q_sharon
11/24/08, 10:01 AM
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Some interesting facts about time and measurement::COOL0013:
1. "Fortnight" is a contraction of "fourteen nights." In the US "two weeks" is more commonly used.
2. A bathometer is an instrument for indicating the depth of the sea beneath a moving vessel.
3. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
4. A Sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure.
5. A typical lightning bolt is two to four inches wide and two miles long.
6. A wind with a speed of 74 miles or more is designated a hurricane.
7. Any month that starts on a Sunday will have a Friday the 13th in it.
8. At 4,145 miles, the Nile River is the longest in the world.
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Some interesting facts about time and measurement::COOL0013:
1. "Fortnight" is a contraction of "fourteen nights." In the US "two weeks" is more commonly used.
2. A bathometer is an instrument for indicating the depth of the sea beneath a moving vessel.
3. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
4. A Sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure.
5. A typical lightning bolt is two to four inches wide and two miles long.
6. A wind with a speed of 74 miles or more is designated a hurricane.
7. Any month that starts on a Sunday will have a Friday the 13th in it.
8. At 4,145 miles, the Nile River is the longest in the world.
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