Did you know? Direct distance from Land's End to John o' Groats (970 km) is 4 thousand x Length of Tower Bridge over the Thames (244 m)
Mass of a bottle of champagne (1.6 kg)
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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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