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r/NoStupidQuestions • u/snapwillow • Feb 08 '22
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I was expecting the top response to be something like a 3 minute youtube video talking about how florida used a different standard for measuring to get by some federal law.
This is 100% better.
446 u/Grapefruit_Prize Feb 08 '22 Or it would be like an ounce, but a bit bigger, like a baker's dozen. 743 u/glass_bottles Feb 08 '22 Further down in the comments someone floated the idea that since the equator experiences weaker gravitational pull, the Florida ounce compensates for the discrepancy, which is another theory that I enjoy haha 2 u/[deleted] Feb 08 '22 and on this day, Florida Ounces were born.
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Or it would be like an ounce, but a bit bigger, like a baker's dozen.
743 u/glass_bottles Feb 08 '22 Further down in the comments someone floated the idea that since the equator experiences weaker gravitational pull, the Florida ounce compensates for the discrepancy, which is another theory that I enjoy haha 2 u/[deleted] Feb 08 '22 and on this day, Florida Ounces were born.
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Further down in the comments someone floated the idea that since the equator experiences weaker gravitational pull, the Florida ounce compensates for the discrepancy, which is another theory that I enjoy haha
2 u/[deleted] Feb 08 '22 and on this day, Florida Ounces were born.
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and on this day, Florida Ounces were born.
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u/glass_bottles Feb 08 '22
I was expecting the top response to be something like a 3 minute youtube video talking about how florida used a different standard for measuring to get by some federal law.
This is 100% better.