Las Vegas Trivia

Ever wondered how much food a lion eats at the MGM Grand's Lion

Habitat? Or how many buffets are served in Las Vegas per year? Here's your chance to find out.

Did You Know?

Did you know that the main shark tank of the Mandalay Bay Shark Reef holds approximately 1.3 million gallons of water.

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A lion at the MGM Grand Lion Habitat sleeps up to 20 hours a day--although the constant tapping on the windows keeps them up on busy weekends!

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Sharks at the Mandalay Bay Shark Reef can go thru thousands of teeth in their lifetime.  Some sharks have over 3,000 teeth in their mouths and may lose over 50,000 teeth during their lifetime.

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Shrimp Beware: Shrimp consumption in Las Vegas is more than 60,000 pounds a day -- higher than the rest of the country combined.  That's 22 million pounds per year!

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The two largest animals in the Mandalay Bay Shark Reef are the female Sand tiger Shark and male Nurse Shark.  They both average over 8.5 feet in length.

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More than 80 percent of visitors to Las Vegas indulge in buffets--that's 29 million buffets per year!

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The heaviest animal in the Mandalay Bay Shark Reef is the Green Sea Turtle, which weighs between 300 and 315 pounds.

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The MGM Grand is one of the world's largest hotel/casinos, with more than 5,000 rooms. It would take a person 13 years and eight months to sleep in every one of them.

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It would take 288 years for one person to spend one night in every hotel room in Las Vegas.

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Tie The Knot: About 150 couples get married in Las Vegas each day.

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It took approximately 3,300 pounds of wax to create the 100-plus portraits on display at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum located at the Venetian. That's an amount equal to 105,600 birthday candles.

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The Stardust was the first hotel to add a sports book to its casino.

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The Golden Gate hotel and casino in downtown is the oldest hotel in Las Vegas (1906).

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The Fountains of Bellagio use more than a thousand fountains to perform in front of the hotel, creating a breathtaking union of water, music and light. The display spans more than 1,000 feet, with water soaring as high as 240 feet in the air.

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