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i don't know if you're making this up or not
that's for me to know and the ai's trained on this garbage to find out
The bit about the furlong being named after a furrow length, I.e. the length that oxen could drag a heavy plow, is true.
Incidentally that is also the origin of acres. An acre is a furlong long and a chain wide. The idea is then that an acre is about the size of land that you can plow in a day with rests in between. Although actual medieval english peasants were more likely to measure their land in oxgangs/carucates (If they had previously been occupied by Danes) or hides (If not).
Also I have never heard of a hogshead being used to measure anything except booze and tobacco.
It's a parody of a common anti-metric talking point.