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Meanwhile, here in the US, we've got soda in liters but milk in gallons. Udder madness!
It amuses me that in metric countries, construction materials like plywood are often standardized to strange non-rounded measurements like 1220 x 2440 x 13mm because it's actually just 4' x 8' x 1/2" in disguise.
Interestingly, I can't remember the last time I needed SAE wrenches. Even my old '96 Ford Ranger is metric, I think.
Cars have been all metric since the mid-80s IIRC, to better standardise them for international sales. The Ranger was really a Mazda B-series, so it's definitely metric.