10 April: 100

10 April is the 100th day of the year. 10 things you might not know about the number 100:

1. In medieval Germany, a hundred was actually 120 which gave rise to the term "long hundred", also known as the great hundred or twelfty, to distinguish it from 100 as we know it. The unit of weight, the hundredweight, derives from this.
2. In maths and science, 100 is the sum of the first nine prime numbers. It is the basis of percentages, which derives from the Latin words for "per hundred". 100% means a full amount. On the Celsius scale, 100 degrees is the boiling temperature of pure water at sea level, and the Kármán line is 100 kilometres above the Earth's sea level and is used to define the boundary between Earth's atmosphere and outer space.
3. It's the atomic number of fermium, the first of the heavy metals that cannot be created through neutron bombardment.
4. The standard SI prefix for a hundred is "hecto-".
5. Most of the world's currencies are divided into 100 subunits: one euro is one hundred cents; one pound sterling is one hundred pence and one dollar is 100 cents. The word cent derives from the Latin word centum meaning hundred. The word "century" meaning 100 years, or a score of 100 in Cricket, come from the same root. A Roman military officer called a centurion is another derivation although in fact, a centurion's command was usually more like 60-80 and not 100.
6. There is one town in the USA called Hundred. It's in Wetzel County, West Virginia and had a population of 299 in 2010. The name comes from the fact that there was once a centenarian living there, a man by the name of Henry "Old Hundred" Church. In the UK, hundreds was a name for an old administrative division of a county and has survived in a few place names there, such as the Chiltern Hundreds, in Buckinghamshire. This is most famous for being the place an MP who wants to resign is nominally appointed as Crown Steward of.
7. Hundreds and thousands are a type of decorative confectionery consisting of tiny coloured beads of Sugar, which is an example of a plurale tantum noun, that is a noun where the singular form is hardly ever used. (Another example might be scissors). They are used to make fairy bread, a popular staple of children's parties in Australia – which consists of hundreds and thousands sprinkled on triangular pieces of buttered Bread. It's also the name of a 1985 remix album by Bronski Beat.
8. The 100 is an American post-apocalyptic science fiction drama television series developed by Jason Rothenberg, is loosely based on the novel series of the same name by Kass Morgan. In the series premiere, 100 young exiles from a dying space station are sent to Earth 97 years after a nuclear apocalypse to see if it's habitable.
9. The largest U.S. bill in print is the $100 bill. It has Benjamin Franklin on it, and so the slang word for it is the "Benjamin".
10. In numerology, 100 represents aloneness, leadership, self-determination, self sufficiency and infinite potential.

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