Friday, August 25, 2006

Just a few of the 'fascinating' facts about the new Wembley Stadium

The Arch

- is high enough to roll the London Eye under it
- weighs the equivalent of 275 double decker buses or 10 Jumbo Jets
- the tips of the Arch are known as 'pencil ends' and weigh 18 million times more than an average pencil
- it is made up from 500 steel tubes known as 'straws' - you can get 850 pints of milk in each one ie. 425,000 pints in all
- the amount of paint needed to coat the Arch would cover the ceiling of the Cistine Chapel 19 times

The stadium

- lay all the seating end to end at it will stretch 54 kilometres or in English 33.55 miles
- the roof weighs 7000 tonnes
- each of the two giant screens is the size of 600 domestic TVs
- it could hold 25,000 double deckers or 7 billion pints of milk
- and of course.....
- There will be 2618 toilets

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