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  2. List of humorous units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    In the Zork series of games, the Great Underground Empire has its own system of measurements, the most frequently referenced of which is the bloit. Defined as the distance the king's favorite pet can run in one hour (spoofing a popular legend about the history of the foot), the length of the bloit varies dramatically, but the one canonical conversion to real-world units puts it at ...

  3. 5.56×45mm NATO - Wikipedia

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    Using a ballistic calculator, they determined that a 55-grain bullet would have to be fired at 3,300 ft/s (1,006 m/s) to achieve the 500-yard performance necessary. [ 5 ] Robert Hutton (technical editor of Guns & Ammo magazine [ clarification needed ] ) started development of a powder load to reach the 3,300 ft/s (1,006 m/s) goal.