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Thursday March 17, 2005

Interesting Statistics About The World Trade Center (contn.)

..... contn. from previous posting.

81. More than three dozen movies have been filmed there.
82. The best known film to use the WTC as a location was the 1976 remake of King Kong.
83. The 1993 bombing of the WTC killed six people and injured 1,000 more.
84. 1,300 pounds of explosives ripped through the garage in the 1993 attack.
85. That bomb created a crater 16 feet deep and badly damaged inner support beams
86. Before the 1993 attack, there were three closed circuit television networks for security.
87. After the bombing, the cameras were increased to 300 monitored by computers.
88. More than 300 security guards worked there.
89. The WTC featured security centers on 14 different floors and its own police station.
90. The entrance lobbies had 16 concierge desks and 12 X-ray machines.
91. After the first bombing, no one could get inside the buildings without an I.D.check
92. It took an average of five minutes for a visitor to pass through security checks.
93. Before the 1993 bombing, there were more than 1,000 parking spaces beneath the buildings, 600 remained afterward.
94. All vehicles using the parking lot had to show FBI security passes.
95. On Sept. 11, the building was 95 percent full, with over 400 tenants.
96. New York Gov. George Pataki had an office in the WTC, but wasn't there when the disaster struck.
97. Both the Secret Service and the FBI rented office space there.
98. $110.3 million in gold and 120.7 million in silver is buried in the rubble.
99. The combined weight of the towers was more than 1.5 million tons.
100. Each tower was built to safely sway about three feet during strong wind storms.
101. Blue Cross-Blue Shield, New York's largest health insurance company, moved into the building 3 years ago.
102. Nine chapels serving six different faiths called the WTC home.
103. Twenty-nine countries had trade mission offices in the buildings.
104. Every major U.S. airline had ticket offices inside the WTC.
105. It is the first skyscraper in the world destroyed by terrorists.
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Sir Ciniraj Mohamed,
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