Little Tidbits of Information

 

In the US, the standard distance between railroad rails is 4 feet 8-1/2 inches.
Collegeville, PA
 

336 is the common number for dimples in a golf ball.  But, it can range from 300 to 500 dimples depending on the manufacturer.
Delray Beach, FL

 

A 2×4 is actually 1-1/2 inches by 3-1/2 inches.
Flagstaff, AZ

 

The square root of pi is approximately 1.7725.
Limerick, PA

 

1 mile equals 5280 feet.
Limerick, PA

 

The average life span of a major league baseball is 7 pitches.
Deerfield Beach, FL

 

Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters mt.
Phoenix, AZ

 

The name jeep came from the abbreviation GP, used in the U.S. Army for general-purpose vehicle.
Washington, DC

 

There are 10 Million bricks in the Empire State Building.
New York, NY

 

A bridge built in Lima, Peru around 1610 was made of mortar that was mixed not with water but with the whites of 10,000 eggs. The bridge, appropriately called the Bridge of Eggs, is still standing today.
Baltimore, MD

 

Many houses in the rural districts of Nepal are constructed of cow dung mixed with mud, sand, and clay.
Tampa, FL

 

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.
Phoenix, AZ

 

Construction workers hard hats were first invented and used in the building of the Hoover Dam in 1933.
Boynton Beach, FL

 

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
Boynton Beach, FL

 

The Eiffel Tower is 984 feet high and receives a fresh coat of 300 tons of reddish-green paint every seven years.
Japan

 

The average age of a construction worker is 47 years old.
Seattle, WA

 

As of the census of 2000, there were 13,534 people in Limerick, PA (where we are located).
Limerick, PA

 

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