No, it is a very interesting number, it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways.

Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920) Indian mathematician
Quoted in G.H. Hardy, Ramanujan (1940)

When Hardy commented that the number of a taxi cab, 1729, was a "dull" number.

 
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