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At a glance, the Celsius scale makes more sense than the Fahrenheit scale for temperature measuring.

But it's creator, Anders Celsius, was an oddball scientist.

When he first developed his scale, he made freezing 100°C and boiling 0°C, or upside down.

No one dared point this out to him, so fellow scientists waited for Celsius to die before changing the scale.

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