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How It's Made is a TV show demonstrating how various objects are made. It's made by a Quebec-based company, which means that much of what it shows is originally created in Quebec. (Imagine that.)

Well, those crazy rest-of-the-worlders use this funky measuring system called the "metric system" I guess. So at some point they realized that they'd have to convert to the measuring system the US uses when showing it to US audiences. So at certain points, they add an overlay which gives the measurement the narrator is giving in English units.

The problem is that they also redubbed the US release with a US narrator who's also using US units. So it comes out:

Narrator: "As the log spins, a lathe skims off a sheet of wood veneer just two-hundredths of an inch thick."

On screen: "That's .02 inches"

Narrator: "The average log yields 440 linear feet of veneer."

On screen: "Or 440 feet"