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So that's why one unit Celcius is roughly 2 units Fahrenheit!

For some reason I never noticed there are exactly 180 degrees between freezing and boiling points on the Fahrenheit scale. 100°C is a nice "round" number, and 180°F divides evenly into a lot of smaller numbers.




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