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A Smoot Point
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11/14/2024

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Unlocked on 11/14/2024!

364.4 smoots is the length of the Harvard Bridge (more often referred to as the Mass Ave Bridge) that runs over the Charles River between MIT and Boston.

In 1958, when Oliver Smoot was as a pledge at an MIT fraternity, the fraternity's brothers used his height to measure the length of the bridge. Learn more on Wikipedia.

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