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Are Pirates Who Hijacked Measuring Tools Intended for Thomas Jefferson the Reason U S Isn t Metric?

"This country could have gone metric right from the beginning," the claim goes, "instead of being dragged into the system kicking and screaming."

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Fact Check: Are Pirates Who Hijacked Measuring Tools Intended for Thomas Jefferson the Reason U S Isn t Metric?

"This country could have gone metric right from the beginning," the claim goes, "instead of being dragged into the system kicking and screaming."

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It s been 230 years since pirates stopped metric in the US

It s been 230 years since pirates stopped metric in the US
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Which countries use metric, and which use imperial measurements?

A unified measuring system allows people from different nations to trade with one another without doubting what they are getting. But there are holdouts.

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