17 October: 290

Today is the 290th day of the year. 10 facts about the number 290:

1. 290 Bruna is a main belt asteroid discovered in 1890 by Johann Palisa.
2. The A290 is a road in Kent which runs between Canterbury and Whitstable.
3. +290 is the international dialling code for the island of Saint Helena and the archipelago of Tristan da Cunha.
4. The year 290 was a common year starting on a Wednesday, known at the time as the Year of the Consulship of Valerius and Valerius.
5. In the Star Wars universe, the HWK-290 was a model of light freighter manufactured by the Corellian Engineering Corporation decades before the Invasion of Naboo. It was marketed toward wealthy executives and elite government officials.
6. In terms of real vehicles, the Latécoère 290 was a torpedo bomber floatplane produced in France during the 1930s; the Ferrari 290 MM was a sports racing car produced by Ferrari in 1956; the Hunter 290 is an American sailboat first built in 1999, and the Nukeproof Reactor 290 is a type of aggressive trail bike.
7. The square root of 290 is 17.0293863659 and the cube root is 6.6191059481.
8. 290 is CCXC in Roman numerals and 100100010 in binary.
9. In London, the 290 bus runs between Staines Bus Station and Arragon Road.
10. Keep seeing this number everywhere? Apparently it means that the answers to your personal relationship problems lie in self-improvement. It's also a warning that you might be trying to do something you're not qualified or skilled enough to do and could have unwittingly caused a problem for someone.

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