General fact: 6948 is a number for which we're missing a fact (submit one to numbersapi at google mail!).
Mathematical fact: 6948 is an uninteresting number.
Trivia: 6948 is an uninteresting number.
Historical date: January 8th is the day in 1838 that Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).