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american football fields or euro football fields? please use the standard cheeseburger 👍

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The football you play with your hands, of course.

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But there’s a ferry in the middle

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Should reroute it via the Øresund bridge and tunnel.

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The bridge is already occupied by the E20.

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But 45 > 20, so get out of the way.

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Seems there’s two, actually, the other one being way at the bottom between mainland Italy and Sicily.

Can still count as the same route even if it’s not the same contiguous road, I guess 🤷

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I presume you can load your car on both ferries, meaning you can technically “drive” the whole route

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I know you can with the one between Denmark and Norway since I’ve been on it myself and yeah, it’s probably the case with the Italian one too 🙂

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I couldn’t see it for my finger but you’re right. They keep talking about building a bridge though. It’s a gap of about 4 km but it’s in Italy.

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So does the Pan American Highway, but if we are willing to call that 30,000 km, i am willing to give the Euros their 5,000 km highway to feel important.

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The circumference of the planet is 40,000 km. If you made a highway and it’s 30,000 km long you fucked up.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-American_Highway?wprov=sfla1

It’s not a direct path, since you can’t draw a line directly from Prudhoe Bay to Tierra Del Fuego that only covers land.

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3 points

Any trains though?

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In Europe? Yes, a few. Would even go so far as to say MANY!

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But how many swimming pools is that?

Assuming FINA pools, 100940

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103,800

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My comment relied on

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To write something I never thought I would, at least about myself: sorry for being needlessly precise 😁

Let’s just call it “over 70,000”, then 😉

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2 points

5.1 Mm?

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Five point one millimeter of what?

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M ≠ m in metric. Example: 1 MB = 1000 kB

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M ≠ m in metric

Maybe not in academic notation, but in every day writing, it ABSOLUTELY is used as it and Mm isn’t used for kilometer anywhere lol

Also, since we’re nitpicking, 5190 rounds to 5200, not 5100 😛

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