There’s a spa house in Japan where you can take a noodle bath.
Ichiro Furuya, the owner of the spa, claims that “Lately people are very concerned about having beautiful skin, and they know about the effects of collagen, which is contained in our pork-based broth. In this bath, everybody can have fun and take advantage of the healthy elements of ramen noodles.”
"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.