Interesting facts about Pentagon video

The Pentagon (Penta means five in Greek) got its name from the pentagonal shape of the building of the Ministry of defense. The length of each of the five sides of the building equal to 281 m, the perimeter is about 1405 m, the total length of the corridors is 28 km and the total area of five floors — 604 000 m2.





The building has five overground and two underground floors, the height of the aerial part is 23.5 m the Construction of the Pentagon began in 1941, lasted approximately sixteen months and cost the American taxpayers $ 83 million. Despite more than half a century the construction of the Pentagon is considered the most ergonomic office in the world. At any point can be reached in 7 minutes.

The building consists of five pentagons (one in another like Russian dolls), crossing ten corridors running from the centre. The building employs about 26 000 people, daily output of 200,000 phone calls and sent 40,000 letters. Interestingly, the Pentagon has twice as many toilets than required in reality.





The Pentagon was built, when Virginia still was a law about separate toilets for whites and blacks. However, the signs "whites" and "blacks" hanged and was not due to the intervention of President Roosevelt. September 11, 2001, 9:37:46, the Pentagon was subjected to a terrorist attack — a Boeing 757-200 (American Airlines flight 77) crashed into the left outer wing of the Pentagon, which houses the command of the naval forces, it has been damaged by explosion and fire, part of the building collapsed. In the center of the courtyard is a small shop with the ominous name of "Point zero".

According to local legend, during the cold war, the Soviet military analysts assumed that under this small building is a bunker: spy satellites recorded that he constantly came in and out of a large number of people. In connection with this, allegedly, right at the grocery store was targeted by Soviet nuclear missiles.







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