Eiffel Tower

Today for reading we were doing Non-Ficton text and we read about the Eiffel Tower.  Here are some of the facts we learnt.

It was Opened on the 31 March 1889 so it is 125 years old!
It was named after the Gustave Eiffel.
The Eiffel tower is one of the most famous towers in the world.
The Eiffel tower is 324 metres high.
It was made out of Iron.
It was the tallest manmade structure for 41 years until the Chrysler Building in New York was built.
The sun causes the tower to grow about 15cm!
It weights about 10,000 tones and it took 18,000 pieces of iron to create it.
It was nicknamed La dam de fer which means the iron lady.