7901: IPTC 7901 is a news service text markup specification published by the International Press Telecommunications Council that was designed to standardize the content and structure of text news articles. (Brock)
7902: In 1934, J15 class locomotive 7902 crashed into the bufferstops at the end of the line in Ongar. The Epping Ongar Railway site has some interesting photos taken at the time. (Big Martin)
7903: The minor planet 7903 Albinoni is named after the Italian composer Tomaso Albinoni, most famous for the Adagio in G minor which he didn't actually write. (Brock)
7904: OSI-7904 is a non-competitive liposomal thymidylate synthase inhibitor - i.e. an experimental cancer drug. (Big Martin)
7905: There are 7905 different bracelets of length 8 using five different coloured beads. (Turning over will not create a new bracelet.) (Brock)
7906: The HP 7906 was a computer disc drive produced between 1978 and 1985. (Big Martin)
7907: 7907 claims amounting to over $58 million were paid by the Life Insurance Corporation of India during 2021. (Brock)
7908: 7908 is an alpine supper club in Aspen, Colorado. (Big Martin)
7909: The total expenditure of the 1st Compton Scout Group (West Berkshire) in the financial year to 31 March 2021 was 7909. (Brock)
7910: Hurtigruten Expeditions offer an 18-day Antarctica and Patagonia Expedition on board the MS Fridtjoft Nansen. It sounds great but, at £7,910, it's a bit beyond my pocket! (Big Martin)
7911: The boiling point of zirconium is 7911 degrees Fahrenheit. (Brock)
7912: 7912 is a 2009 album by Krungthep Marathon. (Big Martin)
7913: Saint-Dizier-Robinson Air Base is a fighter aircraft base in north-eastern France. Its one runway has an asphalt surface measuring 7913 ft × 148 ft. (Brock)
7914: You know the old joke about having a police record... well, acquire TTS 7914 - a vinyl LP by the Luton Police Choir - and you can have one! (Big Martin)
7915: Oakhanger in Hampshire is part of the parish of Selborne, which covers an area of 7915 acres. Selborne is famous for its association with the 18th-century naturalist Gilbert White, who wrote The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne. (Brock)
7916: The phone number for the London Sewing Machine Museum in Tooting is 020 8682 7916. As it appears to only open for 3 hours on one Saturday a month, ringing beforehand if you want to visit might be a good idea! (Big Martin)
7917: The MAZ-7917 is a Soviet and Russian Army 14×12 twelve-wheel drive transporter-erector-launcher designed and developed by the Minsk Automobile Plant in Belarus. (Brock)
7918: Earlier this year, 7,918 cases were registered against kite flying and aerial firing in Punjab. (Big Martin)
7919: 7919 is the 1000th prime number. (Brock)
7920: The fee for the Cambridge Academy of Transport Anatomy of Shipping course is £7,920. (Big Martin)
7921: 7921 is the square of a Fibonacci number (892). (Brock)
7922: The IWC caliber 7922 is a Swiss made watch movement. (Big Martin)
7923: Cys Cache is a lake in Beaver County, Utah, United States, named after a wildlife official who planted fish in the lake. It is (appropriately) located within the Fishlake National Forest with an elevation of 7923 feet. (Brock)
7924: HD 7924 is a single star located in the constellation of Cassiopeia. Despite being only 55.5 light years away, its apparent low visual magnitude makes it only visible with binoculars or telescope. (Big Martin)
7925: Keiron Hassan, who is currently serving 24 years for attempted murder, last week failed in his bid to sue a Banbury automotive firm over a blown engine at Oxford County Court. Claiming for £7925, he accused experienced engine builders NCG Performance Ltd of either "not completing [their] job to build an engine properly" or lying "and the engine is fine". (Brock)
7926: Between January and March 2019 the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority recorded 7,926 delayed domestic flights. (Big Martin)
7927: Designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1953, the Robert Llewellyn Wright House is a historic home located at 7927 Deepwell Drive in Bethesda, Maryland. (Brock)
7928: British Standard BS 7928 covers cricket helmets. (Big Martin)
7929: Last December Adam Wide, originally from Hastings but now resident in Berlin, broke the record for the largest collection of Christmas brooches - 7929 of them since 1984, together worth £350,000. (Brock)
7930: In 2020 a 10-year-old John Deere 7930 tractor sold for £90,562.50 at auction. If you can't afford that, the Rolly Toys pedal John Deere 7930 retails for a mere £155.75. (Big Martin)
7931: 12 + 42 + 72 + 102 + 132 + 162 + 192 + 222 + 252 + 282 + 312 + 342 + 372 + 402 = 7931. (Brock)
7932: Exmoor National Park monument MSO7932 is a partially collapsed WW2 pillbox overlooking Porlock Beach. (Big Martin)
7933: Cargolux Flight 7933 was a cargo flight which was involved in a serious incident on 21 January 2010, in which it landed on a vehicle that was on an active runway at Findel Airport in Luxembourg. At 12:53 local time, one of the aircraft's tyres came into contact with the roof of a van which was on the runway while maintenance of the runway lighting was taking place. The driver of the van was shocked as a result of the collision. The van was severely damaged, with the roof pushed in and a lighting bar destroyed. A tyre on the aircraft was also damaged. (Brock)
7934: Bristol Beaufighter X7934 was written off following a forced landing on April 29 1942 following a failure of one of the engines. (Big Martin)
7935: The phone number for the Wigmore Hall in London is 020 7935 2141. (Brock)
7936: 7936 South Rhodes was an LP recorded in 1968 by blues pianist Eddie Boyd. (Big Martin)
7937: 7937 is a left-truncatable prime; if you repeatedly remove digits from the left-hand side, the results are all prime (7937, 937, 37 and 7). Furthermore, there is no prime number of which 7937 is the left-truncated "tail"; if you prepend any digit to 7937, the results are all composite (17937 etc.). For this reason 7937 is known as a "restricted left-truncatable prime". (Brock)
7938: Elephant Peak in Montana has an elevation of 7,938 feet. (Big Martin)
7939: As of Monday January 10 this year, Kazakh security forces had detained 7939 people over the previous week's unrest. (Brock)
7940: US Congress bill H.R.7940 is the Protect America's Children from Toxic Pesticides Act. (Big Martin)
7941: SNAP-7941 is a drug used in scientific research, which is a selective, non-peptide antagonist at the melanin concentrating hormone receptor MCH1. In initial animal studies it had promising anxiolytic, antidepressant and anorectic effects, but subsequent trial results were disappointing. (Brock)
7942: 7942 were a Korean boy band. (Big Martin)
7943: In 2009, the actor Jon Hamm appeared in a film called Stolen, which grossed only $7943 and scored 0% on Rotten Tomatoes. (Brock)
7944: The original cost of the locomotive Flying Scotsman was £7,944. (Big Martin)
7945: News from the Irish beef trade: 33,062 head of cattle were sold to factories last week including 7945 cows. (Brock)
7946: For fictitious phone numbers for TV programmes etc. set in London, numbers in the 020 7946 0xxx range are used. (Big Martin)
7947: Book number 7947 on the lovereading4kids.co.uk site is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. (Brock)
7948: Tomb G 7948 at Giza is that of Khafreankh from the 5th Dynasty period of Ancient Egypt. (Big Martin)
7949: The postage stamp problem: an envelope may carry no more than five stamps, and you have available 18 integer-valued stamp denominations. Then 7949 is the maximal integer n such that all integer postage values from 1 to n can be made up. (Brock)
7950: Camp 4 on Mount Everest is at an elevation of 7,950 metres. (Big Martin)
7951: A new Guinness World Record was set in October 2006 in the northeast Indian city of Shillong when 7951 people took part in a drum ensemble. (Brock)
7952: Grimwades Royal Winton pattern 7952 is a large cobalt bowl with a ship at sea image in it. (Big Martin)
7953: According to the 2010 census, there were 7953 Koryaks in Russia. (Koryaks are an indigenous people of the Russian Far East, who live immediately north of the Kamchatka Peninsula.) (Brock)
7954: Lister 7954 is a light railway locomotive, originally from a peat works and now at the Ripon & District Light Railway. (Big Martin)
7955: The British Columbia Ministry of Health has been unable to recruit any physicians to work at a brand new primary care centre, which opened in May at 7955 Evans Road, Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada. (Brock)
7956: Australian Underwater Cultural Heritage Database wreck 7956 is that of HMS Sirius, the flagship of the First Fleet, sunk on March 19th 1790 after hitting the coral reef off Slaughter Bay. (Big Martin)
7957: 7957 major diabetic lower limb amputations were reported in England between 2017 and 2020. (Brock)
7958: 7958 Leakey is a Hungaria asteroid named after the famous family of paleoanthropologists. (Big Martin)
7959: At the 2011 census, the population of Coppull in Lancashire was 7959. (Brock)
7960: LNER Kitchen Composite Coach 7960 was built in 1936 and is now preserved on the Severn Valley Railway. (Big Martin)
7961: The divisors of 7961 (apart from 1) are 19, 419 and 7961, all of which contain the digit 9. Any prime number containing a 9 will fall into this category, of course; but composite numbers of this type are fairly rare. (Note that OEIS conveniently picks 7961 as its example!) (Brock)
7962: The DTD-7962 is a TEMPEST modified version of the Cisco 7962 telephone for military purposes with additional security features. (Big Martin)
7963: In Line of Duty, an unnamed officer with the collar number 7963 is a Constable and Authorised Firearms Officer in Central Police attached to the Strategic Firearms Command. (Brock)
7964: Here is a report from the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment at Martlesham Heath from 10th September 1937 on trials conducted with Gloster Gladiator aircraft K-7964. (Big Martin)
7965: In Delhi in 2020, 7965 cases of snatching were reported. This grew by 15% to 9383 in 2021. (Brock)
7966: In 2017, the snailfish species Pseudoliparis swirei was discovered at a depth of 7,966 metres in the Mariana Trench. (Big Martin)
7967: The state of Johor in southern Malaysia recorded 7967 cases of hand, foot and mouth disease from January 1 until July 2 this year. Not to be confused with foot and mouth disease (which mainly affects livestock), HFMD is a common infection caused by a group of enteroviruses, typically occurring in children less than five years old. Large outbreaks have been occurring in Asia since 1997. (Brock)
7968: According to this website it is 7,968 kilometres from Bristol Temple Meads to Bristol Royal Infirmary but it will only take 13 minutes to travel between the two! Just goes to show that not everything on the internet is right. (Big Martin)
7969: The Furka Pass in the Swiss Alps, elevation 7969 feet, was used as a location in the James Bond film Goldfinger. One curve on the east side of the pass is even named "James Bond Strasse". (Brock)
7970: During the City Nature Challenge 2022 the Bristol and Bath City Region recorded 7,970 observations. (Big Martin)
7971: As of June 7 2023, there were 7971 refugees from Ukraine in County Kerry, Ireland. (Ed.)
7972: A number of records were set on the final flight of Blackbird SR71 aircraft 61-7972 on March 6th 1990. (Big Martin)
7973: ISO 7973:1992 is the international standard for determining the viscosity of flour. (Awitt)
7974: Nintendo trades as TYO: 7974 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. (Brock)
7975: May Manton's pattern 7975 is a utility cap for "motor or steamer wear" by ladies dating to around 1913. (Big Martin)
7976: Research carried out by Uzeyir Ogurlu and Adnan Ozbey of the University of Wisconsin concluded that those assessed as gifted shared one character trait: openness to new experiences. The research looked at the results of 13 studies covering 7976 people. (Brock)
7977: IMR Enduron 7977 powder is a type of gunpowder. (Big Martin)
7978: 7978 is the sum of 10 consecutive primes: 761 + 769 + 773 + 787 + 797 + 809 + 811 + 821 + 823 + 827 = 7978. (Brock)
7979: Simmern in the Hunsrueck area of Germany has a population of 7,979. (Big Martin)
7980: Ayoub Ahmad Mohamed Ahmad, a Libyan refugee who strongly protested his innocence when found in possession of 7980 psychotropic pills stuffed inside three protein shake tubs, has been acquitted by a Maltese court which deemed his version as credible and not contradicted. (Brock)
7981: 7981 KAL is a musical artist otherwise known as Kelvin Barros. (Big Martin)
7982: 7982 Timmartin is a minor planet, discovered by E.F. Helin and S.J. Bus on June 25 1979. (Brock)
7983: Heljan make an OO gauge model of LMS 2-6-0 0-6-2 Beyer Garratt locomotive 7983. (Big Martin)
7984: The Italian decathlete William Frullani set his personal best score of 7984 points at the 2002 Hypo-Meeting in Götzis, Austria. (Brock)
7985: 7985 is an album by Xnaria released in 2013. (Big Martin)
7986: The Upper Talarik fire in Alaska earlier this month covered an area of nearly 7986 acres. (Brock)
7987: The Pennsylvania Railroad class Q2 locomotives produced 7,987 cylinder horsepower on a static test plant. (Big Martin)
7988: BS 7988 is a code of practice for the use of information technology in the delivery of assessments. (Brock)
7989: 7989 is a song by Girls' Generation Taeyeon ft. Kangta. (Big Martin)
7990: 7990 is the sum of ten fourth powers in exactly ten ways. One of them is 24 + 24 + 34 + 34 + 34 + 44 + 44 + 74 + 74 + 74, and you can find the rest in OEIS. (Brock)
7991: Chernobyl 7991 is a 1997 album by Area (6). (Big Martin)
7992: The population of Faringdon in Oxfordshire was estimated at 7992 in 2019. (Brock)
7993: The grey and red capsule marked BRISTOL 7993 twice is Principen 500mg made by Bristol-Myers Squibb and is used to treat bacterial infections. (Big Martin)
7994: Gamers 4 Croydon was a minor political party in South Australia which contested the 2010 state election. In the upper house, the party received 0.8 percent of the statewide vote, or 7994 votes. No candidates were elected. (This particular Croydon is a suburb of Adelaide, if you hadn't guessed.) (Brock)
7995: In 2020, the UK's cheapest new car was the Dacia Sandero, retailing at £7,995. (Big Martin)
7996: The municipal unit of Pythagoreio on the Greek island of Samos had a population of 7996 in 2011. Its main town, Pythagorio, was formerly known as Tigani, but was renamed in 1955 to honour the locally born mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras. (Brock)
7997: Science Photo Library's image C042/7997 is a photo of a common toad (Bufo bufo) taken in Bristol. (Big Martin)
7998: Turville Grange in Oxfordshire was up for sale at £18.7 million this month. Sean Connery, King George V and Michael Caine have all been guests at the sprawling country house, which spans 7998 square feet. It was previously owned by Princess Lee Radziwill, sister of First Lady Jackie Kennedy, and most recently by Henry Ford II and his wife Kathleen DuRoss Ford. (Brock)
7999: USAF aircraft 63-7999 is a Boeing Stratotanker. (Big Martin)
8000: You won't need a calculator for this one... 8000 = 203. The next perfect cube is 9261, and I'm looking forward to it already. (Brock)
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