted to know that An Evening with the 69/70 Champions took place on 10th October 2021 at 12.30pm (technically "A Lunchtime With...", but it seems they didn't want to change the publicity). They only won Division Three, but they were definitely the champions! (Brock)

6971: In July this year, Southern Water was fined £90 million after admitting to 6,971 illegal spills over a 5 year period. (Big Martin)

6972: There are 6972 possible two-piece positions in the game of draughts (checkers). (Brock)

6973: An article about the possible distance travelled by football fans reveals that Middlesbrough supporters would have to travel 6,973 miles to attend all of the club's away games in a season. (Big Martin)

6974: Minor planet 6974 is named after the Hungarian-British conductor Sir Georg Solti. (Brock)

6975: The cruiser Oleg was one of the few Russian vessels to escape from the battle of Tsushima in 1905. She displaced 6,975 long tons. (Big Martin)

6976: Go 6976 is a protein kinase inhibitor, used in the treatment of bladder cancer. (Brock)

6977: Huntington Library EL 6977 is a collection of pamphlets by various authors entitled "Argument Concerning Ship Money" from the reign of Charles I. I know it's probably just me - but it sounds fascinating. (Big Martin)

6978: Constitution Crags is a 6978-foot-elevation summit located in Okanogan County of Washington State. (Brock)

6979: In 2017, Rob Angel was voted the most powerful student on Bristol University's campus. He secured 1,966 votes out of 6,979 cast and won by a margin of just 3. (Big Martin)

6980: The Pocket Rocket S electric motorcycle is now available from SOL Motors at €6980, for delivery in spring/summer 2022 (but not in the UK). (Brock)

6981: The Defence of Britain Archive site S0006981 is a machine gun pillbox near Berrow on the Somerset coast. (Big Martin)

6982: The sum of the first 6982 composite numbers is a perfect square: the actual figure is 28,185,481 = 5309². (Brock)

6983: National Portrait Gallery picture NPG 6983 is of Ken Livingstone by Andrew Tift. (Big Martin)

6984: 6984 is the file number for a plant in Western Australia. (Awitt)

6985: Proclamation 6985 by US President Bill Clinton, issued on 10 April 1997, declared 11 April 1997 to be "National Pay Inequity Awareness Day" and called upon "Government officials, law enforcement agencies, business and industry leaders, educators, and all the people of the United States to recognize the full value of the skills and contributions of women in the labor force". (Brock)

6986: Parkside Christian Church is at 6986 Salem Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45230, United States. The ISBN for More Than This by David Kirby, is 0-8071-6986-2. (Strawberry)

6987: Here is a photo of the first Hawker Woodcock I aircraft which bore the number J6987. (Big Martin)

6988: The largest cruise ship in the world, Royal Caribbean's Wonder of the Seas, completed its first sea trials last month. It can accommodate 6988 guests across 16 decks with 24 guest elevators and 2300 crew members. (Brock)

6989: Hawksworth modified-Hall class locomotive 6989 is named Wightwick Hall after a stately home near Wolverhampton which is now occupied by a school. The locomotive was saved from Barry scrapyard and is now in operating condition after a very long rebuild. (Big Martin)

6990: The city of Macomb, Illinois, has received its first revenue from the city's adult use marijuana tax. Mayor Mike Inman said the city's three-percent municipal use tax on marijuana brought in $6990 during the final two weeks of April. (Brock)

6991: Marmolo is a mountain in Italy. Its prominence is 2,131 metres, or 6,991 feet. (Strawberry)

6992: The Austrian town of Mittelberg lies in a valley that is only accessible by road from Germany, even though it is contiguous with the rest of Austria. It thus has a German postcode in addition to its Austrian postcode of 6992. (Brock)

6993: Elector number 6993 in the Bristol Poll Book of 1835 was Joseph Hassell, a leather factor of Pritchard Street in St Paul's. (Big Martin)

6994: A UK Parliamentary petition to "give votes urgently to the 5½ million excluded from the Brexit referendum" (which closed in March 2017) gained 6994 signatures. (Brock)

6995: According to a 2011 article in Prison Legal News, in 2009 California prison officials confiscated 6,995 illegal mobile phones. (Strawberry)

6996: Railway line No. 6996 is the Molli Railway - a narrow gauge line in north Germany. (Big Martin)

6997: 6997 is the 900th prime number. (Brock)

6998: HR6998 is a main sequence star in the constellation of Sagittarius. (Big Martin)

6999: 6999 People is the title of both a song and an album by Lonnie Davis. (Brock)

7000: The Rolls Royce Trent 7000 aero engine was created for the Airbus 330neo. (Big Martin)