Riiiiight. The freezing point of salt water. So logical! Daniel Fahrenheit’s just took some obscure Danish dude’s scale that had the freezing point of brine (how briney, by the way?) as zero, and had the boiling point of water as 60. Why? Fuck you, that’s why! Then he multiplied each value by four. Why four? Some say it had to do with increasing the granularity of the scale. Others thought it might be an homage to the four humours. Personally, I think the answer to this can also be found in “fuck you, that’s why”. Which, coincidentally enough, is the reason he decided to recalibrate the scale so that the melting point of ice would be 32 instead of 30 (those pesky round numbers, so tricky to remember!) and body temperature would be 96 instead of 90 (did he perhaps find 96 to be a more pleasing number to his secretly poetic soul? We’ll never know, but fuck you at any rate.) Why yes, Daniel Fahrenheit’s scale is perfectly logical and simplicity itself. Oh sure, you might nitpick about Celsius supposedly being more straightfoward, but no other scale can possibly capture that American spirit of “fuck you” nearly as well. Fuck you.