The United States is often ridiculed for clinging to seemingly unintuitive units of measurement such as inches, miles, Fahrenheit, and pounds instead of adopting the metric system used by most of the world. Yet it may come as a surprise that the U.S. was among the original seventeen signatory nations to the Metre Convention, the agreement that led to the creation of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, which establishes global measurement standards. The United States was also the first country to adopt a decimal currency system.
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