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Interesting Facts |
Choose a category to view some interesting facts about the space needle!
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Did you know...
• The Space Needle is approximately 1,320 Milky Way candy bars (605 feet) tall.
• On a hot day the Space Needle expands about one inch.
• During the construction of the Space Needle, it took 467 cement trucks less than 12 hours to fill the foundation hole (30-feet deep and 120-feet across); this was the largest continuous concrete pour ever attempted in the West.
• As an April Fool's joke a local television station aired a phony report that the Space Needle had fallen over. Emergency phone lines were swamped with calls. The Space Needle received more than 700 calls, even though there was a flashing alert during the entire report telling the audience that it was a joke. One Spokane man even jumped in his car and began driving to Seattle because his daughter worked at the Space Needle.
• The first Space Needle Manager, Hoge Sullivan, had acrophobia, a fear of heights.
Interesting facts taken from www.spaceneedle.com
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