When 12 inches of snow dumped on Reed College in Portland, Oregon, one student attempted to create the world’s largest snowball by rolling snow around a grassy field on campus. By nightfall on February 8, the ball had grown to three feet in diameter and weighed between 800 and 900 pounds.
In front of a crowd chanting, “Roll it! Roll it!,” two math students bowled the snowball down a hill. As the creation gained momentum, it veered off-course and crashed into a dormitory wall, .
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Maintenance workers spent 45 minutes cutting through the snowball to find that the wall had been ripped off its studs. Damage repairs are estimated to cost between $2,000 and $3,000.
The for the largest snowball is 10 feet in diameter. The record was set by mechanical engineering students from ASME Michigan Technological University on March 23, 2013.