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A leisurely trip (media.piefed.world)
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[–] 24 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Tf is a mile, bruv? Don't come in 'ere with these nonsensical made up freedom units

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Miles originated in Britain, so talk to them about their made-up nonsense.

    At least they were eventually willing to give up the imperial system. I still don't understand why Americans never got on board with metric; it's so much easier.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago*

    Just watched a video which explains a few things.

    Time zones start in UK because of some decent reasoning. France was also a contender for where timezones start for the same kinds of reasoning but conceded it in agreement that UK adopts the new metric system they created

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If I remember my conversions right then a mile is 5280 kilometers. I hope that helps explain why Europeans would fear such a distance!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Tf. Why would anyone have a unit for that

    "A benpu is 327 meters!"

    …wait a minute… am I being made a fool of? Can't tell, cuz I don't comprehend dumb units. I'd legit buy that as a real thing, given how stupid those tend to be

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    A US customary mile is 5280 US customary feet. 1 US customary foot is 12 US customary inches. 1 US customary inch is 25.4mm. So a US customary mile is 1609344mm, exactly. It derives from the roman "mille passus", literally 1000 paces, where a pace is the distance between two impacts of the left (or right) foot of a Roman soldier on the march. Quite a few other cultures used a "mile" of some sort even after the fall of Rome, for example the old British imperial mile was 1760 British imperial yards, one British imperial yard predated the definition of the meter but was most precisely measured to be 0.914398415m, so the British imperial mile was 1609341.21mm. Other culture's miles varied even more than this.

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