Apparently,

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apparentley
ending up a WW phenomenon huh

we have exact same as that Aussie also
what a business making Supermarket trolleys huh ha mmmmmm


Selling a Better Way to Shop

Pictured above is a shopping cart -- a generic one you'd see like the one at your local grocery store. They're so common we probably take them for granted, making exceptionally long shopping lists which -- assuming we can find everything we're looking for -- would run way too heavy and bulky for our arms to carry through the store. To go shopping without one, except perhaps for a quick run for a single item or two, seems foolish.

But that wasn't always the case. In fact, the opposite was initially true -- and early would-be cart users took some convincing.

The first grocery store carts were invented in 1937 by an Oklahoman grocer named Sylvan Goldman. Goldman already had a history of entrepreneurship in the retail shopping sphere, as Priceonomics explains:

At the time, most grocery stores in the United States were a hand-holding experience. Every item was behind a counter, and you’d be “waited on” by a clerk in a white apron. If you were buying, say, a pound of sorghum wheat, you’d point to it, then the employee would reach up, measure it out for you, and give it to you in a pretty package. From a shop owner’s perspective, this business model was not ideal: it required a large, knowledgeable staff, and it moved goods at a rather slow pace.

Goldman had long-since recognized these shortcomings — and in California [in 1919] he saw an answer: the “self-serve” supermarket. [ . . .] By April [of 1920], Goldman opened Sun Grocery Company, the state’s first “supermarket,” a massive complex that featured “all different types of food” and a self-service policy. The franchise was wildly popular and experienced miraculous growth: within three years, Goldman was operating 55 stores throughout Tulsa.
So it shouldn't be a surprise that he wanted to make the experience even more efficient. More than 15 years after starting his grocery chain, Goldman took a pair shopping baskets -- allowing shoppers to carry, and therefore buy, twice as much -- and connected them the top and bottom of a wooden chair. He then attached wheels to legs of the chair. And, with that, the shopping cart was born.

But something went wrong. Goldman expected his creatively-rigged cart to be instantly popular -- who wouldn't want to carry twice as much with only a fraction of the work? But as the New York Times noted, at first, "only the elderly were interested" were interested in Goldman's new invention. Younger customers saw the pushcarts as an affront to their ability to function normally; as Wikipedia notes, "men found them effeminate; women found them suggestive of a baby carriage."

The carts proved unpopular. But Goldman didn't give up -- he instead got creative. As Mental Floss explains, Goldman decided to hire models -- not to demonstrate the use of the carts (that was pretty straightforward), but as fake shoppers, making the new amenity seem like the cool thing to use, and among attractive shoppers at that. He positioned a similarly attractive greeter at the store's entrance, charged with pointing out how popular the carts were. In short order, the stigma around the carts waned.

The convenience of the shopping cart made it even more popular, and demand for them spread beyond Goldman's stores. Goldman earned millions of dollars in royalties as a result.

 

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What Is the Most Powerful Human Emotion?

now that you know the rhyme
lets sing along ..

In a 2014 study, researchers found that the feeling of sadness can last up
to 240 times longer than other emotions.

To test the duration and impact of emotions, researchers Philippe Verduyn
and Saskia Lavrijsen from the University of Leuven in Belgium asked 233
high school students to remember recent emotional episodes and how they
tried to cope with them. The researchers found that among 27 different
emotions, sadness lasted the longest, by far. It typically took people 120
hours to stop feeling sad, but just 30 minutes to get over feelings of
disgust and shame. Feelings of hatred typically lasted for 60 hours,
followed by joy for 35 hours. And while it may seem like an eternity, the
feeling of boredom was also listed among the shorter-lived emotions.

 

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Apparently

The Life and Lies of Darth Vader

We all know how the story goes. Darth Vader kills Obi-Wan Kenobi, who turns into a ghost. Luke Skywalker, with encouragement from Obi-Wan’s ghost, blows up the Death Star, trains to become a Jedi with Yoda, confronts Vader. Luke and Vader fight, above. Vader cuts off Luke’s hand and tells Luke he’s his father. Luke returns to Yoda, talks to Obi-Wan’s ghost, who confirms that yes, Vader is Luke’s father even though he originally told Luke that Vader killed his father. That depends on one’s perspective, Obi-Wan argues.

Again, we all know how the saga plays out. And when it was filmed, so did Luke (Mark Hamill) and, obviously, the guy who actually says “No, I am your father!” (James Earl Jones). And George Lucas, who came up with trilogy and wrote The Empire Strikes Back, well, he also knew that. So did director Irvin Kershner and, if you believe the bonus features on the re-released DVDs, no one else did. Not even the guy in the Darth Vader suit.

As Entertainment Weekly recounts, the surprise twist was not just a surprise to viewers, but also to the cast and crew of Empire itself. But, when David Prowse — the guy in the Vader suit — spoke the lines (before the producers had James Earl Jones dub over them), he didn’t say that Vader was Luke’s father. Instead, per the DVDs, he told Luke that Obi-Wan had killed the elder Skywalker. Hamill was given the true line and was instructed to carry out the scene as if Prowse had said the “I am your father” line, not the one he actually spoke. As the story goes, the rest of the cast and crew found out when the rest of us did — when the film premiered in theaters.

Maybe.

The official story has one flaw — a flaw only Darth Vader himself could conjure. In 1978, a year after the first Star Wars movie but two years before Empire debuted, Prowse appeared at a mostly-overlooked event in Berkeley, California, playing host to about 1,000 fans. Per a newspaper account of the event (via Slashfilm), Prowse “offered the crowd a glimpse of a possible plot for the second sequel [implying this would be in Return of the Jedi, not Empire]. Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker [. . .] are hooked up in a do-or-die lightsaber duel when Luke learns that Darth is, in fact, his long-lost father.”

Which version of film history is the truth is, beyond that, unknown.

 

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What Is the Fastest Sense in Humans?

apparently
i can AUTOMATICALLY CLOSE MY EARS when Obam auto speaks all that garbage it espewed
thank G 8 years of it has come to an END

Your ears are able to process sound up to 10 times more quickly than your
eyes can process visual cues.

Which is a human’s fastest-reacting sense? Scientists rating the speed
associated with the brain’s recognition of sight, sound, taste, smell and
the sense of touch have found that hearing is No. 1. Forget about the speed
of light vs. the speed of sound; the only thing that matters is how long it
takes for information to reach the brain, and some parts of the ear -- such
as the stapes reflex, which protects against loud noises -- engage within
.025 seconds. That’s 10 times faster than the .2 seconds it takes for the
brain to understand the light that reaches the eye, or the .2 seconds it
takes for the brain to acknowledge a touch.

 

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Cash my gold returned my package with a note attached saying they had forwarded my details to the RSPCA.
Apparently goldfish weren't what they were after.

 

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apparently


Things You Might Not Know

this link will give you access to many many things you probably did not know/but may be very very keen to know of??

wish you luck with
the time factor
and maintaining your interest ha


https://www.youtube.com/playlist?an...7xGI9HGKHsArwxiOejecVyNem&src_vid=B5a6wrJpxP4

 

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http://nowiknow.com/archives/

Apparently

Dan the man innovator of this 'NOW I KNOW ' enquires

Hope your 2017 is going well so far! -- Dan

good one Dan

McRefugees

Hong Kong is home to more than seven million people and is one of the wealthiest places in the world -- if it were a country in its own right, the autonomous city would rank in the top ten in per capita GDP. But there's a darker side -- rampant poverty. According to CNN, nearly 20% of the nation lives in poverty. And like anywhere else, many of the worst-off are homeless, and the problem is increasing -- according to e South China Morning Post report, homeless has tripled over the last decade (albeit only to about 1,600 people).

Of those homeless, some have found temporary lodging, but not at a homeless shelter.

For those without a place to sleep, affordable late-night accommodations can be hard to come by. But in Hong Kong, there are more than 100 free options -- if you're willing to fall asleep in full view of random passersby and don't mind the smell of hamburgers. As seen above, it's not uncommon to see customers asleep in one of Hong Kong's McDonald's. That's because the Mickey D's are open at all hours -- according to the Associated Press, approximately half of the 253 McDonald's in Hong Kong are open around the clock.

And as a result, many of Hong Kong's poor make their way to McDonald's -- not for a meal, but for a good night's sleep. As the BBC reported, "as night falls, the fast-food restaurant becomes a temporary hostel, attracting dozens of the city's poorest people." In the U.S., those non-customers would typically be kicked out, but in Hong Kong, the opposite is true: McDonald's Hong Kong told the AP that "we welcome all walks of life to visit our restaurants any time" and aims to be "'accommodating and caring' to customers who stay a long time in restaurants 'for their own respective reasons.'"

Unfortunately, the limits of such accommodations at times lead to tragic results. In late 2015, a 56-year-old woman went to sleep one night at a Hong Kong McDonald's and, the next day, was discovered to have died overnight. That is, however, rare. For many sleepers -- not all of whom are homeless -- the open-door policy of the hamburger joints has added a sense of community where there is otherwise isolation and squalor; some just prefer the company and the relative spaciousness of this temporary lodging. One such man -- who has a tiny apartment near the McDonald's he often crashes at -- told the BBC that the restaurant "is a familiar place, with familiar faces. These people are all wanderers. Some come for a short while, others a long time. Most of them don't have a home. They have nowhere else to go."

Photo galleries of the people colloquially referred to as McRefugees can be seen NBC News (the source of the image above) or the above-linked AP story.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ondon-amid-brexit-rupture?cmpid=BBD010317_BIZ

 

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Lighting Up the Switchboards

APPARENTLY
OBAMA blames the RUSSIANS for fucking up/infiltraiting the Eurovision with Intravision -technology/hacking as early as 1977
greatest technological country in the world/space race etc

In 2002, the “reality” TV show American Idol took the United States by storm. The show, a hardly-subtle derivative of the British show Pop Idol, featured dozens of contestants hoping to sing their way into a record deal. During initial rounds, a panel of celebrity judges vetted and voted on contestants, but in the semi-finals and beyond, viewers had the power. Each episode, the show’s producers assigned a toll-free number to each contestant, and those watching at home could call their favored contestant’s number to vote for him or her.

The phone-in-a-vote model was hardly innovative, though. Other shows had been using similar tactics for decades. And some tried, but failed -- and one came up with a somewhat ridiculous but apparently effective workaround.

The Eurovision Song Contest, almost certainly the largest and longest-running annual music competition, is to blame, kind of. Eurovision has been a staple of European television culture since the contest’s founding in 1956; in recent years, dozens of nations have participated. And while few winners become household names on the global stage, some -- ABBA most notably -- can credit their Eurovision victory for launching their careers. Initially, experts in the music space decided the winner, but for the past two decades, the people have had a voice as well. Since 1997, Eurovision viewers have been allowed to vote via phone for their favorite performers.

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Twenty years earlier, however, a Eurovision competitor was even more cutting-edge. The Soviet Union, seeing the decades-long success of Eurovision, wanted its citizens to have an equivalent, communist version. In 1977, the Communist Bloc introduced the Intervision Song Contest, which was, basically, the same thing as Eurovision but featuring performers from communist nations (and some others; for example, Canada participated in 1978 and 1979). By and large, Intervision mirrored how Eurovision worked, with one major exception: Intervision, from day one, allowed viewers at home to watch.

There was only one problem: very few of those viewers had phones.

We take phone access for granted today (to say the least), but commercial cell phones didn’t exist in 1977 and while landlines were common in the U.S. and Western Europe, that wasn’t true in behind the Iron Curtain at the time. So, another household item was used: light switches. Quartz explains: “since many citizens didn’t own telephones, they would turn on the lights to vote for a song, and the volume of votes was calculated by observing the increase in power consumption.”

It’s hard to say whether the “vote with your lights” scheme worked, but, as one blog notes, the communist competition was "a far more democratic system than the one used by Eurovision." (On the other hand, “voting” against a song/performer required you to listen to music you didn’t like while sitting in the dark.) And yet, it proved mostly unpopular -- as the Soviet Union began to crumble, Intervision was among the first things to go; 1980 was its fourth and final year.

http://nowiknow.com/archives/

 

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Apparently,

The Strain of Driving
In recent years, many areas have debated whether citizens and visitors should have the right to wear religious on government-issued photo identification cards such as drivers' licenses. Putting aside the politics and discriminatory impact of that particular debate -- that’s a conversation for another time (and another email newsletter) -- let's grant the following: If the head covering prevents the ID from actually allowing us to identify the person depicted, that’s not a very useful tool.

So for that reason, many government bodies bar any sorts of head coverings -- baseball caps to burqas -- in such situations. But others, such as the state of Massachusetts, want to find a middle ground. To do so, Massachusetts has a set of exceptions: it allows such head coverings “for medical or religious reasons" (per this pdf). Let's also grant that such exceptions make sense. How do we decide which "medical or religious reasons" are real?

Well, that's hard, especially when dealing with the "religious" part. Some, like Massachusetts, take a very hands-off approach a Massachusetts Department of Transportation official told the Boston Globe that the agency “[does] not get into the sincerity or the veracity of religious beliefs.”

Which is how this happened:


The person pictured is Lindsay M. Miller, as the image states. That’s her (temporary) Massachusetts driver’s license, via the above-linked Boston Globe article. She is wearing a colander on her head.

While typically used to drain water from pasta or other things which cook in such baths, Ms. Miller’s use is, well, different. She’s pretty clearly wearing the colander at a hat. And, as far as the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) was concerned, that’s because the headdress was religious in nature. Yes, originally, Ms. Miller's request was denied, laughed off as a joke. But then, she explained that she is a member of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (below) and a follower of Pastafarianism.

The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster came to the public eye in 2005 when a Kansas resident penned a letter to a local school board in protest of a curriculum which eschewed teaching evolution in favor of "intelligent design." That letter, available here, spread virally, leading many agnostics and atheists to sign up for Church membership.

That said, the Church isn't the traditional religious group. Pastafarians don't truly believe that the creature depicted above is divine or, for that matter, even real. Rather, as the New York Daily News states, they "use parody to make a point about religion." The Church's official website explains further: they "believe religion – say Christianity, Islam, Pastafarianiasm – does not require literal belief in order to provide spiritual enlightenment." Rather, "much of the transcendent experience of religion can be attributed to the community." Which, all told, is good enough for Massachusetts.

 

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Apparently more sad day in the music world..



Justin Bieber has been found alive and well.

 

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Apparently, Simon Cowell has a new idea for a boy band.

 

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apparently

Where Only the Napalm is Real

The petrol bomb pictured above exploded on the corner of Vickers Way, in the UK town of Gravesend, Kent, not too far from a pizza place, a bank, a gym, and other stores and amenities you'd see in an urban area. Police were on the scene nearly immediately, as seen, to put out the fire and keep the peace. No civilians were hurt.

That last, part, though, was a given. That's because no one lives on Vickers Way, nor, for that matter, are any of its neighboring streets. In fact, Vickers Way doesn't really exist. Really, just ask Google Maps, and you'll see this:

And yet, that picture above is clear -- police officers, a fire burning in the street, and a sign on the building that clearly readers "Vickers Way." That's because it's not a real street. The building is, barely, a real building. The fire is real, but wasn't a surprise. The police? Rest assured, they're real police officers -- they're just responding to a fake emergency. They're working at something called "Metropolitan Police Specialist Training Centre." It's a fake town -- lots of streets, some buildings (and some facades), but no people. And as seen from the aerial shot, below, it's massive.

The Centre, which opened in 2003, exists for one reason: to give police a place to train. Crowd control drills, anti-riot training, even some live-fire practice runs take place in the facility. But don't be fooled into thinking that the Centre is just a Hollywood-esque sound stage. It's fully stocked for all sorts of police drills. As Wired explains, "in addition to the false storefronts, pubs, and well-tended shrubbery are a life-size segment of an aircraft and underground subways, for more scenario-specific exercises. The crowd control and weapons training facility also has a full stable of horses and police cruisers." The only thing it doesn't have is civilians -- it's better to practice without them around, as this way, no one gets hurt.

The Centre is often referred to as a "secret" but that doesn't seem true any longer, if ever. It is actually listed on Google Maps (just not at the Vickers Way address), and as Mental Floss noted, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police gave a press conference to announce its opening more than a decade ago. That said, you probably can't visit; access to the facility during drills is restricted, of course.

There are, however, lots of pictures of it. In 2013, a photographer named James Rawling was given permission to document how the police used the Centre. You can see that gallery (from which the picture at the top comes) here.

 

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Which Country Openly Publishes Its Citizens’ Tax


apparently
a free Nobel is awarded to each and every person for there sheer honesty

Since the 1800s, Norway has allowed anyone in the country to see anyone
else's tax returns.

As a rule, Norwegians are honest and open about their salaries.
Advertisements for jobs clearly specify the rate of pay, and there are no
attempts to be evasive with offers of “competitive salary” or a
“salary commensurate with experience.” That’s because Norwegians have
been able to access their fellow citizens' tax returns since the early
1800s. And now, in the digital age, it is even easer for people to find out
what their friends and neighbors are earning, and paying in taxes. Each
year in October, every Norwegian’s annual tax return is posted online.
Newspapers quickly put together top 10 lists of the country’s highest
earners, from political bosses to celebrities and sports stars.

 

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Are There Any Bridges across the Amazon River?


apparently thats very very interesting


There are no bridges that span the Amazon River, although one was recently
built across a tributary, the Rio Negro.

During the rainy season, the Amazon River can swell to more than 120 miles
(190 km) in width. The Amazon moves more water than the next eight largest
rivers in the world combined, making it responsible for one-fifth of the
world’s total river flow. Perhaps surprisingly, there are no bridges that
span the river at any point. This is because the Amazon mostly winds
through pristine rainforests, where there are very few roads. Most
crossings are done by ferry. However, in 2010, the Rio Negro Bridge was
completed over one of the Amazon’s tributaries. The 11,795-foot (3,595 m)
span connects the Brazilian cities of Manaus and Iranduba.

 

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Apparently,

New Jersey's has a Shockingly Dangerous Water Slide ..apart from its supposed infamous attitude .. yes weve erven hear of/know of it here ..

Every ten years, the United States conducts a census, intending to count every person who lives within its borders. We then get that data a few years later, broken town in many different ways -- including by town. From decade to decade, towns populations tend to fluctuate little or grow/shrink steadily, although there are some exceptions. Take Vernon Township, New Jersey, for example. From 1860 to 1930, Vernon's population fell from 2,190 to 1,279, per Wikipedia, and then grew slowly to 1,548 by 1950. It spiked up to 2,155 in 1960 -- and then shot up like a rocket. The 1970 census tallied more than 6,000 people. It more than doubled, to 16,302 in 1980. And finally, in 1990, the town broke the 20,000 person milestone. That's 10x growth in thirty years after about a century of being basically flat.

The reason for all these new residents? Skiing. In the 1970s, a handful of ski resorts opened up in Vernon Township, attracting visitors and, ultimately, new residents. The problem with skiing, though, is that it's only a seasonal industry. So one of the resort owners had an idea: open a water park. It makes a lot of sense -- the ski area was open during the winter and the water park ran from June until September. With time to switch over in the interim periods, it became a year-round business.

The water park was called "Action Park," although locals had a different set of nicknames for it: "Traction Park," "Accident Park," and "Class Action Park" were all common. That's because Action Park had a well-deserved reputation for causing injury to its guests. A lengthy retrospective by a website called WeirdNJ summarizes the dangers nicely:

In 1986, the [New Jersey] Herald reported the previous year’s reported accident toll at Action Park: more than 110, including 45 head injuries and 10 fractures. And it is important to stress “reported,” because the park got into a lot of trouble with the state for not reporting accidents.

[ . . . ]

[E]nough injuries occurred that Action Park eventually bought the town of Vernon new ambulances to keep up with the injury volume. In 1987, the Herald also spoke with the director of the ER at a nearby hospital, who said five to 10 people were brought there daily from the park. Injuries included “ankle sprains, cuts and contusions, and…a few broken bones,” with injuries most often occurring “from slipping at swimming pools or cuts from water slides.” And, over the course of about seven years, at least six people died while using Action Park's amenities. Yes, most guests played unscathed, plenty came home with bumps, bruises, or worse -- but the water park's nickname was well deserved. And yet, rather than clean up the mess, Action Park doubled down -- with this:

That's a waterslide called Cannonball Loop. It first opened in the summer of 1985.

And it was very, very dangerous.

There were reports of the slide decapitating test dummies and of real people getting stuck at the bottom of the loop having failed to achieve enough momentum to make it around the circle. (Some claim that Action Park installed an escape hatch to deal with this particular problem.) There were lots of bumps, bruises, cuts, and probably concussions; many of the reported maladies are hard-to-substantiate first-hand accounts, but Gizmodo shares a few. For example, there was the employee whose bosses offered him $100 to test the slide. He accepted; but it was his final one, as "$100 did not buy enough booze to drown out that memory."

And while these stories are perhaps hyperbole, there's reason to think the slide was unreasonably dangerous: science. Popular Mechanics explains: The ride's radical design seems to betray a lack of an understanding of basic physics. To wit: The ride runs through a perfect circle. Early-roller coaster engineers toyed with this design, with disastrous results. The high g-forces that are exerted when entering and exiting the inversion of a perfect circular loop are enough to break a person's neck (this is why all roller-coaster loops are elliptical or corkscrew-shaped).There are, thankfully, no reports of any fatalities on Cannonball Loop, but it surely tempted fate. State regulators weren't going to wait for that to happen; they shut the slide down about a month after it opened.

 

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Apparently, in a galaxy far, far away. The Cyber hackers are laughing and dancing...( not very well ) Everyone...do the cyber dance....

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CRAP

apparently its deathly still and quiet out there
maybe an impending earh destroying torrential styorm will hit yipeeeee if it does
i doubt it, will veer off?? ha

Live: 'Bomb low' hits NZ
Extreme winds cause major disruption at Wellington airport, while downpours close roads in south.

 

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How Popular Is Bill Clinton in Kosovo?

apparently
MR unconvincing former USA President BJ denier is/has

A major boulevard in Kosovo's capital is named after Bill Clinton and
features an 11-foot (3.4 m) statue/p...s of him.

Many US presidents have left significant legacies around the world. Though
years apart in their influence, both Ronald Reagan and John F. Kennedy
played key roles in the unification of West and East Germany. President
Richard Nixon brought the world’s attention to China in 1972 when he
helped end 25 years of diplomatic separation. And President Bill Clinton is
beloved in Kosovo, where a major boulevard in Pristina, the capital city,
bears his name. On the boulevard, an 11-foot (3.4 m) statue of the former
president stands guard. Ethnic Albanians give Clinton credit for the NATO
bombing campaign that brought an end to the Kosovo conflict in 1999.

 

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Apparently,

Where Ten Degrees Below Zero is Unreasonably Warm

The picture above is a forest, frozen over and covered in ice and snow. The photograph was taken in February of 2013, and, at best, it was -12.5 °C (9.5 °F) outside. We know that because the picture above is from a place called Oymyakon, one of the coldest inhabited places on Earth. The average temperature in February is -42 °C (-44 °F) and that -12.5 °C temperature is the warmest reported February temperature on record.

And that's not even Oymyakon's coldest month. That honor goes to January, which is a few degrees colder, on average.

Oymyakon, as that red flag on the map above shows, is in the middle of nowhere, Russia. At 63°27′ north latitude, it's only about a hundred miles from the Arctic Circle. During the winter months, there are often days with only three or four hours of sunlight, and from October to April, temperatures rarely hit above freezing. At one point in 1924, per various reports, the temperature cratered to -71.2 °C (-96.16 °F). And yet, Oymyakon has consistently been home to a small population of about 500 people.

The people who live there used to be nomadic -- or, at least, their recent ancestors were. At some point during the existence of the Soviet Union, the communist rulers decided to set up the town formally, hoping to modernize the culture of Siberian nomads by making them settle down in a permanent location that doubled as a trading post. It seemed to have worked: even though (or maybe because) the village is a two day trip from the nearest city, Yakutsk, the people of Oymyakon, by and large, have remained there.

How do people deal with the harsh climate? First, there's "Russian tea," as the Weather Channel jokes -- that, of course, is vodka. But there are more serious concerns than can be cured by the false sense of alcohol-induced warmth. The Weather Channel continues: The frozen ground makes it difficult for working indoor plumbing, so most toilets are outhouses. The bitter cold also makes it difficult to dig graves. The ground has to be warmed with a bonfire before a funeral. Locals use heated garages for their cars. Cars left outside need to be kept running, otherwise they will not restart. Planes cannot fly into the area in the winter. And of course the risk of frostbite is great after only a few minutes in the cold.And that's only the start of it. Because you can't grow crops in frozen ground, the people of Oymyakon generally live on an eclectic menu of meat; per Wired, "reindeer meat, raw flesh shaved from frozen fish, and ice cubes of horse blood with macaroni are a few local delicacies." Similarly, the harsh climate means that growing up there means you don't miss school because of the snow. Atlas Obscura notes that "children of Oymyakon are stuck in class unless the temperature falls below –52C." Then again, being in class is probably better than being outside.

If you'd like more pictures of Oymyakon, the Weather Channel link above has a good selection.

 

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abkwp I really enjoy beating off while looking at myself in the mirror....It's such a shame my driving instructor doesn't feel the same way..