Yesterday was October 10, International Metrication Day, commemorating the base-10 nature of the metric system and its adoption around the globe!
How did you celebrate? #AmericaInMetric
Guttenberg, New Jersey is the most densely populated city in the United States, with 24,000 people per square kilometer.
That's over *twice* as dense as New York City!
#AmericaInMetric
Crater Lake—known as Giiwas in the language of the Klamath people—in Oregon, is the deepest lake in the United States.
The lake has a maximum depth of 594 m!
For reference, the Statue of Liberty, including her entire pedestal, is only 93 m tall!
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During this weekend *46 years ago*, our neighbors to the north went metric on their roads!
While Canada's metrication efforts, like ours, are incomplete, they're further along than we are, and we can still learn so much from their experience.
To a future North #AmericaInMetric!
Climatic factoid:
Downtown LA (#DTLA) recorded 2.48 inches of rainfall yesterday. This makes it the wettest August day ever at Downtown LA.
The previous wettest day was Aug 17, 1977 when 2.06 inches of rain was recorded. #CAwx
The fires in and around Lāhainā, Hawaiʻi have burned over 10 km² of Maui.
To help those displaced by the fires, donate to the Hawaii Community Foundation, Maui United Way, Maui Food Bank, and the American Red Cross.
Links below:
Hawaiʻi Community Foundation
https://t.co/3vvLkQVSNx
Maui United Way
https://t.co/Qn6QrZWvCu
Maui Food Bank
https://t.co/7XECx5dNf5
American Red Cross
https://t.co/O7dIlp8pJ5
The Great Basin Desert—covering most of Nevada, a good chunk of Utah, a little bit of California and Idaho, and just a hint of Oregon—is the largest desert in the United States.
It has an area of nearly half a million square kilometers!
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The District of Columbia was originally 259 km² in area, but retrocession of some land back to Virginia whittled it down to its current size of 177 km². #AmericaInMetric
Happy #IndependenceDay, America! 🇺🇸
In the 1790s, in an effort to harmonize the myriad of local measures used in the young United States, Thomas Jefferson asked France for a prototype of what would become the kilogram, but, in transit, it was stolen by pirates!
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The westernmost point in the United States in Point Udall, Guam, and the easternmost point in Point Udall, Virgin Islands, are 15,300 kilometers apart as the crow flies!
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The 4.4 million people of Maricopa County—home to Arizona's capital, Phoenix—on average, use 8.3 gigaliters of water per year.
The 8.8 million people of New York City, by contrast, use only 3.8 GL per year, less than a quarter of the Maricopa usage per capita!
#AmericaInMetric
Today is Memorial Day, a solemn day to commemorate members of the United States Armed Forces who died for our country.
It was our servicemembers during the Vietnam War who coined the term "klick", slang for a kilometer.
On this day, we remember all of our brave fallen.