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A mile that went metric and got 1.6 times more honest.
means A unit of length equal to 1,000 metres, roughly 0.62 of a mile.
from Built from the Greek 'khilioi' (thousand) and 'metron' (measure), coined in French as 'kilomètre' when revolutionary France rolled out the metric system in the 1790s — part of a deliberate push to replace a chaotic patchwork of local measures with something rational and decimal.
- origin
- Defined via Earth's meridian in 1793 France
- definition today
- Based on speed of light, not geography
- holdout
- US, Liberia, Myanmar still resist officially
- spelling split
- Kilometre everywhere, kilometer only in America