1. 5500 -- length in miles of the series of walls which make up the Great Wall of China
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2. 1 million -- number of workers who built the wall
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3. 300,000 -- estimated number of workers who died while building the wall (many are buried in the wall)
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4. 1211 -- the year that Genghis Khan invaded China (the Great Wall didn't stop him)
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5. 7 -- the number of Kingdoms that were at war; eventually they all merged to become the country of China
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6. 33 -- average height of wall in feet
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7. 30 -- percentage of wall that is still in good condition
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8. 180 -- number of additional miles of wall discovered in 2008
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9. 1923 -- the year that writer Adam Warwick wrote in National Geographic that the Great Wall of China was the only man made object that could be seen from the moon; now scientists say that it can only be seen from radar images taken from low earth orbit
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10. 4 million -- the minimum number of tourists who visit the wall each year
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