Did you know? Length of the Trans-Siberian Highway from St Petersburg to Vladivostok (11,000 km) is 2 x Length of the Siberian Yenisei River (5,540 km)
Time since the birth of Toscanelli (627 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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