Fait général: 2981 is a number for which we're missing a fact (submit one to numbersapi at google mail!).
Fait mathématique: 2981 is the closest integer to e^{8}.
Culture générale: 2981 is a boring number.
Date historique: February 28th is the day in 1958 that a school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork River.