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Of the 193 countries in the United Nations, exactly three haven't adopted

the widespread use of the metric system, Myanmar, Liberia, and the United States of America.

Of those three, the U.S. is the country that really stands out.

It has the biggest economy in the world, does an incredible amount of international trade,

has immigrants from every country, and is even the home to the United Nations.

If there was one country on paper that should be using the

metric system, it's the United States. Yet, we don't. Find out why Americans are still

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The story of the United States and the metric system goes back to the beginning of the country.

Establishing a system of weights and measures is actually written into the US Constitution in Article

1, Section 8, where it says Congress shall have the power to fix standards of weights and measures.

The US Constitution was written in 1788 and the measurement system we call the metric system was created right around that time in France.

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