20 THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT WEIGHTS & MEASURES

WE use them every day, often without even thinking about them. There are many different sorts to cover all manner of requirements. Anglers, people on diets, and male porn stars are obsessed with them, and they come into play every time we drive a car, buy some apples or try to gain an erection. They’re Weights and Measures, the numerical gradations that allow us to state exactly how far, how heavy or how long a particular thing is. They quantify our lives into feet and centimetres, pounds and kilograms, miles, inches, acres and gallons, but how much do we actually know about these calibrations by which we gauge the world? Here are… 1 AT ONE time, the standard unit of length measurement was the cubit – the distance between a man’s…

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Viz (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2024

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