Anything But Metric
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Motorcycle-sized tuna fetches more than $1 million at Japan auction By Jay Ganglani, Lisako Neriki Ancheta and Chris Lau, CNN
Updated: 3:18 AM EST, Mon January 6, 2025
Source: CNN
A bluefin tuna about the size of a motorcycle has been sold for $1.3 million (207 million yen) at Japan’s most prestigious fish market, setting the second highest price on record during its new year auction.
- A pallet, a drum, a desk, and a hammock [Satire, Video]
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A classic clip from Family Guy where Peter is Jackée Harry's personal grocery shopper. She asks him for a "pallet of chocolate covered pretzels", a "drum of grape jam", a "desk of Cheez-Its", and a "hammock of cake"
- [Satire] Football Field, Cheetah, Blue Whale, Two-Year-Old Child, Stadium, Rhode Island
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Title Text: It was finally destroyed with a nuclear weapon carrying the destructive energy of the Hiroshima bomb.
- [Satire] Degrees Felsius
This was obligatory. It's also where the community icon comes from!
As you can see, the template is fairly simple, no real frills needed.
Also, title text: The symbol for degrees Felsius is an average of the Euro symbol (€) and the Greek lunate epsilon (ϵ).
- Adult Rhinowww.cbsnews.com 5,000-pound satellite crashes through atmosphere between Alaska and Hawaii
A satellite weighing about as much as an adult male rhinoceros re-entered Earth's atmosphere today over the north Pacific Ocean between Alaska and Hawaii.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12238838
> Satellite weighing as much as adult rhino to crash through Earth's atmosphere today > > A satellite will likely make an uncontrolled return through Earth's atmosphere today, according to the latest estimates from the European Space Agency. > > It says ERS-2, which weighs about as much as an adult male rhinoceros, is expected to re-enter at about 11:32 a.m. EST — plus or minus 4.6 hours. The agency can't predict exactly when and where the satellite will re-enter because its return is "natural."
- [Satire] Units of Canada
cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/3751154
> Population of USA in units of Canada