Did you know? Mass of a small passenger car (800 kg) is 1 thousand x Mass of a UK standard loaf of bread (800 g)
Period of Halley's Comet's orbit (75.3 y)
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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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