General fact: 256 is the number of NFL regular season football games.
Mathematical fact: 256 is the number of soldiers in the most basic unit (the syntagma) of the Macedonian army.
Trivia: 256 is the number of NFL regular season football games.
Historical date: September 12th is the day in 1983 that a Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros.