I have always called it a mile. However, recently when reading the author compared a nautical mile to a statute mile, which I find is our normal mile. How did that name come about?

Here is your nautical mile and some other esoteric measurements.

I'm trying to track down a measurement called a statue mile. It is a distance used during the Napoleonic era and designated as "the distance a team of horses can pull a forty-foot-tall granite figure of The Emperor in one hour." Apparently it was not very consistent since the distance varied depending on whether the statue was pulled on its back or its front. When pulled on the back, it moved smoothly. But when pulled on the front, a male appendage would dig a furrow in the surface, slowing movement considerably.

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It's interesting to me that a knot is a commonly used distance measurement that's not a metric measurement, but is based on a natural geographic measurement. I wonder why the knot didn't define the metric system.

At sea, nautical measurements work while metric does knot.

That's a stellar observation, Proof!

The sky's the limit.

Do the skinheads, AKA Aryan Nations nutballs measure in Knotzis?

I think knot, although I'v heard their favorite flower is knotsurtiums.

Oh, yeah, those were the flowers Mel Brooks used in "The Producers" in the "Springtime for Hitler" song and dance number.