CRAMMEDNo. 027

How many bowling balls fit inside the Leaning Tower of Pisa?

Bowling ball · 5,400 cm³ Leaning Tower of Pisa packing 0.64

The answer

1,100,000bowling balls

Eight storeys of marble around a hollow core, leaning four degrees off its patience for eight hundred years.

Crammed No. 27 ran on September 23, 2026. Source: cylinder of the tower footprint and height, less the wall thickness.
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