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Boeing's Everett factory is the largest building by volume

The assembly hall near Seattle encloses 13.3 million cubic metres Built in 1967 to assemble the 747, the Everett plant in Washington State has a floor area of about 39.8 hectares and a volume of 13.3 million cubic metres. The hangar doors alone are taller than a six storey building. The interior is so large that clouds have been known to form near the ceiling on humid days. It now builds wide body jets including the 767 and 777. It sits in Mondo's records & extremes collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: The assembly hall near Seattle encloses 13.3 million cubic metres. The figure is taken from Boeing, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a records & extremes fact?: Yes. It sits on the Records & Extremes shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.