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“Forty tons may seem like a lot – it’s equivalent in weight to about 24 cars, or 6.5 fully grown elephants.”
“Whatever it is, it's big... roughly 6 billion Empire State Buildings — or five times more than the Big Island of Hawaii.”
“2,700 liters of water... That roughly works out at 17 bathtubs.”
“Goalline technology showed the ball was 11.7mm away from crossing the line. Or about the width of a headache tablet. Or nine grains of sand...”
“Just for the sake of comparison...[t]he poor giraffe would be about 6 feet under snow.”
“They estimate the stock of empty houses nationwide at about 20 billion square feet, about two-and-a-half times the area of New York City.”
“It would take 970 acre feet of water to fill the Astrodome in Houston, according to the Measure of Things...”
“It's hard to grasp a number that size, but it's four times the weight of a blue whale, the largest mammal on earth”
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