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more trivia:
a Barn is a unit of area equal to 1x10^-28 square meter. used in calculations involving nuclear fission, to calculate the probability of a neutron hitting a nucleus. was intended as a joke 'can't hit the broad side of a barn'.
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More: An inch of mercury (in/hg) is measured by the pressure exerted by a column of mercury of 1 inch in height at 32 °F.