howlongis 1smoot

1 smoot is a humorous unit of length equal to 5 feet 7 inches, which is about 1.70 meters.

It was defined in 1958 using the height of MIT student Oliver Smoot, whose body was used to “measure” the Harvard Bridge, leading to the famous bridge length of 364.4 smoots “± 1 ear.”

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