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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (13 children)

When having a beer, I've always found it funny that one of the few imperial measurements metric nations kept around, the pint, America went and invented their own. Uncharacteristically a smaller version too.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

America didn't really invent their own volume of measurements, they just didn't keep up.

They used what the British used, then separated from Britain, and didn't update the units when Britain did.

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