General fact: 1294 is a number for which we're missing a fact (submit one to numbersapi at google mail!).
Mathematical fact: 1294 is the number of 4 dimensional polytopes with 8 vertices.
Trivia: 1294 is a boring number.
Historical date: July 17th is the day in 1938 that Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.