12/22/13 - The fountains of Bellagio are the 3rd most Instagrammed place in the US (@bellagio)
12/15/13 - On a reel slot machine, the black spot (without a symbol) is called a "ghost". (@POVblog)
12/6/13 - Hank Greenspun, founder of the Las Vegas Sun's first job in Vegas media was as Bugsy Siegel's publicist (vegasseven)
11/23/13 - Las Vegas has set multiple world records that have not been recognized by the Guinness world book of records including highest thrill rides (Stratosphere), most hotel rooms at one intersection (Tropicana and Las Vegas Blvd has 14, 762 rooms between Tropicana, MGM Grand, NYNY and Excalibur) and most simultaneous wine-bottle openings (308). (VegasSeven)
11/17/13 - The red discard trays at Vegas card tables are used as filters to catch cheaters using inks or "daubs" to mark cards (Pulse of Vegas)
11/10/13 - The wine wall inside Jean George's steakhouse at Aria contains approx. $1 million dollars in fine wine wins (@arialv)
11/3/13 - Blue Man Group uses more than 18 thousand marshmallows in their show per year (@bmgvegas)
10/27/13 - The infamous Lion's Share slot machine at MGM Grand, the slot that has been on their casino floor for close to a decade because Nevada laws state that the machine must pay out its top prize before it can be removed, will now be given to the person who eventually wins that progressive jackpot, currently listed at 2.3 million (@VitalVegas)
10/19/13 - Las Vegas has 21 of the country's 100 most profitable nightclubs with 7 in the top 10 spots earning more than $25 million a year. (RJ)
10/6/13 - The Luxor beam costs $51 in power per hour to run. Taht works out to $1,224 a day, $8,568 a week, $37, 230 a month and $446,760 per year.
9/29/13 - A rule variation coined the term "blackjack" as payouts went to the player who held the Jack of Spades. (@360anteup)
9/14/13 - Sept 7th 1996, Mike Tyson KO'd Bruce Seldon in the 1st round at the MGM Grand. Shortly after, rapper Tupac Shakur was shot 4 times at Flamingo & Koval road in the passenger seat of his record label CEO Suge Knight; he died 6 days later at the age of 25 (@historynevada)
9/8/13 - The IRS has estimated that a cocktail witress in a large sports book makes a 25-cent toke on each drink she serves. They tax her accordingly, whether she actually makes the money or not. (Casino Player Magazine's Facebook Page)
8/25/13 - Since opening the tournament of Kings show has had more than 7,000 performances and made Excalibur the #1 purchaser of Cornish game hens in the US. (@vegasstripped)
8/18/13 - Las Vegas has an average of 211 clear days annually, 82 partly cloudy days and 71 cloudy days. (@POVblog)
8/11/13 - In Las Vegas, you aren't allowed to buy drinks for more than 3 people, besides yourself, at any one time. (@POVblog)
8/4/13 - We've actually issued 120 individual shows (100 official shows, 16 reviews, 4 Vintage Segments). But we decided with our first Vintage segment that Vintage and later reviews would not be considered official episodes, but separate items of content.
7/28/14 - When the Fremont St Experience was being built, they had to remove several feet off of Vegas Vic's hat to make him fit under the curve of the canopy.
7/21/14 - Vegas Vic's audio was restored after 20 years of silence in the 80s however his arm stopped waiving in 1991 and the speech hasn't worked since 2006
7/14/13 - 1966, Lee Marvin was filming the Professionals and staying at the Mint Hotel. He complained that Vegas Vic was too loud, so casino execs turned off the speech and left it that way for almost 2 decades.
