US was supposed to get the metric system but alas… Pirates
The reason the Fahrenheit scale does not put the freezing point of water at 0 degrees as the Celsius scale does is that Daniel Fahrenheit, the inventor of the scale, did not use the freezing and boiling points of water as the basis of his scale.
US was supposed to get the metric system but alas… Pirates
The reason the Fahrenheit scale does not put the freezing point of water at 0 degrees as the Celsius scale does is that Daniel Fahrenheit, the inventor of the scale, did not use the freezing and boiling points of water as the basis of his scale.
As for the date formatting, here is an interesting read on it and how it relays more information faster.
Pirates stealing our kilogram weight thus preventing the metric system is one of the funniest bits of US history to me.