Did you know? Mass of an Airbus A380 airliner (max takeoff weight) (575,000 kg) is 20 x Mass of the Apollo program Command Module in Lunar orbit (28,800 kg)
Length of the Kiel Canal (98 km)
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Yes, there's now a book based on these numbers. Oxford University Press: July 2018.
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