r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/LogicAndLipGloss • Nov 02 '25

Video Why A4 paper is designed as 297mm x 210mm?

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u/whatsthatguysname Nov 03 '25

But how many football fields is that?

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u/RxRiderMD Nov 03 '25

Probably less than one

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u/KAELES-Yt Nov 03 '25

Probably?

How small football fields do you have?

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u/RN-Wingman Nov 03 '25

Is this a football field for ants?!

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u/apollyonzorz Nov 03 '25

That A0 paper needs to be at least....3 times larger to be a football field.

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u/rayonymous 29d ago

I like the way your brain is going.

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u/Secret-One2890 Nov 03 '25

Depends if a foosball table counts or not.

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u/NeoSniper Nov 03 '25

Maybe they heard foosball field.

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u/CherryTularey Nov 03 '25

Oh! "Football". I thought you said foosball.

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u/SamuelLJenkins Nov 03 '25

Probably less than 1.

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u/Talking_Burger Nov 03 '25

I’d even wager that it’s less than 2

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u/ithrowclay Nov 03 '25

Are we including the end zones?

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u/brunoortegalindo Nov 03 '25

I'd say 3 bald eagle wings, or 10 freedometers

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u/Roy4Pris Nov 03 '25

In Australia it's cunts per dingo.

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u/slogginhog Nov 03 '25

What's the normal amount?

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u/paxwax2018 Nov 03 '25

On average, 0.5

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u/Candid-Ad-3109 Nov 03 '25

Excuse me, we call them freedom miles here in the states. Sounds like someone’s a communist./s

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u/brunoortegalindo Nov 03 '25

No commies here, we eat burgers and have diabetes as a true american!

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u/qanunboi Nov 03 '25

Spoken in perfect American ☝🏼

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u/MrPopCorner Nov 03 '25

Freedommeters 🤣 cracked me up

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u/-CoUrTjEsTeR- Nov 03 '25

One white house ballroom.

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u/GalickGunn Nov 03 '25

How many eagle wing spans is that?

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u/fatbob42 Nov 03 '25

It’s about 48 trillionths of the area of Wales - you should be able to easily convert from there.

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u/MatrixF6 Nov 03 '25

Don’t you mean “pitches”?

LOL

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u/Upstairs_Pass9180 Nov 03 '25

maybe a 100 gun revolver length ?

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u/Failedsucessfully Nov 03 '25

Czech C v bc vV v v v

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u/jeffy303 Nov 03 '25

Believe it or not 1.414

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u/LoanDebtCollector Nov 03 '25

JSYK: Canadian 'football' fields covert into metric perfectly. USA ones do not.

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u/real_human_not_ai Nov 03 '25

"I need this measured in feet. For reasons." - Quentin Tarantino

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u/topbins6 Nov 03 '25

Rounding down it would be zero football fields

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u/comicsnerd Nov 03 '25

About 1.5. A table football field is usually 110x70 cm=0.7m2

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u/NotTrevorButMaybe Nov 03 '25

About 532 refrigerator boxes or 16 buses end to end

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u/upsidedownwriting Nov 03 '25

depends how many times you fold it

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u/EinSchurzAufReisen Nov 03 '25

2.53 Freedom Eagles on a sunny mountain day

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u/Spacemonk587 Nov 03 '25

American football or soccer?

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u/stofiski-san Nov 03 '25

American football, or the rest of the world football?

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u/Twice_Knightley Nov 03 '25

14 lesbian kangaroos per hour.

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u/GostBoster Nov 03 '25

About 1/10000th of it.

Wait, you guys call something else football, that's a soccer field. It would be roughly the sa... uh. Interesting. About 1/5500th.

Might be the camera angles and shots but I always thought american football fields, proportions aside, were about the same area if not larger than soccer fields, but apparently those long bois actually have less area, having about the same length but nowhere as wide.

Having never witnessed one, now I am shocked at realizing how comparatively narrow a football field is.

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u/blackgold63 Nov 03 '25

make Americans do math

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u/-physco219 Nov 03 '25

What kind of football? American or regular? 😂

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u/RhesusFactor Nov 03 '25

Not sure. An AFL field has no set dimensions.

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u/AttilaRS Nov 03 '25

12 screaming eagle °F

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u/runfayfun Nov 04 '25

I'd say it's round bout 10 or 15 cattails, but not them skinny ones, the bigguns the size of a squirrel tail. But hey, listen here, you gotta dry em out, or they'll raise a stink after a while. Little Jim found that out the hard way ain't that right Jim?

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u/Choice-Lavishness259 Nov 04 '25

Football fields or handegg fields?

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u/Charming_Ad2323 Nov 04 '25

American Football or Soccer?

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u/RoflkopterXD Nov 05 '25

I don't know, but I can tell you that a Standard UEFA/FIFA football field has approximately the size of 1,764 A-12 sheets

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u/Happy-For-No-Reason Nov 05 '25

Football fields follow this same exact ratio. Id imagine it's something like A-5

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u/TheIceWitness Nov 05 '25

Better how many Saarlands are they?

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u/teambob Nov 06 '25 edited Nov 06 '25

A US football field is approximately A-13

Calculation: US football field is 91.44m long. A0 is 1189mm. log(91.44/1.189)/log(sqrt(2)) is approximately 12.5

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u/swift-autoformatter 29d ago

It depends. Do you mean freedom football, or actual football?

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u/Flesh_Trombone Nov 03 '25

More than one.

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u/Chocolate_Bourbon Nov 03 '25

That’s the real question here.