The Coldest Town on Earth

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If you’re miserable because your Friday afternoon is gray and frigid, be thankful you don’t live in the Siberian town of Oymyakon (map), where -31 Celcius is the sort of day when kids are happy to go out and play. It is, officially, the coldest continuously inhabited place on Earth.

From A Welsh View, via Boing Boing.

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