The History of the Metric System

On one rainy afternoon in the castle, King Henry was craving his favorite drink - extra dark chocolate milk. His usual servant was sick in bed, so he asked his substitute servant to go to the kitchen and make some extra dark chocolate milk.

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King Henry I of England actually defined the yard as the distance from the tip of his nose to the tip of his outstretched thumb.

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