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“Sheppey” the closest distance at which sheep remain picturesque (created by Douglas Adams!

“Ohnosecond” the second after one makes a terrible mistake, such as deleting the wrong file or sending a text message to the wrong person, where the person in question can do nothing but say "oh no”

Oh snap move over “List of Non-Coherent Units of Measurement”, hello “List of humorous units of measurement”

“Banana equivalent dose” The amount of radiation absorbed from eating one banana

Banana equivalent dose - Wikipedia

The “micromort”: a one-in-a-million chance of death. Smoking 1.4 cigarettes or driving 230 miles costs roughly one micromort.

The “crab”: the intensity of X-rays emitted from the Crab Nebula at a given photon energy up to 30 kiloelectronvolts

Crab (unit) - Wikipedia

The “garn”: NASA's unit of measure for symptoms resulting from space adaptation syndrome, the response of the human body to weightlessness in space, named after US Senator Jake Garn, who became exceptionally spacesick during an orbital flight in 1985”

Oh wow, Wikipedia’s List of Non-Coherent Units of Measurement is a goldmine.

He’s even got a plaque! And he went on to head both the American National Standards Institute and the International Organization for Standardization!