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But it gets even more confusing when some recipes use the metric system of liters and milliliters instead of our standard U.S. Imperial measurement system of teaspoons, tablespoons, and cups.

All countries use the metric system to varying degrees. Most of the world has adopted the metric system as their official system of measurement with one major exception: the United States.

In the meantime, a new system of weights and measures, developed by French scientists following the Revolution of 1789, gained increasing international use. This metric system had as its fundamental ...