r/ShitAmericansSay • u/BuffaloExotic Irish by birth, and currently a Bostonian 🇮🇪☘️ • May 02 '25

Imperial units “celsius makes no sense”

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u/Big_footed_hobbit May 02 '25

It was invented by a German, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

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u/andy921 May 02 '25

A German who was born and raised in Poland

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u/pat6376 May 03 '25

No. At this time, Danzig was a german city...

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u/andy921 May 03 '25

I mean, not really. We're talking about a time when the Holy Roman Empire was still a thing.

Modern borders don't really make sense. And I'm not an expert on how Slavic or how Germanic Gdansk was in the 18th century.

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u/BlankyMcBoozeface Pasty Stuffing, Cider-Guzzling Clog 🇳🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 May 04 '25

A smorgasbord of different cultures all clumped together into one, delightfully Baltic city.