2. In Vostok, Antartica, the lowest minimum temperature in the world was recorded on 5/2/1892. It was -89.2 degrees C.

3. The Eskimos have plenty of words to describe snow. How many? Well, that's where it gets confusing.

4. Wind chill is a calculation of how cold it feels outside when the effects of temperature and wind speed are combined. A strong wind combined with a temperature of just below freezing can have the same effect as a still air temperature about 35 degrees colder.

5. Hypothermia is a condition brought on when the body temperature drops to less than 30 degrees C.

6. Never give a frostbite victim something with caffeine in it because it can cause the heart to beat faster and hasten the effects that cold has on the body.

7. The largest snowflake ever observed was 38 cm wide. That was recorded in Montana, USA, on 28/1/1887.

8. The cure for the common cold lead researchers in the USA to deduce that putting a soft clamp on the outside of the nose kills the cold virus by overheating it.

9. Insects can either freeze up and hibernate for the winter, or make anti-freeze and keep on moving. The Norwegian beetle uses a chemical called Thermal Hysteresis Protein.

10. For keeping out the cold, wool is better than synthetics. Cotton is even worse.

11. Keeping your torso warm is good for sending heat to the extremities.

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Ray of light becomes more diluted and must cover larger ground.

Northern Hemisphere ploughs more for heat.

Members of the lower hierarchy migrate.

Bodily hairs erect, shopping for heat.

More radiators employed.

Preferred a convection cuppa tea to a static tea.

More layers of clothing required, which we borrowed from other members of the planet.
The earth has voted for a head up (to tilt upwards).

Many hibernate to conserve its sovereign calorie.

A Northern herbivore seeks asylum.

A study showed that if you want to be brainy, it helps to be born during the summer. This Astrological prediction comes from research by Takanari Gotoda of Hammersmith Hospital, London.

The average IQ level of Northern Thailand school children is 87.88; Southern Thailand is recorded as 94.73 IQ level.

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1. Charlotte Pass (NSW) has the Australian record for the lowest recorded temperature. It was -23 degrees C on 18/6/94.

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I was very close to Charlotte's Pass that day ... I was working in the town of Jindabyne and was walking to work past the shopping centre that kndly had a huge themometer to tell you what you already knew (i.e that it's bloody cold)and even where we were it was -16, oh man, it was cold!