150 years ago, 17 countries signed a treaty that affects how we live today
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The next time you pick up a bag of spuds from the supermarket or fill up the car with petrol, you can thank a treaty signed in 1875 for the metric system that underpins daily life.
  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.spaceEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Some anti-Europeans in the UK still refer to the metric system as the Napoleonic system, after the French dictator who threatened to invade England.