Perhaps an outsiders view of the imperial system would be enlightening.
While the presentation is awful, the content of this rant has at least two cups of grain truth in it.
Imperial units. Known for their precision.
Yeah, I’d read a more complete and, better presented version previously but I couldn’t find it again. It’s still entertaining. As is the gif. 
Well thats easy. It used to be the case that the mile was 1600 yards, but that was because the anglo-saxons used the North German foot, 10% longer than the English foot. When the units were converted to English feet, the number of yard-divisions within that same mile increased to 1760 yards. Easy.
I’m amused by the practicality of the units in their time. A square mile made up of 640 acres, each of which is one furlong x 4 rods (or one chain). The furlong was the longest furrow you could make before your ox needed a break, at which point you would turn the plow. An acre was the amount of land one could plough (plow) in a day with one ox. The rod was a standard (ish) measuring stick, which conveniently could also be used to jab the ox to get it moving if it stopped.
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