501: 501 is the number of runs scored by Brian Lara in a match between Warwickshire and Durham at Edgbaston in June 1994, still the record for an individual score in First Class cricket. (tetsabb)
502: Telephone area code 502 serves Louisville, Kentucky and the surrounding area. (Strawberry)
503: Jacques Kallis averages 503 against Zimbabwe, in Zimbabwe. (Alfred E Neuman)
504: The Avro 504 was a family of secondary trainer aircraft used by the RFC and RAF during the first world war. Many were retained as "squadron hacks" by RAF squadrons well into the 1930s, and they remained popular with civilian flying clubs up to the start of WW2. Over 10,000 were built either by Avro themselves on one of the many licencees, with any of over a dozen engines (rotaries and radials). (PDR)
505: The International 505 is a class of two person dinghy. (AlmondFacialBar)
506: The ST-506 was the first 5.25 inch hard disk drive, introduced in 1980 by Seagate Technology (then Shugart Technology). (Awitt)
507: 507 Mechanical Movements is a classic technical reference book by Henry T. Brown, originally published in 1868. An online version of the book is linked to (it claims to be animated, but very few of the illustrations actually are). (GuyBarry)
508: Section 508 of the American Rehabilitation Act of 1973 deals with the accessibility of information technology. (AlmondFacialBar)
510: The 510 is an IXUS HS, an amazing compact camera with beautiful styling and featuring a 12x Optical Zoom, allowing you to get closer to the action. (Awitt)
511: The mathematician Paul Erdős had 511 different collaborators during his lifetime. As a joke, people started giving other eminent mathematicians "Erdős numbers" equal to the number of collaborative links between them and Erdős. The same idea spawned the game "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon". (GuyBarry)
512: The U 512 was sunk on 2nd October, 1942, in the Southern Atlantic by depthcharges from an American bomber. (AlmondFacialBar)
513: 513 (or Five Thirteen) is a French thriller directed by Kader Ayd. (GuyBarry)
514: Dust 514 is a free to play video game made for the Playstation 3. (Webster100)
515: In Star Trek. Starbase 515 was a Federation starbase located on a planet in the vicinity of the Epsilon IX sector and Rhomboid Dronegar sector 006. Captain Jean-Luc Picard went there in 2365 to undergo a cardiac replacement. Wesley Crusher took his Academy entrance exams there at the same time. (bemahan)
516: E516 is calcium sulphate, which has been found on Mars. (GuyBarry)
517: 517 on Sherrard is a group of town houses in the regional city of Ballarat. (Awitt)
518: U-518 was a German U-boat used during WWII that was sunk on the 22 April 1945 (franticllama)
519: Xerxes the Great was born in 519 BCE, the fourth King of Kings of Persia. In Judeo-Christian tradition, Xerxes I is believed to be the Persian king identified as Ahasuerus in the biblical book of Esther. (bemahan)
520: The Dewoitine D520 was the only modern fighter to be designed and built in France in the run-up to WW2. An all-metal, low-wing cantilevered monoplane which certainly looked the part, but it was hampered by the lack of a decent engine (using the Hispano-Suiza Y12 which was a generation behind the british and german engines of the time). It had a reasonable top speed (340mph) but this was achieved through having a small airframe, reduced armament and poor armour and the resulting high wing-loading made it a poor dogfighter compared to the Spitfire or early Me109. (PDR)
521: In 521 CE the Roman philosopher Boëthius introduced Greek musical notation to the West. (AlmondFacialBar)
522: Orvis, a supplier of outdoor clothing, is at 522 5th Avenue NYC. (chrisboote)
523: 523 is the smallest prime that is followed by 17 composite (i.e. non-prime) numbers. (GuyBarry)
524: 524 is a deficient number since the sum of the proper divisors is less than 524. (Webster100)
525: The Supermarine Type 525 was a test-bed proptotype jet carrier-borne interceptor that let to the production Supermarine Scimitar. Whilst adequate, like most Supermarine products (bar one) it wasn't exactly best-of-class and generally supports the contention that Supermarine was an aviation "one-hit-wonder" whose only *good* product (the Spitfire family) was not followed by anything much of value. (PDR)
527: 527 episodes of the Simpsons have aired in the UK. (GuyBarry)
528: A beam of light that has a wavelength of 528nm would appear to be green in color. (Webster100)
529: Pokémon #529 Drilbur is a Ground type Pokémon introduced in Generation 5. It is known as the Mole Pokémon. (bemahan)
530: In 530 CE St Brendan the Navigator is said to have climbed Cnoc Bréanainn, a hill on the Dingle Peninsula to look for the Americas. Given that Cnoc Bréanainn is 953 metres high and the distance to America from there is about 5400 kilometres something tells me that his effort wasn't crowned with success. (AlmondFacialBar)
531: 531 Ammunition Technical Squadron previously stored, refurbished, issued and disposed of all types of ammunition in use by the British Army. It ceased to exist in 2014. (bemahan)
532: Room 532 in the Bewley's Hotel Leopardstown is very very noisy. (chrisboote)
533: Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533 (1964), is a United States Supreme Court judgement about the size of legislative districts. (AlmondFacialBar)
534: 534 is the fourth studio album by rapper Memphis Bleek. (GuyBarry)
535: The Devireg 535 is a heating thermostat that allows programs to be pre-stored in set modes. (Awitt)
536: The SCR536 was a hand-held transceiver developed for the US military in WW2. It was the original "walkie-talkie". (Big Martin)
537: Minuscule 537 is a Greek New Testament manuscript thought to be from the 12th century. (AlmondFacialBar)
538: FiveThirtyEight is a polling aggregation website with a blog created by Nate Silver. Sometimes colloquially referred to as 538 dot com or just 538, the website takes its name from the number of electors in the United States electoral college. (bemahan)
539: US Immigration and Citizenship Service form I-539 is an application to change or extend non-immigrant status. (AlmondFacialBar)
540: Fly540 is Africa's low-cost airline. (GuyBarry)
541: National Portrait Gallery 541 is a portrait of Queen Elizabeth I. (bemahan)
542: From the year AD 542 forward, the appointment of particular Roman consuls was abandoned and the office was merged with that of Byzantine emperor. (GuyBarry)
543: HD 78257, a white subgiant in the constellation Pyxis, is thought to be 543 light years away from us. (AlmondFacialBar)
544: 5.44pm is the unusual time that The Magic Roundabout was shown on BBC1 during the early 70s. (GuyBarry)
545: 545 is the number of complaints the BBC received about the sound of vuvuzelas during its World Cup coverage. (bemahan)
546: Special Research Department 546 at Humboldt University Berlin works on the structure, dynamics and reactivity of transition metal oxyde aggregates. (AlmondFacialBar)
547: In the Disney movie The Black Hole, the crew of the Palomino escape from the parallel-universe Cygnus on Day 547. (bemahan)
548: The currently applicable EU dangerous substances directive is 67/548/EEC. It has been in force since 1970 and will be replaced in 2015. (AlmondFacialBar)
549: Number 549 Squadron RAF was a fighter squadron of the Royal Air Force (RAF) operating in Australia from 1943 to 1945. (Awitt)
550: The number of people in US state prisons for drug offences increased 550 percent over the 20 years to 2013. Source: Justice Policy Institute, "Pruning Prisons: How Cutting Corrections Can Save Money and Protect Public Safety," (Washington, DC: May 2009), p. 6. (bemahan)
551: 551 days after the launch of the Instagram app by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger in 2010, it was bought by Facebook for $1 billion. (GuyBarry)
552: According to the International Diabetes Federation, if current trends continue, by 2030, some 552 million people, or one adult in 10, will have diabetes. This equates to approximately 3 new cases every 10 seconds, or almost 10 million per year. (bemahan)
553: The typical cruising speed of the Airbus A 330 and 340 (the same plane really, except the 340 has four engines) is 553 mph or 480 knots. (AlmondFacialBar)
554: Norm Van Brocklin holds the NFL record for the the most passing yards in a single game: 554. (Ed.)
555: Introduced in 1971 by Signetics, the 555 timer IC is a widely used integrated circuit (chip) used in a variety of timer, pulse generation, and oscillator applications. The 555 can be used to provide time delays, as an oscillator, and as a flip-flop element. (bemahan)
556: LM556 is a dual 555 timer, multivibrator etc. (Efros)
557: Kosmos 557 was the third space station in the USSR's Salyut programme. (GuyBarry)
558: Laser 558 was an offshore pirate radio station launched in May 1984 by a consortium of business and broadcasting executives. (bemahan)
559: The Vickers Type 559 was a supersonic interceptor aircraft design by the British aircraft company Vickers-Armstrongs in 1955. (GuyBarry)
560: Restaurante 560 is a restaurant in Lisbon that does fairly decent food for tourists who don't want to eat the exact same stuff they can get at home (franticllama)
561: EXP-561 is a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor that was developed in the 1960 as a possible anti-depressant, but never marketed. (AlmondFacialBar)
562: 562 was one of the commonest pint glass numbers. They used to be etched on pint glasses in pubs, along with a crown symbol, to indicate that the capacity of the glass had been certified as a full pint. Other common ones were 303 and 2043. (GuyBarry)
563: Reggie Jackson hit 563 home runs in his professional baseball career. He led his teams to five world championships and eleven division titles. (Strawberry)
564: 564 can be expressed as the sum of a twin prime pair (281 + 283). (Webster100)
565: Some claim that the Loch Ness monster was first reported in A.D. 565, when — according to Catholic legend — St. Columba turned away a giant beast that was threatening a man in the Ness River, which flows into the lake. (bemahan)
566: There are 566 ways to place 24 points on a 12x12 grid so that no three points are on a line. (GuyBarry)
567: The EMD 567 is a line of diesel engines built by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division. This engine, which succeeded Winton's 201-A, was used in EMD's locomotives from 1938 until its replacement in 1966 by the EMD 645. (Strawberry)
568: Infinity tumbling is the most difficult aerobatic paragliding manoeuvre to perform, with the pilot flipping over the vertical line of the paraglide sail in consecutive loops. Paraglider Horacio Llorens flew up to 19,300 feet before jumping from a helicopter, opening his paraglider and looping for around 15 minutes, hitting an incredible 568 rotations -- breaking the previous record by 194 loops. (bemahan)
569: 569 is the sixth studio album by Japanese rock band GO!GO! 7188. The title is a play on words with the Japanese pronunciation of 569 sounding like the English Go Rock You. (Strawberry)
570: 570 million years ago marks the beginning of the Cambrian period and the Palaeozoic era in Earth history. (AlmondFacialBar)
571: U-571 is the title of a 2000 film in which a German submarine is boarded by disguised American submariners trying to capture their Enigma cipher machine. The film was well received by American critics but Tony Blair called it "an affront to British sailors". The story had nothing to do with the real U-571. (GuyBarry)
572: Senate Bill 572, signed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2009, establishes every May 22 as "Harvey Milk Day" in K-12 public schools in California, named after a gay rights activist assassinated in 1978. (bemahan)
573: 573 squared is the concatenation of two consecutive numbers: 328329. (GuyBarry)
574: Area code 574 is a North American Numbering Plan area code for South Bend/North Central Indiana. (Awitt)
575: 575 Wandsworth Road was acquired by the National Trust in 2010, because of the rich and striking interiors created by Khadambi Asalache (1935-2006), a Kenyan-born poet, novelist, philosopher of mathematics and British civil servant. (bemahan)
576: New Balance produce a 576 line of fitness walking shoes. (Strawberry)
577: The 577 T-Rex is a cartridge developed in 1993 for professional big game hunting. (AlmondFacialBar)
578: UK House of Commons Early Day Motion 578 of the 2013/14 session noted "that the actor Tom Hanks has been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes; recognises the effect that his changing diet due to his differing roles has had on his health". (bemahan)
579: Electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength of 579 nm is perceived as orange by the human eye. (AlmondFacialBar)
580: The A580 between Liverpool and Salford, usually known as the "East Lancs Road", was Britain's first purpose-built inter-city highway. (GuyBarry)
581: A giant explosion occurred during the loading of fertilizer onto the freighter Grandcamp at a pier in Texas City, Texas, in 1947. 581 people lost their lives and thousands were injured when the ship was literally blown to bits. (bemahan)
582: XKCD Comic 582 is entitled "Brakes". (Alfred E Neuman)
583: Writing on the Guardian's environment blog in 2013, the environmental auditor and eco-author Donnachadh McCarthy claimed that David Cameron's energy pricing reforms put had put his gas bill up by 583%. (GuyBarry)
584: The SCR-584 (short for Signal Corps Radio # 584) was a microwave radar developed by the MIT Radiation Laboratory during World War II. It replaced the earlier and much more complex SCR-268 as the US Army's primary anti-aircraft gun laying system. It proved to be an outstanding system, much more advanced than any other battlefield radar system deployed during the war. (Webster100)
585: The stamp 585 on a gold ring indicates that it is 58.5%, or 14 carat gold. (Awitt)
586: The Pentium processor was originally expected to be named the 586 (as the successor to the 286, 386 and 486). Intel adopted the name to prevent its competitors from bringing out products with similar names, since you can't trademark a number in the US. (GuyBarry)
587: Nickel Plate Road No. 587 (at the Indiana Transportation Museum) is an example of a United States Railroad Administration light Mikado steam locomotive. (Strawberry)
588: The Danube delta is UNESCO World Heritage Site 588. (AlmondFacialBar)
589: The world record for a democracy going without an elected government is held by Belgium, which went for 589 days under a caretaker administration in 2010-11 because the opposing Flemish and Walloons were unable to agree on policy issues and form a governing coalition following national elections. (GuyBarry)
590: 590 Tomyris is an asteroid discovered in 1906. (Strawberry)
591: There are 591 ways to stack 23 boxes in a line so that each box lies on the table or on a box next to two boxes. (GuyBarry)
592: SECR loco No.592 is preserved at the Bluebell Railway. It's an 0-6-0 C class freight loco. (Big Martin)
593: 593 is a prime number that can be expressed as the sum of seven consecutive primes and the sum of nine consecutive primes. (Webster100)
594: Alexa Fluor® 594 onkey Anti-Mouse IgG Antibody is labeled with our superior red-fluorescent Alexa Fluor® 594 dye and is prepared from affinity-purified antibodies. (Awitt)
595: 595 is the international dialling code for Paraguay. (AlmondFacialBar)
596: 596 was the codename of China's first nuclear weapons test. (GuyBarry)
597: In 597, Augustine arrived at Thanet, where he was received by Æthelberht, and granted a dwelling-place in Canterbury and permission to preach. (bemahan)
598: 598 = 51 + 92 + 83, the sum of consecutive powers of its digits. (GuyBarry)
599: United Airlines flight 599 flies from Tampa, Florida to Newark, New Jersey. (AlmondFacialBar)
600: "Half a league, half a league/Half a league onward,/All in the valley of Death/Rode the six hundred" are the opening lines of The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. (The actual strength of the cavalry charge at the Battle of Balaclava was probably closer to 670.) (Ed.)
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