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| 7 amazing Fact on Eiffel tower. |
The Eiffle Tower in Paris,France,was built as a temporary structure for the Universal Exhibition held in Paris in 1889.The tower was so popular that it has been there ever since
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Engineer Gustave Eiffel (1832-1923) also built the framework of the Statue of Liberty.A workforce of 300 steelworker completed the tower in two years,two month and five days.
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The Eiffle Tower contain 18,038 pieces of steel,weighing a total 7,715 tonnes.They are connected by 2.5million rivets.
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The Tower's 220,000 sq m of surface are hand-painted every ten year (last in 2003) with 60 tonnes of paint.
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The tower is 300.5m tall-320.8m with its antenna-but it can expand or shrink by up to 15cm depending on how hot or cold it is.It was the world's tallest structure until the Chrysler Building in New York overtook it in 1930.
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The tower is lit by 352 1,000-watt projected and 20,000 lights (installed in 2003).These are switched on after dusk for the first ten minutes of every hour.
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More than 300 million people have visited the tower.Most take the lift,althought there are 1,665 steps for the very energetic.It also attracts publicity-seeking climber.Birdmen,parachutists and even cyclists have made descents-some of them fatal.
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The Eiffel Tower features in many films, including the James Bond flim A View to Kill (1985).