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.

The metric system's governing body has added some new terms to help describe massive amounts of data. The General Conference on Weights and Measures last week added the prefixes "ronna" and "quetta." ...

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.

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.

While the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 officially declared the metric system as the “preferred system of weights and measures for United States trade and commerce,” it did not mandate its ...

Hiding in plain sight. First, the facts: “It’s been legal to use the metric system in the United States since 1866,” says Elizabeth Benham, program leader of the federal metric program at ...

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 ...