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Vatican City has a density of 5.88 popes per square mile.

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I don't have an odd, yet true, fact, but I felt the need to post here because I felt bad that this thread has not seen any replies.

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The density of popes outside the Vatican is 0.0, invariant of the chosen unit area.

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The speed of light is approximately 1,798,884,751,104 furlongs per fortnight.

I decided to calculate this after having to calculate the current gas price for my son's Prius. It tells you after each trip how much you saved by going hybrid, but it has to know the currrent gas price. First of all, the rather extensive manual does not tell you how to enter the price (thanks youtube). But because the car was made in the US I had to enter the price per US gallon whereas our gas is sold by the litre.

Thanks US for being one of only three countries still not on the metric system (along with Libyia and Myanmar). And to add insult to injury you don't even use an imperial gallon. At least you aren't using buttloads (475 litres) or hogsheads (238 litres for wine and liquor, 164 for beer).

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But because the car was made in the US I had to enter the price per US gallon whereas our gas is sold by the litre.

I'd wager the software wasn't, and the software is the same regardless of locale.

<disclaimer>
Do the same youtube "tutorials" also tell you how to do a factory reset?
A lot of tech (phones, computers etc) all start with "choose your language" then "choose your location" after a factory reset.

Or it might brick it, and you need to configure 100's of EMS settings to make the engine compliant with the market you're in.
</disclaimer>

TBH, it sounds like an annoying gimmick that isn't worth the time of day to try, let alone fix.

commented: There is a button to toggle between metric and imperial but it affects only the speedometer. +0
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