Engineers Most Interesting Findings


Conversion Factors for your Digestion:

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


2. 2000 pounds of Chinese Soup = Won ton


3. 1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microscope


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


5. Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram


6. Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knotfurlong


7. 365.25 days of drinking low calorie beer = 1 Lite year


8. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling


9. Half a large intestine = 1 semicolon


10. 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz


11. Basic unit of laryngitis - 1 hoarsepower


12. Shortest distance between two jokes - a straight line


13. 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake


14. 1 million microphones = 1 megaphone


15. 1 million bicycles = 1 megacycle


16. 365 days = 1 unicycle


17. 2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds


18. 10 cards = 1 decacard


19. 52 cards = 1 deckacard


20. 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton


21. 1000 grams of wet socks = 1 literhosen


22. 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche


23. 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin


24. 10 rations = 1 decaration


25. 100 rations = 1 C-Ration


26. 2 monograms = 1 diagram


27. 8 nickels = 2 paradigms


28. 5 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 I.V. League

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