Coming off of a 3-2 OT victory over the Arizona Coyotes, the Winnipeg Jets bring their 5-3 record to the T-Mobile Arena in a more reasonable (at least for me) 7:00pm CDT start time against the Vegas Golden Knights. Vegas is 7-2 and have won three in a row, including a 4-0 shutout over the Anaheim (once Mighty) Ducks. The Jets will be in tough, having lost 5-2 in their previous meeting with the Golden Knights. Head Coach Rick Bowness is still back in Winnipeg with Covid symptoms, so Associate Coach Scott Arniel remains at the helm for tonight's action.
We all know that Las Vegas is a gambling mecca and that Elvis Presley once had a residency there, but here are some facts that even residents of “Sin City” don't even know...
The word “Las Vegas” translates in Spanish as “the meadows” and is said to be given this name by a member of a Spanish expedition in the 1800s that was trying to find water; it was in response to seeing the area’s desert springs and grassy meadows.
In 1855, a Mormon expedition passed through the area from Salt Lake City with the purpose of starting a mission located between Utah and San Bernardino, California; it would be abandoned three years later. The actual founding of what's now Las Vegas goes back to 1905, with a land auction by a railroad company. It would establish Las Vegas as a township. It was encouraged by William Clark, a mining magnate from Montana, who recognized the potential of such an opportunity of having a destination that was based along a railroad stop. Six years later, Las Vegas would become incorporated...
Las Vegas has over 150,000 hotel rooms, with the most being at the MGM Grand, which has 6852 of them. The hotel gets about 12,000 guests a night, leaving the staff to wash 92,000 pounds of linen each and every day. And you thought your laundry was out of control...
If you've ever gotten the urge to hop the railing and go for a dip, don't, because the Bellagio fountains and man-made lake are churning water that's been recycled from showers, tub, and sinks throughout the city. It's beautiful. It's mesmerizing. It's slightly contaminated. You can look, but please don't touch.
Sanitation issues aside, the fountains truly are a sight to behold. Even locals can't help but stop and stare. The lake supposedly holds 22 million gallons of water, which the fountains can shoot up to 460 feet high. The fountain is no joke, either. It's made of 1,200 nozzles, 4,500 lights, and 8,000 meters of pipe. Insane.
All in all, rumor has it that the fountains cost the Bellagio somewhere in the ballpark of $10,000 to $15,000 to run each night...
Whether you're getting married on a whim or you've been planning it for months, if you come to Vegas to say "I do," you definitely won't be alone. Sin City hosts about 10,000 marriage ceremonies every month, which comes out to about 300 a day. This brings in a whopping $2 billion a year in revenue for the area.
Wondering why this is such a popular destination for weddings? Simple. Their marriage laws are lax and it's cheap to do, with a marriage license costing just $77 and obtainable in just minutes. There's no blood test and no waiting period. Plus, you can get married by Elvis and such in a tiny chapel downtown for less than $100. That's a bargain...
It will be no surprise that one of the facts on Las Vegas is that the city is one of the world’s gambling capitals. However, it’s no longer the gambling capital of the world. Despite holding the title until 2007, Macau is now known as the world’s gambling capital, with gambling revenues exceeding Vegas each year...
One of the crazy facts about Las Vegas is that the iconic Las Vegas strip isn’t even in Las Vegas at all. The strip actually falls outside of the city limits and is instead in Winchester and Paradise, which are both part of Clark County...
Another of the interesting facts about Las Vegas, Nevada, is that with approximately 164,000 slot machines in the city of about 635,000 residents, there’s one slot machine per every four people that live there...
Lake Mead is a reservoir that provides the majority of Las Vegas’ water supply. Interestingly, there is also an abandoned town underneath Lake Mead.
In the 1930s, the US government asked residents of St. Thomas to leave so they could flood the area to create the lake. While the residents left, the town was not demolished and was instead submerged below the lake. And we won't mention any of the dead bodies that the mob left behind in barrels that were recently found due to the drought...
While you may associate drinking wine with Las Vegas, you probably wouldn’t think that the drink gets produced in the area. However, another of the fun facts about Vegas is that there is a wine region, with vineyards and multiple wineries, just one hour away from the strip...
The iconic Eiffel Tower replica at the Paris Hotel is half the size of the original in Paris, France. However, that was not the plan.
The original developers wanted the tower to be to scale. At this height, the structure would have been a danger to planes flying in and out of nearby Harry Reid (formally McCarran) International Airport, hence the size reduction...
The United States' neighbor to the North, Canada, sends the most international tourists to Las Vegas. Approximately 1.5 million tourists from Canada entered Las Vegas in 2019.
The US’ other neighbor, Mexico, sent the second most visitors, just over 1.1 million in 2019. The United Kingdom, Australia, and Japan, take the third, fourth, and fifth spots, respectively...
It's not surprising that people down on their luck tend to visit Vegas to try to get rich quick, but even Frederick W. Smith, the founder and CEO of FedEx, saved his company by gambling in Las Vegas. When FedEx had a hard time paying their $24,000 fuel bill, Smith took the company's last $5,000 to gamble and managed to win $27,000 on blackjack and kept the business afloat...
And finally, despite Sin City being one of the legal gambling capitals of the world, ironically, the lottery is in fact illegal in the state of Nevada...
Go Jets Go!
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Oh, and how could I forget the T-Shirt of the day...
We all know that Las Vegas is a gambling mecca and that Elvis Presley once had a residency there, but here are some facts that even residents of “Sin City” don't even know...
The word “Las Vegas” translates in Spanish as “the meadows” and is said to be given this name by a member of a Spanish expedition in the 1800s that was trying to find water; it was in response to seeing the area’s desert springs and grassy meadows.
In 1855, a Mormon expedition passed through the area from Salt Lake City with the purpose of starting a mission located between Utah and San Bernardino, California; it would be abandoned three years later. The actual founding of what's now Las Vegas goes back to 1905, with a land auction by a railroad company. It would establish Las Vegas as a township. It was encouraged by William Clark, a mining magnate from Montana, who recognized the potential of such an opportunity of having a destination that was based along a railroad stop. Six years later, Las Vegas would become incorporated...
Las Vegas has over 150,000 hotel rooms, with the most being at the MGM Grand, which has 6852 of them. The hotel gets about 12,000 guests a night, leaving the staff to wash 92,000 pounds of linen each and every day. And you thought your laundry was out of control...
If you've ever gotten the urge to hop the railing and go for a dip, don't, because the Bellagio fountains and man-made lake are churning water that's been recycled from showers, tub, and sinks throughout the city. It's beautiful. It's mesmerizing. It's slightly contaminated. You can look, but please don't touch.
Sanitation issues aside, the fountains truly are a sight to behold. Even locals can't help but stop and stare. The lake supposedly holds 22 million gallons of water, which the fountains can shoot up to 460 feet high. The fountain is no joke, either. It's made of 1,200 nozzles, 4,500 lights, and 8,000 meters of pipe. Insane.
All in all, rumor has it that the fountains cost the Bellagio somewhere in the ballpark of $10,000 to $15,000 to run each night...
Whether you're getting married on a whim or you've been planning it for months, if you come to Vegas to say "I do," you definitely won't be alone. Sin City hosts about 10,000 marriage ceremonies every month, which comes out to about 300 a day. This brings in a whopping $2 billion a year in revenue for the area.
Wondering why this is such a popular destination for weddings? Simple. Their marriage laws are lax and it's cheap to do, with a marriage license costing just $77 and obtainable in just minutes. There's no blood test and no waiting period. Plus, you can get married by Elvis and such in a tiny chapel downtown for less than $100. That's a bargain...
It will be no surprise that one of the facts on Las Vegas is that the city is one of the world’s gambling capitals. However, it’s no longer the gambling capital of the world. Despite holding the title until 2007, Macau is now known as the world’s gambling capital, with gambling revenues exceeding Vegas each year...
One of the crazy facts about Las Vegas is that the iconic Las Vegas strip isn’t even in Las Vegas at all. The strip actually falls outside of the city limits and is instead in Winchester and Paradise, which are both part of Clark County...
Another of the interesting facts about Las Vegas, Nevada, is that with approximately 164,000 slot machines in the city of about 635,000 residents, there’s one slot machine per every four people that live there...
Lake Mead is a reservoir that provides the majority of Las Vegas’ water supply. Interestingly, there is also an abandoned town underneath Lake Mead.
In the 1930s, the US government asked residents of St. Thomas to leave so they could flood the area to create the lake. While the residents left, the town was not demolished and was instead submerged below the lake. And we won't mention any of the dead bodies that the mob left behind in barrels that were recently found due to the drought...
While you may associate drinking wine with Las Vegas, you probably wouldn’t think that the drink gets produced in the area. However, another of the fun facts about Vegas is that there is a wine region, with vineyards and multiple wineries, just one hour away from the strip...
The iconic Eiffel Tower replica at the Paris Hotel is half the size of the original in Paris, France. However, that was not the plan.
The original developers wanted the tower to be to scale. At this height, the structure would have been a danger to planes flying in and out of nearby Harry Reid (formally McCarran) International Airport, hence the size reduction...
The United States' neighbor to the North, Canada, sends the most international tourists to Las Vegas. Approximately 1.5 million tourists from Canada entered Las Vegas in 2019.
The US’ other neighbor, Mexico, sent the second most visitors, just over 1.1 million in 2019. The United Kingdom, Australia, and Japan, take the third, fourth, and fifth spots, respectively...
It's not surprising that people down on their luck tend to visit Vegas to try to get rich quick, but even Frederick W. Smith, the founder and CEO of FedEx, saved his company by gambling in Las Vegas. When FedEx had a hard time paying their $24,000 fuel bill, Smith took the company's last $5,000 to gamble and managed to win $27,000 on blackjack and kept the business afloat...
Nowhere else in the world could be home to a restaurant named the - wait for it...'Heart Attack Grill'! A hospital themed restaurant where the waitresses are referred to as nurses, orders are written down as prescriptions and diners that are happy to do a weigh in with the "nurses" with a weight of more than 350 pounds are able to dine for FREE!
The Heart Attack Grill menu includes an impressive range of burgers, enticingly named the Single, Douple, Triple and QUADRUPLE BYPASS Burger. Each "heart attack" inducing burger is served with a side of Flatliner Fries! The meat in the QUADRUPLE Bypass Burger alone consists of a deathly 8,000 calories. That's four times a woman's recommended daily allowance...
The Heart Attack Grill menu includes an impressive range of burgers, enticingly named the Single, Douple, Triple and QUADRUPLE BYPASS Burger. Each "heart attack" inducing burger is served with a side of Flatliner Fries! The meat in the QUADRUPLE Bypass Burger alone consists of a deathly 8,000 calories. That's four times a woman's recommended daily allowance...
And finally, despite Sin City being one of the legal gambling capitals of the world, ironically, the lottery is in fact illegal in the state of Nevada...
Go Jets Go!
Thanks to: 5 Fun Facts About Las Vegas You Probably Didn't Know, 22 Fun Facts About Las Vegas, NV That Will Blow Your Mind, 20 Fun Facts about Vegas that You Probably Didn't Know, 10 Facts About Las Vegas You Didn’t Know, 16 Fun Facts About Las Vegas! | AttractionTickets.com
Oh, and how could I forget the T-Shirt of the day...
Well since tomorrow is Halloween lets scare the hell out of Vegas with a big win tonight.
everyone!
