Why There Is One Lone Road In The US That Uses The Metric System – And Why It Will Eventually Change Back to the Imperial System
Quite a humorous video attempting to explain why the US is one of only three countries in the world that still sticks to the old colonial imperial system. One reason was that the US's standard 1kg got lost in transit when it was stolen by pirates back in the day (true story).
Watch it at http://digg.com/video/only-us-road-uses-metric
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Why There Is One Lone Road In The US That Uses The Metric System Most of the roads in the US use both the imperial and the metric system, but not this road in Arizona. |