Metric has been legally "preferred" in the US since 1975. We just don't use it.
Also while I was looking up that year I came across this wild factoid:
In 1793, Thomas Jefferson requested artifacts from France that could be used to adopt the metric system in the United States, and Joseph Dombey was sent from France with a standard kilogram. Before reaching the United States, Dombey's ship was blown off course by a storm and captured by pirates, and he died in captivity on Montserrat.
So pitates pirates are why America uses freedom units.
Damn those ruthless pitates!
Here I thought you made a typo...but no, you typed it exactly right :D
Metric has been legally "preferred" in the US since 1975. We just don't use it.
Also while I was looking up that year I came across this wild factoid:
So
pitatespirates are why America uses freedom units.Damn those ruthless pitates!
Here I thought you made a typo...but no, you typed it exactly right :D