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Miles originated in Britain, so talk to them about their made-up nonsense.
At least they were eventually willing to give up the imperial system. I still don't understand why Americans never got on board with metric; it's so much easier.
Just watched a video which explains a few things.
Time zones start in UK because of some decent reasoning. France was also a contender for where timezones start for the same kinds of reasoning but conceded it in agreement that UK adopts the new metric system they created
Because fuck you!
Yeah, 'Muricans be like "B-but… the Brits…"
Like, yeah. They moved on. They evolved, changed their ways. USians hanging on to legacy units