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I knew for the imperial units but not this. This country ... let's say it always amaze me.

• farlight 1mo ago
  They use US customary, not imperial, they're slightly different sets of units. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units
  • bestouff 1mo ago
    > Some advocates of the customary system saw the French Revolutionary, or metric, system as atheistic. The president of an Ohio auxiliary of the Institute wrote that the traditional units were "a just weight and a just measure, which alone are acceptable to the Lord". His organization later went so far as to publish music for a song proclaiming "down with every 'metric' scheme". Ooh that explains a lot.