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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (56 children)

[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 week ago (36 children)

Strange, because it is bullshit.

Fahrenheit isn't how people feel, otherwise 50° would be perfect temperature.

You Americans are just used to thinking in Fahrenheit, that is why you think it is how humans feel. As a European, I "feel" in Celsius.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

Fahrenheit literally meant to base the scale with 100 being human body temp.

It was later rescaled by Cavendish to put the freezing point of water at exactly 32 and boiling point at exactly 212, giving a nicely-divisible 180-degree separation between freezing and boiling. That shift is why body temperature is 98.6.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I heard circular thermometers were how it was done then so he lined up 180° with 180°.

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