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Update In the 1970s, the United States made a half-hearted effort to join the rest of the world in using the metric system. You know how that story ends. But one highway between Tucson, Arizona, and Nogales, New Mexico, is hanging on. Interstate 19 still displays mile markers and distances in kilometers, Central Oregon Daily News reported.
“It’s just kind of a cool little quirky fact about us,” said Alejandro Aguilar, who lives in Tubac, Arizona. Now, the U.S.
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