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Wed. 08/19 - A US Unit of Measurement Is Being Retired & The Swiss Have Chocolate Snow

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Society & Culture, News, Tech News, Science

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Did you know we have two different measurements for feet in the US? Like the twelve inches on a ruler. There are two different versions. But not for long. Some good news regarding the prospects for a COVID-19 vaccine. A new Girl Scout cookie and why the cookies seem to vary from state to state. And a Swiss town that got a very delicious surprise snowstorm last week. Sponsor: Beachbody on Demand, Text "GOODNEWS" to 303030 for a free trial membership Links: America Has Two Feet. It’s About to Lose One of Them (NY Times) What the immune response to the coronavirus says about the prospects for a vaccine (Nature) There's a new French toast–inspired Girl Scout cookie coming for 2021 (Good Morning America) This Map of Girl Scout Cookies Differences Based on Location Is Crazy (Wide Open Eats) Snowing cocoa? Chocolate factory glitch dusts Swiss town (AP) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to the Cocky Ride Home for Wednesday, August 19th, 2020. I'm Jackson Bird.

0:41.9

Did you know that we have two different measurements for feet in the U.S.?

0:45.8

Like the 12 inches on a ruler. There are two different versions, but not for long.

0:51.5

Some good news regarding the prospects for a COVID-19 vaccine, a new Girl Scout

0:57.6

cookie, and why the cookies seem to vary from state to state, and a Swiss town that got a very

1:04.9

delicious surprise snowstorm last week. Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

1:13.9

All right, so we all know that the imperial system is a mess compared to the metric.

1:19.8

And technically, here in the U.S., we use U.S. customary units, which are similar to the British

1:25.5

Imperial system, and that both have things like yards, pounds, and

1:29.2

gallons, but at least historically, the size of each of those measurements was slightly

1:34.0

different in the two systems. In the 1960s, the UK and the US agreed to make their yards and

1:40.0

pounds the same by scaling them against the meter and kilogram. This change didn't make too much

1:45.4

of a difference for the UK, but the U.S. customary units varied enough that we were left with two

1:50.7

distinct systems for linear measurement within the U.S. customary unit system, the international

1:57.1

system, and the U.S. Surveyor's System. Now, practically, this hasn't meant much for most

2:02.6

people. I mean, you might not even be aware that there are technically two different measurements

2:06.8

for feet, like a foot, you know, 12 inches. We have two different standards here in the U.S.

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