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I thought I was getting a new unit to buy bananas in other than lbs... turns out they just measured Planck's constant very accurately in an impressive manner.

Slightly disappointed.

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Sad truth is that you buy bananas in lbf and in most of the world we use Kgf.

This world is lost I tell you, can't even pay for something according to it's mass.

Amusingly, all of the "English" units used in the US are defined in terms of metric units. For instance there's no standard inch. Rather, the inch is exactly 2.54 cm.

Since when was lbs international unit?

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