Ed Helms

But I could not be somebody who does them all.

The pirates very quickly identified Dombey and they brought him to be a prisoner on the Caribbean island of Montserrat.

The pirates looted the ship and before they could fulfill their plan of offering up Dombey for ransom to the French government, he tragically died while in captivity on the island.

How did he die?

Do we know?

I don't know what he was sick with, but he got sick somewhere on the passage and it just – it took him.

I'm sure like –

Like 18th century pirates also didn't provide the most hospitable accommodations.

I'm guessing it wasn't like Club Med where he was staying.

So that all probably contributed.

But this is where things get a little bit fuzzy.

Some accounts suggest the pirates auctioned off the ship's most valuable cargo to parts unknown.

Others claim they were spooked by paperwork linking the meter and kilo measurement records

Those were linked to Jefferson, and so the pirates were like, oh, my God, what do we do?

But either way, those pieces vanished.

And for the moment, they were lost to history.

And it is thought that because those things didn't make it to Thomas Jefferson, that that is why –

We didn't get the metric system.

That's crazy.

Our best shot at going metric sank into the crystal blue Caribbean.