Daily Almanac for Wednesday, July 28, 2021

On this date in 1866, the Metric system became legal in the United States. Four metric measuring devices that measures centimetres, Celsius, volts, amperes, ohms. By Martinvl – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, via wikipedia commons

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