You know the finger game "Here's the church, here's the steeple," in which hands are clasped to represent a church, then pointer fingers are raised to form a spire, then the remaining fingers are revealed as a congregation?  Well, it's not just a game.  From Blasts from The Ram's Horn, 1902.

An illustration from an 1897 issue of The Strand magazine.  The caption reads: "The weight of the Earth is rather more than equal to the weight of 1,625 United Kingdoms, each one of these United Kingdoms going all the way down to the centre of the Earth."

An illustration from an 1897 issue of The Strand magazine.  The caption reads: "The weight of the Earth is equal to the weight of 78 moons (nearly)."

"A most concrete ghost, it has revealed itself in office blocks towering above Kuala Lumpur."
—Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown, Chinese Business Enterprise, 1996