The Great Bell, or Big Ben, was made in 1856 in a nearby factory. It took 16 horses to pull it to Parliament. The bell cracked when it was first tested. It was ...

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Fun facts about Big Ben. Each dial is seven metres in diameter. The minute hands are 4.2 metres long (14ft) and weigh about 100kg (220lbs, including ...

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Big Ben is a famous nickname. It refers to the Great Bell inside the Great Clock of Westminster. People also use "Big Ben" to mean the entire clock tower ...

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Standing at over 96m tall, the tower is 72m taller than Buckingham Palace! Big Ben is the largest four facing clock tower in the world! Have you visited Big Ben ...

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The height of Big Ben is 315 feet. The length of each side of Big Ben's base are 39 feet. There are four clock faces on Big Ben ...

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Big Ben is the name of a famous clock in London, England. It is the world's oldest four-faced chiming clock of its size.

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🔔 Big Ben, the Great Bell, weighs about 13.5 long tons (approximately 13,700 kg) and is one of the largest bells in the world.

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It has four massive clock faces, with 14-foot-long minute hands that each weigh approximately 220 pounds. Each clock face consists of 312 ...

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#1 – Big Ben is a nickname · #2 – The clock face is made from hundreds of individual pieces of glass · #3 – Big Ben was built 164 years ago · #4 – ...

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