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[DrainBrain]

Gliese 884 is an orange dwarf star in the constellation of Aquarius and is currently the 111th closest star to the Sun.

[nozzacook]

885 Solihull Bus Service

Route:
From Solihull Station, Streetsbrook Road, Link Road, Warwick Road, Acocks Green, Westley Road, Summer Road, Shaftmoor Lane, Stratford Road and then following the No. 1 bus route to the Bristol Road and Edgbaston Park Road.

[GuyBarry]

On April 23rd this year, it was reported that the number of cases in the measles epidemic had risen to 886, an increase of 78 in five days.

[nozzacook]

The Porsche 918 spider, Porsche's new hybrid halo car. After more than three years of development mules and prototypes in various racing liveries, it's finally ready for prime time.

This Frankfurt Motor Show is kind of a special one for Porsche. Fifty years ago, they debuted the 911 here. It's kind of fitting that they bring us the very latest and possibly greatest Porsche yet at the same show.

While the design isn't a surprise, we now have some official specs. The 4.6-liter V8 develops 608 horsepower, and when its powers are combined with those of three electric motors, it gets a whopping 887 total horsepower. It is the most powerful naturally-aspirated Porsche ever.

Developed alongside Porsche's new Le Mans LMP1 car, they claim the 918 can achieve a simply insane 85 to 94 miles per gallon.

The 918 is fast, though. No question about that. Porsche says it can go from zero to 62 in 2.8 seconds. It will hit 62 mph in under seven seconds in purely electric mode, and with both gas and electric power it will hit 186 mph in 22 seconds. It is also now the fastest production car to ever lap the Nürburgring.

Sourced from jalponik online magazine.

[RobbieM]

888

Anyone remember old Teletext subtitles?

[tubeguru]

Erm, hello. Being born in 1973, I grew up on those things!

[greatkingrat]

888

Anyone remember old Teletext subtitles?

Although if you were watching S4C and wanted your subtitles in Welsh, you needed to go to 889

[RobbieM]

And if you're in Achnasheen, and fancy a trip to Eileen Donan Castle, then head along the A890.

[GuyBarry]

891 is the 11th octahedral number, i.e. 891 close-packed spheres form an octahedron with 11 spheres along each edge.

[nozzacook]

892 Naval Air Squadron was first formed in July 1942 at Norfolk, Virginia, equipped with six Grumman Martlet IV fighters. It operated Martlets from escort aircraft carriers, flying from HMS Battler and HMS Archer,[1] disbanding in August 1943 when it merged into 819 Naval Air Squadron.
It reformed in April 1945 as a night fighter squadron, flying Grumman Hellcat II NFs off HMS Ocean.

[GuyBarry]

893 has a square whose digits each occur twice: 893^2 = 797449.

[RobbieM]

894 is 9C in base 98.

[GuyBarry]

Saving Pelican 895 is a 2011 American short film about the effort to save the 895th surviving oiled pelican in Louisiana.

[RobbieM]

896 is 1,600 in base 8.

[GuyBarry]

AD 897 was a year of three popes. Pope Stephen VI was strangled in August and succeeded by Pope Romanus, who was deposed in November. Pope Theodore II succeeded him in December, but died twenty days later. (The next pope, John IX, didn't assume office until January.)