Tallest snowman

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Kimmy’s food is ready so she stops reading for a bit. Once she is finished eating she cleans up the kitchen and goes back to Google.

‘Residents of Bethel, Maine, USA, and surrounding towns, built a snow woman measuring 37.21 m (122 ft 1 in) tall, over a period of one month, completing her on 26 February 2008.

• 13 million pounds of snow were used to build Olympia the snow woman. She was only a few feet shorter than the Statue of Liberty.

• Eyelashes were made from eight pairs of skis

• 48-ft-wide fleece hat

• 8-ft-long nose made from chicken wire and painted cheesecloth

• Lips made from five red car tires

• Arms made from two 30-ft-tall spruce trees

• 6-ft 6-in-wide snowflake pendant

• 130-ft-long scarf

• Three 5-ft-wide truck tires as buttons (Source)

‘The world’s smallest snowman has been created using a scanning electron microscope. The instrument’s operator at the western nanofabrication facility at Western University in Canada claims the tiny sculpture sets a new record, standing at just 3μm tall.

Todd Simpson from Western University created the original ‘snowman’ by accident back in 2005. In an effort to create isolated silica spheres he deposited a solution of them on a polymer film pockmarked with nanoscale holes. When the film was removed the isolated spheres were left behind. But in some case the holes were a little deeper and more than one silica sphere dropped in to create a dimer. And in rare instances a dimer could end up stacked on top of another silica sphere to create the three-ball snowman – although it had no arms or face at this stage.’ (Source) 

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