I’ve learned about them in school, but I’ve never heard anyone say something is 8 decameters long or anything like that. I’m an American.

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      And hectograms. We just shorten it to ”hekto” though. It’s how we buy stuff from the deli. ”2 hekto salami please”.

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      Sweden is also the only country in the world to have a sensible use of the word ‘miles’ (or ‘mil’ in Swedish):

      10km = 1 mil

      They use this a lot when speaking of travel distances longer than 20km.