Mr Fahrenheit was a German who lived in the Netherlands.
To say Poland invented fahrenheit is the same as saying Austria invented the tesla coil.
lNFORMATlVE on
Daniel Fahrenheit was born in Poland but to a German family, and spent most of his life in the Dutch Republic where he invented the Fahrenheit scale. Always feels strange when an invention is attributed to an entire nation.
It’s like if British former prime minister Boris Johnson invented a solar powered suit jacket, but his invention was attributed to the USA because he was born in New York.
Mr_DMoody on
YEAH FUCK FAHRENHEIT!
Top-Inspector-777 on
Wasnt poland
BuvantduPotatoSpirit on
If Brits get tabloids when it’s hot, Canadians need a colour for body temperature and pool temperature (and stripes for baking)
GeorgeCrellin on
I’ve never seen a UK tabloid use fahrenheit to discuss temperature but I don’t often look at tabloids.
Shouldn’t warrant a separate categorisation in my opinion.
afksports on
Is that liberia?
cjt09 on
Wow didn’t realize Liberia uses Fahrenheit, you never really think about them as a country that has their shit together.
tiford88 on
Colour us blue right this fucking instant
Justa_CuriousBoi on
Fahrenheit is a faulty measure of temperature which was made to accurately measure human body temperature.
Mr. Fahrenheit thought of taking the core human body as 100°F but to his unfortunate luck the guy he choose as the standard human was sick that day and his core body temperature was 100°F😭
There is no reason for Fahrenheit system to have existed this long….
an-com-42 on
We invented Fahrenheit???? Holy shit didn’t even know that.
RuedaRueda on
Why use a different measure unit than the rest of the world?
kingofturtles on
US uses Celsius for aviation purposes. Also off topic but what ever happened to Centigrade? I remember being taught Centigrade as a kid in the US, but I suppose that’s some archaic/disused term.
PossibleCulture2199 on
I just realised the mild irony that the guy was named „Fahrenheit“ which could be translated to
„Driving unit“ in nonsense-German, but then becoming the name of a temperature unit instead of speed or distance.
Damn I might actually have tism.
trevpr1 on
I invite you to listen to this gem of a radio sketch. Well worth your time, I promise. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nROK4cjQVXM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nROK4cjQVXM)
united states of hey look at us we are different and cool
Lazy-Joke5908 on
Think Fahrenheit is calibrated from an instrument in Celsius.
cai_85 on
Not happy about the UK being painted yellow in this…I’m 40 and have never seen Fahrenheit used by anyone, even if some red top newspapers use it once or twice that’s hardly indicative of anything, and people born after the 1970s wouldn’t understand it anyway.
plagymus on
Poor liberia so poor and now stuck and doomed with a crap measurment system
Dreamerlax on
Canada should be Fahrenheit for cooking.
Bal-lax on
Thought Burma used Fahrenheit
JBGoode227 on
The only two scales that are useful are Kelvin and °Celsius. It’s mind boggling to me that a civilization would keep this nonsense fahrenheit scale…
brunomarquesbr on
Canada, Celsius for weather, home hot water. Fahrenheit for pools water, cooking.
Priyotosh1234 on
India uses °F for body temperature like 100°F fever. But uses C for other uses.
tubaleiter on
Being the UK, it’s not even as “simple” as the map shows – we also use “gas mark” for gas oven temperatures (but electric ovens use Celsius…)
FitReporter9274 on
I prefer to refer to them as Freedom degrees and International degrees.
NotABrummie on
Tbh, old people still use Fahrenheit in the UK. You also see all kinds of news outlets do a conversion in brackets when there’s extreme temperatures which affect public safety.
AwfulUsername123 on
Another inaccurate metric map.
Trankkis on
Canada uses Fahrenheit for pools, baking and steaks. At least in Ontario.
Veritas_Vanitatum on
Fahrenheit was invented by a German in what was then the German Empire when Prussia still existed
Next to homeopathy, the stupidest thing ever invented by Germany
Qyro on
As a Brit I’ve never seen the media rave about how hot it is in Fahrenheit. That said the amount they rave about how hot it is still makes this map too real. Any time the weather breaches 15C we go crazy and start calling it a heatwave and the hottest XYZ since records began and oh my god shut up.
Leather-Air5496 on
I’m more surprised that New Zealand is included on the map.
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Mr Fahrenheit was a German who lived in the Netherlands.
To say Poland invented fahrenheit is the same as saying Austria invented the tesla coil.
Daniel Fahrenheit was born in Poland but to a German family, and spent most of his life in the Dutch Republic where he invented the Fahrenheit scale. Always feels strange when an invention is attributed to an entire nation.
It’s like if British former prime minister Boris Johnson invented a solar powered suit jacket, but his invention was attributed to the USA because he was born in New York.
YEAH FUCK FAHRENHEIT!
Wasnt poland
If Brits get tabloids when it’s hot, Canadians need a colour for body temperature and pool temperature (and stripes for baking)
I’ve never seen a UK tabloid use fahrenheit to discuss temperature but I don’t often look at tabloids.
Shouldn’t warrant a separate categorisation in my opinion.
Is that liberia?
Wow didn’t realize Liberia uses Fahrenheit, you never really think about them as a country that has their shit together.
Colour us blue right this fucking instant
Fahrenheit is a faulty measure of temperature which was made to accurately measure human body temperature.
Mr. Fahrenheit thought of taking the core human body as 100°F but to his unfortunate luck the guy he choose as the standard human was sick that day and his core body temperature was 100°F😭
There is no reason for Fahrenheit system to have existed this long….
We invented Fahrenheit???? Holy shit didn’t even know that.
Why use a different measure unit than the rest of the world?
US uses Celsius for aviation purposes. Also off topic but what ever happened to Centigrade? I remember being taught Centigrade as a kid in the US, but I suppose that’s some archaic/disused term.
I just realised the mild irony that the guy was named „Fahrenheit“ which could be translated to
„Driving unit“ in nonsense-German, but then becoming the name of a temperature unit instead of speed or distance.
Damn I might actually have tism.
I invite you to listen to this gem of a radio sketch. Well worth your time, I promise. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nROK4cjQVXM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nROK4cjQVXM)
Puerto Rico uses Fahrenheit.
[You Forgot Poland](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/053/563/1274484634740.jpg)
united states of hey look at us we are different and cool
Think Fahrenheit is calibrated from an instrument in Celsius.
Not happy about the UK being painted yellow in this…I’m 40 and have never seen Fahrenheit used by anyone, even if some red top newspapers use it once or twice that’s hardly indicative of anything, and people born after the 1970s wouldn’t understand it anyway.
Poor liberia so poor and now stuck and doomed with a crap measurment system
Canada should be Fahrenheit for cooking.
Thought Burma used Fahrenheit
The only two scales that are useful are Kelvin and °Celsius. It’s mind boggling to me that a civilization would keep this nonsense fahrenheit scale…
Canada, Celsius for weather, home hot water. Fahrenheit for pools water, cooking.
India uses °F for body temperature like 100°F fever. But uses C for other uses.
Being the UK, it’s not even as “simple” as the map shows – we also use “gas mark” for gas oven temperatures (but electric ovens use Celsius…)
I prefer to refer to them as Freedom degrees and International degrees.
Tbh, old people still use Fahrenheit in the UK. You also see all kinds of news outlets do a conversion in brackets when there’s extreme temperatures which affect public safety.
Another inaccurate metric map.
Canada uses Fahrenheit for pools, baking and steaks. At least in Ontario.
Fahrenheit was invented by a German in what was then the German Empire when Prussia still existed
Next to homeopathy, the stupidest thing ever invented by Germany
As a Brit I’ve never seen the media rave about how hot it is in Fahrenheit. That said the amount they rave about how hot it is still makes this map too real. Any time the weather breaches 15C we go crazy and start calling it a heatwave and the hottest XYZ since records began and oh my god shut up.
I’m more surprised that New Zealand is included on the map.