General fact: 138 is the number of touchdowns football quarterback Donnie Davis had for the Georgia Force of the Arena Football League.
Mathematical fact: 138 is the smallest product of 3 primes, such that in base 10, the third prime is a concatenation of the other two.
Trivia: 138 is the rank of Mongolia in world population.
Historical date: May 17th is the day in 1987 that an Iraqi Dassault Mirage F1 fighter jet fires two missiles into the U.S. Navy warship USS Stark, killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew.