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Rushmore Facts: * Sculptor Gutzon Borglum began drilling into the 5,725-foot mountain in 1927, at the age of 60. * Creation of the Shrine of Democracy took 14 years and cost a mere $1 million. * Rushmore's granite faces tower 5,500 feet above sea level. * The carvings on Mount Rushmore are scaled to men who would stand 465 feet tall. * Each head on Mt. Rushmore is as tall as a six-story building. * More that 800 million pounds of stone were removed from Mount Rushmore while carving the presidents. * Each president's face is as tall as the entire Great Sphinx of Egypt, measuring 60 feet from the chin to the top of the head. * The president's noses are 20 feet long, each mouth 18 feet wide and the eyes are 11 feet across. * The workers had to climb 506 steps daily to get to the top of Mount Rushmore.

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