Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
"Fire and Ice" was printed as the epigraph to the third installment of popular novelist Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series, titled Eclipse. But you know what's weird? Frost's first, self-published book of poems was titled, yes, Twilight. (Source)
The Harvard astronomer Harlow Shapley claimed that "Fire and Ice" was inspired by a conversation he had with Frost about the end of the world. (Source)
Speaking of the end of the world, scientists have estimated that a large asteroid hits the earth "every 100 million years or so." (Source)