Following are some of the lesser known facts about the France Pride, the Eiffel Tower:
1. A woman tried to commit suicide from the Eiffel Tower, landed on a car and later married the person who owned the car.
Unfortunately such a happy ending is a rare thing, the Eiffel tower has one of the the highest suicide rates – 17.5 per 1000 people. It’s an important issue for the French government.
2. Here’s the Eiffel tower in numbers…
It employs 300 workers, combines 18,038 pieces of wrought iron, fastened with 2,5 million rivets, weighs 10,000 tons, has a height of 984,25 ft.
3. The Eiffel Tower is 6 inches taller in the summer.
In the summer heat the steel structure tends to expand.
4. There are 5 billion lights on the Eiffel tower.
The great French tower consumes 7.8 million kWh per year. I would not wish to receive those utility bills!
5. This is what Paris looks like from the Eiffel Tower.
In fact the photo does not show the city from all sides so you can imagine how cool it is to be there. But one has to wait for a couple of hours in the line to enter the tower.
6. A man once tried to blow up the Eiffel Tower because its light was shining into his bedroom, keeping him awake at night.
Ivan Chtcheglov was planning to use dynamite stolen from some construction site, luckily he was arrested and commited to a mental hospital by his spouse.
7. The Eiffel Tower in Paris has a light show that runs for 5 minutes an hour, every night, until dawn.
For New Year celebration the Tower twinkles even more amazingly ten minutes of every hour.
8. The view from the tower has always been vertiginous.
This one was taken long ago by a Hungarian photographer Lucien Hervé.
9. The Eiffel Tower was originally painted red.
It appeared in red color in the center of Paris in 1889.
10. A woman married the Eiffel Tower in a commitment ceremony in 2007. She is an objectophile.
Erika LaBrie in the past she became Erika Eiffel.
Unfortunately such a happy ending is a rare thing, the Eiffel tower has one of the the highest suicide rates – 17.5 per 1000 people. It’s an important issue for the French government.
2. Here’s the Eiffel tower in numbers…
It employs 300 workers, combines 18,038 pieces of wrought iron, fastened with 2,5 million rivets, weighs 10,000 tons, has a height of 984,25 ft.
3. The Eiffel Tower is 6 inches taller in the summer.
In the summer heat the steel structure tends to expand.
4. There are 5 billion lights on the Eiffel tower.
The great French tower consumes 7.8 million kWh per year. I would not wish to receive those utility bills!
5. This is what Paris looks like from the Eiffel Tower.
In fact the photo does not show the city from all sides so you can imagine how cool it is to be there. But one has to wait for a couple of hours in the line to enter the tower.
6. A man once tried to blow up the Eiffel Tower because its light was shining into his bedroom, keeping him awake at night.
Ivan Chtcheglov was planning to use dynamite stolen from some construction site, luckily he was arrested and commited to a mental hospital by his spouse.
7. The Eiffel Tower in Paris has a light show that runs for 5 minutes an hour, every night, until dawn.
For New Year celebration the Tower twinkles even more amazingly ten minutes of every hour.
8. The view from the tower has always been vertiginous.
This one was taken long ago by a Hungarian photographer Lucien Hervé.
9. The Eiffel Tower was originally painted red.
It appeared in red color in the center of Paris in 1889.
10. A woman married the Eiffel Tower in a commitment ceremony in 2007. She is an objectophile.
Erika LaBrie in the past she became Erika Eiffel.
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