baldies have an advantage in combat because shiny heads hurt people's eyes

my best friend and i were just talking about a movie he recently saw called "hitman". it's about "an assasin known only as agent 47 hired by a group known only as 'the agency' is ensnared in a political conspiracy, which finds him pursued by both interpol and the russian military as he treks across eastern europe."
after viewing the trailer, i found out that agent 47 (timothy olyphant) is bald and has a bar code on the back of his head. sounds familiar doesn't it? the bar code thing reminds me of "dark angel" and the maximum ride novels.

anyway, d now worships agent 47, who's a real badass, and wants to be like him. i hope he was kidding.
we were wondering why the main character's name/number is 47, so d did some research, and came upon some interesting stuff that might explain why the agent was named 47. here's what he found:

1. the bubonic plague began the black death epidemic in europe and asia in 1347. it has a 74% mortality rate and killed 47% of europe's population
2. it kills in 4-7 days. although only 47% of europe was left dead, this included 74% of england's population
3. it vanished from europe for 11 years (4+7) before returning
4. the twa plane accident in 1996, the plane model was the 747
5. 147,000 hungarians were killed in action in world war 2
6. western samoa gained independence from new zealand after 47 years of colonial rule
7. 47 screws were missing from a boeing 737's horizontal stabilizer rudder which crashed in the phillipines

so 47 is connected to a lot of disastrous events. my theory on why the hitman was named 47 is he is deadly and sinful and feared by most people, like the bubonic plague.
i'm not sure about the last four results and their accuracy. they're kinda random.

i didn't see "hitman", but i probably will once it comes out on dvd. it's a bit mysterious and i'm tempted to find out more about the dangerous baldy.