Ever wonder why America sticks to inches and pounds? Turns out, pirates played a surprising role in keeping the metric system ...

The following year saw another attempt at promoting the metric system in the United States. But the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 was voluntary, ...

The US is one of the few holdouts not on the metric system Islands in a Metric World, 1971. Since this map was made, the US hasn't gotten any allies on its lonely island.

At press time, only three of the world's countries don't use the metric system: the United States, Myanmar and Liberia. But it didn't have to be this way. On this day in 1866, the Metric Act was ...

However, the original reason, the reason that metric never even touched down on the shores of the US, is absolutely pirates. ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED Discuss (16 CommentS) ...

In the 1790s, piracy of a ship carrying metric standards intended for then-U.S. Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson played a role in America's decision to not adopt the metric system.

The metric system was invented by atheists during the French Revolution to turn us into robots. That’s why the metric system works better with calculations but is less intuitive.

If you are one of the estimated 125,000 US citizens who now call Costa Rica home, welcome to the world of metric. Get ready to adjust to measurements in the clean and logical metric system. A few ...

Although the United States hasn’t adopted the metric system as the sole system of measurement, in reality, we use the metric system every day. “This is particularly the case in medicine ...