February 28, 2010
Elevator Trivia
Did you know that jumping off an elevator just before it lands is impossible? You aren’t able to jump off fast enough to overcome the speed of falling. Did you know that in the United States and Canada people ride in about 700,000 elevators? Did you know that the safest place to be in a crisis is in the elevator cab? Did you know that there has only been one accident of an elevator cable snapping. That was in 1945 in the Empire State Building in New York City. Did you know that elevators are twenty times safer than escalators?