I discovered a truly amazing fact the other day, one I had not seen reproduced anywhere before.
The radius of the Earth is 6371km.
The distance to the Moon is 382,260km.
Divide one by the other and you get exactly 60. Not approximately, but exactly. To lots of decimal places.
When you do a seemingly random calculation like this, and you get an answer that is so exact and significant (after all, there are 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 60 is at the heart of our time keeping), then you just know this is no coincidence.
Even more amazing is that, if you use miles instead of kilometers, you get exactly the same result!
But it makes sense. You do see people attaching significance to calculations like this which are plainly nonsense, but both these figures are distances and we know that the Moon does orbit the Earth, so they could be connected in some way.
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