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The United States officially adopted the metric system in the 1970s. Americans were supposed to start using it after the Metric Conversion Act was signed into law by President Gerald Ford in 1975- but it wasn’t mandatory for the general public, so most people didn’t bother. Source Source 2 Source 3

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