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TIL A village in Norway is called Hell, named after the overhanging cliff caves in the area. Hell means 'luck' in Norwegian and is one of the coldest places on earth with temperatures as low as −25 °C (−13 °F).

messynessychic.com/2014/04/30/

reddit.com/r/todayilearned/com

@todayilearned #Helsinki is sooo close, but not quite. Oh well, welcome to #HEL airport anyway!

@RaineyDay But there are tons of places where the temperature dips below minus 25 Celsius, often. Tuesday night, here, for example, it's supposed to go down to minus 27 Celsius. Honestly, minus 25 seems like a lot when you're not used to it, but here it's nothing, and there are places that get a lot colder than we do.