Fait général: 8974 is a number for which we're missing a fact (submit one to numbersapi at google mail!).
Fait mathématique: 8974 is 8 + 9^{4} + 7^{4} + 4.
Culture générale: 8974 is an uninteresting number.
Date historique: July 26th is the day in 1945 that the US Navy cruiser USS Indianapolis arrives at Tinian with parts of the warhead for the Hiroshima atomic bomb.