America: fights Germany in the war. Drinks Budweiser and measures in fahrenheit.
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Budweiser is an American beer in a Czech style, so… ?
Budweiser Budvar is a Pilsner style beer brewed in České Budějovice. Whatever Anheuser-Busch sells is anything but Czech style beer and Bud Light quite possibly isn't even a beer in certain jurisdictions.
The wacky Fahrenheit scale, invented by Daniel Fahrenheit 300 years ago, was based on a scale concocted by Ole Rømer, an astronomer who was the first to show that light has at a finite speed. On the Romer scale a brine solution freezes at 0 and plain water boils at 60. Why Rømer didn't use the same substance for both measurements is a mystery. Fahrenheight divided Rømer's degrees by 4 to make the scale finer, so in his version the brine froze at 0, normal water at 30, and human body temp was 90. These numbers had to be adjusted later as more accurate thermometers were made.
Delusional Celsius cosplayer
Old and busted Celsius cosplayer.
Daniel Fahrenheit was a German Physicist!
and the online translator says it means "driving unity".
That would be fahreinheit.
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Fahrenheit is a scale of temperature that Americans don't use for aviation.
My favorite example of mixed units is the standard adiabatic lapse rate, given as 2 degrees C per 1000 feet.
Isn't a foot defined as 0.3048 meters anyways?
So its really a metric derivative
It starts with metric, so really it's just the next evolution of metric
Its mors like metric came and colonized it
Keep in mind, the reason it is like this is because its cheaper to base off metric than to define the standard by your self
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