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[–] 77 points 1 month ago (11 children)

It bothers me that it doesn't say how tall the original is. 330 meters if anyone else was wondering.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    That's common knowledge, you don't even know that? What do you mean, "frenchie detected"?!

    (Jokes aside, I think that is why, noticing the small text in french at the bottom left of a map, they probably assume you already know cause its targeted toward french people)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Is this something most French people know? I don't know the height of any of the major monuments in the USA but I guess we don't have one single monument that's as synonymous with the whole country.

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  • [–] 58 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    The actual tower in Paris is 330m tall if anyone was wondering, like I was, about the difference in height between some of these others and the original. Seems silly to list heights for all these others on the map but not for the real one.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I’d wager this is something displayed at the Eiffel Tower, where they prominently display and have informed you a bajillion times how tall it is.

    So this lets you compare, and if you’re not already aware of the number they’ve tried to ingrain in your brain, OR engage with what they have that tells you.

    Marketing

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    Sailors exploring the Indian Ocean: "Man, it sure is a nice sunny day today"

    Evil and intimidating floating France:

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I wondered if the 1/3 replica at King's Island in Ohio would make the list, and it did!

    When I was a kid it was the closest amusement park to where I lived, about 45 minutes away. When I was old enough to drive four of us would pool our money for a family pass, which paid for itself in two visits. We went every week of summer break, every summer for three years. I should say gas was less than $1/gallon then.

    Once we graduated we all got too busy to go that often, but it was some fun times while it lasted.

    The park would close at 11:00, and at 10:30 they'd set of fireworks from the top of the "Eiffel" tower. We all swore they would "speed up" the rides after dark. Dunno if they actually did, but we were convinced lol. Of course we also knew with absolute certainty that if you swallowed gum it stayed in your guts for seven years, and that Marilyn Manson had a rib removed so that he could fellate himself. Man we were dumb

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Amazing how that Marilyn Manson rumor spread everywhere before we had the Internet. It's so ridiculous, but looking at him you think oh yeah I bet that's something he would do. Sort of like how we all know about JD Vance's affection for leather couches.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    There is also one in Paris, Arkansas and, I would hazard a guess, several other places not listed here.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Give old Gustave Eiffel the respect of spelling his name correctly please

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Eiffel

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  • Fun Eiffel Tower fact: for the 1893 world's fair in Chicago, Eiffel proposed building a copy of his original tower but twice as tall. The organizers passed on the offer and went with the Ferris wheel instead. We could have had Eiffel Bueller's Day Off.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I remember being rather surprised the first time I went to Tokyo since I'd never heard of Tokyo Tower before I went there. (Mind you, that was 25+ years ago and I was quite young at the time...)

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    Oh goddamnit they're reproducing.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Doesn't Blackpool Tower count?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)
  • There was one at burning man this year too

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    I'm surprised we don't have one in Japan. We romanticize the crap out of France.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    I have climbed the 12m Eiffel tower in my city.

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