r/BeAmazed • u/chinese_spongebob1 • 14h ago

Skill / Talent How was this all calculated?

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u/Batmanswrath 14h ago

With a measuring device I'd imagine..

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u/poum 14h ago

Looks like it was in the US so I imagine they used washing machines and big macs as measuring devices. 

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u/DMCinDet 14h ago

are washing machines an American stereotype I didnt know about?

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u/Tamara0205 13h ago

They seem to measure volume in "Olympic sized pools" and area in "football fields". Idk why, but I see it a lot.

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u/RoabeArt 12h ago edited 12h ago

Football fields, yes.

I haven't read or heard the phrase "Olympic sized pool" in about two decades until it started appearing here on Reddit in the past couple of years.

Speaking of, my city got rid of its 90s "Olympic sized pool" a few years ago and replaced it with a lazy river. I hate it. Give me a nice big rectangular pool that's deeper than I am tall.