Did you know? Length of the Yangtze River (6,300 km) is 5 x Length of the Sydney-Hobart yacht race (1,263 km)
Length of a Marathon race (42.2 km)
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If this was a standard unit ...
Yes, there's now a book based on these numbers. Oxford University Press: July 2018.
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