| Brown University used the 863- phone prefix for a while, but they ran out of numbers in 1999. So they made 863- administrative, and added 867- for student numbers.
Two Freshwomen, neither named Jenny, ended up with 867-5309. Several weeks after the changeover, one of them was quoted in the Brown Daily Herald saying:
It's so annoying. It's the worst number to have in the world. It's as if they are really expecting Jenny to pick up the phone.
They were receiving several "stupid" messages per day, and many hang-ups. Some people would play the song into their answering machine, others would ask for Jenny, while some guys would leave their own phone numbers.
So the girls were given a different phone number.
The integer 8675309 is prime. You can't make this stuff up.
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