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a unit built from a roman soldier's legs, still lying to you about how far the store is.
means a unit of distance equal to 1,609.344 meters, standard in the US and UK for measuring how far you have to travel.
from from latin mille passus, a thousand paces of a roman legion, each pace being two steps — the empire basically paved europe with its own stride length.
roman paceone mile equals 1,000 double-steps of a soldier
nautical cousina nautical mile is longer, based on earth's curve
metric holdoutUS and UK kept miles while most of world went metric
nice numbera mile is exactly 5,280 feet, oddly specific by design