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Because kilodegrees sounds funny. But megadegrees really sounds volcano lair evil.
Megadegrees sounds like something graduates from Trump University got for finishing a retreat. They are the highest quality degrees - so good they deserve to have their own name!
Going back to temperature though, it would be odd-sounding to say the Sun can get as hot as 15 megadegrees at it's core.