October 8, 2007
20 Things you didn't know about Las Vegas
Thing you didn't know about las Vegas
- There are no clocks in Las Vegas Casinos
- There is one slot machine for every eight inhabitants
- Only 5 % of the people that go to Las Vegas say they go there to gamble. 87% of visitors end up gambling during their stay.
- Average number of Vegas weddings per day 315
- 15,000 pillows cases are washed daly at the MGM Grand
- 15,000 miles of neon on the strip and downtown
- Shrimp consumption in Las Vegas is more than 60,000 pounds a day — higher than the rest of the country combined!
- It would take 288 years for one person to spend one night in every hotel room in Las Vegas.
- It is still "legal" to hang someone for shooting your dog on your property.
- It is illegal to drive a camel on the highway.
- Las Vegas has more hotel rooms than any other place on earth.
- In Nevada sex without a condom is considered illegal.
- The longest running show in Las Vegas is the Follies Bergere at the Tropicana Hotel and Casino. It opened in 1959.
- Nevada is the largest gold-producing state in the nation. It is second in the world behind South Africa.
- The Las Vegas Strip is mostly located in Clark not Las Vegas.
- The ever-lasting show, "Jubilee!" at Bally's, is one of a kind. The total weight of jewelry worn by girls in the show is 10,000 pounds; the amount of recycled water used in the "iceberg scene" is 5,000 gallons; the number of costume changes in the production is 739, and the number of songs is 53.
- Caesar's Palace's opening in 1966 was marked by guest eating 2 tons of filet mignon and drinking 50,000 glasses of champagne
- $23 million is the average price of 1 acre on the Las Vegas Strip
- The most Big Gulps in the world are purchased in Las Vegas
- Cost of Nevada marriage license, in dollars 35, average cost of filing for divorce in Nevada, in dollars 450
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