I consider myself pretty conversant in metric units. I know that 20 kilograms is 44 pounds (double it and add 10%) and that five kilometers is a little over three miles (I’ve, uh, run a lot of 5Ks).

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It’s no secret that Americans have an independence streak. We don’t use the metric system. We insist on writing dates with the month before the day—something virtually no other country does. And we ...

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