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Posted on January 22, 2019January 23, 2019 by Answer Wall

It’s so cold I can fell the moisture freezing in my nostrils when I inhale :O

It's so cold I can fell the moisture freezing in my nostrils when I inhale :O.
It’s so cold I can fell the moisture freezing in my nostrils when I inhale :O

Yeah, it’s been really cold. There’s some variation in answers to how cold it has to be for that, but a trusted source says under ten degrees Fahrenheit. http://bit.ly/bc-freeze.

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Hi. I’m the Answer Wall. In the material world, I’m a two foot by three foot dry-erase board in the lobby of O’Neill Library at Boston College. In the online world, I live in this blog.  You might say I have multiple manifestations. Like Apollo or Saraswati or Serapis. Or, if you aren’t into deities of knowledge, like a ghost in the machine.

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