10 Crazy Facts About Las Vegas — A secret city underneath Lake Mead
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Las Vegas has 164,000 slot machines for 635,000 residents and a sunken city under Lake Mead. Plus the world's largest gold nugget at Golden Nugget Hotel.
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4. A secret city underneath Lake Mead
Plenty of the water used in Las Vegas comes from Lake Mead, a huge reservoir. You probably do not know that back in the early 1930s, the area of St Thomas was home to several residents. The government needed to set up the Lake Mead reservoir at St Thomas to provide water, and the people here had to leave. Instead of destroying everything in St Thomas, they filled up the area with water leaving the town below the water.
