Wow! It actually makes sense! - eviltoast
  • Waves@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    It’s actually interesting, an inch is the last knuckle of your thumb, a foot is your foot, a yard is one pace (left right left) a mile is 1000 paces

    But for some reason when we standardized them so everyone’s mile would be the same distance, we used a freaking giant.

    Then pirates kept us from adopting the metric system