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CN Tower
November 6th, 2009 by Travel
The CN Tower is located in Toronto, in the country Canada, and it is a communications tower that stands 553 meters tall, and since it was finished in 1976 after three years of construction, became the world’s tallest free standing structure, and it boasts the highest observation deck in the world at 447 meters in the sky.
Occasionally the building poses several hazards, such as falling ice, possibility of fire (which has been mitigated by vast updates and is very unlikely) along with the staggering height. Recently it has been outfitted with a LED display that runs along up the entire tower, and fully lighting it costs a thousand Canadian dollars a month. Currently they are more energy efficient than the old system using regular light bulbs, which were inefficient and had to be replaced often. The tower also broadcasts several television stations and radio stations, with 8 TV and 20
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