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2. Standard-gauge railway - Wikipedia

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   The Bucharest Metro uses 1,432 mm (4 ft 8 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) gauge. The Washington Metro uses 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (1,429 mm), 1 ⁄ 4 in (6 mm) narrower than standard gauge. The Mount Washington Cog Railway, the world's oldest mountain-climbing rack-and-pinion railway, uses a 4 ft 8 in (1,422 mm) gauge.

3. Human height - Wikipedia

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   Height measurement using a stadiometer. Human height or stature is the distance from the bottom of the feet to the top of the head in a human body, standing erect.It is measured using a stadiometer, [1] in centimetres when using the metric system or SI system, [2] [3] or feet and inches when using United States customary units or the imperial system.

4. List of unusual units of measurement - Wikipedia

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   [25] [26] The standard FIFA football pitch for international matches is 105 m (344 ft) long by 68 m (223 ft) wide (7,140 m 2 or 0.714 ha or 1.76 acres); FIFA allows for a variance of up to 5 m (16.4 ft) in length in either direction and 7 m (23.0 ft) more or 4 m (13.1 ft) less in width (and larger departures if the pitch is not used for ...

5. Body proportions - Wikipedia

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   One version of the proportions used in modern figure drawing is: [4] An average person is generally 7-and-a-half heads tall (including the head). An ideal figure, used when aiming for an impression of nobility or grace, is drawn at 8 heads tall. A heroic figure, used in the depiction of gods and superheroes, is eight-and-a-half heads tall. Most ...

6. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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   1.75 m – (5 feet 8 inches) – height of average U.S. male human as of 2002 (source: U.S. CDC as per female above) 2.4 m – wingspan of a mute swan; 2.5 m – height of a sunflower; 2.7 m – length of a leatherback sea turtle, the largest living turtle; 2.72 m – (8 feet 11 inches) – tallest-known human (Robert Wadlow) [31]

7. Unit of length - Wikipedia

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   The basic unit of length in the imperial and U.S. customary systems is the yard, defined as exactly 0.9144 m by international treaty in 1959. [2] [10] Common imperial units and U.S. customary units of length include: [11] thou or mil (1 ⁄ 1000 of an inch) inch (25.4 mm) foot (12 inches, 0.3048 m) yard (3 feet, 0.9144 m)

8. Average human height by country - Wikipedia

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   18 (N= m:358 f:360, SD= m:6.8 cm (2.7 in) f:6.1 cm (2.4 in)) 1.6%: Measured: 2006–2008 [53] Cuba – Urban: 168 cm (5 ft 6 in) 156 cm (5 ft 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) 1.08: 15+ 100.0%: Measured: 1999 [54] Czech Republic: 177.7 cm (5 ft 10 in) 164.4 cm (5 ft 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) 1.08: 25–64 (N= m:788 f:896) 68.5%: Measured: 2016–2017 [55] Czech Republic ...

9. List of human-based units of measurement - Wikipedia

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   Cun - width of the human thumb, at the knuckle; Dactylos - Ancient Greek finger breadth; Digit - length of a human finger Digitus - Ancient Roman digit; Etzba - fingerbreadth; Fathom - the distance between the fingertips of a human's outstretched arms; Finger; Fistmele - the measure of a clenched hand with the thumb extended; Gradus - Ancient ...