1. The famous BASE jumper Felix Baumgartner set a world record for highest BASE jump ever on 15 April 1999 when he leapt from a window cleaning crane very near the top - 15 years later he trumped his own record by leaping from a balloon 39 km up in the air.
2. The two-storey skybridge connecting the two towers' 41st and 42nd floors is one of a kind: 170 metres up it isn't the highest bridge in the world by quite a bit but it is one of the only two storey bridges in the world and the first connecting two twin towers.
3. It was built to be the global HQ of multinational Malaysian oil company Petronas and whilst the first tower now still serves this purpose alone, the second is a mixed-use vertical city that includes offices to many large corporations such as IBM, Microsoft, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg, Boeing and Reuters.
4. Tower Two is another building scaled by urban climber Alain Robert, who did it with bare hands and plain shoes after his previous two attempts had, yes, you guessed it, got him arrested.
5. The site in which the towers are built on used to play home to a horse-racing track.
6. From above the towers look like 8-pointed stars, as Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir wanted a building 'that would be identifiably Malaysian, that was of world class standard and which Malaysians could be proud of.'
Stat Attack!!!
Petronas Towers
Official Names: Petronas Towers
Alternative Names: Petronas Twin Towers, Menara Petronas
Country: Malaysia
City: Kuala Lumpur
Street Address: Jalan Ampang
Construction Started: 1992
Completed: 1998
Global Ranking: #7 in the world
Continental Ranking: #4 in Asia
National Ranking: #1 in Malaysia
City Ranking: #1 in Kuala Lumpur
Height: 452 m (1,483 ft.)
Architect: Cesar Pelli & Associates
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