Saw this recently on a WAN Show (19:12). How true is this? It sounds wild.

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[–] 5 points 3 years ago*

...Are you saying that the rest of the world have not a single idea, which temperature is burning hot and which temperature is freezing cold?

All of that is just a matter of habits/familiarity. If you are used to Celcius, you know 0℃ is freezing cold, like literally. Anything beyond 40℃ is "shit just got real" territory.

If you want to call out "but 40 is not an intuitive number!!" then I would briefly mention that 212℉ is not an intuitive number for the boiling point of water either.

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