I may have known this earlier, but I probably forgot.
Ronald Reagan killed the Metric Conversion Act which was signed into law by Gerald Ford. Yet another reason to dislike Reagan.
I was too young to vote at the time, but I remember voting for Anderson in a classroom exercise. I wonder what would have happened if Anderson had won the Republican nomination, or even if Bush had won.
Anyway, because of this, every time I talk to my parents, I have to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit. Fahrenheit makes no sense.