http://www.trifter.com/tags/double New posts about double http://www.trifter.com/Europe/United-Kingdom/10-Things-You-Never-Knew-About-Blackpool-Tower.47177 Annually thousands of visitors flock to the complex to dance in the Ballroom, experience the Circus and gaze from the Tower itself. Blackpool Tower, however, has got more than it's fair share of secrets.

1. Before World War I, the film star W.C. Fields spent a season as a juggler in the Tower Circus.
2. In 1985 Escapologist Karl Bartoni and his fiancée, were married in a cage suspended from the top of the Tower.
3. The top of the Tower stays open until the wind speed reaches 45mph and then it's considered too dangerous for the public to visit the viewing platform.
4. The height to the top of the Tower's flagpole is 518ft 9 inches, which is roughly the height of 39 London Double Decker buses stacked on top of each another.
5. Between 1913 and 1946 the Tower's telephone number was "Blackpool 1".
6. During the world famous " Blackpool Illuminations" 10,000 lights are used to illuminate the Tower.
7. The "Walk of Faith" glass floor panel at the top of the Tower was opened in 1998. The laminated glass is 2 inches thick and can withstand the equivalent weight of five baby elephants
8. At the base of the Tower buried beneath the foundation stone, there's a time capsule from 1891
9. Unusually the circus is positioned at the base of the Tower between the four legs of the structure.
10. The Tower buildings contain over 5 million bricks and it takes over 15,000 yards of carpet to cover the floor area.

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