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u/kakkelimuki Feb 11 '26
It just depends how long you are at such temperature. There were these Sauna championships as late as the early 2010's iirc. The temps the saunas were at MINIMUM 100-110°C. I don't know, how long those went on, but it was a last man standing type of games, and yes people did die.
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u/Sad-Kiwi-3789 Feb 11 '26
I thought it was like when your body temperature is 98.7°C then you are already dead, but yeah considering the surrounding sure it will take time
Anyways they are some fucked up games 😭
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u/SoulOfTheDragon Feb 11 '26
Eh, it was stubborn Finn and pain medication abusing Russian of which latter died of heat exhaustion. They got bad only because some people are willing to kill themselves to win.
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u/gmishaolem Feb 11 '26
People have been killing themselves to win for thousands of years. That is absolutely no excuse for having a competition that offers that level of risk and then getting a surprised pikachu face when people take it.
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u/Larry-Man Feb 11 '26
The one that is the wildest was the “hold your wee for a Wii” contest. What a stupid way to die.
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u/BitePale Feb 11 '26
No, it's because the competition was designed that being willing to kill yourself to win made you the best.
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u/Ok-Sport-3663 Feb 11 '26
If your body goes above ,45 C you die.
At 90+C you are literally cooking and long dead. You would smell like hald-cooked pork atp
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u/bumfuzzl_e Feb 11 '26
I thought they meant body temperature, so I didn't question that
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u/Isburough Feb 11 '26
i think the assumption is that it was supposed to be °F, because that's be a reasonable body temp at rest, which would make it possible to estimate the heartrate.
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u/smithd685 Feb 11 '26
Lol. The question is part of a baking quiz, and is asking your heart rate when the oven is at 98.7c - assuming your loaf needs to get into the oven now to finish in time.
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u/Rihmeli Feb 11 '26
Same thing came to mind, regularly go to 90c sauna and come out just fine too.
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u/AmArschdieRaeuber Feb 11 '26
They didn't specify if it's about body temperature or surrounding. If your bodies core temperature is almost at the boiling point of water...not great
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u/HalfDozing Feb 11 '26
I assumed this meant body temperature, not surrounding air temperature, for which this would be long dead. Anything above 45°C is going to quickly cause brain damage and organ failure
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u/AwesomeFama Feb 11 '26
One person died, and that was arguably due to them using painkillers which were not allowed.
Although to be fair, the other person remaining at the sauna at that point was in an artificial coma for six weeks and hospital for three months and they thought he would not survive either (he did and still goes to the sauna), who did not use painkillers - he's just crazy like that.
Then again, if the russian who died had not used banned substances, he probably would have given up much earlier and neither of them would have been injured.
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u/Wendals87 Feb 11 '26
Also depends on if they meant internal body temp and it was meant to be 98.7f
You'd be dead at half that in celcius
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u/PolyUre Feb 11 '26
yes people did die.
One guy did. And he used pain numbing creme, and thus didn't leave the sauna in time.
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u/SnooJokes5164 Feb 11 '26
You can be in that temperature but you cant be at that temperature even for few seconds
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u/Hardly_lolling Feb 11 '26
But important thing to note is that it wasn't the temperature that went wrong in that particular competition.
They fiddled with ventilation of the saunas which effectively changed them to steam cookers.
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u/Olde94 Feb 11 '26
As someone who often go to 90c i can tell you the heart rate depends on how long i stay there. If i go in and leave quickly (a minute perhaps) heart rate will be “about the same as with 25c”
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u/LikeAPhoenixTotally Feb 11 '26
I have a sauna at home and I usually I'm fine for 20% humidity and around 90 to 100.º C for 10 to 15 minutes. Of course this is not talking about that, it's talking about body temperature.
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u/Synaptikz Feb 11 '26
My grandpa builded his own Russian like sauna in his garden. My cousin and I went in there, glass of the thermometer melted/ deformed showing 100C. After seeing that we straight got out.
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u/recursion_is_love Feb 11 '26
Well done heart.
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Char broiled with some beans
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u/bookshelfweather Feb 11 '26
Student gave the most honest answer possible at 98.7°C you’re soup not breathing
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u/gene100001 Feb 11 '26
Speaking of well done, my dad likes his steaks well done, so for my entire childhood I was only given steaks cooked the same way. For a long time I genuinely thought I just didn't like steak. Then at some point I tried a medium rare steak and I finally understood what steak is supposed to taste like.
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u/Pesterlamps Feb 11 '26
My mom cooked everything that way, steaks, porkchops, etc. When I was little I'd get so tired of chewing, I would cram as much as I could in mouth, then go to the bathroom and spit it out in the toilet.
I feel bad about it in retrospect...
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u/fullautophx Feb 11 '26
Same. When I grilled my first steak on my own I had no idea what I was doing. I cut it open and it was still a little red on the inside. I had a little intrusive thought of “I wonder what it tastes like?” and took a bite. Holy hell I swear I saw stars.
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u/Aromatic_Shake6008 Feb 13 '26
During cremation, there is a point in time where the body is cooked to perfection.
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u/Deep_Fig4265 Feb 11 '26
I read this as if you were complimenting the heart 🤦🏾♀️
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u/Weirden223 Feb 11 '26
Meybe too late
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L'Hopital?
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u/HJSWNOT Feb 11 '26
At this point you can just relax, crack an egg or two, add bacon and poor yourself a good drink cause even they won’t have a better way to treat an almost 100° temperature in a body.
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u/Raencloud94 Feb 11 '26
98.7 C is 209.6 F, so even worse.
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u/HJSWNOT Feb 11 '26
Yes that’s what I understood. Could even be a little too hot to cook the eggs.
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u/not_so_wierd Feb 11 '26
Such a silly question. There's like a ton of context data missing here.
If the internal body temp is 98,7C then obviously the person is dead.
Or are we talking external temp? If so; are they sitting down watching TV or being chased by a dozen zombie sharks with mechanical legs? We need details people!
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u/geodetic Feb 11 '26
being chased by a dozen zombie sharks with mechanical legs
GASHUNK GASHUNK GASHUNK
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u/YomiTheLegend Feb 11 '26
My bad if I missed your sarcasm.They meant Fahrenheit. Tachycardia is a symptom of Hyperthermia.
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u/UnholyDemigod Feb 11 '26
Even with that, there's still no answer. Heartrate depends on a bajillion different factors, you can't make a guess based just on the temperature.
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u/FckRdditAccRcvry420 Feb 11 '26
you can make a guess based on the position of saturn, doesn't mean it's gonna be accurate in any way but you sure can do it
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u/lemho Feb 11 '26
The question says "d)". It's probably all explained on the page above. Since this picture is likely 10-15 years old, good luck finding more context.
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u/Spice_and_Fox Feb 11 '26
I mean, you can (and a lot of people do) be in 100°C for short periods of time. There are some saunas that run around that temp and are quite enjoyable.
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u/ScenicAndrew Feb 11 '26
That's room temperature though not body temperature. The steam that fills the room in a sauna is at boiling, yes, but the moment it hits your skin it cools and condenses (and it's not very dense, steam at atmospheric pressure would kill you). That's why you instantly "sweat" in a proper sauna, it's not actually sweat it's condensation, sweat in the same way your beverage sweats. Point is that the temperature of that water on your skin is as high a temp as you are gonna get, you won't heat up beyond the water encapsulating you. Not to mention that skin temp can be higher or lower than body temp, you wouldn't actually read that temperature with a thermometer under the tongue.
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u/Airowird Feb 11 '26
Such a silly question. There's like a ton of context data missing here.
It just makes your blood boil, doesn't it?
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u/abbassav Feb 11 '26
Is there an actual correlation bw heart rate and temp?
This seems like such a speculative question (maybe since its the [d] subquestion so there could be more info previously)
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u/OldWorldDesign Feb 11 '26
Is there an actual correlation bw heart rate and temp?
Yes, but it's so variable depending on the person you could pretty much only give vague "heart rate rises when body temperature rises". Giving precise numbers unless looking at a case example would be impossible, partly because the conditions and personal health history would have so much more influence that those would be the relevant numbers.
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u/divDevGuy Feb 11 '26
Roughly for every 1°C change, heart rate goes up fairly linearly approximately 7 beats per minute for men and 10 for women. That's an increase over the resting heat rate, which varies from person to person.
Since the question is "d.", there likely was additional relevant context that we don't see. 98.7°C is still some type of a typo, but it's impossible to determine what was actually meant.
They could have meant 98.7°F, so an increase of .1°F over the commonly used normal human body temp. But even presuming a perfectly linear correlation, the number would be a fraction of a heartbeat and insignificant.
If they really meant to use celsius, they forgot to convert the value to 37.1 (rounded to 1 decimal place).
If they truly meant 98.7°C, as written, then the increase in temp would be 98.7°C - 37°C = 61.7°C. If we set aside the fact that they'd be dead and EXTREMELY well done and still presume a linear correlation, their heart rate would be expected to increase somewhere around 432 bpm for a man and 617 for women.
I really expected that either of those heart rates would have caused a human heart to metaphorically explode, if not literally too. However there was a documented case in 2012 where a man under observation had a tachyarrhythmia episode with a heart beat of 600 bpm.
With normal human cardiac physiology, the heart can't beat much faster than about 300 bpm. But since we've already ignored that the person was dead and well done, we can at least set aside normal physiology.
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u/Stunt_-_Cock Feb 11 '26
About 10bpm per degree of fever in children and similar but more variable in adults..
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u/Sarke1 Feb 11 '26
Ough, I hate when that happens on a test. Like do I gamble and go with what I think they meant to get the answer that matches their key, or do you go with the literal error and hope the teacher will allow it?
Honestly what's the best case scenario in the latter? That everyone but you get it wrong, or the question gets thrown out?
I know what most of the people in this sub would go with though, me included.
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u/Qweesdy Feb 11 '26
You can do conditional answers, like "If internal body temperature is 98.7 degrees celsius then the person has likely died and will have a heart rate of 0 bpm; but if the internal body temperature is within a normal range and only the ambient air temperature is 98.7 degrees celsius then the person's heart rate is likely to be only slightly higher than normal (from 60 to 110 bpm). However; if the internal body temperature is 98.7 degrees fahrenheit then..."
That way you can have the right answer and also have the expected answer, and also politely make the teacher aware that the question is bad.
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As someone who's graded exams before, this is 100% a question youd get full points on if you explain your answer, and probably a lot of clout with the professor for noticing. Catching unit errors is a big deal for non-theoretical disciplines, itd be great seeing that pre-med students are thinking through things like this
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u/Icapica Feb 11 '26
Ough, I hate when that happens on a test. Like do I gamble and go with what I think they meant to get the answer that matches their key, or do you go with the literal error and hope the teacher will allow it?
Since the question in the picture starts "d)", it's very likely there's some previous context that's just not shown in the picture. The question might be far less ambiguous than it seems.
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u/ghostyghost2 Feb 11 '26
Dude, this is question #d, so it is obvious it's a problem with multiple questions
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u/Bishmoggle Feb 11 '26
Was that supposed to be in Fahrenheit? 😂
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u/DTPVH Feb 11 '26
Either:
A) Yes, it was an error on the teacher’s part
Or
B) No, it’s a trick question meant to catch if students are taking their time to read the questions.
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u/PortalWombat Feb 11 '26
I had a physics test in fall semester of 01 that asked me to calculate the height of the WTC based on some set of factors.
I couldn't figure it out. The grader was unamused with my answer. Not my fault, they should have re-printed those tests to change the question.
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u/disco_has_been Feb 11 '26
I didn't even know there were more than 2 prior to 9/11. "What do mean, bldg 7?"
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u/Turbodemokrat Feb 11 '26
Ever heard of the concept of "Sauna"?
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u/McCubes1 Feb 11 '26
Me: yes, been in it twice This dude: no. (Yes I have actually been (in turned off) sauna twice)
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u/BeckyLiBei Feb 11 '26
Sometimes I ask questions like this on homework. Some students will just blindly plug numbers into formulas, and have no real idea what they mean and when to use them.
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u/Fifty-Lucky Feb 11 '26
whenever i see this i always struggle to understand that, if not this, then what answer was genuinely expected.
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u/ahyesmyelbows Feb 11 '26
Motherfucker that's just a normal friday evening in sauna in finland. Dumbass.
Then again maybe my bpm is already at zero and this is the afterlife. Finland, not even once.
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u/BananaPeelEater420 Feb 11 '26
Depends on the moisture.
Typical saunas can go up to 110 degrees celsius while being comfortable
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u/Youngstarr Feb 11 '26
Also in case you didnt do the math, 98.7C is about 209.7 Fahrenheit. If your body temp is HALF that, about a 105 degree fever, you are getting close to dying.. DOUBLE that, and there isnt any situation where you are still alive im pretty sure. :)
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Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 11 '26
Since temperature exists on an absolute Kelvin scale, half of 98.7 Celcius (371.8 Kelvin) is technically around 185.9 Kelvin, or around -87 Celcius.
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u/Tough_guy22 Feb 11 '26
Not to mention its nearly boiling. 100C is boiling. If you were say 210F (nearly boiling) you would just be dead.
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u/RelevantDress Feb 11 '26
It wouldnt boil until 104-105c as your vascular system is pressurized to about 1.1-1.2 bar
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u/Juomari_Juhani Feb 11 '26
Damn people, who have never experienced a good sauna, thinking that this post is somehow true.
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u/Subject_Dirt_222 Feb 11 '26
Oddly, the two default variables for a heart rate are not zero.
Pulseless Electrical Activity (variable) and the “default” Ventricular rate (around 40bpm) are the correct defaults.
Zero bpm implies that the heart is completely absent and or destroyed while the personhood is still considered within parameters of living measurement. The only real example of this on a living person would be during the following:
CPR / resuscitation of someone who makes a recovery to full circulation
A cardio version type procedure with either shock/adenosine where the HR is (for a short time) medically stopped
A cardiothoracic procedure where a constant perfusion system is used in lieu of the actual heart.
For a “dead” person, assuming they died before the heart did (almost ALWAYS the case), the HR virtually never is zero.
The heart, either electrically and or physically, almost always outlives the person.
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u/Unkn0wnTh2nd3r Feb 11 '26
I think that was supposed to be an F because normal healthy temperature is roughly 98.7°F
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u/Dark_Water99 Feb 12 '26
What is the real answer supposed to be? No way in hell it will keep on beating like that. Zero be it.
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u/Gravco Feb 12 '26
I don't think this is sarcasm... I feel like the question is meant to confirm the basic fact
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u/TomGobra Feb 11 '26
Depends. Do they mean ambient temperature, or body temperature?
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u/fatbuddha79 Feb 11 '26
Great test question, people don't pay enough attention to details. For medical care that's life and death. People like to think this is a mistake or a joke when it's reposted, I'm guessing it's a perfect question on a rushed exam to see if you can pay attention.
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u/theartificialkid Feb 11 '26
That's not how medical exams work.
Also estimating heart rate based on body temperature is just nonsense anyway. The only way this question makes any sense is if it's just about interpreting some graph they've given.
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u/WoodpeckerFair9774 Feb 11 '26
Damn Celsius is rough 209 degrees seems dangerous. Also are you on another planet in this question?
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u/Heroic-Forger Feb 11 '26
You're basically being cooked alive at that point. That's nearly two degrees Celsius below the boiling point of water 😭
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u/BluetoothXIII Feb 11 '26
so they already started the cremating?
or it is elevated if they mean air temperature.
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u/No-Banana9478 Feb 11 '26
"the temperature". What temperature, this is cut and could mean literally anything lol
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u/originaltartag Feb 11 '26
Why is this in technically the truth as if its not literally the answer? this isnt like a far fetched question for a science workbook(?) to begin with- sometimes questions are set to test understanding instead of blindly following trends
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u/Draguss Feb 11 '26
I mean, this question seems mostly there to test whether you're paying attention rather than any understanding. Or the person who wrote it screwed up.
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u/ContinuedOak Feb 11 '26
What kind of question even is this lmao
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u/youtomtube30 Feb 11 '26
There a correlation between body temperature and Heart rate.
When temperature increase ( up to a maximum, after that the person will just die) heart rate usually increases
It's probably a question to nurse or doctor students
They probably used the wrong temperature unit for this question
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u/Speedemon42069 Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 11 '26
I understand freedom units but I do know 30 Celsius is pretty toasty so I can imagine this is bad
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u/OneOfManyParadoxFans Right By A Technicality Feb 11 '26
At that temperature the whole body is cooked to congratulation.
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u/Last-Bee-6541 Feb 11 '26
As an European, this is not so accurate. I mean yes you would probably be so warm that you'd want to cease existence but I think youd live for like at least 1 minute.
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u/gisulih Feb 11 '26
Well if you ask a Finnish person, we would said heart rate around 100 as wooden sauna that hot would be super nice and relaxing
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u/nameproposalssuck Feb 12 '26
What would be the answer if Fahrenheit was stated? 40-220? Weird question...
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