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| And here they are! Lesser known metric units : |
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- time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1 bananosecond
- weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billygram
- 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling
- half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon
- 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz
- basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower
- 1 million-million microphones = 1 megaphone
- 2 million bicycles = 2 megacycles
- 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 fig newton
- 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche
- 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 IV League
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