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1-1-0, the emergency telephone number used to reach police services in Iran, Germany, Estonia, China, Indonesia, and Japan. Also used to reach the fire and rescue services in Norway and Turkey.
A percentage in the expression "To give 110%", meaning to give a little more effort than one's maximum effort
Lowest number to not be considered a favourite by anyone among 44,000 people surveyed in a 2014 online poll and subsequently adopted by British television show QI as the show's favourite number in 2017.
One hundred and ten is also known as "eleventy", a term made famous in its ordinal form by linguist and author J. R. R. Tolkien (Bilbo Baggins celebrates his eleventy-first birthday at the beginning of The Lord of the Rings) and derived from the Old Englishhund endleofantig.
Eleventy is used in the comic reading of a phone number in the Irish TV series The Savage Eye by Dave McSavage playing an opiate user advertising life insurance.
Other meanings of eleventy
Eleventy has also been used to mean an indefinite large number - "lots". Similarly eleventy-eleven was used in nineteenth century Mississippi in the same role.
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