For those who thought the hardest part of Physics 101 was the constant
conversion from feet and inches to the metric system, including all its
Newtons, Joules, and Watts, here are some other useful conversions:
- Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter: Eskimo Pi
- 2000 pounds of Chinese soup: Won ton
- 1 millionth of a mouthwash: 1 microscope
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Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement:
1 bananosecond
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Weight an evangelist carries with God:
1 billigram
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Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour:
Knot-furlong
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65.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filling:
1 lite year
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16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone:
1 Rod Sterling
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Half of a large intestine:
1 semicolon
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1000 aches:
1 megahurtz
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Basic unit of laryngitis:
1 hoarsepower
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1 million-million microphones:
1 megaphone
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1 million bicycles:
2 megacycles
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2000 mockingbirds:
two kilomockingbirds
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10 cards:
1 decacards
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1 millionth of a fish:
1 microfiche
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1 trillion pins:
1 terrapin
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10 rations:
1 decoration
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100 rations:
1 C-ration
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2 monograms:
1 diagram
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2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University
Hospital:
1 I.V. League
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