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The Fahrenheit scale was created by Daniel Fahrenheit in 1724. There are several stories about how Fahrenheit came up with the thermometer. He supposedly made a thermometer and stuck it in a snowbank on a very cold day to get a zero and took someone's temperature to get 100.

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