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Why is the USA the only country that doesn’t use the metric system? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] artifex@piefed.zip 5 points 2 days ago

One of the very first things the US govt standardized was the size of screws because it was wreaking havoc with shipbuilding efforts.

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