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* First round of Wimbledon 2010: John Isner versus Nicholas Mahut. They go into a fifth set. Because tie-breakers aren't used in the final set at Wimbledon, the final score of the fifth set was''70-68''. That's not points; that's ''games''. They were at the game so long it had to be suspended and continued the next day - and then suspended ''again''. It was finally finished two days after it began. Isner, still affected by the length of that match, lost in the second round.
* The Space Shuttle Main Engine goes [[wikipedia:SSME#SSME thrust specifications|up to 109%]]
* Fun fact: The volume on the [https://web.archive.org/web/20120522232026/http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/bbc_world_service BBC iPlayer] goes up to 11.
** However Sky's goes up to 12. "So there!" (R. Murdoch)
* VLC media player's volume percentage goes up to 200% in the menu bar then goes on to 400% if you use the scroll wheel over the main window. This isn't just cosmetic, either: The default 100% setting is at the same level as other software, and cranking it higher will manipulate the waveform, [[Loudness War|clipping and even brickwalling it]] as needed.
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