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[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 104 points 1 year ago (6 children)

That the Sumerian’s will use anything but metric.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Apparently, muricans are a lost tribe of Sumerians.

Hold on a sec. I need to write up some golden tablets or something.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Well you see, in 1793, 'Merica requested the metric artifacts from France so we could be metric too. France sent over a kilogram, but the shipment was lost at sea. And that was a little sad.

All joking aside, US feet, inches, pounds, and so on have been secretly really metric since 1893.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sumerians also tried to metrify, but the copper weights they bought mysteriously corroded

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