It can be quite the hassle, trying to measure curved surfaces with either a stiff metal tape measure or a floppy cloth one that won't stay in place. The Tiroler 2.0 offers a clever alternative, and it ...

Read a tape measure’s incremental marks for the metric system. Meter or 1m: The 1-meter marking is located at the 1/100 centimeter marking or 10th decimeter marking.

In 2011, a British bakery was fined for selling metric bread rolls instead of the traditional imperial ones—because, apparently, the greatest threat to public order was a rogue baguette.

However, there are still times when he has to use Imperial. In the early '80s, U.S. President Ronald Reagan torpedoed Ford's Metric Act and the Metric Board as a cost-cutting measure.

However, there are still times when he has to use Imperial. By the early ’80s, then-U.S. president Ronald Reagan torpedoed Ford’s Metric Act and the Metric Board as a cost-cutting measure.

Then-prime minister Pierre Trudeau’s Liberal government formed the Metric Commission in 1971, after industries called on Canada to ditch Imperial measures. Along with Celsius, the commission called ...