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NEW YORK CITY IS one of the most densely populated cities on the planet and with that, the hub of many myths about living conditions. Thankfully, the good people at Factslides gathered some cool facts about the city, most of which will probably leave you speechless.
1. New Yorkers drink almost 7 times more coffee than other cities in the US.
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2. With 800 languages, New York is the most linguistically diverse city in the world.
3. Next to Warsaw, the world’s largest Polish population is in New York.
4. The world’s first underground park will be inaugurated in 2018 in New York.
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5. NYC homeowners can request that a tree be planted outside their homes for free.
6. Ancient Rome was eight times more densely populated than modern New York.
7. New York gets 15 times as much snow as the South Pole.
8. All the departure boards at NYC’s Grand Central are exactly one minute wrong.
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9. 1 out of every 21 New Yorkers is a millionaire.
10. Some 15,152 types of life forms, from insects to bacteria, have been identified on the New York subway.
11. There are four times as many abandoned houses as there are homeless people in New York City.
12. The underwater portion of Liberty Island, where the Statue of Liberty sits upon, is part of New Jersey, not New York.
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13. The city of New York will pay for a one-way plane ticket for any homeless person if they have a guaranteed place to stay elsewhere.
14. The average cost of a night out in New York is US$82.
15. Around Central Park, it can cost almost US$300,000 a year just for the right to operate a hot dog stand.
16. If Manhattan had the same population density as Alaska, only 28 people would live on the island.
Source: matadornetwork.com