Today In - 'Useless Info'

'The term mile comes from the Latin word mille - meaning-1000.

To the Romans it was the distance a soldier could cover in 1000 paces- about 5000 feet.

But the British farmers measured their fields in furlongs, which were 660 feet long, and they didn't want to change.

So when the mile was introduced in England, it was changed to 5280 feet - exactly 8 furlongs.'