Facts of the day - Sydney Olympics
Here are a few things you may not have known about the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games...
*The main restaurant in the Olympic village served 48,000 meals every day of the games
*There was 1800 house keeping staff keeping the village spick and span
*There were 52,000 bed sheets, 163,000 towels and 370,000 toilet rolls - enough to stretch for 15,000kms
*The linen alone weighed 825,000 kilos and would've taken the average family of four with eight loads of washing per week 264 years to wash
*The towels stacked on top of each other would reach a height three times that of Mt Kosciuszko
*The beds were made 396,000 times throughout the games - equivalent to 271 years of bed making for a family of four
*The village took 8 million man hours to build
*Using 20 million bricks
*The main restaurant in the Olympic village served 48,000 meals every day of the games
*There was 1800 house keeping staff keeping the village spick and span
*There were 52,000 bed sheets, 163,000 towels and 370,000 toilet rolls - enough to stretch for 15,000kms
*The linen alone weighed 825,000 kilos and would've taken the average family of four with eight loads of washing per week 264 years to wash
*The towels stacked on top of each other would reach a height three times that of Mt Kosciuszko
*The beds were made 396,000 times throughout the games - equivalent to 271 years of bed making for a family of four
*The village took 8 million man hours to build
*Using 20 million bricks
posted by Believe in the Impossible at
1:25 AM
2 Comments:
You really are an Olympic nut aren't you? :)
What did you think of the Rachel movie?
xx Bec
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Anonymous, at 6:23 PM
Riss, you are one very strange chickie.
Did you know that Nikki Webster is a total toss?
And that Kylie Minogue riding a giant thong was probably the lamest thing I've ever seen?
And did you know that I think you're one groovy little chicken?
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Anonymous, at 6:14 PM
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