6. How Does This Happen?

What transpired: Diet Pepsi exploded and spiraled into freezing.
Where: United States.
This person’s Diet Pepsi can somehow rupture and freeze into a spiral, as shown in a Reddit post. This started a discussion on whether or not this was a hoax, with the majority of people thinking that it was.

What causes this to occur? r/woahdude/Reddit
Because crystals have a hexagonal crystal lattice, when water molecules freeze, they organize into stacked hexagons. This is how ice freezes. Simply put, seeing a spiral like this is really strange.