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[–] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh no, so we have metric, imperial units, and now colonial units?!

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Still british units :D. In 1826 Britain decided to redefine gallon to mean "10 pounds of water". The earlier standard was 231 cublic inches (potentially meant to be 8 pounds of water). The US never adopted the new gallon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_gallon