@djls45 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Fact of the Day #1000:
"Mile" comes from the Latin mille, which means "thousand," and the distance of 1 mile is mille passus, or "one thousand paces" of a Roman soldier, which came out to 5280 feet.
But remembering that something is the length of the path traveled by light in a vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458th of a second is so much easier than remembering that something's the pace of a Roman soldier.