Maybe your life after this is a lie but no: snow is not white

Do you wanna build a snooooowman? Come on lets go and plaaaaay. Yes, my inner Disney snow princess is coming up these days. Strange actually, those frozen little crystals that flutter down from the sky. Did you know this about snow?

1. It doesn't matter what shape they have, all snowflakes have six sides. Those star-shaped things you used to make at school? More realistic than you would think.

2. An average snowflake falls at 5 kilometers per hour. Oh, and an average snowflake consists of 180 billion water molecules. Now you know that too.

3. Maybe your life after this is a lie but no: snow is not white. Snow has no color at all and is transparent like water. But the flakes absorb a tiny bit of sunlight and that makes it look white. Uh, the name Snow White suddenly feels fake too...

4. When it snows we eat more. Research shows that the sale of cookies, cakes, and candy increases when there is a layer of snow outside. Uh oh... I baked an apple pie for the first time in seven years this week. #guilty

5. Suffering from chionophobia? Then you'll be super scared of... you guessed it. I think my cat has this too, by the way.

6. 12 percent of the Earth is permanently covered in snow.

7. Snowflakes scream when they fall into water. Yes really. This is because they contain tiny air bubbles. Since this sound has a frequency of 50 to 200 kilohertz, we cannot hear the panic of the snowflake with our ears. Maybe that's for the best.

8. In a snowy environment, everything seems quieter. However, it doesn't just seem that way, it has also been scientifically proven. The air in the snow absorbs sound, making sounds seem quieter.

9. Oh and fun fact: snow can also be red and is then called ‘blood snow’. This reddish, old snow can be observed in the summer in polar regions or in high mountains and contains single-celled algae. These give the snow its reddish color.

10. The Guinness Book of Records lists the largest snowflake ever observed: it is said to have had a diameter of 38 centimeters and fell in the US in 1887. Wow.