#43   I am 5 feet tall.  The Eiffel Tower is 1,063 feet tall to the tip.  How many of me, standing one on top of the other, would it take to reach the tip of the Tower?

Fascinating fact: The Eiffel Tower is named after Gutsave Eiffel, the engineer whose company built and designed the Tower.

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