Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

[Arneb]

You people have no respect for the obsessively compulsively inclined. Now I have to get us caught up.

Oh, but did I. I felt that searing pain with you.

Pluto's moon Charon has a diameter of 751 miles.

[Heid the Ba]

Flight 752 met with an unfortunate, Iranian related, demise.

[Arneb]

Sieben, fünf, drei, kroch Rom aus dem Ei - the mnemonic we learned for the (mythical, but precisely counted, ab urbe condita) founding of Rome in 753 B.C.

[Heid the Ba]

754 AD: At the Council of Hieria the Emperor Constantine V supported the policy of Iconoclasm and condemned the use of icons in the Byzantine Empire. Good luck with that fella.

[Heid the Ba]

The A755 runs from the A75 through High Borgue, to Kirkcudbright. FSM knows why it is categorised as an A road. Bonus point for anyone who can pronounce Kirkcudbright.

[Мастер]

756 has three consecutive digits, but in the wrong order.

[Arneb]

757 is obvious again: the flying pencil

[Heid the Ba]

The US 758th Tank Battalion was a segregated unit in WW2, which formed part of the 5th Tank Group (Negro). Something, something Greatest Generation . . .

[Heid the Ba]

759 is not prime, prime-ish or prime adjacent.

[Мастер]

The largest prime factor of 760 is 19.

[Heid the Ba]

The A761 runs through Renfrewshire and I used to travel along it to school, back when I was a wee laddie.

[Lianachan]

Æthelberht II, King of Kent died in 762. I think they got through two or three kings that year. Tough times I guess.

[Heid the Ba]

76 - 3 and 7 - 63 are both possible, but unlikely, NFL scores.

[Heid the Ba]

76 - 4 is a very unlikely NFL score, 7 - 64 is more likely but still highly improbable.

[Heid the Ba]

India's National Highway 765 runs south from Hyderabad.

[Lianachan]

766 AD saw the treacherous killing of Follaman son of Cú Chongalt, king of Mide.

[Heid the Ba]

Bastards, we'll get them back one day.
767. Could be a 'plane, who knows?

[Arneb]

Phone numbers at my old hospital started with 768 plus a 3-number extension. Mine was -310, if you must know.

[Heid the Ba]

The Mercedes G-Wagons (G-Wagonnen?) used by the Norwegian Army have a claimed power output of 769HP.

[Arneb]

Geländewagen (terrain vehicles), and the plural is identical to the singular. We don't use the French "Wagon" for cars, only for train coaches. In that case, the plural is germanized to "Wagons". The pronounciation is as in French, with w=v, stress on the second syllable and a guttural "ng" at the end, but we do pronounce the "s" in the plural, as Germans are wont to. Simple, right?

You can buy a cheap Californian Zinfandel over here, called 770 miles, from Amazon, at the rock-bottom price of € 3 per bottle, shipped for Prime customers. But maybe you shouldn't.

[Heid the Ba]

I'll avoid the Zinfandel, thanks.

771 is a number.

[Arneb]

772 is a root area code in the South-West of Germany, gong from 770 through 7729, covering such coveted locations as Schwenningen am Neckar and Furtwangen im Schwarzwald.

Internationally, +772 is the country code of Kasakhstan, which is a whole lot of country for three numbers.

[Heid the Ba]

"Furtwangen im Schwarzwald"? I know where my next holiday is.

Boeing 773s are flown by Ryaniar.

Edit: Ooooh Martin Schmitt the ski jumper is from Furtwangen.

[Lianachan]

The angel number 774 is a mysterious phenomenon that has appeared in people’s lives for centuries. It’s believed to be your guardian angels sending you a message or a sign to help guide you on your path.

Suuuuuuure it is.

[Heid the Ba]

775AD: Emperor Constantine V dies while on a campaign in Bulgaria. In his 34-year reign he has suppressed monasticism and image worship, restored aqueducts, revived commerce, and repopulated Constantinople. He is succeeded by his 25-year-old son Leo IV ("the Khazar"), who continues Constantine's campaigns against the Bulgars and Muslim Arabs.
Get it up ye! The Empire is on the way back.