I consider myself pretty conversant in metric units. I know that 20 kilograms is 44 pounds (double it and add 10%) and that five kilometers is a little over three miles (I’ve, uh, run a lot of 5Ks).

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Canada and almost every other country except the United States uses the Celsius (degrees C) temperature scale, which is part of the metric system. In the United States, the Fahrenheit (degrees F) ...