TIL the USA was supposed to adopt the metric system but the ship carrying the standardized meter and kilogram was hijacked by pirates in 1793 and the measurements never made it to the States

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    A run-time C++ library for working with units of measurement and conversions between them and with string representations of units and measurements (by LLNL)

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