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Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo P1

2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 IV. League

2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won Ton

1 millionth mouthwash = 1 microscope

Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = knot-furlong

365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filung = 1 ito year

16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling

1,000000 aches = 1 megahertz

Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigran

Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower

Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1 bananosecond

453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake


Metric Conversions:

1 million microphones = 1 megaphone

1 million bicycles =2 megacycles

365.25 days = 1 Unicycle

2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds

1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton

1000 grams of wet socks = 1 Liter Hosen

1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche

1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin

1 million billion picolos = 1 gigolo

10 ratIons = 1 decoration

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