Sunday, July 9, 2023

The Quite Incredible Number List: 7501-7600

7501: According to the standards of the Hugo Awards, the most prestigious award in science fiction, a novelette runs from 7501 words to 15,000 words. (A short story is up to 7500 words, and a novella is 15,001-30,000 words.) (Brock)
7502: 7502 Miles is a song released in 2019 by Ale Schmidt and Rinat Ben Hamo. (Big Martin)
7503: Aviastar Flight 7503 was a regional flight from Masamba to Makassar, Indonesia, which went missing minutes after takeoff on 2 October 2015. Three days later the plane was found crashed and it was confirmed that all 10 on board were dead. (Brock)
7504: Here is a photo of Wessex Connect bus 7504 at The Centre in Bristol. (Big Martin)
7505: An anonymous customer from Cork won €7505 from a €5 bet on the Irish National Lottery in February 2022, picking the three numbers 25, 38 and 41. (Brock)
7506: People Magazine Special 7506 from 1977 carried the headline "Elvis Died From Loneliness". (Big Martin)
7507: Minor planet 7507 Israel is named not after the country, but after the Dutch astronomer Frank Pieter Israel (born 1946). (Brock)
7508: Bavarian D VI class locomotive Berg was built in 1883 and later numbered as Class 98 7508 under the national scheme. It survived by being used in a peat factory until 1964 and is now in a museum. (Big Martin)
7509: T Microscopii is a semiregular variable star in the constellation Microscopium, which shines with a bolometric luminosity 7509 times that of the Sun. (Brock)
7510: The Mesolithic Pesse Canoe discovered in the Netherlands is estimated to have been made some time between 8040 and 7510 BCE. (Big Martin)
7511: The British Sting Ray torpedo, which entered service in 1983, was originally known as Naval and Air Staff Requirement (NASR) 7511. (Brock)
7512: The Amels YS 7512 yacht is built in Vlissingen. Shame I've got nowhere to keep one! (Big Martin)
7513: At an elevation of 7513 feet, Khojak Pass (who loves ya, baby?) is a mountain pass connecting Qila Abdullah with Chaman in the province of Baluchistan, Pakistan. (Brock)
7514: Ryanair flight FR7514 goes from Bristol to Barcelona and takes a little over 2 hours to cover the 733 miles. (Big Martin)
7515: The dying rabbits problem: assume that rabbits become mature after 4 months and then give birth to one pair of rabbits per month for 7 months, after which they die. If you start with one pair in the first month, after 31 months there will be 7515 pairs. (Brock)
7516: ISO 7516 covers the sampling of instant tea in solid form. (Big Martin)
7517: According to the Daily Express, the Duchess of Cambridge's wardrobe items for her recent tour of Denmark cost £7517. (Brock)
7518: With an elevation of 7,518 metres, Saser Kangri II East was the world's second highest unclimbed mountain before it was eventually conquered in 2011. (Big Martin)
7519: Amongst the Russian ships currently subject to US sanctions is Fesco Magadan, a Russian-flagged container ship with a gross registered tonnage of 7519. (Brock)
7520: According to the Child Wall website on the solar system and planets, Venus has a diameter of 7,520 miles. (Big Martin)
7521: Product number 7521 from Proshields Safety Signs urges "Caution: Speed Ramps". (Brock)
7522: Nobody seems to be clear what NGC 7522 actually is, but it's visible in the constellation Aquarius. (Big Martin)
7523: 7523 is the largest norep emirp with only prime digits (OEIS). This may need a bit of explanation: an "emirp" ("prime" backwards) is a prime number whose reversal is also prime; "norep" means "not repeating any digits". So it's saying that 7523 is prime, 3257 is prime, the individual digits (7, 5, 2, 3) are all prime and all different; and that no number greater than 7523 has all these properties. (Brock)
7524: NPS.42.NS.7524 was a pigeon awarded the Dickin Medal for carrying messages in WW2. (Big Martin)
7525: A rare 7525-carat emerald recovered at the Kagem mine in Zambia - the largest ever found there - was auctioned at Gemfields in November 2021. (Brock)
7526: 7526 Yacht Club is a holiday villa in Shelter Cove. (Big Martin)
7527: The coastline of Ireland is 7527 km long. (Brock)
7528: Fowler locomotive 7528 was built for a fairground ride operating on a short circular track. (Big Martin)
7529: President Biden's State of the Union address to the US Congress in March 2022 contained 7529 words. (Brock)
7530: The Disclosure Scheme for Domestic Abuse in Scotland has resulted in 7,530 people being told that their partner has a violent or abusive past since its launch in 2015. (Big Martin)
7531: 7531 is the concatenation of the first four odd numbers in reverse order. (No reference required I hope - but it's in OEIS if you want to be sure!) (Brock)
7532: The Prince William Railway was an early horse-drawn narrow gauge line that ran for a Prussian mile (7,532 metres) along the Deilbach valley in Germany. (Big Martin)
7533: 7533 is the postcode of Fuldera in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. (Brock)
7534: The NGK 7534 B6HS is a standard spark plug. (Big Martin)
7535: There were 7535 officers in West Midlands Police last December. (Brock)
7536: The Amphenol 7536 is a UHF collinear antenna. It sounds like it should be some sort of medical drug to me! (Big Martin)
7537: The Galvanisers Union public house in Bromley-by-Bow, east London, can be contacted on 020 7537 1158. (Brock)
7538: This statue of a god with a coffer from the 8th century BCE is inventory number AO 7538 at the department of near-eastern antiquities in the Louvre. (Big Martin)
7539: Mike Veale, the former police chief who led the controversial child abuse inquiry into Sir Edward Heath, was at one point earning up to £10,000 a month advising Rupert Matthews, Leicestershire's Conservative Police and Crime Commissioner. In September 2021 he received a payment of £7539. (Brock)
7540: Tomb G 7530-7540 in Giza belonged to Meresankh III, the granddaughter of King Khufu, who built the Great Pyramid. (Big Martin)
7541: There were 7541 deaths from coronary heart disease in Scotland in 2012. (Brock)
7542: Hill Bagging's hill number 7542 is the 1,617 feet high Garw Fynydd in north Wales. (Big Martin)
7543: The number formed by 7543 7's followed by 7543 is prime. (Note that it starts with 7544 7's, the last 7 being the one in 7543 itself.) (Brock)
7544: The runway at Smithers Airport in British Columbia was extended to 7,544 feet in length in 2008. (Big Martin)
7545: A signal known as The Buzz was broadcast on various short-wave frequencies, including 7545 kHz, until 1999. It consisted of a soft buzzing sound on the frequency, although there were some reports of white noise bursts heard. It could easily have been mistaken for interference. (Brock)
7546: Executive Order 7546 transferred certain property and functions from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of the Interior in the USA and was signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 1st 1937. (Big Martin)
7547: The Cardiff South and Penarth constituency for the Senedd or Welsh Parliament is currently held by Labour's Vaughan Gething. In the May 2021 elections, the Conservatives' Leighton Rowlands came second with 7547 votes. (Brock)
7548: In 2016, 7,548 musicians were brought together on a football field in Frankfurt to break the record for the world's largest orchestra. (Big Martin)
7549: The Taubenkogel is a 7549-feet-high peak in the Dachstein Mountains of Upper Austria, northeast of the Hallstätter Glacier. (Brock)
7550: St Raphael's Hospice raised £7,550 with its 2021 Santa Dash. (Big Martin)
7551: The San Bernardino train disaster (California) took place on May 12 1989, when Southern Pacific train 7551 East lost control while descending Cajon Pass, derailed on an elevated curve and ploughed into a residential area on Duffy Street. The conductor, head-end brakeman, and two residents were killed in the wreck. (Brock)
7552: Here is a photograph of B-24H Liberator bomber 42-7552. The bizarre paint scheme is due to it being the assembly ship of 489th Bomber Group of the USAF and it needed to stand out. (Big Martin)
7553: After Storms Eunice and Franklin last month, Western Power Distribution reported that it was working to restore power to 7553 customers in south-west England. (Brock)
7554: 7554: Glorious Memories Revived is a Vietnamese video game set in the Franco-Vietnamese War. (Big Martin)
7555: Media enquiries for The Salvation Army should be directed to 020 3657 7555. (Brock)
7556: Indian Standard IS 7556 is for burnt clay jallies. (Big Martin)
7557: 7557 is a palindrome, and it's also the sum of the first 47 integer palindromes: 1 + 2 + 3 + ... + 373 + 383 = 7557. (Brock)
7558: WH 7558 is a bunker in Saarland, Germany. (Big Martin)
7559: From the Daytona Beach News Journal, Florida, March 2022: Jack Petocz — organizer of the statewide 'Say Gay' school walkout protesting House Bill 1557 — has been removed from "administrative school absence" and may return to Flagler Palm Coast High School with no permanent marks on his school record. A petition on change.org received 7559 signatures to rescind Petocz's "suspension" for distributing more than 200 pride flags during the walkout. (Brock)
7560: On February 9th 2022 the Ayrshire derby football match between Kilmarnock and Ayr United had an attendance of 7,560 people. (Big Martin)
7561: In March and April 2001, the Swiss artists Hendrikje Kühne and Beat Klein staged an exhibition at Gasworks in Vauxhall, London, entitled Life is a Mystery Tour (Part II). It included a restaging of Autos (7561 cars - 7561 possible journeys), in which thousands of magazine images of cars were collected and meticulously arranged as a seemingly endless carpark. (Brock)
7562: 7,562 people were displaced in the 2008-09 Australian bushfire season. (Big Martin)
7563: Iberoraphidia is an extinct genus of snakefly in the family Mesoraphidiidae. The genus is composed of a single species, Iberoraphidia dividua, solely known from a Cretaceous, Lower Barremian, fossil found in Spain, specimen number GZG.RF.7563, which is housed in the Geo-Sciences centre of the University of Göttingen in Germany. (Brock)
7564: Here is a photo of preserved steam locomotive 7564 passing a cyclist where the Bristol & Bath Railway Path runs alongside the Avon Valley Railway in Bitton. (Big Martin)
7565: In 2019, there were 7565 deaths in the UK that related to alcohol-specific causes. (Brock)
7566: Loco Tank reservoir in Catron County, New Mexico has an elevation of 7,566 feet. (Big Martin)
7567: In 2021 there were 7567 Taco Bell franchises available worldwide. (Brock)
7568: The Three Decks Forum entry 7568 is for the third rate ship of the line Chichester completed in 1706. (Big Martin)
7569: 7569 is a perfect square which is the sum of two other perfect squares: 7569 = 872 = 632 + 602. (So if you draw a right-angled triangle where the two orthogonal sides are 63 and 60, the hypotenuse will be 87.) (Brock)
7570: Lego set 7570 is the Ostrich Race. (Big Martin)
7571: 7571 is a pattern used in juggling - specifically, an asymmetrical 5 object siteswap (as demonstrated in the animation). (Brock)
7572: The Atlas Liners ATL 7572 range comprises 1/1250 scale full hull models of famous ocean liners. (Big Martin)
7573: This piece of music by Marco Beltrami from the soundtrack to the film Free Solo is entitled 7,573'. The reference is to the height (in feet) of the rock El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. (Brock)
7574: Bristol Beaufighter X7574 was written off after being blown off the runway by heavy crosswinds whilst landing at Boscombe Down on April 2nd 1946 during trials of target towing gear. (Big Martin)
7575: 1/7575 is a repeating decimal with a period of 4: 1/7575 = 0.0001320132013201320... (Brock)
7576: The US merchant ship Nathaniel Hawthorne was carrying 7,576 tons of bauxite ore when it was sunk by two torpedoes from U-508 on November 7th 1942. (Big Martin)
7577: As of 2018, the Norwegian newspaper Sandefjords Blad had a circulation of 7577 printed copies and 12,213 daily online subscribers. (Brock)
7578: Until it was replaced in April 2016, the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge in Washington State was the longest pontoon bridge in the world at 7,578 feet. (Big Martin)
7579: The Lost Property Office at Manchester Piccadilly railway station can be contacted on 0161 820 7579. (Brock)
7580: The London Borough of Brent has a population density of 7,580 people per square kilometre. (Big Martin)
7581: The Conservative candidate Siobhan Baillie came third in the Bermondsey and Old Southwark constituency at the 2017 general election, polling 7581 votes. (The winner was Labour's Neil Coyle. Second place went to Simon Hughes of the Lib Dems, who had held the seat until 2015.) (Brock)
7582: There were 7,582 property sale registrations in Mumbai in November 2021. (Big Martin)
7583: You can rent a 38-person private office at 10 Devonshire Square, London EC2 for £7583 a week. (Brock)
7584: WS-7584 is a type of cucumber. It's described as a "fantastic gynoecious american slicer". I had to look up "gynoecious" as it's a new one on me! (Big Martin)
7585: NGC 7585 is a lenticular galaxy with a peculiar shape resulting from an interaction between two galaxies, located 145 million light years away in the constellation Aquarius. (Brock)
7586: 7,586 plush toys were gathered together in Aberdeen in January 2014 to set a world record. (Big Martin)
7587: Hittsquad Recording Studio is at 7587 University Boulevard, Orlando, Florida. (Brock)
7588: As of March 31st 2018, Thames Valley Police employed 7,588 people. (Big Martin)
7589: A total of 7589 people visited the Taiwanese President's Office on New Year's Day 2009. (Brock)
7590: A milestone at grid reference ST 6127 7590 is one of 39 listed buildings in Eastville Ward, Bristol. (Big Martin)
7591: The US Constitution is 7591 words long, including its 27 amendments. (Brock)
7592: LNER 10 inch oak cased fusee clock 7592 was in the refreshment rooms at Nottingham Victoria station. (Big Martin)
7593: During 2021, the Canadian Ombudsman for Banking Services and Investments (OBSI) assisted 7593 consumers with inquiries, a 33% increase over 2020. (Brock)
7594: BR Class 25 diesel locomotive 25244 was originally numbered as D7594 and is now in store at the Kent and East Sussex Railway. (Big Martin)
7595: The 7595-digit number 727272727272...72727 is prime. (Brock)
7596: British Museum object R.7596 is a Republican Roman quadrans coin. (Big Martin)
7597: The Breguet Tradition Quantième Rétrograde 7597 watch will set you back 35,540 euros in rose gold or 36,310 euros in white gold. (Brock)
7598: London, Brighton and South Coast Railway bogie first carriage 142 was built in 1903. It is now on the Bluebell Railway and painted in the livery it bore during its Southern Railway days post-grouping and bearing the number 7598 it had at that time. (Big Martin)
7599: The launch mass of the Intelsat 802 communications satellite, which operated in geostationary orbit for 14 years from 1997, was 7599 lb. (Brock)
7600: Nearly 7,600 fatal wolf attacks were documented in France between 1200 and 1920. (Big Martin)

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