This Day in History: The city of Las Vegas, Nevada, was founded on this day in 1905. Here are some fun facts about Vegas:
Vegas has 41 million visitors a year.
It would take you 288 years to spend one night in every hotel room in the city.
Las Vegas has more unlisted phone numbers than any other city in the United States.
Nevada law states that slot machines must pay back a minimum of 75 percent of the money deposited on average. It's 83 percent in Atlantic City.
10,000 couples are married in Las Vegas every month. It takes 10 minutes to get a marriage license in Vegas.
The Eiffel Tower in Vegas was originally planned to be full size, but it was too close to the airport for that. The Sphinx however is larger than the original Sphinx in Egypt.
The Bellagio has more rooms than the number of residents in the city of Bellagio, Italy.
"In the 1950s and early 1960s, Las Vegas was known for putting on a different type of show. At the Nevada Test Site, just 65 miles northwest of the city, the U.S. Department of Energy would test nuclear devices. Las Vegas’ Chamber of Commerce saw a moneymaking opportunity, and decided to distribute calendars advertising detonation times and choice viewing locations." Source
In the early days of FedEx, its founder, Frederick W. Smith. had to go to great lengths to keep the company afloat. In one instance, after a crucial business loan was denied, he took the company's last $5,000 to Las Vegas and won $32,000 gambling on blackjack to cover the company's $24,000 fuel bill. It kept FedEx alive for the time being.
The bronze lion outside the MGM Grand Hotel is said to be the largest bronze sculpture in the western hemisphere.
There are actually things that are banned in Las Vegas: Hula hoops, Hip-Hop concerts, lap dances, vuvuzelas, pets on the Vegas strip and bath salts. You are also not allowed to feed the homeless or pigeons.
Hotel magnate Steve Wynn banned Paris Hilton and Lil Wayne from his hotels.
Vegas is no longer the gambling capital of the world...that title belongs to Macau.
There’s one slot machine for every four Las Vegas residents.
The Vegas strip is actually not in Las Vegas. The strip actually falls outside of the city limits and is instead in Winchester and Paradise, which are both part of Clark County.
There are over 10,000 taxis registered in Las Vegas.
"The famous phrase ‘What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas’ was first launched in 2003. It was created by the R and R Partners Agency, who sought to devise a publicity statement to promote the city as somewhere people could feel empowered by ‘freedom’." Source
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