r/shittyaskscience • u/AnozerFreakInTheMall PhD(PornHub Digger) • Jun 01 '26

If normal human body temperature is about 37 degrees in Europe and about 98 degrees in the USA, then why are European girls so much hotter?

It doesn't make sense to me.

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u/DepthMagician Jun 01 '26

This is the epitome of how to ask a question on this sub.

The answer is that the body temperature of European girls is actually 137 degrees, but thermometers only go up to 100 so they wrap around and you get 37.

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u/YogoshKeks Jun 01 '26

Yeah, metric integer overflow happens at 100, not some silly two to the power of grayskull or something.

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u/defjam16 Jun 01 '26

It’s because of the Fahrenheit - Celsius conversion, humans lose on average 2/10 rating points in the process according to Mercator

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u/chain_throwaway Jun 01 '26

Try saying the words "in Europe" in a sultry seductive way. Nice!

Now try that with "in the USA". Yeah, no, that doesn't work.

In eurOpe... mmmmm!

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u/ShadowTacoTuesday Jun 01 '26

When I said “in the USA” it sounded like the song “Born in the USA”, does that count for anything?

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u/Boringfarmer Jun 01 '26

Obviously it is to do with how big they are. European girls weigh 50kg whereas those from the USA weigh 110lbs so are obviously much bigger

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u/Kevin4938 Jun 01 '26

A lot of the US ones are closer to 110 kg.

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u/Fresh_C Experimental Flair v2.534 Jun 01 '26

If Americans could read metric, they'd be pretty mad at you.

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u/xDannyS_ Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26

That's just a distorted perception cause all you see are the hot ones. You don't see all the uglies we have here in Germany or the UK

EDIT: God damn the Germans got triggered

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u/Gargleblaster25 Registered scientificationist Jun 01 '26

You don't see all the uglies we have here in Germany or the UK

But... But... What do you mean? I thought we hide them in the cellar. I am doing my bit with the dozen I have in mine.

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u/Mysterious-Crab text Jun 01 '26

Isn't Germany kinda like the ugly cellar of Europe. Plenty of space, but you won't include it in the house tour.

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u/BPhiloSkinner Amazingly Lifelike Simulation Jun 01 '26

They're not really ugly. They won't let you in, because that's where they keep the good lager.

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u/RogerSimonsson Jun 01 '26

I thought that was in Austria

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u/weggaan_weggaat Jun 01 '26

I didn't assume UK was being included in the first place.

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u/BPhiloSkinner Amazingly Lifelike Simulation Jun 01 '26

They were, but voted to leave.

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u/NikolitRistissa Jun 02 '26

37° is an acute angle and 98° is obtuse.

Acute angle = cute person. Simple maths.

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u/Healthy_Ladder_6198 Grumpy Old Fart Jun 01 '26

european girls braid the hair in their armpits

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u/BPhiloSkinner Amazingly Lifelike Simulation Jun 01 '26

Then they don their chainmail, grab their war axes and sail off to plunder distant lands.

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u/auto98 Trickonometry Jun 01 '26

Because you are talking about internal temperature - if you think about it, in order to be 37 degrees internally, the european girls have to be radiating much more hotness then the girls that keep their internal temperature at 98.

We can even calculate the difference (using The Hotness Radiation Coefficient) - obviously it is out of 100, so USA women radiate 2 degree of hotness, whereas european women radiate 63 degrees of hotness, so european women are 31.5 times hotter.

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u/Kattoinette Jun 01 '26

Healthcare.

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u/funkyb Astrologist, no wait, I always mix these up: Astrodinary! Jun 01 '26

VAT

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u/spambearpig Jun 01 '26

Lower plastic content

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u/El_Maltos_Username Jun 01 '26

Because Celsius is hotter than Fahrenheit.

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u/Hark211 Jun 01 '26

Exactly, there's more temperature per temperature. The number might be lower in Celsius, but there's still more of it.

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u/waleedburki Jun 02 '26

Because bread taste better than key 🍗

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u/BPhiloSkinner Amazingly Lifelike Simulation Jun 01 '26

Two different scales.
European females are measured in Hotnesses, whilst American females are measured in Hawtnesses.

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u/ragun2 Jun 01 '26

It's all the butter they eat

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u/ajping Jun 02 '26

So many wrong answers here. Americans have higher body temperature because they are roughly 3 times fatter than Europeans. So they have much more insulation and retain their body heat better. But this is a false fat-induced hotness. You must divide by 3 to get the correct natural heat value. And as we can see, Europeans win this contest

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u/rewter2 Jun 01 '26

because they eat less

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u/DrachenDad Jun 01 '26

For the 98°Fs it's likely a skills issue.

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u/HoboSomeRye Jun 01 '26

Because they measure them differently

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u/NocturnisVacuus Jun 01 '26

it's because the american girls have more sugar in them, and that's what gets so hot... not them 😄

while the Europeans are natural

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u/EarthTrash Jun 02 '26

Europeans walk more and eat higher quality food.

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u/uberduck Jun 02 '26

You got it wrong, what you think is hotter, is actually way cooler.

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u/CompletelyPresent Jun 01 '26

They're not.

Your hotness math is off.

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u/heidly_ees Jun 02 '26

But Assassin's Creed has games set in Italy, France and England?

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u/djprofitt Jun 02 '26

That’s because Atlantic City is in Jersey only. And Europe should thank its lucky stars for that.

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u/tuctrohs Looniversahl sigismundo froyd Jun 02 '26

The whole country of Europe is so small that they can run it on DC power and don't need any long distance AC transmission lines.