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bryanlarsen
3 months ago
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Where is London's most central sheep?
That practice is pretty widespread in Canada. Ever since metrification nobody is really sure whether the person they're talking to is more comfortable with miles or kilometres. So they just use time.
jdougan
3 months ago
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When I was very young in Canada, before the metric changeover, it was still common to measure distance with time.
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