[science]

98.6 Degrees Fahrenheit Isn’t the Average Anymore

Okay, this is just legitimately cool. (ha.)

like the idea that this factoid we all 'know' about human body temp is wrong because it was originally right, we've just changed?

this is legitimately amazing.

weeeeiiiiiird

what is it now?

it says in the article!

oh that's interesting! I'm always a little higher than that, so

also you have to subscribe to read the article

Well it was working just now for me...

but tl;dr "Overall, temperatures of the Civil War veterans were higher than measurements taken in the 1970s, and, in turn, those measurements were higher than those collected in the 2000s."

that's so wild

no wonder I never get fevers

...oh so it's even lower, and I am even weirder

well it's still an average regardless

some people are always gonna be higher or lower.

can't read the article but good

And it does vry by how you measure it. I think the comparisons they made was via armpit temp, since that's wht they had the earliest data for