Hamas had command tunnel under U.N. Gaza headquarters, Israeli military says

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47. That's because we want to be different from the rest of the world, heh heh heh

But in all seriousness, a yard is 36 inches or 3 feet, but a meter is approximately 39 3/8 inches, or 3 feet, 3 3/8 inches (actually 3 feet, 3.3701 inches). I read about a story that back in the 1800s, there was an person that was on his way to present the metric system to Congress, but while on his way there, he got lost in a storm or a hurricane and never made it there. But again, converting to the metric system would take a very long time in the US, and if it has worked for the last 250 years, why replace it?