This issue of Misc9 was published on September 13, 2001
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The World Trade Center complex consisted of 7 buildings.
The World Trade Center was opened in 1970.
The World Trade Center cost $350,000,000 in 1960 US dollars
[$2,000,000,000 in 2001 US dollars].
The World Trade Center housed 430 companies from 28 countries.
The World Trade Center employed 40,000 people.
The World Trade Center had 200,000 visitors per day.
The World Trade Center towers were 110 stories high.
The World Trade Center towers were about 1360 feet tall.
The World Trade Center twin towers were 210 feet by 210
feet.
The World Trade Center had 9,000,000 square feet of space.
The World Trade Center twin towers had up to 40,000 square
feet per floor.
Each twin tower floor of the World Trade Center weighed
6,000,000 pounds.
The World Trade Center twin towers weighed an estimated
1,300,000,000 pounds.
The 200,000 gallons of fuel onboard one of the planes had
the explosive force of 2,000,000 pounds of explosives.
If each truck carries 25,000 pounds of rubble, it will take
52,000 truckloads to fully remove the World Trade Center
material. At 100 truckloads per day, it would take about
18 months. If all the trucks were in a line, it would be
about 200 miles long. Rubble is scattered for ten blocks
in all four directions.
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