Saturday, November 14, 2009

Consumption of beer > Water :P

# Area: 103.79 acres (0.42 km²)
# Seats in the festival halls: approx. 100,000
# Visitors: 6.2 million
# Beer: appr. 6,940,600 liters (126,900 liters non-alcoholic)
# Wine: 79,624 liters
# Sparkling wine: 32,047 liters
# Coffee, tea: 222,725 liters
# Water, lemonade: 909,765 ½ liters
# Chicken: 521,872 units
# Pork sausages: 142,253 pairs
# Fish: 38,650 kg
# Pork knuckles: 58,446 units
# Oxen: 104 units,
# Expenditure of electricity: 2.8 million kWh (as much as 14% of Munich's daily need or as much as a four person family will need in 52 years and 4 months)
# Expenditure of gas: about 205,000 m³
# Expenditure of water: about 90,000 m³ (as much as 27% of Munich's daily need )
# Waste: 678 t (2004)
# Toilets: about 980 seated, more than 878 meters of urinals and 17 for disabled persons
# Telephones: 83, also for international credit cards
# Lost property: about 4000 items, among them 260 pairs of glasses, 200 mobile phones, wedding rings, and even crutches.

Which famous event is described in the numbers and trivia above??