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Why Fahrenheit starts with salty ice
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When establishing a foundational temperature scale, utilizing a completely stable baseline makes sense. Instead, the inventor decided the absolute lowest point should be determined by heavily salting water until it froze. This slightly arbitrary mixture became the bottom anchor point, permanently saddling an entire region with a numbering system that thoroughly confuses anyone trying to do basic math.
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