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  2. List of humorous units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    In the Zork series of games, the Great Underground Empire has its own system of measurements, the most frequently referenced of which is the bloit. Defined as the distance the king's favorite pet can run in one hour (spoofing a popular legend about the history of the foot), the length of the bloit varies dramatically, but the one canonical conversion to real-world units puts it at ...

  3. Talk:Troy weight - Wikipedia

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    This system does not measure mass, it measures weight (as the name implies). For example, an item which measures 1 troy ounce on earth will not measure 1 troy ounce on the moon or in free space (because an ounce measures weight). By comparison, 1 gram of a substance will measure 1 gram everywhere in the universe (because it measures mass).

  4. Troy Deeney reveals all: his time as a pundit, coaching stint ...

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    (1:56) - Troy’s time dealing with and working in the media (18:54) - Troy reveals the details of his coaching stint with Forest Green (40:02) - Reliving Troy’s iconic goal vs. Leicester City

  5. Trojan Ballistics Suit of Armor - Wikipedia

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    Troy Hurtubise spent two years and $150,000 developing the Trojan suit. When worn, the Trojan provided 97% coverage of the body and a claimed 95% flexibility. The suit also weighed 50 lbs maximum. He claimed that it could be suited to a soldier for CA$2000 if it were mass-produced.

  6. Troy weight - Wikipedia

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    The only troy weight in widespread use is the British Imperial troy ounce and its American counterpart. Both are based on a grain of 0.06479891 gram (exact, by definition), with 480 grains to a troy ounce (compared with 437 + 1 ⁄ 2 grains for an ounce avoirdupois). The British Empire abolished the 12-ounce troy pound in the 19th century.

  7. 21 grams experiment - Wikipedia

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    One of the patients lost weight but then put the weight back on, and two of the other patients registered a loss of weight at death but a few minutes later lost even more weight. One of the patients lost "three-fourths of an ounce" (21.3 grams) in weight, coinciding with the time of death.

  8. Metabolic equivalent of task - Wikipedia

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    [6] [7] By convention, 1 MET is considered equivalent to the consumption of 3.5 ml O 2 ·kg −1 ·min −1 (or 3.5 ml of oxygen per kilogram of body mass per minute) and is roughly equivalent to the expenditure of 1 kcal per kilogram of body weight per hour. This value was first experimentally derived from the resting oxygen consumption of a ...

  9. 3-Minute Warning - Wikipedia

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    3-Minute Warning Three Minute Warning The Island Boyz The Samoan Gangstas: Billed heights: Jamal: 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) Rosey: 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) Combined billed weight: 939 lb (426 kg; 67.1 st) [1] Billed from: Jamal: Houston, Texas Rosey: Pensacola, Florida Rico: Las Vegas, Nevada: Debut: 1996: Disbanded: 2003: Years active: 1996–2003 2006