The Eiffel Tower is a 324 m high lattice tower made of wrought iron on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It’s construction was started on January 28, 1887 and completed on March 15, 1889. Eiffel tower was named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower.

The above facts are known to everyone, but there are some hidden facts about this place and to know those facts must read this!

Monumental facts about the Eiffel Tower.

1) As the gateway to 1889 World’s Fair, the Eiffel tower was intended to be a temporary structure.

2) But it’s built pretty solid! The foundation for each leg are nearly 50 feet underground.

3) When it was built, Parisians considered it an eye shore. The novelist Guy de Maupassant often ate lunch at the base because it was the only spot in Paris without a view of monument.

4) During WWII, French Resistance fighters cut these elevator cables to force Nazis to climb to the top.

5) You can find the names of 72 French scientists are engraved below the balcony.

6) There’s a lot of paint under here. The tower gets a paint job every 7 years, and it takes 60 tons of it to look great.

7) There are also lot of rivets: 2.5 million of them!

8) The tower has sported several looks over the decades: chesnut, “Venetian red,” and even yellow ochre. today it’s “Eiffel Tower Brown.”

9) From 1925-1934, car company Citroen advertised down the side with 100-foot tall lighted letters. (Charles Lindbergh used them as a beacon during his transatlantic flight).

10) In 1912, Franz Reichelt jumped from the tower to test his new creation the parachute suit. Sadly the suit failed.

11) There’s a tiny secret apartment at the top, where Gustave Eiffel used it to entertain guests like Thomas A. Edison.

12) Hardly people know the that Eiffel tower shrinks, yes in winter, it get shrink by 4-8 inch.

13) At 986 feet, it was the tallest structure in the world until the Chrysler building was finished in 1930.

14) In 1940, Nazis hung a large swastika-emblazoned flag from the top. It blew away a few hours later.

15) About 250 million people have visited the Eiffel tower since 1889. Not bad for a temporary monument.