Growing up in a very small country town this took on added significance because to us the Empire State Building was unimaginably tall. And the myth that circulated in our grammar school had the detail that, “a dime will go 2.5 inches into your brain.” Such precise measurements! In sixth grade we weren’t troubled by details like terminal velocity and such. (Most of the kids were taught that dinosaurs and humans roamed the earth together, so scientific curiosity was not a highly regarded trait.)
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