Fatto matematico: 8599 is the number of forests with 14 vertices.
Trivia: 8599 is an uninteresting number.
Data storica: July 17th is the day in 1918 that the RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic, is sunk off Ireland by the German SM U-55; 5 lives are lost.