Why doesn’t the U.S. use the Metric System? Pirates. In the late 1700s, the U.S. had no standardized system—each state used ...

No such simple relations existed in standard units of weight and ... but a system of standards. It survives today as the metric system.

To make things simple, we’ve created this handy imperial to metric conversion chart. Now, at a glance, you’ll be able to ...

And Canadians do this all the time. Most of the world uses the metric system. The Americans use imperial. And then Canada uses an unholy amalgam of both. It’s one of our weirdest national traits ...