Did you know? Height of Mount Kilimanjaro (5.89 km) is 1 thousand x Height of tallest recorded giraffe (5.88 m)
Time since the end of the Cambrian geologic period (485 million 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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