Most people think the U.S. never adopted the metric system — but that’s not the whole story. Long before Europe standardized its measurements, America quietly implemented a system based on the very ...

For decades the United States has lived between two systems of measurement. This documentary explores how America nearly ...

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 system ...