Vegas Facts - Cool facts about Las Vegas?

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Las Vegas means "the meadows" in Spanish.

In Nevada, there are more than 209,000 slot machines normally operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The first neon sign appeared in Las Vegas in 1954 at the Boulder Club.

The bell is the oldest symbol still used on today's slot machines.

The average annual temperature in Las Vegas is 66 degrees.

It would take 288 years for one person to spend one night in every hotel room in Las Vegas.

Shrimp consumption in Las Vegas is more than 60,000 pounds a day. That's higher than the rest of the country combined and adds up to 22 million pounds per year.

The Stardust was the first hotel in Vegas to add a sports book to its casino.

Nickel slots on the Strip pay back anywhere from 86.9 percent to 92.8 percent of what they take in.

Las Vegas casinos never use dice with rounded corners.

It's estimated that every day Las Vegas casinos give away $3 million of freebies (more than $1 billion per year) just to get custom.

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Answer 1

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And vegas does mean meadows in Spanish. According to online dictionaries it means "fertile valley", which is close enough to meadow for me!

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http://www.spanishdict.com/AS.cfm?e=vega…

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Answer 2

It has loads of casinos & is near to the nevada desert and the grand canyons.

Answer 3

The famous Las Vegas strip is for the most part, not within the city limits of Las Vegas. The majority of the strip is located within Clark County.

That is not true, most of the strip is in an unicorporated city called Paradise. Everything there is within Clark County.

Answer 4

When Paul Anka first played Vegas he was too young to be allowed in the casin

Bugsy Siegel named his casino the Flamingo after the long legs of his showgirl girlfriend.


In Nevada it is mandatory that video slot machines pay a minimum of 75 percent on average.


Vegas Vic, the enormous neon cowboy that towers over Fremont Street, is the world's largest mechanical neon sign.

Howard Hughes stayed at the Desert Inn for so long that he was asked to leave. He bought the hotel.


Camels were used as pack animals in Nevada as late as 1870

Over 38.9 million people visit Las Vegas each year.


Seventeen of the 20 biggest hotels in the U.S. are in Las Vegas.

The city of Las Vegas celebrated its 100th birthday on May 15, 2005. The event celebrated the May 15, 1905 land auction when 110 acres of land in downtown Las Vegas were auctioned off.

A 1910 law made it illegal to gamble in Las Vegas. The Nevada Legislature later approved a legalized gambling bill in 1931.

The first hotel and casino to open in Las Vegas was the Golden Gate Hotel and Casino in 1906.

The Hoover Dam was completed in 1935. It took a total of 21,000 men five years to complete the structure.

The Moulin Rouge, the city’s first racially integrated hotel, opened in 1955.

In 1957, topless showgirls debuted on the Las Vegas Strip in “Minsky’s Follies” at the Dunes.

The famous “Welcome to Las Vegas” sign was created in 1959 by Betty Willis.

In 2004, more than 37 million people visited Las Vegas. Compare this to 1970 when a mere 6.7 million people visited the city.

More than 22,000 conventions were held in Las Vegas in 2004.

In 2004, visitors stayed an average of 3.6 nights.
More than 5,000 people move into the Las Vegas valley on a monthly basis.

Las Vegas is home to Clark County School District, the fifth largest school district, which currently handles more than 280,000 students.
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he famous Las Vegas strip is for the most part, not within the city limits of Las Vegas. The majority of the strip is located within Clark County.

The Stratosphere Hotel and Tower, at more than 1,100 feet, is the tallest building west of the Mississippi and the fifth tallest building in the United States.

A marriage license costs $55 in Nevada. Many couples choose to marry in Nevada because there is no blood test or waiting period.

Fremont Street was closed to traffic in 1994. The Fremont Street Experience opened in December 1955

Answer 5

"the meadows" is not the translation for Las Vegas just so you know.

Las Vegas doesn't exist in Spanish (Mexico) as a word. It may exist or tranlate to that in other Spanish speaking countries. (Spain, south America).

Answer 6

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