Interesting Facts - In 1851, German physician Carl Wunderlich conducted a thorough experiment
to determine the average human body temperature. In the city of
Leipzig, Wunderlich stuck a foot-long thermometer inside 25,000
different human armpits, and discovered temperatures ranging from 97.2
to 99.5 degrees Fahrenheit. The average of those temperatures was the
well-known 98.6 degrees — aka the number you hoped to convincingly
exceed when you were too “sick” to go to school as a kid. For more than a
century, physicians as well as parents have stuck with that number, but
in the past few decades, experts have started questioning if 98.6 degrees is really the benchmark for a healthy internal human temperature.
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