The US National Institute of Standards and Technology does things like help define measurements and standards. Things like the exact volume of a gallon, or the official number of calories in the average tomato. Useful, very dry, stuff. Except they have the NIST Store, where you can buy things like, say, the government’s official standard peanut butter for your adhesion, peanut-butter-removal, and calorimeter tests. Or, say, a bag of official standard household dirt to test your vacuum cleaners with. Awesome.
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