• Mark with a Z@suppo.fi
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    3 months ago

    length of 100 buses

    1,200-meter (around 3,937 feet)

    Anyone heard of a kilometre?

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      3 months ago

      😄 For the rest of the world it still makes more sense to avoid the depressing leading zero and to measure their bridges in meters.

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        3 months ago

        You’re confusing that with a kilo meter. A meter that measures kilos. Not to be confused with a metre meter, aka a 1m stick.

        Fun fact, while a watermeter is a meter for measuring water, a watermetre is just a regular metre. Unlike the mile and nautical mile, which are disimlar by four syllables and some metres.