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Fun with units......
In my infinite boredom I typed up fun units and actually got websites on oddball and archaic units. Hear is what I have found for a good chuckle.
1 blink=.864seconds
1 shake=1 X 10^-8seconds
1 wink=3.333333333 X 10^-12seconds
1 glug=0.0022046232391147832pounds
1 chain=20.1168 meters
1 geepound(slug)=14.59390294 kg
Hear is a unit joke:
What do you call 1 kilogram of figs falling??
A fig newton.
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A hogshead is measures some amount. I think it's on the inside of those black-and-white speckled notebooks. The slug is a weird named unit too.


Also, a fig newton is 1 kilogram of figs accelerating at 1 m/s/s.
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2 Barrels, or 63 gal. = 1 Hogshead
1 magnum=two quart bottle
ream=500 sheets of paper
what is a karat??? I know its a unit but what does it tell.
I found it.
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well there is the amount of gold in a gold item Karat is that what you are thinking of?
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There's two kinds of "karats":

Carat: measures mass. Used mostly with diamonds, etc. 1 carat=200mg

Karat: measure of purity of gold, in 1/24ths. Ie 12k=50% pure, 24k=100% pure.
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Other odd units of meassure:

rods and fathoms

Rods are I think length and fathoms depth.
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Ahhh the simpsons.

The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it. -- Grandpa

And its so true!!


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ream=500 sheets of paper
and that's not neccesarily true, depending on the weight of the paper a ream could be more or less
Index or card stock comes 250 sheets to a ream.
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