8201: G.8201 is an international standard for error performance parameters in Optical Transport Networks. (Big Martin)
8202: In 2006, there were 8202 wildfires in California that burned 736,022 acres of land. (Brock)
8203: Aircraft 08-8203 is a Boeing C17 transport operated by the USAF. (Big Martin)
8204: In 2018 there were 8204 feature films produced worldwide. (Brock)
8205: 8205 Recordings is a record company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Big Martin)
8206: It was reported on Monday that infectious diseases were continuing to rise in the flood-stricken areas of Sindh, Pakistan. During the previous 24 hours, 8206 patients of respiratory diseases were given medical assistance. (Brock)
8207: 8207 NOMA is a take-away food outlet in Wilmington, North Carolina. (Big Martin)
8208: 8208 is a (base-10) narcissistic number. A narcissistic (or Armstrong) n-digit number is one that's equal to the sum of the nth powers of its digits. In this case n = 4, so 8208 = 84 + 24 + 04 + 84. See original post for a bonus Simpsons fact. (Brock)
8209: Microbiologics catalogue number 8209 is a "Vaginal Control Panel"! (Big Martin)
8210: As at February 2018, there were 8210 businesses in Bath & North East Somerset, according to Bath Federation of Small Businesses. (Brock)
8211: Office For National Statistics category SOC8211 covers people employed as large goods vehicle drivers. (Big Martin)
8212: "Kiss Me thru the Phone" is a song co-written and recorded by hip hop artist Soulja Boy featuring Sammie. The telephone number, 678-999-8212, given in the song, if dialled from the United States, previously connected to a message system for the artist; the number now belongs to an unknown commercial advertiser in Georgia. An unsuspecting family in Oldham found themselves inundated with calls from Soulja Boy fans there who dialled the number. (Brock)
8213: 8213: Gacy House is a 2010 American horror film. (Big Martin)
8214: Minor planet 8214 Mirellalilli was named by the Italian astronomer Stefano Mottola, after his wife Mirella Lilli, on the occasion of their 20th wedding anniversary. (Brock)
8215: In 2019, more than 8,215 people in the West Midlands died having experienced poverty in the last year of their life. (Big Martin)
8216: 8216 visitors from 46 countries and regions attended the first edition of Cosmoprof CBE ASEAN, a cosmetics industry exhibition which took place in Bangkok last month. (Brock)
8217: LNER (originally GER) J17 class locomotive 8217 is now on display at Barrow Hill Roundhouse. (Big Martin)
8218: 8218 Youth Theatre is an amateur musical theatre company and charity based in Kingston upon Thames, for those aged 8 to 18 (hence the name, presumably). (Brock)
8219: In his last competitive throw before retirement, Jan Zelezny's javelin travelled 82.19 metres (or 8219 centimetres). (Big Martin)
8220: In April this year, 8220 students participated in the Young Voices massed children's choir event held at the O2 in Greenwich. (Brock)
8221: The famous Chateau Marmont hotel in Los Angeles is at 8221 Sunset Boulevard. (Big Martin)
8222: Australia has 8222 islands within its maritime borders. (Brock)
8223: The detonation velocity of explosive mixture CH6 is 8,223 metres per second. (Big Martin)
8224: There are 8224 ways of writing 24 as a sum of six squares. (Brock)
8225: A 12-person private office in London's Victoria Station is currently available at a mere £8,225 per month. (Big Martin)
8226: Ashfield District Council in Nottinghamshire has recently revised its plans to build 8226 homes over 15 years after opposition from residents in Hucknall. All 3000 homes on Whyburn Farm have been removed from the document. (Brock)
8227: Gloucestershire County Council monument HER8227 is the parish church at Owlpen near Stroud. (Big Martin)
8228: 8228 is the postcode of Beggingen in Switzerland. (Brock)
8229: The first, self-titled, album by Crosby, Stills and Nash was released in 1969 by Atlantic with the catalogue number SD 8229. (Big Martin)
8230: There are 8230 primes less than 1,000,000 with initial digit 9. (Brock)
8231: Weston College occupation 8231 is train or tram driver - though they don't appear offer any specific courses for this. (Big Martin)
8232: In the 2016 Brexit referendum, the Western Isles voted to stay in the EU, with 8232 votes for Remain and 6671 for Leave. (Brock)
8233: Built in 1940 for the War Department but, due to the fall of France, ending up with the LMS as number 8233, then being requisitioned to go to Iran in 1941, returning to the Longmoor Military Railway and then going to British Railways in 1957, Stanier 8F freight locomotive 48773 is claimed to be the most travelled preserved engine in Britain. (Big Martin)
8234: There were 8234 runners in this year's Manchester Half Marathon, held on Sunday 9 October. (Brock)
8235: RNLI Lifeboats rescued 8,235 people in 2009. (Big Martin)
8236: Research carried out by the University of North Carolina in 2018 revealed that there were 8236 marine protected areas around the world, covering 4 per cent of the surface of the ocean. (Brock)
8237: The Intel 8237 is a direct memory access controller. (Big Martin)
8238: The population of Toton in Nottinghamshire at the 2011 census was 8238. (Brock)
8239: The World's largest Time Warp dance involved 8,239 participants in West Hollywood, California for Halloween 2010. (Big Martin)
8240: The 8240th Army Unit was a unit that numbered about 100 men from the 10th US Army Special Forces Group. They saw action in the Korean War as United Nations Partisan Infantry. (Brock)
8241: Desothane HS 8241 is a non-slip walkway topcoat for over-wing emergency exits on military aircraft. (Big Martin)
8242: 8242 concatenated with the previous number gives a perfect square: 82428241 = 90792. The only smaller number with this property is 82. (Brock)
8243: Students at Ripon Grammar School raised £8,243 for The Survivors Trust charity. (Big Martin)
8244: There were 8244 animals in Chester Zoo at the last count. (Brock)
8245: My Wrongs 8245-8249 & 117 is a film from 2002 by Warp Films. (Big Martin)
8246: Sten Ekberg won the Swedish National Decathlon Record in 1992 with 8246 points. (Brock)
8247: GRW +70 8247 is a white dwarf star in the constellation Draco and around 42 light-years away. (Big Martin)
8248: At the last count in December 2018, there were 8248 think tanks worldwide, according to the University of Pennsylvania’s 2018 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report. Note that this contradicts the entry for 8162. (Brock)
8249: The Times of India reported in June 2012 that 8,249 drivers were prosecuted in a crack down by police in New Delhi. (Big Martin)
8250: AIRES Flight 8250 was a domestic scheduled passenger flight that on 16 August 2010 crashed on landing at night in poor weather on the Colombian island of San Andrés, killing two of the 131 people on board. (Brock)
8251: The Intel 8251 is a Universal Synchronous/Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter. (Big Martin)
8252: With 8252 articles, Blackpast is a reference site on African-American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world. (Brock)
8253: The Sugarloaf in Alberta has an elevation of 8,253 feet. (Big Martin)
8254: In the first quarter of 2022, there were 8254 male and 7877 female births in Ireland. (Brock)
8255: The rapper Logic's 2017 song 1-800-273-8255 is the number of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. (Big Martin)
8256: 8256 is the 128th triangular number, equal to (128 x 129)/2. (Brock)
8257: Plans to redevelop the former Burtonwood Air Base include an 8,257 square metre building. (Big Martin)
8258: At the end of June 2007, there were 8258 not-for-profit culture and recreation organisations in Australia. (Brock)
8259: The total length between abutments of the Forth Road Bridge is 8,259 feet. (Big Martin)
8260: During the combination of the "Beast from the East" and Storm Emma in February/March 2018, the AA estimated that there were 8260 collisions on Britain's roads from the snow chaos in just three days. (Brock)
8261: Binter Mediterraneo flight 8261 crash-landed near the N-340 highway by Malaga Airport on August 29th 2001 after both engines were accidentally turned off following a false alarm for a fire in the port one. (Big Martin)
8262: With an elevation of 8262 feet, Craig Pass is a mountain pass located on the Continental Divide in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. (Brock)
8263: Divento site 8263 is the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo. I've been there. (Big Martin)
8264: Between 1689 and 1760 there were 8264 legislative initiatives resulting in 5301 Acts of Parliament. (Brock)
8265: Ryanair flight FR8265 goes from Ibiza to Bristol on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. (Big Martin)
8266: There are 8266 tilings of a 3 x 10 rectangle with 10 trominoes. (A tromino is a shape made of three connected squares joined edge to edge. There are two types, one rectangular and one in an L-shape.) (Brock)
8267: University of California publication 8267 offers advice on safe measures for the home pickling of olives. (Big Martin)
8268: "Zombie pigeons" with mysterious twisted necks are freaking out the UK, says this article published two days ago. I can't say I'd noticed any myself, but it's apparently a disease called paramyxovirus, and if you're in Wales you need to notify the Animal and Plant Health Agency Wales on 0300 303 8268. (Brock)
8269: Science Photo Library image C008/8269 is of the Uffington White Horse. (Big Martin)
8270: In the 2019 general election, the South Staffordshire constituency was comfortably held by Gavin Williamson, who has (somewhat controversially) just been readmitted to the Cabinet as Minister without Portfolio. Second place went to Labour's Adam Freeman, with 8270 votes and a mere 16.5% share of the poll. (Brock)
8271: Ritter Transport operate from 8271 Brock Bridge Road, Laurel, Maryland. (Big Martin)
8272: In 1939 there were 8272 road fatalities reported in London. (Brock)
8273: The Cross Cave system in Slovenia is 8,273 metres long. (Big Martin)
8274: Guri i Kuq, the highest summit in Rugova Gorge in Kosovo, is 8274 feet high. The name translates as "yellow rock". (Brock)
8275: In the second quarter of 2022, Germany deported 8,275 people. (Big Martin)
8276: The Rev Lewis Verey MA became rector of St Paul's Church, Carlton-in-the-Willows, Nottinghamshire in 1911. The next year a visitation by the Bishop of Southwell meant he had to report on the status of his parish. His report tells us that there were 8276 people living in the parish at the time, while the church itself could only seat 650. (Brock)
8277: Slices of Lunar Meteorite NWA8277 are available at $4,960. (Big Martin)
8278: In 19th-century Galicia there were 8278 mills. (Brock)
8279: Course 8279 at the University of Canberra is Advanced Functional Anatomy. (Big Martin)
8280: 8280 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 10, but not by 7. However 7 divides 8281, so 8280 qualifies for the list of numbers k such that either k or k+1 is divisible by the numbers from 1 to 10. (Brock)
8281: Cabinet Briefing Paper CBP 8281 of 2018 is on mortality in the UK. (Big Martin)
8282: 8282 is a Korean restaurant on New York's Lower East Side. The name refers to Korea's country code, +82, as well as sounding like a phrase meaning "quickly" or "faster". (Brock)
8283: During the first 3 years of the "Museums & Schools Programme" 8,283 pupils visited Brunel's SS Great Britain. (Big Martin)
8284: The Intel 8284 is a clock oscillator chip developed primarily for supplying clock signals for the Intel-8086/8087/8088/8089 series of processors. (Brock)
8285: Orenstein & Koppel loco 8285 was built in 1917 and is now in the museum of the Froissy Dompierre Light Railway, built originally as a supply line in WW1. (Big Martin)
8286: The 2012 Command Paper detailing the Digital Switchover Help Scheme between the Government and the BBC had the reference Cm 8286. (Brock)
8287: In May 2020 8,287 calls were made to the NSPCC. (Big Martin)
8288: The 1981 Defence White Paper, titled "The UK Defence Programme: The Way Forward", was numbered Cmnd 8288. (If that seems illogical after #8286, this forum post explains.) (Brock)
8289: Hangar 8289 is an art gallery etc. on the island of Ibiza. (Big Martin)
8290: In 2013, there were 8290 casualties as a result of drink-driving in the UK, 260 of which resulted in death. (Brock)
8291: Eiði Beach in Iceland is 8,291 metres long. (Big Martin)
8292 In the UK in 1904, there were 8292 experiments on animals for cancer research. (Ed.)
8293: On July 2nd 1941, GWR locomotive 4091 Dudley Castle was involved in a collision with LMS 8F 8293 which resulted in the death of 5 passengers on the Plymouth to Paddington train being hauled by the Castle. (Big Martin)
8294: Both 8294 and its successor are the product of four distinct primes:The only smaller number with this property is 7314. (Brock)
8294 = 2 x 11 x 13 x 29 8295 = 3 x 5 x 7 x 79
8295: Encyclopedia of Life page 8295 covers freshwater eels. (Big Martin)
8296: A 1996 assessment estimated that there were 8296 tigers in the wild worldwide. However the current figure is believed to be much lower. (Brock)
8297: The Puna Geothermal Venture on the main island of Hawaii has a maximum well depth of 8,297 feet along the volcano Kilauea's East rift zone. (Big Martin)
8298: Membership of the Darwen Weavers', Winders' and Warpers' Association reached 8298 in 1907. (Brock)
8299: Macross 82-99 is a Mexican electronic music producer based in Japan. (Big Martin)
8300: There were 8300 marriages in Northern Ireland in 2017, of which 5357 were religious. (Brock)
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