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Also see the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences: https://oeis.org

You can download all of their integers for free. However all of them are already in use in mathematics. The smallest positive number not in use is 14972.

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Are you telling me that 14972 is the smallest non-interesting number?

Well, not anymore. Everyone knows about it now!

FYI, this is the crux of an old "proof" that every number is interesting.

Well it's interesting to me. It is, apparently, not interesting to mathematicians.

It's pretty interesting to me. It reads like 1492 and 1972 at the same time.

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