How come Americans use penguins or school buses for measuring length and distance but still use kilowatt for power and not let’s say thrown stone per mile?

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    018 hours ago

    If this is a real question, you’ve taken a joke literally. Journalists compare the size of unfamiliar things to the size of familiar objects in an often-misguided attempt to make them more relatable to their audience.