Outdoor temperature can be determined by counting the number of chirps a cricket makes.

To convert cricket chirps to degrees fahrenheit count the number of chirps in 15 seconds and then add 37.

For more info look here:

http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/cricket.html

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