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For many people, an annual home screening of How The Grinch Stole Christmas is an absolute must come December - but there's one surprising detail many will miss, year after year.
The 2000 movie adaptation of Dr Seuss' beloved 1957 children's book, which stars Jim Carrey as the cave-dwelling green menace, is all about the true meaning of Christmas. The Whos of Whoville ultimately win the grouchy Grinch over, following his initial bid to steal Christmas, and the story concludes with plenty of shared merriment and Yuletide cheer.
Even after multiple watches, however, many have missed just how much magic is woven into the sweet seasonal treat - including the fantastical geographical description of Whoville, where the action unfolds.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas has been a firm favourite for 23 years (Universal Pictures,)Flocking to Twitter, viewers sparked a discussion about the opening scene of the festive favourite, which details exactly where the enchanting town of Whoville is located. Now, although Whoville appears to be a bustling place with plenty going on, it's actually far smaller than you would expect, with the town and all its inhabitants apparently able to fit inside a tiny, ordinary snowflake.
The intro, which is narrated by screen legend Anthony Hopkins, starts with the following whimsical opening line: "Inside a snowflake, like the one on your sleeve, there happened a story - you must see to believe." The imaginative description has left a number of movie fans positively baffled.
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Whoville is in so tiny, it fits neatly on a snowflake (Universal Pictures)One shocked user exclaimed: "DID Y’ALL KNOW THE GRINCH TAKES PLACE IN A SNOWFLAKE!!??????." A second Twitter user admitted: "'Never realised that the Grinch lives on a snowflake. Anyone else completely forget that Whoville was on a mf snowflake?", while another remarked: "The Grinch must have been so small."
A person wrote: "The Grinch taking place within a snowflake still kinda [sic] wild to me." A fifth commented: "The fact that the Grinch took place on a snowflake disturbed me as a kid. I kept expecting the whole thing to melt."
Interestingly, in the 1953 book Horton Hears A Who, Whoville appears to be even smaller and is said to be found on a floating dust speck, placed onto a clover flower by Horton the Elephant.
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