This day in history: A temperature of -117 degrees F was recorded at the South Pole on this day in 1982. At the time, this was the coldest temperature ever recorded. A year later on July 21, 1983, a temperature of -128.6 F (-89.2 C) was recorded at Vostok Station in Antarctica. 136 F (57.8 C) is the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth. It was recorded on September 13, 1922 in Al 'Aziziyah located in Libya.
The hottest man-made temperature ever recorded is 7.2 trillion degrees F, or about four billion degrees C. This was made at the Brookhaven Natural Laboratory in New York, in a 2.4-mile-long Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider by smashing gold ions together. I can't even imagine that, but then, with a 28 trillion dollar US debt maybe I'm not trying hard enough. In comparison, the temperature at the surface of the Sun is about 10,000 F (5,600 C).
Absolute zero is -459.67 degrees F (-273.15 degrees C), and it's the lowest possible temperature that can ever be achieved, according to the laws of physics as we know them. The lowest man-made temperature achieved to date is 450 picokelvin above absolute zero. (I don't know what that means...don't ask me.) This happened on September 12 2003 at MIT.
When lightning strikes it can reach up to 54,000 degrees F (30,000 degrees C).
Sponges hold more cold water than hot and rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
There is something known as the Pinocchio Effect, and this is where lying causes your nose to heat up. "Researchers at the University of Granada, in Spain, have shown that being dishonest, causes anxiety which in turn, causes the temperature of your nose and the muscles around the eye to increase by 0.6-1.2 °C. This incredible finding, to no one’s surprise, has been dubbed “The Pinocchio Effect” by the researchers. The research team has since used these findings to design a lie detection model based on thermography." onio.com
Cold weather kills 20 times as many people as hot weather, according to an international study analyzing over 74 million deaths in 384 locations across 13 countries.
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