Fatto matematico: 8012 is the number of 3-connected planar maps with 18 edges.
Trivia: 8012 is a number for which we're missing a fact (submit one to numbersapi at google mail!).
Data storica: December 7th is the day in 1995 that the Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.