Smoot
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smoot-252-16146495
title:
Smoot
text:
The smoot is a nonstandard, humorous unit of length created as part of an MIT fraternity pledge to Lambda Chi Alpha by Oliver R. Smoot, who in October 1958 lay down repeatedly on the Harvard Bridge between Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, so that his fraternity brothers could use his height to measure the length of the bridge.
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Non-standard unit of length
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot
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date modified:
2024-04-05T21:13:42Z
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13
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