AS a Brit, whenever I read a John Grisham book, I always have to stop and think
when he mentions a temperature - for example in one of his books, the
temperature was about thirty and an icy wind was blowing through a lookout
post. To me, thirty is hot!
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This is not strictly about metric but a comical example of how easily things
get screwed up if you don't pay attention to units of measure
Sadly there was a fire and tank rupture at an Owens Illinois glass plant in
Ohio.
Fortunately nobody hurt, but a [presumably] large spill of molten glass.
H
Headlines are normally written by someone else. The first story says 300 000
gallons in headlines, but 300 tons in body. Tank is quoted as 10' x 10'
(cylindrical), so maybe 785 ft³. USA today says 300 000 tons but quotes in a
link another story that says 300 tons. The WaPo story now admits 3
