@geekysteven "In climate news, researchers found Greenland lost 8.5 billion tons of surface mass due to ice melting over just one day this week […] That melt is large enough to cover the entire state of Florida in at least two inches of water." https://www.democracynow.org/2021/7/30/headlines/greenland_lost_enough_ice_in_one_day_to_cover_florida_in_two_inches_of_water

I was listening to that report on the way to work one day and thought "Huh. The Florida-inch appears to be a US standard measure. That fits."