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  2. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    One hundredth of a second. decisecond: 10 −1 s: One tenth of a second. second: 1 s: SI base unit for time. decasecond: 10 s: Ten seconds (one sixth of a minute) minute: 60 s: hectosecond: 100 s: milliday: 1/1000 d (0.001 d) 1.44 minutes, or 86.4 seconds. Also marketed as a ".beat" by the Swatch corporation. moment: 1/40 solar hour (90 s on ...

  3. Counts per minute - Wikipedia

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    Disintegrations per minute (dpm) and disintegrations per second (dps) are measures of the activity of the source of radioactivity. The SI unit of radioactivity, the becquerel (Bq), is equivalent to one disintegration per second. This unit should not be confused with cps, which is the number of counts received by an instrument from the source.

  4. Saltine cracker challenge - Wikipedia

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    The saltine cracker challenge or saltine challenge is a food challenge or competition in which a person has 60 seconds in which to eat six saltine soda crackers without drinking anything. Although the challenge may sound trivial, it is difficult because the crackers quickly exhaust the saliva in the mouth. Even though six saltines can fit in ...

  5. Wild Statistics of Average Human Consumption In a Lifetime - AOL

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    What about one of the nation's most popular foods, pizza? It seems like you can never eat too much of this cheesy and bread-heavy dish, until you realize the shocking number of slices the average ...

  6. Orders of magnitude (time) - Wikipedia

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    3.6 ks: The length of one hour (h), the time for the minute hand of a clock to cycle once around the face, approximately 1/24 of one mean solar day 7.2 ks (2 h): The typical length of feature films 35.73 ks: the rotational period of planet Jupiter, fastest planet to rotate 38.0196 ks: rotational period of Saturn, second shortest rotational period

  7. Kiss for 6 seconds, eat less bacon and sleep this way for a ...

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    🥓 Eat less bacon. ... According to researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, replacing one daily serving of processed meat ... 💋 Kiss for 6 seconds.

  8. Banana equivalent dose - Wikipedia

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    The origins of the concept are uncertain, but one early mention can be found on the RadSafe nuclear safety mailing list in 1995, where Gary Mansfield of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory mentions that he has found the "banana equivalent dose" to be "very useful in attempting to explain infinitesimal doses (and corresponding infinitesimal risks) to members of the public". [2]

  9. 30 Urban Legends That Were Real All Along - AOL

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    Image credits: Alternative_Fill2048 #5. When I was about 12 years old a friend and I were playing in the woods that were known for being “creepy”. While building a fort, a strange man snuck up ...