Ice Factfile

10 things you didn't know about Ice.

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Issue number 20
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  1. Ice Floe works behind the bar at the Dog and Duck.

  2. Powdered ice crystals do not make a good alternative to icing sugar.

  3. It is possible to walk for miles on treacherous icy conditions without falling over, as long as you are unobserved.

  4. No more than 17.71% of ice cubes from a full tray are used.

  5. In 1496, weather conditions were so cold that a vast ice sheet covered Europe as far south as Barcelona, however nobody noticed.

  6. Ice floats on water, but fill a glass with ice cubes, then add water, and they won't all float on the surface.

  7. 17.71% of the space in a domestic freezer is devoted to ice.

  8. The advice 'don't eat yellow snow' also applies to slush puppies.

  9. Blue ice is just as bad as yellow snow.

  10. Sheet ice is an involuntary exclamation.
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