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...nearly as long as the length of 100 school buses in the United States, which can be around 35 to 45 feet long. (www.newsweek.com)
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Finland's longest bridge opens in Helsinki - but not for cars

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[-] passenger@sopuli.xyz 18 points 4 months ago

Americans, are you ok?

[-] CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

No. Not at all.

[-] Krusty@quokk.au 6 points 4 months ago

I had to convert that to bananas. About 7,000 7-inchers. Or 4000 ft long hot dogs.

Now it makes sense.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

Well obviously the buses are a stand-in for the Finnish trams. School buses are the closest thing to public transit that exists in parts of the US.

[-] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 points 4 months ago

The funniest part about this is either they chose to specifically look up the length of a school bus to write this article or they just happen to be a school bus enthusiast excited to share their random school bus facts.

[-] unreliable@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 months ago

When you don't know meters, any measure is better that your imperial one. Bus, football fields, bananas, etc

[-] bufalo1973@piefed.social 7 points 4 months ago

Anything but metric

[-] meekah@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 4 months ago

that is the community you're in, yes

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 points 4 months ago

How many football pitches is that?

[-] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 5 points 4 months ago
  • Approximately 11 Association Football pitches
  • Approximately 13 American Handegg pitches
  • Approximately between 6 and 9 "Aussie Rules" Football Pitches
  • Approximately 8 to 9 Gaelic Football Pitches
  • 12 Canadian Football Pitches
[-] Zagorath@quokk.au 2 points 4 months ago

12 rugby league fields (measured try line to try line—i.e. disregarding the in-goal area).

[-] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Thank you! I am embarrassed to have missed that one.

(I also missed Rugby Union, but I'm less bothered by that)

[-] Zagorath@quokk.au 2 points 4 months ago

You also missed rugby union, but from what I can see that doesn't have a particularly standardised length? In Australia I suspect most rugby union fields are probably 100 m because they just reuse the more popular rugby league grounds. Elsewhere it's probably the same as soccer.

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