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Colonial Leftover: Which three countries still use inches, pounds, gallons, miles and Fahrenheit?

Colonial leftover: only three countries still use inches, pounds, gallons, miles. Even the original colonial power itself, the United Kingdom, parted with outdated ‘Imperial’ units of measure…

Guess, which three countries didn’t? They are: Liberia, Myanmar (Burma), and the United States of America. The rest of the world is metric.

USA still using imperial units of measure gallons pounds miles