It caught my eye because the units of measurement for the same product weren’t the same. The can was in US customary units, while the bottle was in metric units. Today, the American public ...

The legislation was meant to slowly transition its units ... the US lives in a metric gray area. Sure, it has a few laws requiring that consumer goods list both metric and US customary measures ...

While most of the rest of the world uses the metric system (formally known as the International System of Units, or SI), the United States uses the U.S. Customary System, which—fun fact—is ...

The United States primarily uses the US Customary System, where volume is measured in cups, tablespoons (tbsp), and teaspoons. Meanwhile, much of the world follows the Metric System with ...

An oft-repeated "weird fact" is the claim that, if not for the scourge of Caribbean piracy, the United States would have adopted the metric system in the 1790s, making it the country's standard ...

Of the world’s major countries, only the United States, Liberia and Myanmar don’t use metric units as their primary measurement systems. Instead, America uses U.S. customary units. CNN anchor ...

Hillger says that even countries that have fully adopted the metric system also measure certain things in U.S. customary units or their own local system of measurement. “Even in your best metric ...