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Old 13th Sep 2017, 4:16 pm   #44
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Default Re: An opportunity to be SMUG

I like the variety of units used past and present, understating them explains many things, like why is the US gallon smaller than ours (to do with wine and beer gallons). My local hardware store still sells paraffin in gallons (or a half for the smaller, common 4 litre containers) with a conversion to litres pasted on the machine.

America went metric in 1868 by defining their yard as a certain fraction of a metre, saved making their own standard apparently.