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> hole in the road that is about 92 cubic centimeters

92 cubic centimeters is a pretty small hole...

a hole in the road 1.5mx80cmx60cm is pretty easy to understand or imagine, when you know metric system and absolutely trivial to convert: ~0.70 cubic meters or ~700 liters or ~700.000 cubic centimeters

Washing machines comes of all sizes.

Is it like the slim one I have at home to save space or like the ones I find in laundromats?

Metric units have standards.

I don't know how many people would understand "a hole in the road the size of 137 trays of home made tiramisù"

TBF here too when the media want to make analogies, they are pretty terrible: "an asteroid the size of 8 soccer fields" means nothing to me, ~800 meters makes much more sense.



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