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Fancy a Chinese? Try the 828 Chinese Takeaway.

(Wondering whether someone there has some amazing search engine optimization skills.)
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The 829 Churchill Maduro is a brand of cigar from the Dominican Republic.
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830 is the sum of four consecutive prime numbers:

197 + 199 + 211 + 223 = 830
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831 is internet slang for "I love you" (8 letters, 3 words, 1 meaning).
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832is the Dewey decimal classification for books about German Drama.
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833 is the 17th octagonal number - a number representing an octagon with 17 points per side.
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The maximum number of pieces attainable by making 17 planar cuts through a cube (or cake) is 834.

http://oeis.org/A000125
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835 is a hallmark sometimes found on silverware of European origin, indicating 83.5% purity.
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Steward 836 at Download Festival 2011 became small internet star due to his antics.
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According to some people, repeating Angel Number 837 suggests that someone has chosen a spiritual lifestyle and has listened to their soul’s higher calling.
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According to a road atlas of 2008, the shortest route from Land's End to John O'Groats using classified roads was 838 miles.
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Mind you Google Maps has it as 839 miles
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Could go either way I suppose...

840 is the smallest number divisible by all the numbers from 1 to 8.
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Let's take a trip the Scottish Isle of Arran, shall we? There's only one A-road on the island, and it's the A841.
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Between 1969 and 1972 six Apollo missions brought back 842 pounds of lunar rocks, core samples, pebbles, sand and dust from the lunar surface.
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