Welcome to my second installment on the City of Las Vegas. Here are some facts about the city that you may or may not have been aware of:

• it would take a person approximately 288 years to spend a night in every hotel room in Las Vegas
• estimates have indicated that Las Vegas casinos give away $1 billion of freebies per year just to get people through their doors (that's over 3 million per day!)
• the Riveria was the first "high-rise hotel" on the Las Vegas Strip (it was nine stories tall)
• the Las Vegas Strip is not actually located in the city of Las Vegas... the strip actually falls under the jurisdiction of Clark County
• did you know that there is one operating slot machine in Las Vegas for every 8.1 residents
• the electric bill for the beam from atop the Luxor is $51 an hour
• the MGM Grand has 5,034 rooms
• of the top 20 largest hotels in the world, 85% of them are in Las Vegas
• approximately 250 marriage licenses are issued per day in Las Vegas
• the Coldest Day recorded in Las Vegas was on Jan 13, 1963 at 8 Degrees F
• the Warmest Day ever recorded in Las Vegas was on July 24, 1985 at 116 Degrees F
• Las Vegas has the highest number of unlisted phone numbers of any U.S. city.
• Annual visitors to Las Vegas, in millions 36.7
• Number of people moving to Las Vegas annually 60,000
• Price for a prime acre of land on the Strip, in millions of dollars 11
• in 1998 - A 66-year-old Las Vegas resident hits a $27.58 million progressive Megabucks jackpot on November 15 at the Palace Station Hotel Casino. This was the worl'ds largest jackpot at he time.