8501: Indonesia AirAsia flight 8501 crashed into the Java Sea on December 28th 2014 due to pilot error. (Big Martin)
8502: The Berlin Codex, given the accession number Papyrus Berolinensis 8502, is a Coptic manuscript from the 5th century AD, unearthed in Akhmim, Egypt. (Brock)
8503: Condition 8503 on an Australian visa is the "no further stay" condition. (Big Martin)
8504: On 31st October 1947, there were 8504 established civil servants in receipt of salaries of £1000 a year or more. (Brock)
8505: Yalung Khang in the Kanchenjunga mountain range in Nepal has an elevation of 8,505 metres. (Big Martin)
8506: The R30 was a New York City Subway car model built by St. Louis Car Company from 1961 to 1962. The Wikipedia page includes a photo of car 8506 on display at the New York City Transit Museum. (Brock)
8507: In 1961 8,507 people fled over the border from East Germany to West Germany. (Big Martin)
8508: 8508 is a bus route in the Blue Mountains region of New South Wales. (Awitt)
8509: On 22-Dec-1999, Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509 crashed shortly after take-off from STN, owing to a perfect shitstorm combination of circumstances. None of the four crew survived. (AlmondFacialBar)
8510: The sum of the first 8510 primes is 352888253, which is a palindrome (see also OEIS). (Brock)
8511: The Onkyo TX-8511 is an AV control stereo receiver with a power output of 200 Watts that was on the market from 1997 to 2006 and is still popular with the impoverished nerd demographic. (AlmondFacialBar)
8512: The Amstrad PCW 8512 personal computer/word-processor was launched in 1985, with 512 KB of RAM and two floppy disk drives. (Brock)
8513: Asian Paints shade 8513 is apparently "like a mermaid’s tail, glistening and fantastical, a fairy tale shade of blue-green, seawater and moonlit sky, merging, blending, melding, to create a wondrous shade, endless blue and endless green. Concentrated and full toned, a colour that will captivate and fill your senses." Donner-indeed-knispel! (AlmondFacialBar)
8514: According to the 2010 census, there were 8514 people in Bath. This struck me as a remarkably low figure until I realized that it was Bath, Maine. (Brock)
8515: EI 8515 is the Aer Lingus code sharing number for Air Canada's AC 411 from YUL to YYZ on Sunday noon. It's flown on an Airbus A220-300, formally the Bombadier CS300. (AlmondFacialBar)
8516: Lhotse, on the border between Tibet and Nepal, is the fourth highest mountain in the world with an elevation of 8516 metres. (Brock)
8517: The Pensonic PWA-6552/8517 is an American style top loading washing machine that somehow manages to look like anything but. It doesn't appear to be marketed anywhere outside Southeast and Central Asia. (AlmondFacialBar)
8518: In 2017, the Unicode Consortium launched Unicode 10, consisting of 8518 new characters including 56 new emojis. This brought the total number of Unicode characters to 136,690. (Brock)
8519: BS 8519 concerns itself with the selection and installation of fire-resistant power and control cable systems for life safety, fire-fighting and other critical applications. (AlmondFacialBar)
8520: The largest collection of joker playing cards in the world contains 8,520 different cards. (Big Martin)
8521: 9V8521 is the call sign of the CS Angel, an oil products tanker under Singaporean flag. She's currently anchored off Fujariah in the Gulf of Oman. (AlmondFacialBar)
8522: In 1943 Swiss Federal Railways converted 2 0-6-0 steam shunters to run on an electric heating system due to the difficulties in importing coal from Germany during the war. They were converted back to conventional coal firing in the early 1950s. Of the 2, loco 8522 is still on museum service on the Sursee - Triengen railway. (Big Martin)
8523: N8523W is a Boeing 737-800 currently in service with Southwest Airlines. Right now it's at Milwaukee Mitchell awaiting departure for Atlanta Hartsfield in about 2 1/2 hours. (AlmondFacialBar)
8524: 8524 is the product code for this cartographic map for this region of New South Wales. (Awitt)
8525: According to Scottish Government statistics, there were 8525 young people registered as homeless in 2020/1. (Brock)
8526: Neighbours episode 8526 originally aired on 30-December-2020 and involves a relationship misunderstanding between Dipi and Shane. It also involves someone struggling to assemble a billy cart. (AlmondFacialBar)
8527: I think it's been established that it's OK to split the number in two from time to time... in which case you'll be pleased to hear about Muskowekwan 85-27, an Indian reserve in Saskatchewan with a population of 0 living in 0 of its 0 private dwellings (according to the 2016 Canadian census). And it gets a Wikipedia page all to itself! (Brock)
8528: Should you choose to insert QRS word roll 8528 into a pianola, it'll play you the Huckle Buck. (AlmondFacialBar)
8529: 8529 is the product code for this four pack of inks. (Awitt)
8530: There were 8530 finishers in the 2011 Twin Cities Marathon held in Minneapolis and St Paul, Minnesota. (Brock)
8531: Mount Thompson in Montana has an elevation of 8,531 feet. (Big Martin)
8532: As already noted, the number 6174, known as "Kaprekar's constant", is a remarkable number. Take any four-digit number whose digits are not all equal, arrange its digits in descending and then ascending order, and subtract. Then repeat the process and you're bound to reach 6174 in at most seven steps. The final step in these calculations is often "8532 - 2358 = 6174", for reasons explained in more detail here. (Brock)
8533: Lufthansa Cargo Flight 8533 was a scheduled cargo flight from Tribhuvan International Airport in India operated by Lufthansa Cargo's Indian subsidary Hinduja Cargo Services. On 7 July 1999, the Boeing 727 operating the flight impacted Champadevi Hills at 7,500 feet (2,200 metres), 15 kilometres (9.3 mi, 8.1 nmi) and crashed with no survivors amongst the 5 occupants on board. (Strawberry)
8534: 8534 is a 'no further stay' clause on Australian visas. (Awitt)
8535: Pauli & Sohn product 8535 has just given me a German compound noun-gasm, because it's a Schwallschutzprofilset. I didn't know such a thing existed up to just now and am still struggling to translate it, but from the context of the page I gather that it's a rubber lip type thing that goes between the top of the shower tray and the cabin to prevent water from seeping through. (AlmondFacialBar)
8536: Old Chapel Warehouse in Castle Donnington is, as its name suggests, an old chapel converted to a warehouse! It has a gross internal area of 8,536 square feet. (Big Martin)
8537: Who wouldn't want to visit Utopia Mountain? It stands 8537 feet high in the Miette Range of Jasper National Park, in the Canadian Rockies of Alberta, Canada. (Brock)
8538: 8538/BR d.B. is an official report of the Austrian federal parliament about a debate regarding the legal standing of orthodox Christian churches. (Spoiler - they're legally recognised public bodies and have been since 1781.) (AlmondFacialBar)
8539: The 8539 equal temperament divides the octave into 8539 equal parts of 0.1405 cents each, an interval known as a "tina". That's far too small for the human ear to perceive, but it's been proposed as a bookkeeping device to keep track of larger intervals. (Brock)
8540: The Union Pacific 8540 was a diesel-electric 6000 hp locomotive used for hauling freight. It was in service from 1996 to 2008. (AlmondFacialBar)
8541: In 1726 King Charles, Emperor of Germany and King of Hungary, a determined anti-Semite, in order to reduce the Jewish population in his Austrian dominions of Bohemia and Moravia, forbade marriage of all but the first-born males. At that time there were 8541 in Bohemia and 5106 in Moravia. (Brock)
8542: In 2018 North Somerset councillors were entitled to claim £8,542 a year as a basic allowance for working an expected 24.5 hours a week. (Big Martin)
8543: Pantone 8543C has the Hex code Buccaneer and is an aubergine-ish type of purple-ish brown (or something close to that). I suspect it would look good as a fine merino fabric. (AlmondFacialBar)
8544: 23255/8544 is a close rational approximation to the mathematical constant e, accurate to within 0.00000025%. It corresponds to 12 terms of the continued fraction expansion. (Brock)
8545: Should you ever find yourself unwell in Warren, MI, you can rock up to Beaumont Health Center at 8545 Common Road for treatment. Provided you have the money. Or the insurance. Or I guess, that being America, both. (AlmondFacialBar)
8546: As of 29 May 2019, there were 8546 charging stations across the UK. This was the first time that the total had surpassed the number of petrol stations. (Cf. #8471.) (Brock)
8547: Station Road Steam's stock number 8547 was a 5 inch gauge replica of a GWR 2-8-0 locomotive. (Big Martin)
8548: Putney is notable for being the only constituency that Labour won from the Conservatives at the 2019 general election. Less attention was paid to the Liberal Democrats, whose candidate Sue Wixley came third in the seat with 8548 votes. (Brock)
8549: ISO 8549-1:2020 standardises the terminology used to describe external limb prostheses and external orthoses. (AlmondFacialBar)
8550: There were 8550 German students at US universities in the academic year 2021/22, an increase of nearly 60% on the previous year. (Brock)
8551: The Republic Act No. 8551 from 1998 concerns itself with the reform and reorganisation of the Philippine National Police. (AlmondFacialBar)
8552: Submission number 8552 to the Collins Dictionary, dated 21 Feb 2013, was the word "Britcom" (for "British comedy"). (Brock)
8553: The Kremsbruecke Pressingberg is the longest bridge in Austria at 8,553 feet long. (Big Martin)
8554: 28554 is the least power of 2 with eight consecutive 1's in its decimal representation. (It's 2576 digits long.) (Brock)
8555: Taxi 8555 appears to be a cab hailing app popular in former Soviet states. (AlmondFacialBar)
8556: There were 8556 thoroughbred horses in training for flat racing in Britain for 2007. (Brock)
8557: ULUSOY 9 is a bulk carrier sailing under the Turkish flag. She has a gross tonnage of 8557 and is currently moored in Szczecin. (AlmondFacialBar)
8558: A study by Yamagata University in Japan of 20,969 people above the age of 40, consisting of 8558 men and 12,411 women, concluded that men who lack interest in sex are at risk of early death. Oh well, that's me heading for an early grave then... (Brock)
8559: The Ferrari 330 GTO Recreation with the serial number 8559 was originally registered as a GT 2+2 in 1966 in its native city with the plate TO 802232. Some people on these here boards would be appalled and disgusted to learn that its originally colour was blu chiaro. (AlmondFacialBar)
8560: In the first half of 2018, there were 8560 reported mergers and acquisitions transactions globally valued at $1.9 trillion. (Brock)
8561: The IBM z15 (8561) is a mainframe designed with a particular view to enhanced data privacy and API connectivity. (AlmondFacialBar)
8562: The planned A20 Elbe River Crossing will have a total length of 8,562 metres. (Big Martin)
8563: 8563: One Story, Four Endings is a mystery book targeted at kids between 10 and 13. It was nominated for the Peek-a-book Children's Choice Award in 2018. (AlmondFacialBar)
8564: The Three Steps are three prominent rocky steps on the northeast ridge of Mount Everest. The First Step, consisting of large boulders, stands at an altitude of 8564 metres. (Brock)
8565: On August 24th 2019 an Air Inuit Boeing 737 dropped from 9,754 metres to 8,565 metres in about 2 minutes due to an autopilot misfunction, causing injuries to passengers as they were thrown about. (Big Martin)
8566: There were 8566 recorded offences of religiously motivated hate crimes in England and Wales in the year to March 2019. (Brock)
8567: The Hitachi H-8567 magnetic drum unit was introduced in 1970 and had a memory capacity of 4 MB. (Big Martin)
8568: 8568 is the binomial coefficient sometimes written as 18C5 - the number of ways of choosing five objects (without regard to order) out of a group of 18. As with all binomial coefficients, you can read it off Pascal's triangle. (Brock)
8569: Megalithic Portal article 8569 is about the "Pierre de la Hoberie" near Falaise in Normandy. (Big Martin)
8570: The distance by sea from Burnt Islands, Canada to Port of Ras Laffan, Qatar is 8570 nautical miles. (Brock)
8571: People of Medieval Scotland entry 8571 is for Matilda the daughter of Henry I of England and his Scottish wife Matilda. The mother of Henry II of England and, though she never managed a coronation, arguably queen of England in her own right. (Big Martin)
8572: In the state of California, BCIA 8572 is a form mandated reporters have to fill in when they suspect a child is being abused. (AlmondFacialBar)
8573: According to the ethnic heritage section of the 2000 US Federal Census, 50% of residents of Thief River Falls, Minnesota identify themselves as Norwegian-American, making Thief River Falls one of the most ethnically concentrated towns in the nation. Its total population at the 2010 census was 8573. (Brock)
8574: HD 8574 is a single star in the constellation pisces whose trivial name is Bélénos. Slightly larger than the sun and with just over twice its luminosity, Bélénos can be viewed through binoculars, but not with the naked eye. (AlmondFacialBar)
8575: Labour's Chris Elmore won the 2016 Ogmore by-election with a majority of 8575 over UKIP. Plaid Cymru were third, the Tories were fourth and the Lib Dems were fifth (losing their deposit). (Brock)
8576: Inmate 8576 is a song by Adam Jensen. (Big Martin)
8577: In January 2019, the Conley container terminal in Boston processed 8577 TEU for import on Asia that had arrived on 8 vessels. Apparently Conley terminal can handle Post-Panamax carriers, but you wouldn't think that from those numbers. (AlmondFacialBar)
8578: Disko Island, in Baffin Bay off the west coast of Greenland, is one of the 100 largest islands in the world, with an area of 8578 square kilometres. (Brock)
8579: The most recent common ancestor of the Y chromosomal haplogroup C-CTS8579 is thought to have been born in about 5700 BCE in what is today Vietnam. (AlmondFacialBar)
8580: 6581 To 8580 is a 2018 album by Exorb. (Big Martin)
8581: The amount of time spent in moderate and vigorous physical activity every day is linked to mid-life brain power, according to research published online in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. The research drew on participants in the 1970 British Cohort study, of whom 8581 had reached the ages of 46-47 in 2016-18. (Brock)
8582: The Miele OH 8582 is a cleaning and disinfection machine for hospital use. Basically a glorified dishwasher. (AlmondFacialBar)
8583: There were 8583 new .ie registrations between 1990 and 1999 (the top-level internet domain name for Ireland). (Brock)
8584: Devil's Paw on the Alaska/British Columbia border is the high point of the Juneau Icefield at an elevation of 8,584 feet. (Big Martin)
8585: Sequence number A008585 in the OEIS is probably one of the simplest; it's a list of multiples of three. (Brock)
8586: 8586 is a clothes store in Los Angeles. (Big Martin)
8587: Many Jews left Katowice, Poland, as a result of the rise in anti-Semitism during the 1930s. In 1939 there were 8587 Jews remaining in the city, or 6.3% of the population. (Brock)
8588: At 8,588 metres the Shunbeiying No. 1 well is the deepest on-land oil well in Asia. (Big Martin)
8589: The minor planet 8589 Stellaris is not, as you might think, named after anything in the stars, but after the Eurasian bittern (Botaurus stellaris), a wading bird. (Brock)
8590: The Tokyu 8590 Series is a type of suburban train that is operated on the Tokyu Denentoshi Line, the Tokyo Metro Hanzomon Line, and, for whichever reason, the DART. (AlmondFacialBar)
8591: Bus route 8591, running from Riga in Latvia to St Petersburg in Russia, is unsurprisingly not in service at the moment. (Brock)
8592: Simplicity 8592 is a sewing pattern for a 1950s vintage style dress. (AlmondFacialBar)
8593: 8593 spectators attended the FA cup third-round match in January 2020 where Rochdale held Newcastle United to a 1-1 draw. (Brock)
8594: The House Designers plan 8594 is for an A-frame three bedroom, two bathroom dwelling that at 1,372 sq ft makes for a comfortable family home by European standards, but is marketed as a cottage to Americans. (AlmondFacialBar)
8595: 8595 is a member of the Fibonacci-style sequence starting with 5 and 11. (Each term is the sum of the previous two.) It starts:(Brock)
5, 11, 16, 27, 43, 70, 113, 183, 296, 479, 775, 1254, 2029, 3283, 5312, 8595
8596: The Irish reg 89 C 8596 is (or likely was) a John Deere tractor built in 1988. (AlmondFacialBar)
8597: During WW2, it was estimated that the Teignmouth area in Devon could cope with an extra 8,597 people in the existing surplus accommodation. (Big Martin)
8598: In 2010 there were 8598 licensed barbers in New York City. (Brock)
8599: I-8599 is a Pipistrel Taurus Electro microlight aircraft registered to a private owner. (AlmondFacialBar)
8600: The 8600 series of tilting express trains runs between Takamatsu and Matsuyama in Japan. (Brock)
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