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adriane23 said:

Salnax said:

It actually does have some reasoning in science. 0 degrees F is as cold as you can get with a mixture of ice, water, and salt. 100 degrees was what they thought the human body's core temperature was back in the day.

But yeah, Celcius is better.

When was it discovered that the core temperature was actually 98 degrees?

I don't know. But it considering how Farenheit was possibly the first guy to make a thermometer that was at all precise, and thermometers took about half an hour to measure human body heat up until the 1860's, it probably wasn't for a while.

Personally, I suspect we only call the human body exactly 98.6 degrees F because it happily coincides with 37 degrees Celcius.