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It's weird that they wrote miles instead of kilometers
I would walk 804.672 kilometres just doesn't have the same ring to it
The UK uses miles. They mostly use the metric system, but there are a few cases where they use the imperial system (like distance)
And assume online that everyone else does.
Other languages have words to describe lengths in a more "poetic" way.
In Spanish we have "leguas" which I'm sure was a unit of length, but gun to my head, can't tell how far one is.