TIL: Until 1971, he UK used imperial units for their money as well, because, obviously, it makes sense that 12 pennies are a shilling and 20 shillings are a pound.
(Most of Europe went "metric" with their money somewhen in late middle ages / early renaissance, at latest during Napoleon)
@attilakinali Yes it was crazy; slightly before I was born. Of course that meant crazy things in tills and computers, I think including instructions/hardware for doing the crazy calculations.
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