- Tomatina is the legendary Spanish tomato-throwing festival held in Bunol, Spain.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Pere Lachaise Cemetary located in Paris is the most visited cemetery in the world. The cemetery opened in 1805 and has over one million people buried there, including rock star Jim Morrison.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The average stay for a prisoner on Alcatraz, when it was used as a prison, was five years.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - In 1785, the city of Paris removed bones from cemeteries to ease the overflow of dead people. They took these bones and stacked them in tunnels now known as the Catacombs. You can visit these tunnel attractions and work your way along long corridors, which are stacked with skulls and bones.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The Sears Tower in Chicago contains enough steel to build 50,000 automobiles.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Tacoma Narrows Bridge which was located in Washington was nicknamed "Galloping Gertie" because of the unusual way it twisted and swayed with even with the slightest winds when people would drive on it. The bridge collapsed on November 7, 1940, fortunately no humans died, but one dog did.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The city of Chicago has the only post office in the world where you can drive your car through.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - From 1939 to 1942, there was a undersea post office in the Bahamas.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The first ice hotel was built in Swedish Lapland.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The Mount Horeb Mustard Museum which is located in Wisconsin has the biggest collection of prepared mustards. They have approximately 4,000 different jars and tubes from all over the world.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The Hollywood sign was first erected in 1923. It was first erected as "Hollywoodland."
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Frank Wathernam was the last prisoner to leave Alcatraz prison on March 21, 1963.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The American Airlines Center in Dallas has more toilets per capita than any other sports and entertainment venue in the country
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - In Las Vegas, the busiest and two most popular days chosen for couples to get married are St. Valentine's Day and New Year's Eve.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - One of the steepest main streets in Canada is located in Saint John, New Brunswick. Over a distance of two blocks the street rises about 80 feet.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The oldest inhabited house in Scotland is the Traquair Castle. The castle has had 27 kings as visitors.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The steepest street in the world is Baldwin Street located in Dunedin, New Zealand. It has an incline of 38%.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The deepest cave in the world is the "Lamprechtsofen-Vogelshacht" cave which can be found in Salzburg, Austria. The cave is 5,354 feet deep.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The world's only museum of Phallology is in Reykjavik, Iceland. Phallology is the the science of the penis.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The largest wedding chapel in Las Vegas is the Viva Las Vegas Chapel, which can seat 100 people.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Central Park located in New York has 125 drinking fountains.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - In Las Vegas, casinos do not have any clocks.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The Sears Tower located in Chicago, Illinois is made up 76,000 tons of steel.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The term "the Big Apple" came into common usage in the 1930s when touring jazz musicians referred to a town or city as an apple, making New York the Big Apple.
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(Added: Tue Sep 19 2006) - Honolulu, Hawaii boasts the only royal palace in the United States of America.
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