Did you know? Wingspan of a Boeing 747 airliner (64.4 m) is 2.5 x Length overall of the `Mayflower` sailing ship (26 m)
Diameter of the star Betelgeuse (1.642 billion km)
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If this was a standard unit ...
Yes, there's now a book based on these numbers. Oxford University Press: July 2018.
Click here to learn more about it.
Click here for Podcast: Andrew Elliott interviewed for New Books Network.
