Things to do / Travel Guide
- The average $1 bill (printed at the Bureau of Printing and Engraving) remains in circulation for a period of 22 months.
- Each day the Bureau of Printing and Engraving produces some 35 million individual notes valued at $635 million.
- The longest speech ever in the United States Congress went on for more than 24 hours straight, delivered by Senator Strom Thurmond in 1957.
- Washington DC ranks second to the entire state of California in the amount of federal employees living there.
- The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere is found in the Metro Station of the DC suburb of Wheaton and is a 500 foot-long ride, more than twice the length of an average city block.
- The corridors of the Pentagon are nearly 18 miles long. With 6.6 million square feet of space, the Pentagon is one of the world's largest buildings, larger than even the Empire State Building.
- The first name of Washington DC, Columbia, popularly depicted as a woman, is the same icon which is seen across the world introducing films produced by Columbia Pictures.
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