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A 345 Hemi badge on a car or truck doesn’t come standard. Owners add it to pay respect to muscle cars back when a Hemi was measured in cubic inches.

The biggest reasons the U.S. hasn’t adopted the metric system are simply time and money.

Most of the world uses the metric system for everyday measurements, but only three countries in the world use the imperial system as their official system of measurement.

America is the greatest economic and military power in world history — and our quality of life is garbage. But why?

Weird History explained why the United States did not adopt the metric system but instead remained with its own customary system.

A unified measuring system allows people from different nations to trade with one another without doubting what they are getting. But there are holdouts.

Did you know that the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 named the metric system as “the preferred system of weights and measures for United States trade and commerce"?

Americans celebrate many traditions without even considering how strange the rest of world might consider them. What do you think are some of the weirdest?

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Why are some products in the U.S. metric and others aren't? Soda is a really good example of one that's metric.