Just a few hundred miles from the Arctic Circle and reaching record lows of -96.16 degrees, one is forced to ponder not only why, but also how the villagers of this remotest of remote locations survive.
With a day that varies from 3 hours in the winter and 21 hours in the summer and permanently frozen ground due to the extreme subarctic climate, the roughly 500 residents of Oymyakon are mostly unable to grow crops, therefore their diet basically consists of reindeer and horse meat.
While spoiled kids to the south get out of school for snow days, the children of Oymyakon are stuck in class unless the temperature falls below –52C.
If you were to go outside naked on an average day, it would take approximately one minute for you to freeze to death.
SOURCE: nuttyfacts
