I’m moving my posts from Reddit to Lemmy before delete them.

This post is from 2022-07-13.

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    1 year ago

    Imperial was based on using body parts and common items to measure things. Inch was about the width of a mans thumb, foot the size of his foot, yard was the length of his arm, etc. But we have more access to things to measure now so like its kinda pointless but just stuck.