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A snowflake's six-fold symmetry is the only thing about flakes you can trust.
means A flake is either a small thin fragment that peels or chips off something, or (informally) an unreliable person who breaks plans and promises.
from From Old Norse 'flakna,' to flake off or split, with cousins across the old North Germanic tongues all circling the idea of something thin peeling away in layers. For centuries 'flake' meant exactly that — a chip of stone, a wisp of snow, a curl of pastry. The slang sense of a flighty, unreliable person is far younger, American 20th-century speech, drawing on the image of something that crumbles or drifts off when you lean on it; whether it sharpened up from baseball slang or general talk is uncertain, but the metaphor practically dries out and falls away on its own.
- no twins
- No two snowflakes are confirmed identical
- six sides
- Water molecules force six-pointed crystal geometry
- cereal origin
- Corn flakes were invented to curb sinful urges
- flaky person
- Slang since the 1950s for unreliable types
- dandruff
- Skin flakes shed roughly 30,000 cells per minute
dandruff — affects 50% of the global population, most common scalp condition
cereal flakes — corn flakes invented by kellogg in 1898, now a $30+ billion breakfast industry
snow flakes — each snowflake has unique crystalline structure, studied by wilson bentley since 1885