Fatto matematico: 8843 is the smallest number that can not be written as the sum of 2 volumes of rectangular boxes with integer dimensions less than 22.
Trivia: 8843 is a number for which we're missing a fact (submit one to numbersapi at google mail!).
Data storica: March 17th is the day in 1988 that a Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143.