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A Volkswagen slug bug could fit inside the chandelier that hangs inside the Capitol Rotunda? Yep, sure does, but only the older style bug, not the newer body style type. The chandelier was designed by the Tiffany Company in New York and is 8 feet in diameter and 25 feet long. It weighs 10,000 lbs. and only cost the state a whoppin' $10,000 in the 1920s.
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