thermometer, n.Trivia

Crickets are natural thermometers --- The number of times a cricket chirps in 15 seconds, plus 37, will give you the current air temperature

The Golden Gate Bridge is a big thermometer, rising and falling as much as 16 feet depending on the outside air temperature

Celcius is confusing --- -40 degrees Fahrenheit is the same temperatures as -40 degrees Celsius.

Thermometers were originally filled with brandy before mercury came to be used.

Daniel Fahrenheit was the mid-18th century inventor of the mercury thermometer and a temperature-measuring scale.

Fahrenheit is named after German, Daniel Fahrenheit, who invented the mercury thermometer as well as his (now eponymous) temperature-measuring scale in the mid-18th century.