Bananas are radioactive.
There are over 1,000 varieties of bananas growing around the world. It’s a scientifically proven fact that bananas contain the radioactive element Potassium-40. There’s even a radiation measurement called “Banana equivalent dose,” which stands for the dose of radiation one person consumes while eating one banana.
"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.