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The Coldest Town on Earth

The small town of Oymyakon is known as the coldest town on Earth. It's located in the Yakutia region of Serbia and is surprisingly not a ghost town. The residents love the seclusion that the cold weather brings. The average winter brings the town to a frigid -58 degrees Fahrenheit. The record for the coldest day was set in 1938 at a horrifying -108 degrees Fahrenheit. 

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