Fatto generale: 38 is the number of slots on an American Roulette wheel (0, 00, and 1 through 36; European roulette does not use the 00 slot and has only 37 slots).
Fatto matematico: 38 is the sum of the squares of the first three primes.
Trivia: 38 is the number of minutes in the shortest war in history in which Zanzibar surrendered to England in 1896.
Data storica: February 7th is the day in 1991 that Haiti's first democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in.