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INFORM YOURSELF⬇️⬇️⬇️ on Instagram: "“A pound of gold weighs less than a pound of feathers.” Sounds wrong, right? But it’s true — and it has nothing to do with value, greed, or who made the rules. Gold is measured in troy pounds, a system from the Middle Ages used for precious metals. One troy pound equals 12 ounces. Feathers, like everything else, are measured in avoirdupois pounds, which equals 16 ounces. So technically, a pound of feathers outweighs a pound of gold — not because gold is speci