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Why: I'm watching The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953), which was written by Ray Bradbury. Did you know he wrote monster stories? Or that he is still alive? Me neither. Time Warner says this movie is "about a prehistoric creature rambling through Manhattan and Coney Island." I hope it looks like this:
Anyway, it reminds me of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
Answer: 1 league = 5.5560 kilometers or 3.45233 miles, so 20,000 leagues = 111,120 km or 69,046 miles
A league is most frequently refers to the distance a person or a horse can walk in an hour.
Source: Google Calculator
The More You Know: A fathom, which I suppose I should have been wondering about first, is 1.8288 meters (2 yards, 6 feet), so 20,000 fathoms = 36.57 km or 22.7 miles. That's not very far, right? Turns out they find this thing hibernating in the Arctic Circle, and it looks like a damn dinosaur:
But Wikipedia says of this crapfest:
It was one of the first "monster movies" that helped inspire the following generation of "creature features", coining it with the atomic age
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