Obscure Factoids

Here are some fun facts you may not have heard before¹:

• An apocryphal version of the New Testament has Jesus say, "Let he who is without snowballs cast the first stone", giving the passage a more profound meaning.
• snowstoned is urban slang for 'under the intoxicating influence of cocaine'.
• In fundamentalist Islamic countries, wives who are suspected of being unfaithul to their husbands are sometimes snowed to death –a particularly cruel and slow process.
• The nineteenth-century American poet Geoffrey Benlon refers in one of his poems to 'the snow's tone'.

¹Because I made them up.