10 Fascinating facts about the Eiffel Tower

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10 FASCINATING FACTS about 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.

2.Eiffel tower has one of the the highest suicide rates - 17.5 per 1000 people. It's an important issue for the French government

3..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.

4. The Eiffel Tower is 6 inches taller in the summer.

5. There are 5 billion lights on the Eiffel tower.
The great French tower consumes 7.8 million kWh per year.

6. A man once tried to blow up the Eiffel Tower because its light was shining into his bedroom, keeping him awake at night.

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.

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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