How Snowmen (And Snowwomen) Work

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 21 December 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The details may vary but building snowmen is pretty much universal where there’s snow. Humans have probably been making them for tens of thousands of years. But it wasn’t until the last century or two that they have become the winter icon they are today.

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0:31.5	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.
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0:43.1	I'm Josh Clark.
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0:50.3	some fun outdoors making snow angels and most importantly making snow people.
0:56.7	Which means this is stuff you should know, snow people addition.
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