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We have also units in metric, except it’s always the same ones. Horse is around 2m and a small banana is 15cm, a human foot in around 30cm.

You can measure the parts of your body to get to the same point reference pretty fast and it’s very relatable when you live in a non-imperial country.

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
How much is a kilohorse

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- RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Imperial doesn’t use multiplicative prefixes very much.
  
  Instead, they would invent a new random unit, the skyscraper, which is equal to a random number of horses, like 176.
  
  And then everyone goes “Yeah, a skyscraper is 176 horses, everyone knows that.”
  
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- TownhouseGloryHole@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  That is 1,000 horses, obviously.
  
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  - olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Beat me to it
    
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- SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  3 horsepowers at the wheels
  
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