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[–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

We have also units in metric, except it's always the same ones. Horse is around 2m and a small banana is 15cm, a human foot in around 30cm.

You can measure the parts of your body to get to the same point reference pretty fast and it's very relatable when you live in a non-imperial country.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago

    Imperial doesn't use multiplicative prefixes very much.

    Instead, they would invent a new random unit, the skyscraper, which is equal to a random number of horses, like 176.

    And then everyone goes "Yeah, a skyscraper is 176 horses, everyone knows that."

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