The U.S. has resisted the metric system for more than 50 years
Excerpt from the April 4, 1970 issue of Science News
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In 1970, Australia became the 40th country to completely adopt the metric system. Now, there are only three countries in the world that don’t use it: the United States, Myanmar and Liberia.
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