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500 ml of water and 500 ml of alcohol produce 941 ml of vodka.
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942 - the last three digits of Wigan's STD code.
  • Incidentally - seeing the 500s there, I nearly put a post for 501!
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RobbieM wrote:
  • Incidentally - seeing the 500s there, I nearly put a post for 501!
    ["Ask my two friends - Levi and Jean - why 501 is important"]
[Oh my God - I don't think I could face going all the way back again :roll: ]

The 943 Gallery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was founded in 2008 at 943 Liberty Avenue, the site of a former adult bookstore (previously also an arcade and an accordion school).
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I once knew somebody who owned a Porsche 944.
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House of Commons Early Day Motion 945, tabled in January this year, relates to the recording of Islamophobia as a crime.
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Vespa make a 125cc model scooter called the 946.
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947 is a balanced prime, which means that the nearest prime numbers above and below are the same distance away (in this case 941 and 953). Surprisingly, it's only the 14th such prime number.
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St Albans School is believed to have been founded in the year 948.
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949 Athletics is a volleyball club in San Juan Capistrano, California.
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E950 is an artificial sweetener that causes insulin secretion in rats.

I'm disappointed I missed E948. I've got a very high addiction to it, and I can't go three minutes without it.
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The Orange One wrote: I'm disappointed I missed E948. I've got a very high addiction to it, and I can't go three minutes without it.
[I'm very glad to see that it's approved in the EU!]

I'm sure you've all been avidly looking forward to the 20th centred pentagonal number. 951 dots can be arranged in the shape of a pentagon with one dot in the centre and 19 surrounding layers.
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Here's the music for BWV 952, Bach's Little Fugue in C.

http://erato.uvt.nl/files/imglnks/usimg ... WV_952.pdf
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953 is the largest prime factor of 54321. (The others are 3 and 19.)
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Saccharin, E954.

Note: It is forbidden to mail saccharin tablets from the US to France.
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955 is the ISBN identifier for books published in Sri Lanka.
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