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Trivial numbers!

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 144 ✭✭Misticalz2003


    214 : Is the Area Code for texas


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,065 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    215 - David James played 215 times for Liverpool before moving to Aston Villa.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 263 ✭✭Locomotion


    In the year 216, Cao Cao became King of Wei


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 277 ✭✭Gadjodilo


    217 - UK mobile phone users send 217 million text messages per day


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 654 ✭✭✭sillyputty


    218: The number of votes required in the US House of Representatives to achieve a majority is 218


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,065 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    219 - Ruud van Nistelrooy appeared 219 times for Manchester United between 2001 and 2006.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 260 ✭✭portumna


    220 - Number of workers to lose their jobs in Amann Industries in Co Kerry.

    221 - 221b Baker Street, the home of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

    222 - The name of the bonus track on Paul McCartneys 2007 album Memory Almost Full.

    223 - Remington cartridge designed for long range rifles identical to those used by the US military.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 277 ✭✭Gadjodilo


    224 - number of people killed in the bombings of the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam on August 7, 1998.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,065 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    225 - There are 225 squares on a Scrabble board.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 654 ✭✭✭sillyputty


    226: As of 2009 Waterford Crystal has been trading for 226 years


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 277 ✭✭Gadjodilo


    227 - Proposition 227, a controversial proposal to force all Californian schools to do their tuition in English only.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 260 ✭✭portumna


    228 - The 228 massacre that happened in Taiwan in 1947 on Feb 28th. This was an anti-government uprising that was voilently surpressed by the government and resulted in between 10,000 and 30,000 being killed.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 390 ✭✭MB74


    229 - Chevy 229 V6 (it's an engine)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 277 ✭✭Gadjodilo


    230 - the punchline in That Dentist Joke :-)



    (tooth hurty!)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,294 ✭✭✭thee glitz


    231 cubic inches in a U.S. liquid gallon.
    There are 231 combinations of positive numbers which add up to 16.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    232 - RS 232 Data transfer protocol.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 654 ✭✭✭sillyputty


    233: In 2008 the US celebrated 233 years of service.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,838 ✭✭✭✭3hn2givr7mx1sc


    234:German U-Boat sunk off the coast off Cape Cod.. WWII


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,065 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    235 - David Weir played 235 games for Everton before joining Rangers in 2007.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 540 ✭✭✭Brian2208


    236 - Year pope fabian becomes 20th pope


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 654 ✭✭✭sillyputty


    237: The Shining - room 237



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 238 ✭✭Doublin


    238: Uranium-238 (U-238) is the most common isotope of uranium found in nature


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 163 ✭✭mal_1


    239. Bus from Blanchardstown SC to Liffey Valley SC


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 238 ✭✭Doublin


    240: Amount of job's to be lost at Schering Plough in Bray :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    241 - Two for the price of one.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 238 ✭✭Doublin


    242: UN Security Council Resolution 242 was adopted unanimously by the UN Security Council on November 22, 1967, in the aftermath of the Six Day War. It called for:

    ...the establishment of a just and lasting peace in the Middle East which should include the application of both the following principles:
    (i) Withdrawal of Israel armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict;(ii) Termination of all claims or states of belligerency and respect for and acknowledgement of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of every State in the area and their right to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 260 ✭✭portumna


    243 - Makers of racing mountain bikes. 243 Racing.

    244 - number of miles a Tesla Roadster electric car can travel on a full battery.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 277 ✭✭Gadjodilo


    245 - the number of islands in Micronesia's Chuuk Lagoon


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 654 ✭✭✭sillyputty


    246: Barack Obama planned to give $246 million dollars in tax breaks to Hollywood over 11 years, but this was taken out of the Stimulus Package after a Republican backlash


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 33,973 CMod ✭✭✭✭ShamoBuc


    247 .... 24 hours a day 7 days a week


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 277 ✭✭Gadjodilo


    248 - Article 248 of the Treaty of Versailles states:

    Subject to such exceptions as the Reparation Commission may approve, a first charge upon all the assets and revenues of the German Empire and its constituent States shall be the cost of reparation and all other costs arising under the present Treaty or any treaties or agreements supplementary thereto or under arrangements concluded between Germany and the Allied and Associated Powers during the Armistice or its extensions.

    Up to May 1, 1921, the German Government shall not export or dispose of, and shall forbid the export or disposal of, gold without the previous approval of the Allied and Associated Powers acting through the Reparation Commission.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 654 ✭✭✭sillyputty


    249: M249 - a light machine gun


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭Baldie


    250. In the year 250 the goths invaded Moesia


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 654 ✭✭✭sillyputty


    251: There are 251 Pokemon to collect


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    Long wave Atlantic 252.

    Is that still around?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 654 ✭✭✭sillyputty


    253: a novel by Geoff Ryman

    First Line:
    There are seven carriages on a Bakerloo Line train, each with 36 seats. A train in which every passenger has a seat will carry 252 people. With the driver, that makes 253.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,620 ✭✭✭Graham_B18C


    254 In that year Pope Stephen succeeds Pope Lucious


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 277 ✭✭Gadjodilo


    255 = 11111111 in binary.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,397 ✭✭✭✭rainbowtrout


    A byte can represent 256 different values


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭Baldie


    257 is a prime number


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 654 ✭✭✭sillyputty


    258: 258 is international dialling code for Mozambique


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 277 ✭✭Gadjodilo


    259 - the length in kilometres of the Shannon before it enters its estuary.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,065 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    260 - In Franklin's Magic Squares, 260 is the sum of each row and column.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 654 ✭✭✭sillyputty


    261: Former northern ireland soccer manager Lawrie Sanchez made 261 appearances for Reading before joining Wimbledon


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 540 ✭✭✭Brian2208


    262 - The Messerschmitt Me-262 was the world's first jet fighter


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,294 ✭✭✭thee glitz


    263 is a sexy prime number.

    263 and 269 comprise a sexy prime pair as they differ by 6.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 277 ✭✭Gadjodilo


    264 - number of parliamentary seats won by the ANC in the recent elections in Site Efrika.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,065 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    265 - Apparently 265 is the 666th decimal of Pi in base 666, making it a hyper-evil number. :P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 654 ✭✭✭sillyputty


    266: The Obama administration admited Waterboarding was used 266 times on 2 Al Qaeda Suspects


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,065 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    267 - Article 267 of The Lisbon Treaty states that
    The task of the European Investment Bank shall be to contribute, by having recourse to the capital market and utilising its own resources, to the balanced and steady development of the internal market in the interest of the Union.


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