Today is day 311 of 2026. Ten fun facts about the number 311.
311 (pronounced "three eleven") is an American rock band from Omaha, Nebraska, formed in 1988 by Nick Hexum, Jim Watson, and Aaron "P-Nut" Wills. The band's name comes from the police code for indecent exposure in Omaha after a friend of the band was arrested for skinny dipping in a public pool.
The dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood contains 311 pages.
The 311 Boyz was a teen gang in Las Vegas, Nevada, estimated at 140 members. In the summer of 2003 they committed or were suspected of a number of violent acts. CBS News speculated that the name might be a coded reference to the Ku Klux Klan: K is the 11th letter of the alphabet, and there are 3 in "KKK".
311 is a telephone number in many communities in the United States and Canada which provides access to non-emergency municipal services.
311 Claudia is a Main belt asteroid discovered by Auguste Charlois in 1891 in Nice. The name was suggested to Charlois by the amateur astronomer Arthur Mee of Cardiff, after Mee's wife, Claudia.
Madeira Island, Portugal, is approximately 311 miles from Africa.
311 trillion years is the span of a wide era called mahamantavara on the Vedic Hindu time scale.
A number of security measures were taken in response to the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot, including "3-1-1 for carry-ons" (3.4 ounce containers in a 1 quart bag, 1 bag per passenger).
Apartment number 311 is the first door to be knocked on in the movie Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.
Timothy Leary claimed to have taken LSD 311 times.
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