Fatto generale: 1659 is a number for which we're missing a fact (submit one to numbersapi at google mail!).
Fatto matematico: 1659 is a structured truncated octahedral number.
Trivia: 1659 is a boring number.
Data storica: July 16th is the day in 1910 that John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia.