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  2. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    18.44 meters – distance between the front of the pitcher's rubber and the rear point of home plate on a baseball field (60 feet, 6 inches) [126] 20 meters – length of cricket pitch (22 yards) [127] 27.43 meters – distance between bases on a baseball field (90 feet) 28 meters – length of a standard FIBA basketball court; 28.65 meters ...

  3. League (unit) - Wikipedia

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    Although most contemporary accounts used an Arabic mile of 6 444 feet (1,964 metres), which gave a Spanish league of the degree of 25,776 feet (7,857 metres or 4.242 modern nautical miles) others defined an Arabic mile as just 6,000 feet making a Spanish league of the degree 24,000 feet (or 7,315 metres, almost exactly 3.95 modern nautical miles).

  4. Chindesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Holtz (2012) estimated that Chindesaurus had a length of about 2 meters (6.6) feet and a weight equivalent to that of a wolf (23–45 kg, or about 50-100 pounds). [2] The skeletal anatomy of Chindesaurus is incompletely known, so these full body estimates are very rough approximations.

  5. List of unusual units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    An Olympic-size swimming pool holds over 2 acre-feet of water For larger volumes of liquid, one measure commonly used in the media in many countries is the Olympic-size swimming pool. [51] A 50 m × 25 m (164 ft × 82 ft) Olympic swimming pool, built to the FR3 minimum depth of 2 metres (6.6 ft) would hold 2,500 m 3 (660,000 US gal).

  6. Vehicle size class - Wikipedia

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    Category A (A-segment) vehicles are two-box vehicles of between 4 and 4.5 meters in length, or three-box vehicles (i.e., sedans with trunks) with engines of less than 1600 cc. Category B (B-segment) vehicles are longer than 4.5 m in length with engines of over 1600 cc.

  7. 1883 eruption of Krakatoa - Wikipedia

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    Some 80 km (50 mi) away, the low-lying Thousand Islands were submerged under 2 meters (6.6 feet) of seawater, forcing people to climb trees. [13] The tsunamis produced by the third explosion were the largest, although the first two explosions did produce smaller tsunamis. [14] The town of Merak was destroyed by a tsunami that was 46 metres high.

  8. Diving platform - Wikipedia

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    The 10-meter dive began in the 1908 Olympics. Diving for women started in the 1912 Olympics, with the 10-meter dive. In 2016, dives performed by competitors in 10-meter world competition included a 3-½ somersault tuck, a 3-½ somersault pike, a 2-½ somersault with 2½ twist, a forward 4-½ somersault, and a forward reverse 3½ somersault. [3] [4]

  9. Shoe size - Wikipedia

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    Foot length is measured with the subject standing barefoot and the weight of the body equally distributed between both feet. ... 9 + 5 ⁄ 6: 6.5 7.5 250.0 25 250