Did you know that the lowest temperature ever recorded on Earth is -89.2 degrees Celsius?

This temperature was measured on July 21, 1983, at a Russian weather station called Vostok in Antarctica. The lowest temperature ever recorded in the Netherlands is -27.4 degrees Celsius. This temperature was reached in 1942 in Winterswijk. If we include the atmosphere, the lowest recorded temperature is -143 degrees Celsius, measured in 1963.

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