stackyFACTSAt exactly minus forty degrees, both major temperature scales finally agree to stop arguing. Because they use vastly different intervals and starting points, the linear graphs of their measurements perfectly intersect at this one miserably freezing coordinate, unifying metric and imperial users in shared suffering.
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