In 1922 a temperature of 58.0 C, measured in Libya, became the world record for hottest temperature ever observed on Earth. But as Randall Munroe mentions in his discussion of temperature records, this has now been disproved. The director of the climate department at the Libyan National Meteorological Centred, who provided key documents in the investigation of this record, was shot at and nearly killed during the Libyan Civil War in 2011. Had he not survived, the erroneous record may have.
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The common swift can stay airborne for months: sleeping, eating, migrating, and even mating without landing.
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