Fatto generale: 8474 is a number for which we're missing a fact (submit one to numbersapi at google mail!).
Fatto matematico: 8474 is the maximum number of regions a cube can be cut into with 37 cuts.
Trivia: 8474 is an uninteresting number.
Data storica: March 14th is the day in 1942 that Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the world to successfully treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.