Did you know? Length of Route 66 from Chicago to Los Angeles (3,940 km) is 40 x Length of the Kiel Canal (98 km)
Time since the birth of Albrecht Durer (553 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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