The Quite Incredible Number List: 8301-8400

8301: The BRP Gabriela Silang (OPV-8301) is an offshore patrol vessel of the Philippine Coast Guard. (Big Martin)

8302: By 1841 Tunbridge Wells was the fastest-growing town in Kent, with 8302 inhabitants. (Brock)

8303: Pakistan International Airlines flight 8303 crashed in Karachi on May 22 2020. (Big Martin)

8304: Elon Musk travelled 8304 miles by private jet during his first week at Twitter. (Brock)

8305: UK Government certificate 8305 is required to export processed pet food to the EU. (Big Martin)

8306: By the start of 1874, the Amalgamated Society of Boot and Shoe Makers had 8306 members. (Brock)

8307: The FAI record 8307 is for the fastest climb to 3,000 metres in a microlight and is held by Istvan Kocsis for his 16 minute 51 second time on Boxing Day 2003. (Big Martin)

8308: The 8308 Conference, aimed at helping children in foster care, was held at Journey Church, Norman, Oklahoma on April 26 2012. It was so named because there were 8308 children in state custody across Oklahoma on January 1 that year. (Brock)

8309: Here are plans of an 8,309 square feet office space on Counterslip in central Bristol. (Big Martin)

8310: German Industrial Norm DIN 8310 is a standard for water-resistant watches, equivalent to ISO 2281. They are resistant to water during exercises such as swimming for a short period but are not intended for submarine diving. (Brock)

8311: Earth-8311 is a "Marvel universe" of anthropomorphic animal super-heroes. (Big Martin)

8312: According to the Urban Dictionary, 8312 means "I miss you"; 8 letters, 3 words, 1 meaning, 2nd version. (What was the first version?) (Brock)

8313: The Sarah Baartman is a South African environmental protection vessel of the Damen Offshore Patrol Vessel 8313 class. (Big Martin)

8314: The SI value of the molar gas constant is exactly 8.31446261815324 J⋅K⁻¹⋅mol⁻¹, or approximately 8314 L⋅Pa⋅K⁻¹⋅mol⁻¹. (Brock)

8315: Southern Methodist University's course BB 8315 is Biblical Exegesis from a Hispanic Perspective. (Big Martin)

8316: 8316 has a factorization which, when written backwards, gives you a different factorization of the same number:

8316 = 11 x 12 x 63

8316 = 36 x 21 x 11

(Brock)

8317: A late C18th/early C19th milestone at Grid Reference SX 2756 8317 in St Thomas the Apostle Rural, Cornwall is a Grade II Listed Structure. (Big Martin)

8318: Minor planet 8318 Averroes was named after Muhammad ibn Rushd (1126-1198), also known by his Latin name as Averroes, a medieval Muslim polymath from Andalusia, whose many scientific accomplishments include a study of astronomy. (Brock)

8319: In 2002, Guinea issued a postage stamp featuring Dublin Area Rapid Transit train 8319. (Big Martin)

8320: A charity car show held around Letterkenny in Ireland last month raised €8320 for Donegal Hospice. (Brock)

8321: Confusingly, this Wikipedia entry for Mount Ireland in Oregon says it has an elevation of 8,321 feet in the main text but 8,325 feet in the box on the right. (Big Martin)

8322: In December 2010, 8322 rugby fans at Munster's stadium of Thomond Park broke the world record for the greatest number of people wearing Santa hats. (Brock)

8323: JB Archive image YO 8323 is of the Space Ship Anastasia in Scarborough in the 1950s. (Big Martin)

8324: In the elections to the Senedd (Welsh Parliament) on 6 May 2021, Rachel Nugent-Finn of the Conservatives came second in the Bridgend constituency with 8324 votes. (Brock)

8325: 8,325 people visited Boyle Abbey in County Roscommon in 2021. (Big Martin)

8326: In June 2014 there were 8326 slot machines in Latvia. (Brock)

8327: According to DRIVEBESTWAY, the distance between Bristol and Cardiff is 8,327th in their popularity ranking. [I don't know how you get a popularity rating for a route, but that's what they say!] (Big Martin)

8328: 0131 225 8328 is the phone number of Greyfriars Bobby's Bar in Candlemaker Row, Edinburgh. The pub, next to Greyfriars Kirkyard, is named after the legendary dog Greyfriars Bobby, who is said to have faithfully watched over his owner's grave every night for fourteen years until he was buried next to his master.(Brock)

8329: Between April 2021 and March 2022 8,329 people were seen sleeping rough in London - a fall from 11,018 the previous year.(Big Martin)

8330: Built at an altitude of 8330 feet, Ouvrage Janus was the second highest fortification on the Alps in 1940. (Brock)

8331: The Rach Mieu Bridge over the Mekong Delta in Vietnam is 8,331 metres long including the approach ramps. (Big Martin)

8332: Instructions for creating a spiral Fibonacci-like sequence:

(1) Enter 1 into the centre position of the spiral.

(2) Add to the number in the present position the numbers in all those already filled positions that are horizontally, vertically or diagonally adjacent to it, go to next position of the spiral and enter the sum into it.

(3) Repeat step 2.

8332 is the 18th member of the sequence, which starts off like this. (Brock)

8333: 8333 Bristol Pike, Levittown, Pennsylvania seems to house a number of food outlets. (Big Martin)

8334: Idia lubricalis, the glossy black idia, is a litter moth of the family Erebidae, with Hodges number 8334. (Brock)

8335: UGC 8335 is a pair of strongly interacting spiral galaxies 400 million light years away. (Big Martin)

8336: Teen Line is a non-profit nationwide US teen help hotline based in the Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. The number is (800) 852-8336, which was presumably chosen because "8336" spells "TEEN" on a standard numeric keypad. (Brock)

8337: Seabourn cruise 8337 is a 14-day "Wonders of the British Isles" trip in May 2023. (Big Martin)

8338: 8338 is notable in various ways:

(1) It's a palindrome

(2) It has a horizontal axis of symmetry

(3) It spells "BEEB" in an upside-down calculator, which is of course an informal name for the BBC.

(Brock)

8339: The Parla Tram line in Spain is 8,339 metres long. (Big Martin)

8340: Minor planet 8340 is named after Michael J. Mumma, an astrobiologist at the Goddard Space Flight Center. (Brock)

8341: The Central Security Regiment of the Chinese PLA was also known as the 8341 Unit. (Big Martin)

8342: The attendance at the Riverside Stadium for Tonga vs Cook Islands at this year's Rugby League World Cup was 8342. (Brock)

8343: Maja Tat in the Accursed Mountains range in Albania has an elevation of 8,343 feet. (Big Martin)

8344: The jockey Andrea Atzeni won four races on the opening day of the 2017 Goodwood meeting, at odds of 8344-1. (Ed.)

8345: National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive number 8345 is film from October 1947 of the aftermath of the Goswick Railway Crash. (Big Martin)

8346: There were 8346 lifeboat launches by the RNLI in 2012. (Brock)

8347: The Peoples Collection Wales item 8347 is a painting of the S S Wansbeck. (Big Martin)

8348: Last year the Dorset Echo Christmas Toy Appeal received the highest total of donations ever - £8348. (Brock)

8349: Here is a photograph of Bristol bus K 8349 at Swindon garage in 1960. (Big Martin)

8350: 8350 is the smallest number containing all possible digits in each of bases 2 to 6:

Base 2 - 10000010011110

Base 3 - 102110021

Base 4 - 2002132

Base 5 - 231400

Base 6 - 102354

(Brock)

8351: Untitled 8351 is an artwork by Kausar Iqbal. (Big Martin)

8352: In April 2021, an Ipsos MORI UK KnowledgePanel poll of 8352 people over 16 in the UK found six in 10 supported needing a 'vaccine passport' to go to the pub or eat out in a restaurant. (Brock)

8353: Castle Mountain in British Columbia has an elevation of 8,353 feet. (Big Martin)

8354: In 2021 there were 8354 applications to the Charity Commission, of which 60% were successful. (Ed.)

8355: The 8355 Method is a way of solving Rubik's Cube. (Big Martin)

8356: Viktor Gruzenkin's personal record in the decathlon is 8356 points, set in Kyiv in 1984. (Brock)

8357: ESPG 8357 is the Baltic 1957 height used for mapping in Czechia and Slovakia. (Big Martin)

8358: The Sunset Tower Hotel stands at 8358 Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood, California. (Brock)

8359: IWM War Memorial 8359 is in a pavilion at the National Trust property of Cliveden. (Big Martin)

8360: 8360 private pilots were licensed to fly in the UK as of March 31 2019. (Ed.)

8361: The Royal Atlantis Residences in Dubai contain 8,361 square metres of glass. (Big Martin)

8362: 8362 can be represented as the sum of two Fibonacci numbers in two ways:

8362 = 4181 + 4181

8362 = 1597 + 6765

(This isn't as surprising as you might think; twice any Fibonacci number, apart from 1, is the sum of two other Fibonacci numbers.) (Brock)

8363: Following the famous 1980 eruption, the elevation of Mount St. Helens was reduced from 9,677 feet to 8,363 feet. (Big Martin)

8364: The population of Torpoint in Cornwall at the 2011 census was 8364. Torpoint is linked to Plymouth by the Torpoint Ferry, a chain ferry service that began running in 1790. (Brock)

8365: Some Crossley "Mancunian" buses built in the 1930s had a VR6 Type 2 engine of 8,365 cc. (Big Martin)

8366: As of June 2020, the capacity of wind power in Scotland was 9347 megawatts, of which 8366 MW came from onshore and 981 MW from offshore generators. (Brock)

8367: Huntingdonshire freedom of information request 8367 concerned the ownership of the Lidl car park in St Neots. (Big Martin)

8368: Roud folk song number 8368 is the American drinking song "The Ballad of Lydia Pinkham", which formed the basis for the Scaffold's 1968 hit "Lily the Pink". (Brock)

8369: Chocolate for Chocoholics product 8369 is Penguin Pete; a hollow milk chocolate penguin with a Christmas hat. (Big Martin)

8370: There were 8,370 different paper money issuers in the US in 1840. (Ed.)

8371: The Tauern Railway Tunnel in Austria is 8,371 metres long. (Big Martin)

8372: 8372 Cards was a participatory art project created to commemorate the 23rd anniversary of the fall of Srebrenica, during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. (Ed.)

8373: English Electric diesel locomotive 50 040 Leviathan was withdrawn from service in August 1990 as its engine was worn out after 8,373 hours of use. (Big Martin)

8374: In 1802 France held a referendum ratifying the new constitution, which made Napoleon Bonaparte First Consul for life. The result was 3,568,885 votes in favour and only 8374 votes (0.24%) against. Nearly half the eligible voters abstained. (Brock)

8375: The world's largest hedge maze has 8,375 metres of paths. (Big Martin)

8376: In 2019/20 there were 8376 alcohol seizures in English and Welsh prisons. (Brock)

8377: Belgian postcode 8377 covers an area near Bruges/Brugge in Flanders. (Big Martin)

8378: The decimal part of the tenth root of 8378 starts with an anagram of the digits 1-9: ¹⁰√8378 = 2.46782315959335... (Brock)

8379: gPop 8379 (Heinz Maple Style) is a limited edition print by Georgy Korablev. (Big Martin)

8380: 8380 birds were culled because of avian flu last week in Alappuzha, Kerala, India. (Brock)

8381: U. S. Executive Order 8381 was given in March 1940 by Franklin D Roosevelt. (Big Martin)

8382: The boiling point of molybdenum is 8382 degrees Fahrenheit. (Brock)

8383: Sotheby's auctioned a bottle of Karuizawa Koishikawa-Korakuen cask 8383 35 year old whisky with an estimate of $7.000 - $9,000. (Big Martin)

8384: At the end of September 1939, there were 8384 prisoners in Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg concentration camp in eastern Germany. (Brock)

8385: In 2020 Tata Steel employed 8,385 people across the UK. (Big Martin)

8386: The runway at Edinburgh Airport is 8386 feet long. (Brock)

8387: 8387 is a street number on the Rabbit Proof Fence Road, in Western Australia. (Awitt)

8388: discoverlbj telephone conversation 8388 is a recording of a phone call between President Johnson and Ramsey Clark in 1965. (Big Martin)

8389: 8389 is a prime number that is the concatenation of two consecutive prime numbers (83 and 89). Pretty rare this - it's only the third such number after 23 and 3137, and the next is 151157. (Brock)

8390: 8390 is the postcode for something in Melbourne, Australia, being limited to post office box addresses and LVR which I had to look up and seems to be 'large volume receiver', so places like hospitals etc. The main university here already has its own postcode. (Awitt)

8391: As of 2021, the Harrodian School in Barnes, south-west London, charged fees of £8391 per term to sixth-formers. The school takes its name from the former clubhouse and sports ground for employees of Harrods department store on the same site. (More here.) (Brock)

8392: In 2019 there were 8,392 female primary education teachers in Chad. (Big Martin)

8393: At 180 lines, the Laudatio Turiae (ILS 8393) is currently the longest surviving personal inscription from Classical Rome. It is a tombstone engraved with a carved epitaph that is a husband's eulogy of his wife. (ILS numbers refer to the Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae, a three-volume selection of Latin inscriptions published from 1892 to 1916.) (Brock)

8394: Kendleshire Masonic Lodge No. 8394 meet at the Downend Masonic Hall. Given the size of Kendleshire, I can't imagine there's anywhere much you could hold a meeting other than the Golden Heart pub. (Big Martin)

8395: Snails intended for human consumption destined for the European Union or Northern Ireland require UK Government export health certificate 8395. (Brock)

8396: Simijaca in Colombia is at an altitude of 8,396 feet on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense. (Big Martin)

8397: The Hungarian census of 2011 found 8397 speakers of Esperanto. (Brock)

8398: Shropshire Fire and Rescue incident 8398 was a call to rescue a young female stuck in playground equipment in 2012. (Big Martin)

8399: A total of 8399 people visited the tombs of Prophet Mohammad's companions in the Southern Mazar, Jordan, in April 2018. (Brock)

8400: The cargo ship Houston Express can carry 8,400 shipping containers at any one time. (Big Martin)