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Is 680 slugs as heavy as The Statue of Liberty (without base)?

It's about one-fifteenth as heavy as The Statue of Liberty (without base)
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The weight of The Statue of Liberty (without base) is about 9,600 slugs.
(a.k.a. Liberty Enlightening the World, a.k.a. La Liberté éclairant le monde) (total weight, including foundation)
The total weight of the Statue of Liberty — the Statue's copper and framework only, excluding the base — is roughly 9,600 slugs. The statue was designed using an optical trick known as "forced perspective" to make the statue appear proportionally correct when viewed from its base and is, in actuality, disproportionately large at the top.
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