Interestingly, Fahrenheit has 180 (212-32) degrees between freezing and boiling....

		gumby on Jan 15, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why is a minute divided into 60 seconds, an hour i... Interestingly, Fahrenheit has 180 (212-32) degrees between freezing and boiling. Zero is set to a brine solution -- a reproducible metric about as cold as you could make. So it's not an insane system.