Brooklyn Bridge

The Brooklyn Bridge is 5,989 feet in length.

It is 71,868 inches long or just over nine furlongs in horse racing lengths.

If you play golf on a hole that is a 500 yard par five, the bridge would equal four of those holes in length.

Washington Monument

The Washington Monument is 555 feet in height.

If you have an eight foot ceiling in your house, it is 69 ceilings tall.

If someone is five feet tall, you would need 111 people to equal the same height.

Internet usage

If you spend four hours a day online for 50 years, you spent 73,000 hours online. This is 3,041 days or 8.3 years of nonstop use.

Get out of bed early

If you can just wake up one minute earlier each day, after 80 years you would have an extra 486 hours to do something else. This will give you 20.27 extra days.

Keep working

If a company makes $16 billion per year in revenue and you make $50,000 per year, you have to work 320,000 years to make $16 billion.

If you make only $25,000 per year, you have to work 640,000 years.

Different car speeds

If you are in a car and driving for five miles, approximately how long does it take to arrive at your destination if you were traveling at different speeds?

At 55 mph, you would travel at .916 miles a minute, and get there in 5.458 minutes.

At 45 mph, you would travel at .75 miles a minute, and get there in 6.666 minutes.

At 35 mph, you would travel at .583 miles a minute, and get there in 8.576 minutes.

At 25 mph, you would travel at .416 miles a minute, and get there in 12.019 minutes.

The car traveling at 25 mph, would need approximately 6 1/2 minutes longer than the car going at 55 mph to reach five miles.

Consecutive letters

Two commonly used two letter words can be spelled using the letters of the alphabet in consecutive order.

(a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z,)

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Mount Everest size

As the highest mountain on Earth, Mount Everest is 29,035 feet tall.

It is approximately 5.5 miles in height (5.5 miles is 29,040 feet).

At an average 8 foot ceiling in your home, it is 3,629 ceilings in height. You would need 24 Empire State Buildings to surpass it in height (24 would equal 30,000 feet)

If you can just walk up the mountain at approximately 3 mph, you can reach the top in under 2 hours.

Walking to the Moon and Sun

Here is approximately how long it would take if you could walk to the Moon or the Sun.

You would need approximately nine years, if you walked at a pace of 3 mph to reach the Moon, at a distance of approximately 239,000 miles from us.

It would take you approximately 3,539 years if you walked to the Sun instead, with the Sun approximately 93 million miles from us.

Mail trip time

If you talk 1 minute to get your mail outside, after 50 years of doing it, you walked 15,600 days in getting your mail.

You spent 260 hours getting your mail over the 50 year period or almost 11 days of walking 24 hours a day.

During those 260 hours, you could have watched 130 movies at your movie theater if the length of each movie is two hours.

Time spent at the movie theater

If you watched one movie each week at an average length of two hours, after 10 years you spent 1,040 hours in the theater or 43 days straight of watching movies.

Over a 40 year period this is equal to 173 days, which is almost six months of watching movies nonstop.

Television time wasted

If you spend six hours a day in front of your TV, you spend 2,190 hours a year watching TV.

If you did this for 70 years, you spent 153,300 hours of your life in front of the TV.

This is equal to 6,387 days of watching TV 24 hours a day or 17 1/2 years of watching it nonstop.

If you used that time instead to read five books a year, you can read 88 books during that time.

Car power

If you have 200 hp in your car engine, your engine is 149,200 watts.

A 5,000 BTU air conditioner is approximately 500 watts. You would need almost 300 of them running to equal the 200 hp car's 149,200 watt engine.

Size of CDs

You would have to stack 1,920 compact disc on top of each other to equal an eight foot high ceiling.

If you can stand them up on their side, you would need to get 1,267,200 of them to equal one mile.

Measure by your feet

If your foot is exactly 12 inches long, every 100 steps is 100 feet in distance.

If you want to walk one mile each day, you have to walk 5,280 steps.

Basketball court length

A basketball court is 94 feet long.

You can fit three basketball courts in the length of a 300 foot long football field.

It would take 56 basketball courts to reach one mile.

Months of the year

This is how many times each letter shows up in the months of the year.

A---7
B---5
C---3
D---1
E---11
F---1
G---1
H---1
I---1
J---3
K---
L---2
M---5
N---3
O---3
P---2
Q---
R---9
S---2
T---3
U---6
V---1
W---
X---
Y---4
Z---

1) A total of 74 letters are in the months of the year.

2) A total of five letters never show up. They are: K,Q,W,X,Z

3) The letter E comes out the most at 11 times.

Hot dog size

At approximately six inches in length per hot dog, you would need 10,560 hot dogs to equal one mile.

You would need 16 of them to reach an eight foot ceiling in your home if you could stand them straight up.

In a football field which is 300 feet not including the end zones, you would need 600 hot dogs lined up end to end to cover the field.

Days of the week

This is how many times each letter shows up in the days of the week.

A---8
B---
C---
D---8
E---3
F---1
G---
H---1
I---1
J---
K---
L---
M---1
N---3
O---1
P---
Q---
R---3
S---5
T---3
U---4
V---
W---1
X---
Y---7
Z---

1) There are a total of exactly 50 letters in the days of week. (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday)

2) A total of 11 letters never show up. They are: B,C,G,J,K,L,P,Q,V,X,Z

3) A and D come out the most times. They come out eight times.

Football field size

The length of a football field not including the end zones is 300 feet.

But a football player would have to run back and forth on the field slightly more than 17 1/2 times to equal 1 mile.

Each time he ran from end to end, he would cover 300 feet. At 5,280 feet to each mile, he has a long way to go.

Baseball field distances

From the pitchers rubber to home plate it is 60 feet 6 inches.

The distance has to be increased almost 44 times farther to equal 1/2 mile.

Home run!

If a player hits a home run to a center field wall which is 410 feet... .

The player hit the ball 4,920 inches.

He would have to hit the ball almost 6 1/2 times farther to equal 1/2 mile or almost 13 times farther to equal one mile.

Baseball distances

Running from home plate to first base is 90 feet or 1,080 inches.

Running from home plate around all the bases, ending at home plate again is 360 feet or 4,320 inches.

A runner has to run around the bases approximately 14 1/2 times to equal 1 mile.

He would have to run around the bases 1,722 times to equal the length of Long Island, New York which is 118 miles long.

Length of Long Island, New York

Long Island, New York is approximately 118 miles long.

This is 623,040 feet, or 7,476,480 inches, or 944 furlongs long.