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

2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won ton

One- millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microscope

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

Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram

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

365.25 days of drinking low-calorie soda = 1 lite year

16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling

Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon

1000 aches = 1 kilohurtz

Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower

Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line

453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake

1 million microphones = 1 megaphone

one million bicycles = 2 megacycles

2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds

ten cards = 1 decacards

1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton

1000 cubic centimeters of wet socks = 1 literhosen

one millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche

one trillion pins = 1 terrapin

ten rations = 1 decoration

100 rations = 1 C-ration

two monograms = 1 diagram

eight nickels = 2 paradigms

three statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital
= 1 I.V League