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Trivial numbers!

Gadjodilo · 2009-04-05 11:51:32

How about this folks? It’s like the counting thread(s) but a bit more interesting. You count up in ones but add a little factoid about the number. 1948 was the year in which the state of Israel was founded. 27 is the number of countries in the European Union. 101 is the smallest three digit prime number. 5 is the number of…

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Ferrari 288 GTO

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289 cobra

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290 - Boards user 290 is Shane 2

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291 - A Round Trip from Earth to Venus should take about 291 days (cannot find a source to back this up right now, and have no clue as to how I remember this )

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Comic 292 from XKCD is

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294 is the microsoft security certification exam number

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Nintendo president Satoru Iwata says over 295 million people currently play video games.

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The bungalow for sale at no. 296, Maynooth Road in Celbridge, Co. Kildare once belonged to my friends aunt.

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297 - Michael Owen made 297 appearances for Liverpool between 1996 and 2004.

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298 - You can get a 2 nights break away with 1 evening meal from Finnstown Country House Hotel, Newcastle Road , in Lucan from 298.00 euro!

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Prime Factors of 299=13x23.

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300 a film based on a graphic novel with the same name

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301 - the code used for redirecting webpages

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302- The 302nd day of 2009 will be the 29th of September.

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303 - The Roland TB-303 is a synthesizer which was used a lot in early Acid House music.

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304 Peugeot; Columbos car
305 Peugeot; A sadistic priest I once knew had one
306 Peugeot; Had a bad experience in one once
307 Merc van, great van
308 Ditto
309 Ditto
310 Ditto. Yup, older mercs were the best.

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311 - Hailing from Nebraska, 311 are an American rock band.

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312 - Battle of Turin

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UB313: Tenth Planet to be discovered in our solar system, now called Eris

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The Boeing 314 was a water plane (referred to as the Clipper) who used to make regular stops at Foynes, Co. Limerick beside the Shannon

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Pingray wrote: »

302- The 302nd day of 2009 will be the 29th of September.

That'll be my twenty-first birthday!

315K is 40 degrees centigrade

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John 3( : )16

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317 - Apparently there's a television show called 317

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The mass of Jupiter is 318 times the mass of Earth

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http://www.319darkstreet.com/

One of the internet's best comic strips, this darkly funny film noir parody depicts the misadventures of sassy jazz singer Amanda Kayne.

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Love the 320i coupe

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322 - BC greek philosopher Aristotle dies

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