Thanks Ronald Reagan for that. He declined the push to go metric
1875 ... if I'm not wrong Murica signed the Convention of Metre. but some dumb f*ck brought the Metric system to Murica..but instead puting the stuff in place, he just converted to Imperial system.
You should thanks that guy, I can't remember his name.
Check this out.
The Commission assigned the name “metre” (in the U.S. spelled “meter”) to the unit of length. This name was derived from the Greek word, metron, meaning “a measure.” The physical standard representing the meter was to be constructed so that it would equal one ten-millionth of the distance from the North Pole to the equator along the meridian running near Dunkirk in France and Barcelona in Spain.
The initial metric unit of mass, the “gram,” was defined as the mass of one cubic centimeter — a cube that is 0.01 meter on each side — of water at its temperature of maximum density. For capacity, the “litre” (spelled “liter” in the U.S.) was defined as the volume of a cubic decimeter — a cube 0.1 meter on each side.
