Statue of Liberty Facts

The Statue of Liberty was a gift of friendship resulting from the diplomatic relationship between the United States and France.

The Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.

The Statue of Liberty is made out of copper. When originally built, it looked like a shiny new penny!

The Statue of Liberty's torch has been closed since July 30, 1916 - and will never reopen. German saboteurs detonated roughly 2 million pounds of explosives at a New Jersey depot. The blast hit like an earthquake up to magnitude 5.5, lodging shrapnel in the copper skin and cracking the torch arm's iron frame. Only a handful of NPS staff have been up there since.