Sunday, July 23, 2023

The Quite Incredible Number List: 9601-9700

9601: In November 2017, 9,601 tonnes of cheese were produced in Belgium. (Big Martin)
9602: In 2017, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) tested samples of AquaSalina, a salt de-icer used on highways, and found high levels of radium. Specifically, 0.005 picocuries per litre of radium is allowed for disposal, but there is no limit for spreading on roadways. The ODNR samples contained between 66 and 9602 picocuries per litre, including one sample that was higher than raw brine. (Brock)
9603: UGC 9603 is a Galaxy located in the constellation of Boötes. (Awitt)
9604: 9604 is a perfect square which is an anagram of another perfect square (9604 = 982, 4096 = 642). (Brock)
9605: RusAir flight 9605 was a passenger flight which crashed near Petrozavodsk in the Republic of Karelia, Russia, on 20 June 2011 while attempting to land in thick fog. (Awitt)
9606: 9606 official incident reports were completed by the Tasmania Fire Service in 2003-04. (Brock)
9607: Karup Airport in Denmark has a runway length of 9,607 feet. (Big Martin)
9608: There were 9608 firearms offences in England and Wales in 2006. (Brock)
9609: The Defence Police Boat Eagle No. 9609 was built by Holyhead Marine in 1997. (Big Martin)
9610: For the academic year 2015/16, Marlborough College charged £9610 per term for day pupils, making it the most expensive day school in the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (the association of British independent schools). (Brock)
9611: Felpham in West Sussex had a population of 9,611 at the time of the 2001 census. (Big Martin)
9612: Uebert Angel is a controversial British-Zimbabwean businessman who has been implicated in fraud, money laundering and racketeering after undercover journalists filmed him arranging to smuggle gold and cash using his diplomatic passport. His name appears on a US Department of Justice list of 9612 people who paid for fake degrees. (Brock)
9613: 9613 hours equals 400 days and 13 hours. (Awitt)
9614: In 1971 there were 9614 written complaints about NHS hospitals. By 2011-12 this had increased to 107,259. (Brock)
9615: On October 6th 2019, Tecnam P92 Echo Super aircraft registration I-9615 hit the wires of a ski-lift and became entangled at Prato Velentino in Italy. (Big Martin)
9616: 9616 is the 16th icosahedral number - the number of dots in a 16-layered geometric arrangement of an icosahedron, or Platonic solid with 20 faces. (Brock)
9617: 9617 is the code for this heartburn fact sheet. (Awitt)
9618: Minor planet 9618 is named Johncleese, being one of a sequence of six named after the members of Monty Python. (9617 is Grahamchapman and the others are 9619-9622.) (Brock)
9619: 9619 is part of the access/ file number for this book. (Awitt)
9620: In 2015 there were 9620 speakers of Zuni, a language isolate spoken mainly in Zuni Pueblo in western New Mexico, and in neighbouring eastern Arizona. (A "language isolate" is a language with no demonstrable relationship with any other language.) (Brock)
9621: 9621 is a "lifestyle store" in Melbourne. (Big Martin)
9622: At the end of 2022 there were 9622 law firms in England and Wales. (Brock)
9623: Donor 9623 is an infamous case of a lying sperm donor in the USA. (Big Martin)
9624: The New York City Police Department vehicle fleet contains 9624 police cars, as well as 11 boats, eight helicopters, and numerous other vehicles. (Brock)
9625: 9625 is the number of this You tube channel. (Awitt)
9626: Dorset Police carried out 9626 alcohol breath tests in 2009. (Brock)
9627: The Just Eat phishing scammer Grant West defrauded 9,627 people in 2015. (Big Martin)
9628: The digit product of 96282 is equal to the square of the digit product of 9628. 9 x 2 x 6 x 9 x 8 x 3 x 8 x 4 = 746496 = 8642
9 x 6 x 2 x 8 = 864
96282 = 92,698,384
(Brock)
9629: Transcript 9629 is of a speech by former Aussie PM Paul Keating in 1995. (Awitt)
9630: As of March 2023, there were 9630 CentiMillionaires living in the US, defined as those possessing $100 million or more in investable assets. (Shouldn't that be a "hectomillionaire"? A "centimillion" ought to be 10,000.) (Brock)
9631: GWR buffet car 9631 was built in 1934 and is now part of the Science Museum's collection. (Big Martin)
9632: At the 2000 census there were 9632 people residing in the town of Liberty, Sullivan County, New York State. (Brock)
9633: The Lokomotiv Hockey Team disaster occurred on September 7th 2011 when Yak-Service Flight 9633 carrying the team and coaching staff crashed at Tunoshna Airport, killing all but one of the 45 people on board. (Big Martin)
9634: 9634 Spanish soldiers took part in the 3rd Spanish Armada of 1597. (Brock)
9635: 9635 are the first four digits of the phone number for part of the Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne. (Awitt)
9636: At 9636 feet, Mount Paget on South Georgia is the fourth highest point in the UK and all of its overseas territories. If you exclude the British Antarctic Territory, it's the highest. (Brock)
9637: Presidential Proclamation 9637 was for National Hispanic Heritage Month in 2017 by Donald Trump. (Big Martin)
9638: The Catalan Wikipedia had 9638 contributors as at July 2014. (Brock)
9639: Over 9,639 knives were removed from the streets as a result of police Operation Sceptre in November 2021. (Big Martin)
9640: In 1744 in Jamaica there were 9640 whites and 112,428 slaves. (Brock)
9641: 9,641 people died from alcohol-specific causes in the UK in 2021. (Big Martin)
9642: The deadliest aviation disaster to occur in Luxembourg was the crash of Luxair Flight 9642 on 6 November 2002, when a Fokker-50 lost control and crashed onto a field during an attempted landing at the airport. Out of 22 passengers and crew members on board, only two people survived. (Brock)
9643: By September 2022, the Lutterworth Rotary Club's knitted teddy appeal had distributed 9,643 of the toys to 48 countries around the world. (Big Martin)
9644: The phone number of Chetham's School of Music in Manchester is 0161 834 9644. (Brock)
9645: In 2018/19, British police seized 9,645 kilogrammes of cocaine. (Big Martin)
9646: Executive Order 9646, issued by President Harry S Truman on October 25 1945, officially defined the presidential coat of arms and seal for the first time. (Brock)
9647: The dam at Victor Braunig Lake in Texas is a 9,647 feet long earthfill embankment. (Big Martin)
9648: 9648 is divisible by all four of its digits: 9648 / 4 = 2412, 9648 / 6 = 1608, 9648 / 8 = 1206, 9648 / 9 = 1072. (Brock)
9649: Berwickshire is a very rural area, with 46% of the population (9,649 people), as at 2019, living in settlements with less than 500 inhabitants. (Big Martin)
9650: There are 9650 postcodes in the built-up area of Southend-on-Sea. (Brock)
9651: Derbyshire HER monument MDR9651 is the remains of former gas works at Matlock Bath. (Big Martin)
9652: The highest point of Andorra is Coma Pedrosa at 9652 feet. (Brock)
9653: Eugene Debs, otherwise known as Convict 9653, ran for election as US president in 1920, despite serving a 10-year sentence for sedition. (Big Martin)
9654: As of 2018 there were 9654 bonded wineries in the United States. (Brock)
9655: Simplex loco MR.9655 was ordered in 1951 for hauling clay at a brickworks and, after a varied life, it is now at the Old Kiln Light Railway near Farnham. (Big Martin)
9656: The coastline of the island of Newfoundland is 9656 km long. (Brock)
9657: Bristol (the one in east Pennsylvania) has a population of 9,657. (Big Martin)
9658: As of 2017, there were 9658 greenhouses of less than 10,000 square feet in the United States. (Brock)
9659: The Boston Tea Party of 1773 caused £9,659 worth of damage according to the British East India Company. (Big Martin)
9660: ISO 9660 is a file system for optical disc media. (Brock)
9661: As a result of the Zhao Jianmin Spy Case in 1968-9 in China, large numbers of people were killed or injured including 9,661 people left disabled in the city of Kunming alone. (Big Martin)
9662: Police in the Malaysian state of Pahang have arrested 9662 individuals involved in various drug offences from early this year until August. (Brock)
9663: London Remembers memorial 9663 is the Hammersmith Palais. (Big Martin)
9664: If you multiply 32 by each of its digits separately, and concatenate the results, you get 9664. (32 x 3 = 96; 32 x 2 = 64.) (Brock)
9665: 9665 are the first four digits of this NSW primary school's phone number. (Awitt)
9666: There were 9666 deaths from liver disease in England and Wales in 2020. (Brock)
9667: As at August 2022, 9,667 Afghan refugees were being housed in hotels in the UK. (Big Martin)
9668: Between 1881 and 1890, there were 9668 strikes and lockouts in the US. (Brock)
9669: 9669 is a song by The Joy Formidable. (Big Martin)
9670: In Kansas in 2022, there were 9670 deer crashes that killed four people and injured 471 others. (Brock)
9671: 9671 are the first four digits of a special phone number about a 'home lottery' that helps the Melbourne children's hospital. (Awitt)
9672: The Lottery Ticket is an adventure novel written by Jules Verne in 1886. It was also published in the United States under the title Ticket No."9672". (Brock)
9673: J36 class steam loco Maude was built for the North British Railway in 1891 as number 673. Post-grouping it was operated by the LNER as 9673 before being renumbered by them and BR. It is currently on static display in Bo'ness. (Big Martin)
9674: The Government's original proposals for ratifying and implementing the Brexit withdrawal agreement were laid out in Command Paper Cm 9674, dated July 2018. At that point the exit date was still set for 29 March 2019. (Brock)
9675: The maintenance vessel Edda Fauna has a displacement of 9,675 tonnes. (Big Martin)
9676: In Windows, it's possible to use the key combination Alt+9676 to produce a dotted circle (using the numeric keypad). (Brock)
9677: Mount St Helens stood at 9,677 feet before the 1980 eruption. (Big Martin)
9678: Andrew Baker (Conservative) came third in the Bermondsey and Old Southwark constituency at the 2019 general election, polling 9678 votes. (Brock)
9679: According to the Zambian police, there were 9,679 road accidents in that country in the second quarter of 2023. (Big Martin)
9680: 9680 = (22 - 2) x 222. (Brock)
9681: 5700 class pannier tank 9681 was built in 1949 and is now operated by the Dean Forest Railway. (Big Martin)
9682: Park Mountain is a 9682-foot mountain summit located above the southwest shore of Lake McArthur in Yoho National Park, in the Bow Range of the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, Canada. (Brock)
9683: In October 2018, 9,683 items passed through the hands of the Newport Tip Shop. (Big Martin)
9684: As of 2019 there were 9684 Taoist temples in Taiwan. (Brock)
9685: GB 9685-2016 is a National Food Safety Standard covering the use of additives in food contact materials. (Big Martin)
9686: 9686 is the Cambridge International Course code for A Level Urdu (Pakistan only). (Brock)
9687: 9687 are the first four digits of the phone number of this inner western Melbourne primary school. (Awitt)
9688: Sheep Mountain is a 9688-foot elevation mountain summit in Beaverhead County, Montana, United States. (Brock)
9689: 9689 is the file number for a working paper on 40 years post-arrival migration in Denmark. (Awitt)
9690: 9690 = 422 + 432 + 442 + 452 + 462. (Brock)
9691: Here is footage of Fowler A4 traction engine 9691 towing a 325 foot train of vehicles. (Big Martin)
9692: On 31 Jan 2020 - the day of the first confirmed case of coronavirus in the UK - 9692 cases had been confirmed in China. (It hadn't been named Covid-19 at that point.) (Brock)
9693: 9,693 people voted for the 2022 Chortle Awards. (Big Martin)
9694: In 2015, there were 9694 km of roads in the Finnish region of Uusimaa. (Brock)
9695: 9695 is a Romanian roadside assistance service. (Big Martin)
9696: 9696 is another strobogrammatic number (same upside-down) - and quite a rare one, as each half of the numeral is itself strobogrammatic. (Brock)
9697: Bristol Freighter aircraft 9697 operated by the RCAF hit some trees on the approach to Marville in France on December 30th 1963 and crashed. (Big Martin)
9698: In January 2021, the Nexis database of news publications contained 9698 references to "feeling unsafe". (Brock)
9699: The highest score on Crossy Road is 9,699 and was achieved by Joshua Beesley of Tonbridge on January 8th 2023. (Big Martin)
9700: In August 2023 Brian Shaw, four times the World's Strongest Man, revealed his new diet of 9700 calories per day. (Brock)

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