FACT OUR PLANET Earth is about 4.55 billion years old Follow the fact ticker at the bottom and count the facts YOU HAVE LEARNED 1 FACT 5 000 AWESOME FACTS 3 7
15 FERRIS WHEEL FACTS The WORLD S FIRST Ferris wheel designed by engineer George Ferris for the Chicago World's Fair in 1893 cost 50 cents to ride and could hold MORE THAN 2 000 RIDERS at once Original Ferris wheels were turned by powerful STEAM ENGINES Most modern wheels run on ELECTRICITY You can ride a HUMAN POWERED Ferris wheel in India with park employees using their BODY WEIGHT to help turn the wheel The NEW YORK WHEEL will tower more than 60 STORIES over NEW YORK CITY making it one of the WORLD S TALLEST Ferris wheels 5 A roller coaster whips through the middle of the BIGO wheel in Tokyo Japan one of the only Ferris wheels to operate without a CENTER AXLE or SPOKES The PACIFIC WHEEL in Santa Monica California U S A is the only entirely SOLAR POWERED Ferris wheel on the PLANET The CAPTAIN WHEEL outside of Washington D C U S A is decorated with 1 6 million LED lights that CHANGE COLOR to the beat of MUSIC 8 Turkmenistan is home to the LARGEST ENCLOSED Ferris wheel in the world a 156 foot 47 5 m tall ride built inside a GLASS and MARBLE structure 8 5 000 AWESOME FACTS 3
TO MAKE YOUR HEAD SPIN Despite being damaged during WORLD WAR II the 120 year old Wiener Riesenrad in VIENNA AUSTRIA still spins with 15 of its original 30 cars The TRANSPORTABLE Roue de Paris wheel that has popped up in PARIS ENGLAND BANGKOK and AMSTERDAM can be DISMANTLED in 60 HOURS and built in 72 HOURS Each year more than 3 7 MILLION PEOPLE take a spin on the LONDON EYE Europe's largest Ferris wheel built to mark the NEW MILLENNIUM in 2000 12 It takes 30 MINUTES to make a FULL ROTATION on the SINGAPORE FLYER a massive wheel that's nearly as tall as the WASHINGTON MONUMENT An artist created a PEDAL POWERED Ferris wheel powered by a TRIO OF RIDERS simultaneously pedaling to propel and rotate the ride The TIANJIN EYE looms large over a SIX LANE BRIDGE in northern China with cars and pedestrians PASSING BELOW the 394 FOOT 120 M wheel With a TIME DISPLAY at the center of a giant Ferris wheel the COSMO CLOCK 21 in Yokohama Japan can claim to be the world's LARGEST CLOCK YOU HAVE LEARNED 16 FACTS 5 000 AWESOME FACTS 39
