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TIL There used to be an administrative division called a Hundred. It was formerly used in England, Wales, parts of the US, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, and the Colony of New South Wales. For example Bermuda Hundred was the first incorporated town in Virginia in 1613, six years after Jamestown.

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