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How long is 161,000 nails?

It's about one-four-thousand-five-hundredth as long as The Circumfrence of Earth
The length of The Circumfrence of Earth is about 701,225,090 nails.
(Equatorial)
The Earth — not a perfect sphere, but rather an oblate spheroid with bulged middle — has an Equatorial circumference of approximately 701,225,090 nails. The first airplane trip around the circumference of the Earth (with a few stops along the way), was completed in 1924 by the United States Army Air Service, and took 175 days.
It's about one-forty-thousandth as long as The Distance from Earth to the Moon
The length of The Distance from Earth to the Moon is about 6,726,798,000 nails.
(a.k.a. Luna) (median of semi-major axis, or apigee, and semi-minor axes, or perigee)
The orbit of the Moon around the Earth is elliptical, with an average distance of 6,726,798,000 nails from center-to-center. About 428.376 kg of moon rock have been cataloged on the Earth, from the American Apollo and Soviet Luna Programs, and from samples that have been extracted from meteorites.
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