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Posted on Sunday, May 04, 2008 at 7:02 PM by Robby Roberts
- The number of years in a century
- A 100 year old person is known as a centenarian. George Burns. Bob Hope, and United States Senator Strom Thurmond were among those who had lived to 100.
- The number of pounds in an American short hundredweight
- The United States Senate has 100 Senators
- The number of subunits into which many of the world's currencies are divided; for example, one euro is one hundred cents and one Pound Sterling is one hundred pence
- The number of tiles in a standard Scrabble set
- The denomination of the U.S. hundred-dollar bill with Benjamin Franklin's portrait; the "Benjamin" is the largest U.S. bill in print
- The denomination of American savings bonds with Thomas Jefferson's portrait
- The denomination of American treasury bonds with Andrew Jackson's portrait
- Hundred Days, aka the Waterloo Campaign
- "The First Hundred Days" is an arbitrary benchmark of a President of the United States' performance at the beginning of his term
- 100 is the HTTP status code indicating that the client should continue with its request
- STS-100 Space Shuttle Endeavour launched April 19, 2001
- NASDAQ-100 is a stock market index of 100 of the largest domestic and international non-financial companies listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange
- In English slang, adding the number 100 to a particular skill or subject denotes introductory knowledge ("Physics 100", "Soccer 100"), akin to the name of a first year university subject.
- Games 100 is an annual listing of the year’s top games
- The Time 100 is a list of the 100 most influential people in the world, as assembled by Time. The list has developed into an annual event.
- 100 Grand Bar (formerly known as $100,000 Bar) is a candy bar produced by Nestlé
- Pope Valentine succeeded Pope Eugene II to become the 100th Pope in August 82
- The number of yards in an American football field (not including the end zones).
- The number of runs required for a cricket batsman to score a Century, a significant milestone
- The record number of points scored in one NBA game, set by Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriers on March 2, 1962
- The Freedom 100 is an Indy Pro Series auto race held the Friday before the Indianapolis 500 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
- The 2004 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and the St. Louis Cardinals was the 100th Fall Classic
- San Diego Chargers running back LaDainian Tomlinson became the fastest player in NFL history to reach 100 touchdowns on November 19, 2006
- Ryan Howard of the Philadelphia Phillies became the fastest MLB player to reach 100 home runs on June 27, 2007
- The minimum distance in yards for a Par 3 on a golf course
OR - I could just come out and say it's Official, I've lost 100 lbs since Labor Day of last year.....
