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unusual facts about centimeters



2004 Milan – San Remo

Four times winner Erik Zabel lifted his arms to celebrate too soon and Freire won by 3 centimeters by a bike thrown at the line.

Active heave compensation

A good AHC-crane is able to keep its load steady with a deviation of a few centimeters in waves up to 8m (+/-4m).

Alfajor

According to Guinness World Records, the biggest alfajor in the world, measuring almost two meters in diameter and 80 centimeters in height and weighing 464 kilograms, was made on 11 December 2010 in Minas, Lavalleja Department, Uruguay.

Anelsonia

The fruits are each 2 to 3 centimeters tall, elliptic, and papery to leathery across a span between stiff septa.

Banc d'Arguin National Park

Rainfall here is minimal; in Nouadhibou it averages less than three centimeters annually and occurs between July and September.

Chamalières tablet

The Chamalières Tablet, (French: Plomb de Chamalières), is a lead tablet, six centimeters by four, that was discovered in 1971 in Chamalières, France, at the Source des Roches excavation.

Collinsia concolor

This is an annual herb producing an erect stem up to about 45 centimeters tall.

Cordylanthus rigidus

This is a hairy annual herb growing to maximum heights anywhere from 30 centimeters to 1.5 meters.

Eryngium castrense

At the tops of the stems are flower heads one to one and a half centimeters wide and rounded or egg-shaped.

Ferocactus viridescens

This cactus is spherical, oblate, or nearly cylindrical, is usually wider than tall, and less than 30 centimeters in height.

Flik

In radio astronomy, the unit flik was coined by a group at Lockheed in Palo Alto, California as a substitute for the SI derived unit W cm−2 sr−1 µm−1, or watts divided by centimeters squared, steradians, and micrometers.

Fratelli Fabbri Editori

They were also the first Italian publisher to market multimedia products; producing the new series "The Stories of Sound" and "The History of Music, which combines the book and the record, addressing issues unknown at the time. For example, for "The History of Music" in order to fall within the standard packaging industry, they commissioned Philips Records to produce 10 million of the LP Special, of 20 centimeters in diameter.

Physaria pallida

This is an annual herb growing mostly erect to a height of 30 to 60 centimeters.

Sadovnichesky Bridge

Arches are unusually thick for a bridge of this size due to pipe diameter (75 centimeters); bridge engineers called it Mastodon.

Suta dwyeri

Breeders of exotic reptiles advise letting pairs mate when they reach a length of about 23 centimeters (22 cm in the case of the female).

The Artillery Museum of Finland

On display is also the uniform of Väinö Myllyrinne, the largest Finnish soldier ever at 226 centimeters some 7 foot and 5 inches tall.


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