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zipplewrath

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7. Fahrenheit

Reply to applegrove (Reply #4)

Sun Nov 15, 2020, 12:07 PM

Nov 2020

When the Fahrenheit scale was created, supposedly 100 F was set as body temperature. It is hypothesized that this inaccuracy was due to the English having consistent and long term infections due to poor hygiene.

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Bolivia's Tsimane people's average body temperature fell half a degree in 16 years [View all] Judi Lynn Nov 2020 OP

Mine is 96 mahina Nov 2020 #1

Mine is usually 97.4 or 5 BComplex Nov 2020 #2

Me too. sinkingfeeling Nov 2020 #5

Yeah --- if I'm at 98.6, I've got a one-degree fever. nt Nay Nov 2020 #6

Decades ago I learned that 98.6 was actually a tiny PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2020 #3

Sanjay Gupta visited with indigenous people in the Amazon. They had applegrove Nov 2020 #4

Fahrenheit zipplewrath Nov 2020 #7