6, is actually very important.
From the Romans, 6 is a (The First) perfect number.
Here is some Information on it if you don't know much of it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_number
Or if you just want a brief summary, a Perfect Number is a number when all of it's Factors add up to it (Not including the number itself).
6 = 1,2,3(,6 not included)
1+2+3=6
Here are the first five Perfect number.
6
28
496
8128
33550336