Mont Saint-Michel isn’t always an island — when the tide is low, you can walk to it across the sand, but when the tide comes in, the water surrounds it completely, making it look like it’s floating on the sea!
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The public staircase in the CN Tower has 1,776 steps and leads up to the main observation level (often referred to as the LookOut Level and the Glass Floor).
When Hagia Sophia in Istanbul was finished in 537 AD, Justinian I is said to have thrown his arms wide and exclaimed, ‘Solomon, I have surpassed thee!’ — because he believed he’d built something even more glorious than the ancient Temple of Solomon.
The Panathenaic Festival, celebrated every four years at the Acropolis, was like an ancient Olympic Games and religious ceremony combined!
Each minute hand on Big Ben’s clock faces is 14 feet (4.3 meters) long — about the same length as a small car!