• The Space Needle elevators travel at 10 mph, but snow falls at only 3 mph so from a moving elevator it appears to be snowing upwards
  • Seattle has the highest percentage of library card-holders per capita of any U.S. city
  • The world’s first gas station opened in Seattle in 1907
  • The Space Needle sways about 1 inch for every 10 mph of wind
  • Seattle’s Harbor Island is the largest man-made island in the U.S.
  • Houston, Chicago, and New York City all get more annual rain than Seattle
  • The restaurant atop Seattle’s Space Needle was the first revolving one in the mainland U.S.
  • In 1987 the Space Needle was “moved” 312 feet southwest – on paper – as part of a NOAA project re-mapping the earth by satellite