• BeardedSingleMalt@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    It’s been a while but I think they tried to establish 100F as the average human body temperature. But after they established that baseline turns out they were off by 1.4 degrees and couldn’t change it.

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      1 year ago

      People’s body temperature used to be higher a century ago, but I think it was less then 1°C.

      EDIT: Apparently since the early 1800s, men’s body temperature changed about 0.59°C and women’s about 0.32°C.