eiffel tower, n.Trivia

The Eiffel Tower gets painted every seven years with 60 tons of paint.

The Eiffel Tower was once painted yellow, but thereafter painted Eiffel Tower Brown.

The Eiffel Tower is made of 18,038 pieces that are held together by 2.5 million rivets.

When Paris fell to the Nazis in 1940, they cut the cables to the elevators of the Eiffel Tower so the swastika couldn't be easily hoisted atop it.

The Eiffel Tower employs roughly 600 people every day.

The Eiffel Tower can shrink about six inches in the cold.

The Eiffel Tower was only supposed to stand for 20 years before its usefulness as an antenna was realized.

The Eiffel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets

The Eiffel Tower is as much as 15cm taller during the summer

The Eiffel Tower's blueprint covered more than 14,000 square feet of drafting paper

The Eiffel Tower was built as an entrance arch for the 1889 World's Fair

The Eiffel Tower was the tallest structure in the world for 41 years, until 1930

The Eiffel Tower required 18,000 individual metallic parts, 2.5 million rivets, and 40 tons of paint.

The Eiffel Tower took three-hundred steel workers two years, two months, and five days to build

the Eiffel Tower designer (Gustave Eiffel) built in a secret apartment for himself near the top of the tower where he would entertain elite members of the science community.

The Eiffel Tower is repainted with 60 tons of paint (about 7.5 elephants worth of paint)

The Eiffel Tower is over 300m (984 ft) tall

The Eiffel Tower has 1,792 steps

The Eiffel Tower was originally to be erected in Barcelona, but it was rejected by the citizens as an eyesore.

The Statue of Liberty's spine, or metal framework was designed by Gustave Eiffel, the man who designed the Eiffel Tower.