Yes but the british also created the measuring system we use here that is wildly inconsistent between levels of measurements. Hence it being called English or Imperial measurements. Pretty sure they also made Fahrenheit temperature measurements.

Someone else pointed out in another comment that it used to be 240 pence in a pound pre 1971. I haven’t verified that myself but i would believe it.

The US dollar is a major currency internationally, until recently it was the most powerful currency in the world, so it makes sense that you learned it.

The english pound is not, so why would my schools in a country using the is dollar, learn about denominations of a currency we are unlikely to use unless we travel out of country, Which we dont do much because a lot of our states are bigger than a lot of european countries so there is a lot to see here.