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U.K. weighs whether to restore its old system of imperial measurements

Jun 15, 2022
The prime minister pledged to make the use of pounds and ounces official again after Brexit. We checked sentiment at Shrewsbury Market.
In the imperial measurement system, an inch is based on the length of three grains of barley.
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Why does soda come in liters and milk in gallons?

Oct 10, 2017
Pepsi's 2-liter bottle brought more soda into households while the nation flirted with the metric system.
Pepsi worked with DuPont to come up with a bottle that was 10 times bigger than the classic 6.5-ounce Coke.
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America's lengthy courtship with the metric system

Jun 4, 2015
We chart the history of the U.S. relationship with the metric system.

Wasn't the US going to start using the metric system?

Aug 5, 2014
John Bemelmans Marciano says the U.S has basically gone metric, if not officially.