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All countries use the metric system to varying degrees. Most of the world has adopted the metric system as their official system of measurement with one major exception: the United States.

In the late 18th century, France became the first country to widely adopt this system. The United States remains one of the few nations that has not implemented the metric system.

Major league ballparks painted distances to the fences in metric numbers and prior to the 1979 season, the U.S. High School Federation adopted the metric system for track and field.

We’ve not only rejected the simpler metric system, we also have resisted using Celsius for temperatures.