The Non Sports Fan’s Guide to Maybe Enjoying the Super Bowl

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Super Bowl 101110 (Roman numerals are for hipster doofuses.)

Fun facts to impress your friends at the Super Bowl party tomorrow. Forty-six is...
* The atomic number of palladium.
* The number of human chromosomes.
* The (decimal) value of the ASCII code for the period (full stop).
* Messier object M46, a magnitude 6.5 open cluster in the constellation Puppis.
* The code for international direct dial phone calls to Sweden.
* The number of samurai who carried out the attack in the historical Ako vendetta
* Code 46 is the name of a movie starring Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton.
* Because 46 in Japanese can be pronounced as "yon roku", and "yoroshiku"（よろしく） means "my best regards" in Japanese, people sometimes use 46 for greeting.
* The number of the City Chevrolet and Superflo cars driven by Cole Trickle in the movie Days of Thunder.
* The number that unlocks the Destiny spaceship on Stargate Universe.