Favorite Trivia – CALCULATIONS & MEASUREMENTS |
| Fahrenheit temperature = Celsius x 2 + 30 (approximately)
BTU (British Thermal Unit) = quantity of heat to raise one pound of water 1 degree F peck = 1/4 of a bushel dram = 1/6th of an ounce fortnight = 2 weeks An adult body contains on average of 1 1/2 gallons of blood hectare = 2.47 acres mile = 5,280 ft furlong = 1/8th of a mile league = Originally intended to represent the distance a person could walk in an hour. In the USA and Great Britain, the league is defined to be 3 miles (~4828.03 meters) on land, or 3 nautical miles at sea. farthing = 1/4 of a penny stone = 14 pounds (Stone is an old unit of mass and still in use in UK and Ireland to measure body weight) |
| Gold is one of the 118 elements on the periodic table:
AU 79 (AU [latin for aurum, shining dawn] = symbol / 79 = atomic number) |
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Thirty days has September,
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| “There is a word for ‘foot’ in every European language, ancient and modern. Originally it was the length of a man’s foot; and because very man is a little different from every other man, the foot was a slightly different length in every different place. . . The Greeks divided their foot into 12 thumbnail breadths. This foot passed into use in Rome; and the Romans took it to Britain. . .
“A ‘hand’ or ‘palm’ was either 3 or 4 inches . . . One seldom hears of a palm today, but a hand equal to 4 inches is still used to measure horses.” Maria Leach – The Soup Stone: The Magic of Familiar Things |