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  2. Fuel economy in automobiles - Wikipedia

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    Fuel consumption monitor from a 2006 Honda Airwave.The displayed fuel economy is 18.1 km/L (5.5 L/100 km; 43 mpg ‑US). A Briggs and Stratton Flyer from 1916. Originally an experiment in creating a fuel-saving automobile in the United States, the vehicle weighed only 135 lb (61.2 kg) and was an adaptation of a small gasoline engine originally designed to power a bicycle.

  3. Energy efficiency in transport - Wikipedia

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    This is around 1 ⁄ 5 (20%) of what is needed to power a standard upright bicycle without aerodynamic cladding at same speed, and 1 ⁄ 50 (2%) of that which is consumed by an average fossil fuel or electric car (the velomobile efficiency corresponds to 4700 miles per US gallon, 2000 km/L, or 0.05 L/100 km). [22]

  4. Machu Picchu - Wikipedia

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    Machu Picchu [a] is a 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru on a mountain ridge at 2,430 meters (7,970 ft). [8] Often referred to as the "Lost City of the Incas", [9] it is the most familiar icon of the Inca Empire.

  5. Everglades National Park - Wikipedia

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    Location: Miami-Dade, Monroe, & Collier counties, Florida, United States: Nearest city: Florida City Everglades City: Coordinates: 1]: Area: 1,508,976 acres (6,106.61 km 2) 1,508,243 acres (2,356.6 sq mi) federal [2]: Authorized: May 30, 1934; 90 years ago (): Visitors: 1,155,193 (in 2022) [3]: Governing body: National Park Service: Website: Everglades National Park: UNESCO World Heritage Site ...

  6. Imperial units - Wikipedia

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    The former Weights and Measures office in Seven Sisters, London (590 Seven Sisters Road). The imperial system of units, imperial system or imperial units (also known as British Imperial [1] or Exchequer Standards of 1826) is the system of units first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act 1824 and continued to be developed through a series of Weights and Measures Acts and amendments.

  7. Head-carrying - Wikipedia

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    Up to 20% of the person's body weight can be carried with no extra exertion of energy. [4] Other researchers have shown that African and European women carrying 70% of their body weight in controlled studies used more oxygen while head-carrying, in contrast to carrying a load on their backs.

  8. Ten-code - Wikipedia

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    California Penal Code sections were in use by the Los Angeles Police Department as early as the 1940s, and these Hundred Code numbers are still used today instead of the corresponding ten-code. Generally these are given as two sets of numbers [ citation needed ] —"One Eighty-Seven" or "Fifty-One Fifty"—with a few exceptions such as "459 ...

  9. Barcode - Wikipedia

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    A UPC-A barcode. A barcode or bar code is a method of representing data in a visual, machine-readable form.Initially, barcodes represented data by varying the widths, spacings and sizes of parallel lines.