Gambling Facts

Las Vegas casinos don't have clocks on their main gambling floors.

While precise annual figures are elusive, a considerable amount of money is spent on lap dances in Las Vegas, showcasing a unique facet of the city's entertainment economy.

According to Gaming Law, casinos have to stock enough cash to cover all the chips on the 'floor'.

There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants.

The revenue that is generated from gambling is more than the revenue that comes from movies, cruise ships, recorded music, theme parks, and spectator sports combined.

In Japan, gambling is illegal. However, they circumvent the law by giving out prizes instead of cash, which the winner can then sell back to the establishment for cash.

FedEx was days from collapse. $5,000 left in the bank. Founder Fred Smith flew to Las Vegas and bet it all at blackjack. By morning he had $32,000. Just enough to keep the planes flying one more week. In that week, he closed an $11 million deal. FedEx now makes over $90 billion a year.

Joan Ginther won the Texas lottery four times between 1993 and 2010, collecting $20.4 million. The odds of one person doing that by chance - roughly 1 in 18 septillion. Investigators later discovered she had a PhD in statistics from Stanford and had been studying scratch-off distribution patterns.