9901: British Museum object EA9901.3 is a Book of the Dead papyrus relating to royal scribe Hunefer from the New Kingdom period. (Big Martin)
9902: There were 9902 ATMs (automated teller machines) in Venezuela in December 2016. (Brock)
9903: According to recent estimates, there are 9,903 homeless people in Santa Clara County, California. (Big Martin)
9904: In the 2013-2014 school year there were 9904 girls involved in wrestling in the US, according to the National Federation of State High School Associations. (Brock)
9905: According to an article earlier this year, home owners in the South West can make an average of £9,905 a year from renting out their drive. (Big Martin)
9906: The luxury yacht Skat, built by Lürssen of Bremen, has the number "9906" prominently displayed on the hull in the manner of a warship. The number in fact stands for naval architect Espen Espen Øino's sixth design commission in 1999. The name is a Danish and Norwegian word for "treasure". (Brock)
9907: 9907 is a 2007 album by Indonesian singer Shanty. (Big Martin)
9908: Minor planet 9908 Aue was named after Hartmann von Aue, a medieval German poet and knight. One of the very few minor planets whose name is shorter than its number. (Brock)
9909: 9909 is a song by Danger Silent. (Big Martin)
9910: 9910 fires were started deliberately in the UK in 2012/13. (Brock)
9911: Norfolk's road network totals 9,911 kilometres. (Big Martin)
9912: There are 9912 graceful permutations of the integers 1 to 14. A new concept for me but it's fairly easy to explain: A graceful permutation of the integers 1 to n is a permutation such that the differences of consecutive terms are the integers 1 to n-1 in some order. So for instance {1, 14, 2, 13, 3, 12, 4, 11, 5, 10, 6, 9, 7, 8} is a graceful permutation of the integers 1 to 14, because the differences are 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 respectively. Nice! (Brock)
9913: Asteroid 9913 is named Humperdinck - presumably after the composer rather than after Mr Dorsey! (Big Martin)
9914: Apparently so. There were 9914 tweets sent in one second on August 24 2015. (Brock)
9915: The annual output from the Bristol Energy Cooperative's solar power installations is 9,915 megawatt-hours. (Big Martin)
9916: Nature Air Flight 9916, a Costa Rican chartered domestic passenger flight from Punta Islita Airport to San José, crashed on New Year's Eve 2017 shortly after takeoff killing all 12 people on board. An investigation found that the accident was caused by the aircraft entering an aerodynamic spin/stall that was the result of pilot error. (Brock)
9917: 34 bottles of Chateau Latour 1961 sold for £9,917 at the 1992 auction of Yul Brynner's wine collection. (Big Martin)
9918: House of Commons briefing paper CBP-9918, published yesterday (8 December 2023), relates to the Government's controversial Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill 2023-24. (Brock)
9919: Hip 9919 is a main sequence star. (Awitt)
9920: It was reported in February 2022 that the Indian armed forces had a shortage of 9920 officers. (Brock)
9921: Dodital is a lake in Uttarakhand, India at an elevation of 9,921 feet and is supposed to be the birthplace of the god Ganesha. (Big Martin)
9922: 9922 is the national ISBN registration prefix of Iraq. (Brock)
9923: The phone number for reporting accidents at work is 0845 300 9923. (Big Martin)
9924: Nana Tuffour, also known as 9-9-2-4 (geddit?), was a Ghanaian Highlife singer and songwriter who died in 2020. (Brock)
9925: The 9925 Building is an office block in Edmonton, Alberta. (Big Martin)
9926: There were 9926 challenges to how inherited estates are managed and distributed - known as probate - in England and Wales in 2021. (Brock)
9927: At an elevation of 9,927 feet, Leadville is the highest airport in the USA. (Big Martin)
9928: 9928 = 163 + 183. (Brock)
9929: According to the 2015 Global Terrorism Index, there were 9,929 terrorist fatalities in Iraq, the highest ever recorded for a single country. (Big Martin)
9930: The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency collected 9930 pounds of unneeded prescription drugs in Kentucky on its National Prescription Drug Take Back Day in autumn 2023. (Brock)
9931: The furthest distance between 2 rounds of golf played on the same day is 9,931 miles. (Big Martin)
9932: The Marketing Technology Landscape 2022 report found 9932 different marketing technology solutions - up by 24% from 2020. (Brock)
9933: Antonov An-12BK aircraft registration 9933 operated by the Sudanese Air Force was damaged beyond repair on April 17th 2023 during an attack on Khartoum airport by rival paramilitary forces. (Big Martin)
9934: A total of 9934 bird species were assessed for threatened species status by 2004. (Brock)
9935: Shropsire Fire and Rescue Service's incident 9935 involved removing a toilet seat from a child's head on March 12th 2012. (Big Martin)
9936: Lucy Powell won the Manchester Central by-election for Labour in November 2012 with a majority of 9936 over the Liberal Democrats. The turnout was 18.2% - the lowest in a Parliamentary by-election since the Second World War. (Brock)
9937: There are 9,937 people in the Netherlands with the surname Bosman. (Big Martin)
9938: Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho was recorded by Ralph Flanagan and His Orchestra in 1950 under the title "Joshua", and was released by EMI under the His Master's Voice label with catalogue number B 9938. (Brock)
9939: Norfolk Southern locomotive 9939 was the lead engine on a train that struck a truck at a crossing at Mer Rouge in Louisiana on October 5th 2014, destroying the truck's trailer and badly damaging the loco (see photo!). Amazingly, nobody was killed. (Big Martin)
9940: In 2006 in British Columbia, Canada, there were 9940 children under the age of 18 being raised by their grandparents. (Brock)
9941: Lemon Map Lichen (Rhizocarpon macrosporum) grows on non-calciferous rock in coniferous forest clearings at elevations between 4,839 and 9,941 feet. (Big Martin)
9942: 9942 is the minimum number of people required to give a 50% probability of at least 44 coincident birthdays in one year. (Brock)
9943: Binfield in Berkshire had a population of 9,943 at the time of the 2021 census. (Big Martin)
9944: The slogan "99 44/100 per cent pure" has been used to market Ivory Soap in the US ever since 1895. Thus the advertised purity of Ivory Soap is equivalent to 9944/10000. (Brock)
9945: The Tioga Pass Run in the Yosemite National Park starts at 6,781 feet above sea level in the town of Lee Vining and ends at 9,945 feet at the top of the pass. (Big Martin)
9946: According to the Department for Communities and Local Government, there were 9946 civil parishes in England in 2011. (Brock)
9947: Sopwith Pup aircraft N9947 was one of the first aircraft to be scrambled when German Gotha bombers attacked Folkestone on May 25th 1917. 22 out of the 23 bombers were shot down. (Big Martin)
9948: Placename number 9948 in Roman Inscriptions of Britain is Snodland in Kent. (Brock)
9949: Polar Airlines Flight 9949 crashed at Deputatsky in Russia, probably due to high winds affecting the Mi-8 helicopter. (Big Martin)
9950: The M67 was reportedly once planned to go all the way from Manchester to Sheffield. However, all that was ever built is a five-mile section running from Denton, in the eastern suburbs of Manchester, to the village of Mottram in Longdendale. A slightly odd place to terminate a motorway since at the 2011 census the population of the ward of Longdendale, which includes Mottram and the surrounding area, was a mere 9950. (Brock)
9951: 9,951 people were killed in road accidents in Bangladesh during 2022. (Big Martin)
9952: The Emergency Eye Department at Sunderland Eye Infirmary can be contacted on 0191 569 9952. (Brock)
9953: Vaillancourt decoration 9953 is a Father Christmas ornament. Sadly it appears not to be available! (Big Martin)
9954: 9954 is the sum of two anagrams of itself:
9954 = 4959 + 4995. (Brock)
9955: At an elevation of 9,955 feet, Fairplay in Colorado is the 7th highest community in the USA. (Big Martin)
9956: As of 2017, there were 9956 species of bird in the world. (Brock)
9957: The Dillingham Inn is at 104 Main Street, Dillingham, Alaska 9957. (Big Martin)
9958: Hillmorton Locks 2&3 on the Oxford Canal are the most used locks on the Canal & River Trust network, with 9958 lockages (fill-empty cycles) in 2014. (Brock)
9959: The Moog Machine's album Christmas Becomes Electric was released by Columbia as CS 9959 in 1969. (Big Martin)
9960: There were 9960 dairy farmers in England and Wales in January 2015. (Brock)
9961: The helpline number for Disability Information Scotland is 0300 323 9961. (Strawberry)
9962: The Canadian ice hockey team Kitchener Rangers collected 9962 stuffed toys during their annual Teddy Bear Toss in December 2022. They were donated to local charities. (Brock)
9963: G.9963 is a recommended home networking standard under development at the International Telecommunication Union standards sector, the ITU-T. (Big Martin)
9964: In 1976 there were 9964 miles of trunk road in the UK, estimated to occupy about 100,000 acres of land. (Brock)
9965: According to a NASA article on the Weight Equation, an aircraft weighing 10,000 lbs on the earth's surface would weight 9,965 lbs at 35,000 feet. (Big Martin)
9966: 9966 is the highest four-digit strobogrammatic number. (Brock)
9967: Over Christmas 2023, 9,967 people have been displaced by flooding in Malaysia. (Big Martin)
9968: There were 9968 people living in emergency accommodation in Ireland at the end of 2018. (Brock)
9969: 9969 Braille is an eccentric, rare-type and elongated asteroid. It was discovered in 1992 and named after the inventor of the writing system for the blind. (Big Martin)
9970: Christopher Jones (Labour) came second in the Broadland constituency in the 2015 election with 9970 votes. (Brock)
9971: The ship Maersk Saltoro has the carrying capacity of the equivalent of 9,971 20-foot containers. (Big Martin)
9972: Open Food Facts has 9972 pages on its website. (Awitt)
9973: The Rhine drains an area of 9973 square kilometres. (Brock)
9974: ICAO Doc 9974 covers flight safety and volcanic ash and was published in 2012. (Big Martin)
9975: MUrray Hill 5-9975 (i.e. 685-9975, the capital "MU" indicating letters to be dialled as digits) was the Ricardos' original phone number in I Love Lucy. (Brock)
9976: According to a 2020 UK government report the monetised impact of severe loneliness is at least £9,976. (Big Martin)
9977: 9977 is the largest number consisting of two distinct pairs of odd digits. (Brock)
9978: 3M product 9978 is Police Blue reflective sticky tape for emergency vehicles. (Big Martin)
9979: The 2021 population of Cape Canaveral, Florida was 9979. (Brock)
9980: 9980 is a 2012 album by Connect Ohm. (Big Martin)
9981: Executive Order 9981, issued on July 26 1948 by President Harry S. Truman, abolished discrimination "on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin" in the United States Armed Forces. (Brock)
9982: In the 2021/2022 financial year £9,982 per 1,000 people was spent on public libraries in the UK. (Big Martin)
9983: 9983 is the start of a run of eight consecutive odd semiprimes. (A semiprime is a number with exactly two prime factors.)(Brock)
9983 = 67 × 149 9985 = 5 × 1997 9987 = 3 × 3329 9989 = 7 × 1427 9991 = 97 × 103 9993 = 3 × 3331 9995 = 5 × 1999 9997 = 13 × 769
9984: 9,984 people earned a US PhD in ecology between 1968 and 2011. (Big Martin)
9985: ISO 9985 (1986) is the international standard for transliteration of the modern Armenian alphabet. (Brock)
9986: 9,986 Thousand Minutes is a song from the US version of The Office. (Big Martin)
9987: Rather appropriately for this list, minor planet 9987 is named after the Italian mathematician Giuseppe Peano. Peano is credited with putting the natural numbers on a rigorous mathematical footing sometimes known as "Peano arithmetic". (Brock)
9988: According to the 2021 census, there were 9,988 unpaid carers in Gwynedd. (Big Martin)
9989: In July 2022, 9989 of the 10,000 recruits to Nigerian police training colleges passed out as constables. (Brock)
9990: In August 2021, Ski Talk announced that the Park City Mountain Resort intended to close the gate onto US Forest Service land at the top of chairlift 9990 "permenantly" [sic]. (Big Martin)
9991: The juggling manoeuvre 9991 is an asymmetrical 7 object siteswap where all the throws cross (see animation). (Brock)
9992: British Standard BS 9992:2020 is for fire safety in the design, management and use of rail infrastructure. (Big Martin)
9993: For many years the highest-numbered classified road in Great Britain was the B9178 in Strathspey. However this record was smashed in 2018 when the number B9993 was assigned to some of the new roads being built around Bertha Park and Inveralmond to the north west of Perth. The route is the first part of the Springfield Link Road designed to open up the Bertha Park area as a vast new development site. (Brock)
9994: In the 2018/19 season Germany imported 9,994 tonnes of coffee from Kenya. (Big Martin)
9995: In October 2022 the Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg apparently suffered a sudden drop in the number of his followers, from 119 million to just 9995. This may have been due to a technical glitch. (Brock)
9996: Costa Rican law 9996 is aimed at attracting foreign investors and the like. (Big Martin)
9997: The setting of the Marvel Comics series Earth X is designated Earth-9997. (Brock)
9998: Orenstein & Koppel locomotive 9998 was built in Berlin in 1922 for the Portuguese forestry commission. To circumvent post WW1 restrictions on German industry, the manufacturer's plates show it as coming from Madrid. It is now operated by the Old Kiln Light Railway at Tilford near Farnham. (Big Martin)
9999: If you divide any four-digit number by 9999, you get a repeating decimal where those same four digits repeat. E.g. 1234/9999 = 0.123412341234... (Brock)
10000: 10,000 Hours is a song by Dan and Shay, and Justin Bieber. (Awitt)
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