Duck Tape® Fun Facts
Download PDF | E-Mail To A Friend

For the past decade, Henkel Consumer Adhesives has sold a lot of Duck® brand duct tape.

How much is “a lot”? Well, the following statistics will give you an idea. They are based on retail Duck Tape® purchases from the year 2005.

THAT'S ENOUGH TO...
- Stretch from the Earth to the moon and back
- Place a strip of Duck Tape over the San Andreas Fault 620 times
- Run a strip of tape down every street in New York City nearly 78 times
- Complete the Indy 500 more than 992 times
- Stretch the length of the Great Wall of China 119 times

THAT WEIGHS AS MUCH AS APPROXIMATELY...
- 1,226 of the world’s largest land animal, the African Elephant
- 2483 large sport utility vehicles (average 6,000 pound weight)
- 6,772 male Clydesdales
- The metal structure of 1 Eiffel Tower
- 33 Statues of Liberty

THAT'S ENOUGH TO...
- Cover Duncan Island in the Galapagos Islands twice
- Cover the city of Alexandria, Virginia
- Cover the house at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, N.C., more than 2,388 times
- Cover the White House more than 7,600 times
- Cover a football field, including end zones, 7,256 times

NUMBER of Rolls of Duck Tape Sold...
24.9 Million Rolls
THOSE ROLLS of Duck Tape Stacked...
747 Miles

STACKED ONE ROLL ON TOP OF ANOTHER, THE HEIGHT OF THE STACK WOULD EQUAL...
- 747 times the average depth of the Grand Canyon
- 2,718 times the height of the Sears Tower – ground to roof
- 3,155 times the height of the Empire State Building – ground to roof
- 232,009 times the average height of an adult giraffe
- 691,958 times the height of a 5’ 7” person
- 136 times the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest
- 108 times the depth of the Marianas Trench in the Pacific Ocean

Next Page...