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Siberia is living up to its reputation as one of the world’s coldest regions with bone-chilling temperatures recorded on Jan. 15.

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Social media accounts from Russia’s northeastern Sakha republic showed thermometers dipping below minus 60 degrees Celsius and people taking selfies of their ice-covered eyelashes and facial hair.