I'm not a hater of American customary units by any means — and I will defend them against snooty metric-pushers — but I've just learned that air conditioners are sometimes rated in tons, not for how much they weigh, but for how many tons of ice they could freeze in a day.
That's a very silly measurement to still be using.
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