stackyFACTSPeople despise changing their habits, so when French authorities tried introducing a logical, base-ten measurement system, the public absolutely revolted. It took decades of strict government mandates and bureaucratic threats to force people to stop measuring cloth using the arbitrary length of a dead king's foot.
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