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California's Death Valley now has the honor of posting the hottest temperature on record, but don't blame climate change—the record-breaker of 134 degrees happened on June 10, 1913. The reason for the belated title? Libya had claimed the hottest day on record since 1992 with a thermometer reading of 136.4 degrees, but a forensics investigation has found that claim to be false, reports NBC News. A panel of World Meteorological Organization experts says the reading was taken with what was essentially a household thermometer, and the observer who recorded it was "inexperienced."
