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(CNN) -- For many Americans, this summer has been miserably hot.
Heat advisories and warnings have been issued from coast to
coast, with high temperatures often reaching into the triple
digits, and July went into the record books as the hottest month
ever for the continental United States. But in certain parts of
the world, this is the norm -- or maybe even on the cool side.
Try Kuwait City, for instance. In July, its average high
temperature is 116 degrees Fahrenheit. Or Timbuktu in Mali,
where the highs average 108 in May and was once recorded at 130.
130! That ranks fifth on the all-time list. The highest
temperature ever recorded on the planet was in 1922, when a
thermometer in El Azizia, Libya, hit 136. Some dispute that
mark, saying it was improperly measured. If that's true, the
record would be the 134, reached nine years earlier in Death
Valley, California. But the world's hottest place might not be
any of these, according to a team of s