Fatto generale: 149 is the number of legal proceedings against 149 communists in Estonia in 1924.
Fatto matematico: 149 is a strictly non-palindromic number, meaning that it is not palindromic in any base from binary to base 147.
Trivia: 149 is the number of goals a Madagascar soccer team scored against itself after the coach argued a call, and players kicked the ball into their own net 149 times.
Data storica: May 28th is the day in 1995 that the Russian town of Neftegorsk is hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake that kills at least 2,000 people, half of the total population.