100th Birthday facts
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Tom Cruise is obsessed with sending his co-stars cakes, even ones he worked with decades ago. Louis Theroux, documentary maker, even went to his grandmother's 100th Birthday Party to find 100 cupcakes from Tom Cruise, after Tom worked with his cousin.
Vera Lynn, a British pop singer who entertained troops during World War II. In 2017, she released a new album to celebrate her 100th birthday, making her the oldest recording artist in the world and the first centenarian to have an album in the charts.
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In 2014 a Cockatoo celebrated it’s 100th birthday, it was also noticed by Queen Elizabeth II who sent a birthday card as is custom to 100 year olds.
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In 2016 the oldest living leap year baby celebrated her 25th birthday on her 100th year of life
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A time capsule was buried in Sir Frederick Banting Square, on the scientist's 100th birthday, Nov. 14, 1991. Banting was part of a team that received the 1923 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the isolation of insulin. The time capsule will be opened once a cure for diabetes has been found.
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The Queen of England sends out personalized congratulatory cards to fellow countrymen who reach their 100th and 105th birthdays, and every year thereafter. The same is done for couples celebrating their 60th, 65th, and 70th wedding anniversaries, and every year thereafter.
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Norway is considering moving it's border 40 meters to give Finland a mountain as its 100th birthday present, the peak would also become Finland's highest point.
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In the UK, if you reach your 100th birthday, you get a personalized card from the Queen.
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When Dr. Jonas Salk (discoverer and developer of the first polio vaccine) was asked who owned the patent he replied "There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?" Forbes calculated the vaccine to be "worth" 7 billion dollars. Happy 100th birthday you magnificent bastard.
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Jacinto Convit, the scientist who developed the vaccine to fight leprosy, was still working to find a vaccine for cancer on his 100th birthday. Jacinto, furthermore, never charged a person for the care that he gave
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The queen sends a letter to everyone in Britain for their 100th and 105th birthdays, and every year afterwards, congratulating them on their longevity.
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Kin and Gin Yano, two Japanese twins who became Japanese minor celebrities after each living past 100 and remaining full of vitality. In 1992, the year of their 100th birthdays, they released a rap album that made it on to the Japanese charts.
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I learned of Nola Ochs who is the oldest person to have ever gotten a Bachelors Degree at the age of 95, and as of her 100th birthday in 2011, was a Graduate Teaching Assistant persuing her Masters degree.
Bill Plume fought for 57 years to have suicide removed as his son’s cause of death. It finally happened in 2017, a month before his 100th birthday. - source
The first Earth Day was coincidentally on Vladimir Lenin's 100th birthday, leading some to think Earth Day was a Communist trick, a DAR member warned that, "subversive elements plan to make American children live in an environment that is good for them." - source
Norway wanted to give Finland a mountain for its 100th birthday
The film '2012' was banned in North Korea solely because the year 2012 coincides with Kim Il Sung's 100th birthday. Several people in North Korea were arrested for possessing or viewing pirated copies of the movie and charged with "grave provocation against the development of the state." - source
If you reach your 100th birthday in the UK, you get a personalised card from the Queen.
The film 2012 is banned in North Korea because the year coincides with Kim Il Sung's 100th birthday, and had also been designated "the year for opening the grand gates to becoming a rising superpower". Thus, a movie which depicts the year in a negative light is found to be offensive
The penny was made legal tender by the Coinage Act of 1864. In 1909, Abraham Lincoln was the first historical figure to be on a U.S. coin when he was portrayed on the penny to commemorate his 100th birthday. The Lincoln penny was also the first U.S. cent to include the words "In God We Trust."
To coincide with Canada's 100th Birthday, it was chosen to hold that year's World Fair. The resulting "Expo '67", held in Montreal, brought in over 50 million visitors (For reference, Canada's population at the time was just over 20 million), and was viewed as a vision into humanity's future.
In 2001 more than 800 Americans joined to celebrate the 100th birthday of a Light-bulb.
