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  • Fahrenheit was literally devised by a physicist, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, a European, mind you.

    It was based on physical properties, too. Originally 0 was the freezing point of a replicable water solution, and 96 was set at human body temperature (96 used as it made dividing a thermometer easier). It was later recalibrated to put boiling at 212, 180 degrees from freezing, but that’s the original basis.

    There is no god-ordained rule that states that 0 has to be the freezing point of water, nor 100 the boiling point.

    Fahrenheit also has an inherent advantage to Celsius in that for every 5 degrees C there are 9 degrees F. There is more inherent precision.