Fatto matematico: 292 is the number of ways to make change for a dollar.
Trivia: 292 is a number for which we're missing a fact (submit one to numbersapi at google mail!).
Data storica: October 18th is the day in 1860 that the Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.