Fait mathématique: 8472 is the maximum number of pieces a torus can be cut into with 36 cuts.
Culture générale: 8472 is an uninteresting number.
Date historique: March 12th is the day in 1930 that Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march, known as the Salt March, to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt.