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" It sounds like a treat from Dairy Queen, but the &amp;quot;blizzard cone&amp;quot; was actually a beak-shaped mask designed to shield the wearer&amp;#039;s face from ice and snow once upon a time.\u00A0 Invented in 1939 in\u00A0Montr\u00E9al\u2014where temperatures can dip to -4 F\u00A0and the worst\u00A0storm on record dropped\u00A0more than 18 inches of snow\u2014the plastic\u00A0snowstorm mask was one of the most bizarre contraptions of its decade, along with baby cages and carbon-dioxide freckle freezers.\u00A0Obviously, it\u00A0never took off;\u00A0otherwise we&amp;#039;d all be walking around with our pointy face shields on anytime\u00A0meteorologists saw\u00A0a major blizzard\u00A0on the horizon.\u00A0  [via Gothamist] "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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