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BrandoElFollito
on June 19, 2016
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Why the US never fully adopted the metric system
2 inches is 5 cm, very practical too. My thumb is 1 cm wide, the span of my thumb and index is 15 cm. I can add all this up and end upbwith 137 cm, which is a meter and 37 centimeters. Never had to convert anything.
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