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September 10, 2004

Strange But True!

  • A weekly column of incidental information, off-the-wall observations and other random facts about the world.
    • By BILL SONES and RICH SONES, Ph.D.
    Special to the Journal

    Q.  True or false:  When it snows, there's a little bit of you falling amid the flakes.

    A.  True. Right at this moment water is evaporating from your skin, water vapor is escaping your body with every breath you take, etc.  "In fact, you personally put so much water into the air that some of your water molecules almost certainly made it into the snowflakes pictured in this book," says Kenneth Libbrecht in "The Snowflake: Winter's Secret Beauty."


     
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