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Is this the kind of thing you're referring to?
(Random example, not intended as an actual live clickable link)...

http://www.123.com/imagesjohn%20homecoming.jpg


Now, if my guessing is correct, then the answer to your question, as
best Ive surmised from my years of browsing the web... is that the
%20 is how computers interpret a space.

For whatever reason, someone may have a picture saved as
"john homecoming.jpg" on their computer, and they know what it
is... The minute they try to upload it somewhere, the space in the file
name is converted automatically to the %20 so that there is no break
in the web address for the file. If you or I try to view a page with a
space anywhere in the address, the browser seems to freak out, giving
an "invalid URL" error of some type or other.

There is a beautifully explained answer to how URLs are encoded at: http://www.eskimo.com/~bloo/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm

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