• BeardedSingleMalt
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    297 months ago

    It’s been a while but I think they tried to establish 100F as the average human body temperature. But after they established that baseline turns out they were off by 1.4 degrees and couldn’t change it.

    • @[email protected]
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      7 months ago

      People’s body temperature used to be higher a century ago, but I think it was less then 1°C.

      EDIT: Apparently since the early 1800s, men’s body temperature changed about 0.59°C and women’s about 0.32°C.

      • sadbehr
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        17 months ago

        That’s really interesting. Does anyone know why?

        • @[email protected]
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          47 months ago

          I believe there’s a theory that the average person had at least one source of inflammation in their body.