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Direct distance from Cape Town to Cairo (7,250 km)...

: Length of the Murray-Darling River in Australia (3,670 km) ...

Width of the milky way (1.135 quintillion km)...

: Diameter of Triangulum galaxy (568 quadrillion km) ...

Height of the Empire State Building (NYC) (381 m)...

: Height of the Gateway Arch in St Louis (192 m) ...

Length of the Zambezi River (2,574 km)...

: Length of the Sydney-Hobart yacht race (1,263 km) ...

Length of US Legal page of paper (356 mm)...

: Length of a Penguin paperback book (181 mm) ...