General fact: 740 is a number for which we're missing a fact (submit one to numbersapi at google mail!).
Mathematical fact: 740 is the number of self-avoiding walks of length 8.
Trivia: 740 is an uninteresting number.
Historical date: January 9th is the day in 1861 that Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union before the outbreak of the American Civil War.