16 shocking facts about New York

1. 12,152 life forms (including insects and bacteria) have been discovered in the New York City subway.
2. In New York, it is illegal to sound car horns except in emergencies. But, of course, they still signal.
3. 1789 The city was designated the first capital of the United States. But it took a year.
4. There is a skyscraper without windows in the city.
5. Manhattan was purchased from local residents in 1626 for $1,000 in today's terms.
6. New Yorkers bite 10 times more people per year than sharks.
7. More New Yorkers die from suicide than from homicide.
8. It costs $300,000 a year to run a small hot dog stand around Central Park.
9. New York is the largest Polish city in the world (after Warsaw).
10. Almost half of the city's population speaks English at home.
11. New York has more Chinese people than any other non-Asian city and more Jews than any other city outside Israel.
12. Every 38th American lives in New York.
13. 25 percent of the world's gold bullion is in the vaults beneath Wall Street.
14. One in 21 New Yorkers is a millionaire.
15. Einstein's eyes are kept in some safe in the city.
16. 800 different languages are spoken in New York.