Fatto generale: 8980 is a number for which we're missing a fact (submit one to numbersapi at google mail!).
Fatto matematico: 8980 is a value of n for which the first n binary digits of p form a prime.
Trivia: 8980 is a boring number.
Data storica: August 1st is the day in 1980 that Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the country's first democratically elected female head of state.