Chuck Wood facts
While investigating facts about Chuck Wood, I found out little known, but curios details like:
"woodchuck" is just a mangled pronunciation of the Algonquin word "otchock" and has nothing to do wood or the chucking thereof.
Woodchucks chuck 361.9237001 cubic centimeters of wood per day.
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 13 of the best facts about Chuck Wood I managed to collect.
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A New York Fish and Wildlife Expert worked out the answer to the riddle/tongue-twister "How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood" to be roughly 700 pounds
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Woodchucks weren't named because of a relation to wood or chucking; rather, they were named after the native word for woodchuck, 'wuchak.'
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If a woodchuck could chuck wood (and it does) it would be about 25 cubic feet or 700 lbs whilst making a burrow.
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In 1988 A New York fish and wildlife technician by the name of Richard Thomas took the famous tongue twister, “how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood” and calculated a rough estimate of what the answer would actually be. It came out to be around 700 pounds.
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The NYT in 1989 actually interviewed a wildlife expert who said he found an answer to the question: How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?” The answer? Roughly 700 pounds.
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A woodchuck could chuck 700lbs of wood if a woodchuck could chuck wood. A woodchuck could also chuck 361.9237001 cubic centimeters of wood per day if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
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A woodchuck/groundhog can chuck ~700 pounds of wood
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A woodchuck would chuck about 700lbs (320kg) if a woodchuck could chuck wood
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How much wood a Wood Chuck could chuck . It's 700 lbs per day consuming 361. cubic cm per day.
