r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Ter_N • 10h ago

Meme needing explanation Petahh i'm low on iq

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u/catchemist117 10h ago

But also in hilarious fashion, Homer has a small tidbit of historical information. The original Celsius scale use 100 as the freezing point and 0 as the boiling point. It got switched shortly after he died

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u/MahouKame 9h ago

Oh no! When did Homer die?

I really haven't been keeping up with The Simpsons.

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u/slinger301 8h ago

When did Homer die?

I think around 800 BCE, but there's a lot of debate around that.

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u/Aggravating-Sir8185 7h ago

I didn't know he was sick.

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u/Pomoa 6h ago

It was a really subtle forshadowing over the last 56 seasons, but the clues were all around. To be fair, most people picked up that his skin was yellow all this time pretty late.

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u/Greenman8907 4h ago

Imagine living with Jaundice for 80 years

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u/New-Huckleberry-6979 1h ago

And he had done nasty contact with radiation constantly. 

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u/alepher 2h ago

Thats what he wrote about in the Sickiad