Side of a classic Monopoly board

Side of a classic Monopoly board (508 mm)

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If Side of a classic Monopoly board (508 mm) was a standard unit ...

  • Length of the Kentucky Derby horse race (2 km)...more would be 4000 x Side of a classic Monopoly board
  • Height of the vertical drop of cliff on Mount Thor, Canada (1.25 km)...more would be 2500 x Side of a classic Monopoly board
  • Length of the longest ski jump ever (2015) (251.5 m)...more would be 500 x Side of a classic Monopoly board
  • Typical flight of a flying fish (50 m)...more would be 100 x Side of a classic Monopoly board
  • Length of an Olympic swimming pool (50 m)...more would be 100 x Side of a classic Monopoly board
  • Length of the Blue Whale skeleton in London's Natural History Museum (25.2 m)...more would be 50 x Side of a classic Monopoly board
  • Height of the Great Sphinx of Giza (20.21 m)...more would be 40 x Side of a classic Monopoly board
  • Length of a cricket pitch (20.12 m)...more would be 40 x Side of a classic Monopoly board
  • Length of a T-65 X-Wing starfighter in the Star Wars movies (12.5 m)...more would be 25 x Side of a classic Monopoly board
  • Height of a high-diving platform (10 m)...more would be 20 x Side of a classic Monopoly board
  • Women's World Pole Vault record (5.06 m)...more would be 10 x Side of a classic Monopoly board
  • Women's Olympic Pole Vault record (2008) (5.05 m)...more would be 10 x Side of a classic Monopoly board
  • Typical height of a giraffe (5 m)...more would be 10 x Side of a classic Monopoly board
  • Women's Olympic High Jump record (2.06 m)...more would be 4 x Side of a classic Monopoly board

Is That A Big Number? - The Book

Yes, there's now a book based on these numbers. Oxford University Press: July 2018.

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