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The following was passed on tome from my wife, who got it from a colleague at the Library of Congress.Keep on scrolling down to improve your scientific knowledge
For those who thought the hardest part of Physics 101 was the constant conversion from feet and inches to the metric system, including all its Newton's, Joules, and Watts, here are some other useful conversions:
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
Knot furlong
65.25 days of drinking low calorie beer because it's less filling
1 lite year
16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone
1 Rod Serling
Half of a large intestine
1 semicolon
1000 aches
1 megahurtz
Basic unit of laryngitis
1 hoarsepower
Shortest distance between two jokes
A straight line
454 graham crackers
1 pound cake
1 million-million microphones
1 megaphone
1 million bicycles
2 megacycles
2000 mockingbirds
two kilomockingbirds
10 cards
1 decacards
1 kilogram of falling figs
1 Fig Newton
1000 grams of wet socks
1 literhosen
1 millionth of a fish
1 microfiche
1 trillion pins
1 terrapin
10 rations
1 decoration
100 rations
1 C-ration
2 monograms
1 diagram
8 nickels
2 paradigms
2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at YaleUniversity Hospital
1 I.V. League
100 Senators
Not 1 decision.