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Originally Posted by redpoint5
I didn't know there were 5280 feet in a mile until I was 18 years old. Never having needed to know that fact, I never bothered to learn or memorize it.
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And why would you need to know it? What's useful (at least to anyone who walks a bit) is knowing that a mile is pretty close to 1000 paces for an average-sized person.