Banana for Scale
Why do Americans measure everything in football fields, school buses, blue whales, and Olympic-sized swimming pools instead of just using actual units of measurement?
This week on Between the States, we dive into the weirdest ways people describe size, distance, weight, and volume, and attempt to make all of them even more useful by converting them into the internet’s greatest unit of measurement: bananas for scale.
How many bananas long is a school bus? How many bananas tall is the Empire State Building? How many bananas fit into an Olympic-sized swimming pool? We work our way from blue…
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