If Number of stories in the Canterbury Tales by Chaucer (24 ) was a standard unit ...
Estimated world population of Wild Bactrian Camel (950 individuals)...more would be 40 x Number of stories in the Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Estimated world population of African Wild Ass (600 individuals)...more would be 25 x Number of stories in the Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Number of passengers in a carriage of an Underground train on London's Bakerloo line (121 )...more would be 5 x Number of stories in the Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Number of ways of seating six people around a table (120 )...more would be 5 x Number of stories in the Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Number of Deaths in the Hillsborough Stadium disaster in 1989 (96 )...more would be 4 x Number of stories in the Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
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