As of a result of some research I was conducting i discovered this fact.
The UK has been on the metric system since 1965 but bra sizes still use inches.
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Beer is still sold by the pint, right?
And currency by the pound!
When they measure the weight of a human, it’s in “stone”… 14 pounds per stone, there’s some medieval shit for you.
I was surprised to learn a while back that the UK uses miles instead of kilometers - I became aware by watching some old episodes of Top Gear
A pint of beer in England is 20 oz. A pint in American is 16 oz. Go to England to drink beer.
Women’s breast sizes is measured in inches - but I’m sure dudes measure their cocks in centimeters - or millimeters - to make it sound much larger!
There's a few different places where the UK uses imperial versus metric. It gets confusing at times, because you'll offer someone a metric measurement and the reply back is "No, we use inches for that."