Fait général: 2212 is a number for which we're missing a fact (submit one to numbersapi at google mail!).
Fait mathématique: 2212 is the closest integer to 17^{e}.
Culture générale: 2212 is a boring number.
Date historique: January 20th is the day in 1972 that Pakistan launched its Nuclear detterent program few weeks after its defeat in Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.