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September 16, 2015

Obscure engineering conversion factors

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~ Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi

~ 2000 pounds of Chinese Soup = Won ton

~ 1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microscope

~ Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1 bananosecond

~ Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram

~ Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knotfurlong

~ 365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer = 1 Lite year

~ 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling

~ Half a large intestine = 1 semicolon

~ 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz

~ Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower

~ 2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds

~ 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton

~ 1000 ccs of wet socks = 1 literhosen

~ 8 nickels = 2 paradigms