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Now That`s Interesting
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A new section with some of the strangest facts and figures available.
For a topical start we`ll try the Atlanta Olympics 1996.
COMMUNICATION
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Official Olympic organisers will be issued with -
13,000 telephones,
11,500 television sets,
1100 desktop printers.
There will be 190 miles of cables laid in the International Broadcast
Centre.
1500 people will be employed as language translators,translating 12
million words.
The Olympics has it`s own space on the internet and expects up to 10
million " hits " per day.
MERCHANDISING
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Idividual tickets for all events,11 million
Tickets to the Olympic Arts Festival,1.2 million
Official Guide Books,1.2 million
Area maps,5 million
Daily programmes,1.4 million
T-Shirts 1.3 million
Lapel pins,2.2 million
Olympic hats,500,000
Posters,300,000
Olympic car number plates bought by Georgia car owners,1.1 million
SPORTS EQUIPMENT
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500 Basketballs
2,500 Baseballs
496 Handballs
750 Soccer balls
1,200 Softballs
3,600 Table tennis balls
38,400 Tennis balls
750 Volleyballs
300 Waterpolo balls
CATERING FOR VISITORS
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33 million meals in total
3.6 million eggs
100,000 gallons of milk
1.5 million lbs of fresh fruit
1.2 million hot-dogs
750,000 lbs of beef
93,000 barbecue pork sandwiches
CATERING FOR ATHLETES
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2 million cans of soft drinks
3.5 million napkins
47,000 loaves
19 miles of aluminium foil
950,000 apples
70,000 lbs of cheese
200 lbs of garlic
2,800 lbs of bean sprouts
400,000 peaches
450 gallons of barbecue sauce
31,500 lbs of onions
21 million lbs of ice
MISCELLANEOUS
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83,100 seats in the Olympic Stadium
186,000 temporary seats at other venues
100,000 trips to Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport to pick up
and drop off athletes and officials
2,000 dope tests
15,000 residents of Olympic Village
140,580 rooms to be cleaned daily
1.6 milliom lbs of laundry to wash
121 medical aid stations
10,000 tons of rubbish to be picked up and re-cycled
1,800 portable toilets
1.5 million sq feet of flower beds
Know any interesting facts? Good,bung them up to me for inclusion.
Bob