CoolFacts--Business
- 160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.
- All the dirt from the foundation to build the World Trade Center in NYC was dumped into the Hudson River to form the community now known as Battery City Park.
- At April 2000, Hong Kong had 392,000 faxlines - one of the highest rates of business fax use in the world.
- At Hancock Secondary School in Mississippi there is actually a McDonalds in the high school.
- At one point, the Circus Maximus in Rome could hold up to 250,000 people.
- Buckingham Palace has over 600 rooms.
- Built in 1697, the Frankford Avenue Bridge which crosses Pennypack Creek in Philadelphia is the oldest U.S. bridge in continuous use.
- Close to 35,000 people work in the World Trade Center, 110 storey, twin towers in New York.
- Coney Island the amusement park has had three of its rides designated as New York City historical landmarks.
- Disneyland opened in 1955.
- Frank Sinatra was once quoted as saying rock 'n' roll was only played by 'cretinous goons'.
- Harvard uses Yale brand locks on their buildings;Yale uses Best brand.
- If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
- If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town.
- If you come from Manchester, you are a Mancunian.
- In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
- In honour if Johan Vaaler, inventor of the paper clip, a 221/2 paper clip was erected in Oslo, Norway.
- In Irian, Jaya exists a tribe of tall. white people whose parrots are a warning sign against intruders.
- In Paris, the McDonalds big 'M' is the only one in the world that is white, rather than yellow, it was thought that yellow was too tacky.
- In Washington D.C., no building can be built taller than the Washington Monument.
- It is forbidden for aircraft to fly over the Taj Mahal.
- Liberace Museum has a mirror-plated Rolls Royce; jewel-encrusted capes, and the largest rhinestone in the world, weighing 59 pounds and almost a foot in diameter.
- Los Angeles's full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula --and can be abbreviated to 63% of its size: L.A.
- Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
- New York's Central Park is nearly twice the size of the entire country of Monaco.
- New York's Central Park opened in 1876.
- The angel falls in Venezuela are nearly 20 times taller than Niagara Falls.
- The blueprints for the Eiffel Tower covered more than 14,000 square feet of drafting paper.
- The Chuck E. Cheese franchise was created by Atari, a restaurant combining robotic animals and arcade games with family meals. They name the franchise a Pizza Time Theater. Chuck E. Cheese was first opened in 1977.
- The clock at the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C., will gain or lose only one second in 300 years because it uses cesium atoms.
- The Eiffel Tower has 2.5 million rivets.
- The Eiffel Tower was built for the 1889 World's Fair.
- The foundation of great European cathedrals go down as far as 40 or 50 feet.
- The Future's Museum in Sweden contains a scale model of the solar system. The sun is 105 metres in diameter and the planets range from 5mm to 6 km from the 'sun.' This particular model also contains the nearest star Proxima Centauri, still to scale situated in the Museum of Victoria... in Australia.
- The Golden Gate Bridge was first opened in 1937.
- The Grand Canyon was not seen by a white man until after the Civil War. It was first entered on May 29,1869, by the geologist John Wesley Powell.
- The Great Wall stretches for 4,160 miles across North China.
- The height of the Eiffel Tower varies as much as six inches depending on the temperature.
- The highest Motorway in England is the M62 Liverpool to Hull. At its peak it reaches 1221 feet above sea level over the Saddleworth Moor (Greater Manchester) the burial ground of the victims of the infamous Myra Hindley, moors murderer.
- The Hoover Dam was built to last 2,000 years. The concrete in it will not even be fully cured for another 500 years.
- The largest object that was ever found in the Los Angeles sewer system was a motorcycle.
- The Leaning Tower of Pisa is predicted to topple over between 2010 and 2020.
- The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all books that would occupy the building.
- The many sights that represent the Chinese city of Beijing were built by foreigners: the Forbidden City was built by the Mongols, the Temple of Heaven by the Manchurians.
- The name of the girl on the Statue of Liberty is Mother of Exiles.
- The names of the two stone lions in front of the New York Public Library are Patience and Fortitude. They were named by then-mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.
- The nickname of Alcatraz Prison is "The Rock."
- The oldest university in the U.S. is Harvard.
- The San Diego Zoo in California has the largest collection of animals in the world.
- The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
- The shopping mall in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada has the largest water clock in North America.
- The St. Louis Gateway Arch had a projected death toll while it was being built. No one died.
- The Statue of Liberty's mouth is 3 feet wide.
- The University of Alaska stretches over 4 time zones.
- There are 102 floors in the Empire State Building.
- There are 296 steps to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
- There are 6,500 windows in the Empire States Building.
- There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.
- There is a city in Nebraska named Gross.
- There is a place in Norway called Hell.
- There is a town in Texas called Ding Dong.
- There is an airport in Calcutta named "Dum Dum Airport."
