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What are the facts you remember for no specific reason

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What are the facts you remember for no specific reason

NarendraCzar to

Ask Lemmy • 1 year ago

Does anyone else find themselves recalling random facts for no apparent reason? Like,

Charlie Chaplin entered a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest and lost

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While the US uses the imperial system for most things the pharma/medical industries use the metric system
- @CADmonkey
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  1•1 year ago
  As does the auto industry, aerospace…
  
  Outside of construction and plumbing plenty of stuff is metric here. Even our weird imperial units are based on metric units.

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