The color of the apple has nothing to do with how sweet it is.
According to an apple classification guide, the Red Delicious, which has a deep red color, is less sweet than a Fuji, which has a faded-red color, but is considered to be a “super-sweet” variety.
"Car on the right has the right-of-way" is true in the US as well - look it up - but the importation of a culture with no rules has badly eroded the observance of this standard.
#12 1000 a day or a year?
Some backward third world country still living in 1932 ?
A gallon is a part of a binary volume measurement system. It is very efficient (ask your computer, which spends way too much time converting to base-10). Volume is also correlated with the weight of water on Earth, "A pint (1/8 gallon [volume]) is a pound (16 ounces [force]) all the world round".
The French had a chance to make the Metric system similarly grounded in the world we live in, but they hated the English I guess so they decided to go with a less useful, arbitrary standard instead.