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I think we've been had (startrek.website)

submitted 10 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to c/memes@lemmy.world

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[–] oatscoop@midwest.social 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

We would have probably been using metric from the start, but pirates stole our kilogram.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

Our money is, and always has been, metric. Was there a decimalized currency before the United States Dollar?

[–] bluewing@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

People don't get that part. The US was one of the early adopters of the metric system. Mostly thanks to the French supplying Charleville muskets for the fledgling US army during the revolutionary war. And we kept making French pattern muskets, (in metric measurements), for about the next 40 years I think.