Facts About the Eiffel Tower
- The Eiffel Tower is 1,063ft tall and was the world’s tallest man-made structure for 41 years.
- At night on the hour exactly for 5minutes the Eiffel Tower lights up with sparkling lights.
- It was surpassed by the Chrysler Building in New York City in 1930.
- The tower was made of 18,038 pieces joined by two-and-a-half million rivets.
- In the 1920s, the confidence trickster Victor Lustig twice sold the Eiffel Tower for scrap metal.
- To protect the tower from the elements, it was coated with 60 tons of paint. It was since been repainted 18 times.
- On a sunny day, thermal expansion may cause the tower to grow by six inches.
- If Blackpool Tower were 13ft higher, it would be exactly half the height of the Eiffel Tower.
- In 1988, Californian engineering professor Joe King made a 23ft-high exact replica of the Eiffel Tower out of 110,000 toothpicks.
http://www.express.co.uk/fun/top10facts/467761/Top-10-facts-about-the-Eiffel-Tower
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