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Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi
2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 I.V. League
Time it takes to sail 220 yards at one nautical mile per hour = Knot-furlong
365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filling = 1 lite year
16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Sterling
Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon
Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower
Shortest distance between two jokes = a straight line
Time between slipping on a peel and hitting the pavement = bananosecond
Time it takes to sail 220 yards at one nautical mile per hour = Knot-furlong
453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton
1 unit of suspense in a mystery novel = 1 whod unit
100 rations = 1 C-ration
10 monologs = 5 dialogs
2 monograms = 1 diagram
4 nickels = 2 paradigms
2 wharves = 1 paradox
2 snake eyes = 1 paradise
2 baby sitters = 1 gramma grampa
100 Senators = not one decision
1018 acts = 1 exact
1015 shops = 1 petashop
1012 bulls = 1 terabull
109 antics = 1 gigantic
109 "lo"s = 1021 picolos = 1 gigalo
106 aches = 1 megahurtz
106 phones = 1 megaphone
2 x 103 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds
101 cards = 1 decacards (or 52 cards = 1 decacards)
3 1/3 tridents = 1 decadent
5 dialogs = 1 decalog
10-1 mates = 1 decimate
10-1 mals = 1 decimal
10-1 bels = 1 decibel
10-2 mental journeys = 1 centimental journey
10 millipedes = 1 centipede
10-3 of an ion = 1 million
10-3 Helen of Troys = 1 milliHelen, the amount of beauty required to launch one ship
10-6 fish = 1 microfiche
10-6 phones = 1 microphone
10-6 bottles of mouthwash = 1 microscope
10-12 really big scares = 1 picoboo
10-18 boys = 1 attoboy