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Students at John Hopkins University collaboratively decided to opt out of their final since the professor set his curve based on the highest score grading it as 100%. They chose to receive a score of zero making it the highest grade, thereby getting 100%
Jake ‘The Snake’ Roberts “can't stand snakes [and is] scared to death of the damn things”, but he still carried around a 100 pounds python and later on a king cobra with him because “there were enough zeros on [his] contract to make him forget about his fear [of snakes]”.
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AlphaGo the AI that beat the World Go Champion Lee Sedol 4-1 in a best of five series, was defeated by it's third version AlphaGo Zero, 100-0. The original AlphaGo learnt from the data of Go matches played by humans, and AlphaGo Zero learnt by playing against itself, no data or human interaction
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Bhutan is only carbon negative country in he world, the country emits around 1.5 million tonnes of carbon annually, while its forests absorb over 6 million tonnes. Bhutan is aiming for zero net greenhouse gas emissions, zero-waste by 2030 and to grow 100 percent organic food by 2020
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To prevent illegal fly posters, a local council in the UK stuck their own "CANCELLED" posters over the top of ones for events. Cleaning staff had been removing up to 100 illegal posters per week. Eight weeks after the initiative was introduced this was reduced to zero.
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The biggest bomb that ever exploded was a Russian Atom Bomb - All buildings located 55 km(34 mi) from ground zero were destroyed, heat from the explosion could have caused 3rd-degree burns 100 km(62 mi) away from ground zero and windowpanes were partially broken to distances of 900 km(560 mi)
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Finland has nuclear shelters for 2.6m people that can stand a 100 kiloton blast at ground zero
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Both "googol" and "googolplex" were coined by the 9-year-old nephew of mathematician Edward Kasner in 1920. He defined a googol as 10^100 and a googolplex as "one, followed by writing zeroes until you get tired". Kasner decided to standardize it and set a googolplex equal to 10^googol instead.
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Apple's new Campus is expected to be a "net-zero energy" facility, meaning it will generate 100 percent of its power from renewable energy sources, including 700,000 square feet of onsite solar panels. (That's enough to generate 8 megawatts of power. Enough to power roughly 4,000 homes.)
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The last fires at Ground Zero initiated by the attacked on 09/11/01 were not officially declared extinguished until December 19th, 2001, almost 100 days later.
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While high unemployment is undesirable, full employment (meaning zero unemployment) is neither practical nor desirable. Economists do not generally believe it is practical or desirable to have 100% employment in an economy
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After a professor at Johns Hopkins set the grading curve based on the highest score in the class becoming 100%, students collectively refused to take the exam getting zeros which became the highest score in the class. They all got A's
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The lowest temperature ever reached is 100 picoKelvin (0.0000000001 Kelvin). Zero Kelvin, or Absolute Zero, is said to be unreachable.
Astronomers believe the universe has at least 100 octillion stars (that's a 1 with 29 zeroes after it) - source
Comedian Yakov Smirnoff spent $100,000 to create a mural from his painting "America's Heart" to be displayed anonymously at Ground Zero in New York City
Mercedes-Benz has created a self-driving concept car. This 2030 prototype has a goal of 1,100 kilometers (683.5 miles) of zero-emission driving. - source
About the number Googolplex, which is 10 to the power of Googol or a 1 with 10 to the power of 100 zeros.
The theoretical opposite of absolute zero, absolute hot, is about 100 million million million million million degrees
A googol is 1 followed by 100 zeroes. A googolplex is 1 followed by a googol zeros, so basically a GIANT number. It's so big that if you were to write the whole thing out in books, they would weigh more than our entire planet.
Google got its name by accident. The founders misspelled the word "googol," which refers to the number 1 followed by 100 zeroes.
