Saw this recently on a WAN Show (19:12). How true is this? It sounds wild.

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I feel like long distace should be time not metric or imperial.

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This is true. I never really noticed this until I lived overseas for a year, and when I received directions, they were like, “go 750m this way…”, and it sounded so foreign. I was thinking, “like, 10 mins…? 12 mins?” Haha

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