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Is it okay to have a fill factor of 100 on the clustered index that is on an ID column?

So I have a table with a clustered index on an ID column (which is an auto-increment column) in SQL Server. Is it okay to have a fill factor of 100 on this since the data will always get written with ...
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Why does the fill factor in SQL Server default to 0 (100%)?

I understand fill-factor, pages and index structure and I therefor understand why a 100% fill factor is a rare best practice. So why does it default to 0 (or 100% ) by default? Why not 90 or 95? Is ...
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