mathematical oddities

12 = 3 * 4
56 = 7 * 8

My username comes from The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers, where 39 is described as the first number with no particularly interesting properties.

I felt sorry for it.

My favourite:

Between any two rational numbers is an irrational number.
Between any two irrational numbers is a rational number.

But there are infinitely more irrational numbers!