Fun Facts About Disney!! Enjoy

[minnie04]

This is very long, but has some interesting facts on it..

Walt Disney World Resort is the largest single-site employer in the United States, with more than 58,000 cast members hard at work creating the magic that guests appreciate.
Mickey and Minnie Mouse are one of the best-dressed couples on the planet. Mickey has more than 290 sets of clothing, ranging from scuba gear to a tuxedo. Minnie has more than 200 outfits for all occasions, including everything from a cheerleader uniform to evening gowns.
"Mouse Ears" are popular with guests at Disney World. Enough of the distinctive hats are sold each year to stretch 175 miles if they were laid end-to-end. Disney World also sells enough Disney character T-shirts each year to put Mickey's smiling face on the chest of every man, woman and child in the state of Montana.
If you stacked up the number of standard autograph books sold annually at Walt Disney World, the tower they created would be as high as 200 Cinderella Castles. Add the Princess-style autograph books and, end-to-end, the books would reach 88 miles into outer space.
Disney parks are among the most photographed places in the United States, right up there with the Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore and the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. On any given day, Disney's PhotoPass photographers take between 100,000 and 200,000 photos of guests at Walt Disney World Resort—and that's not counting the number of photos taken by the guests themselves.
Guests at Walt Disney World Resort drink 75 million Cokes and 13 million bottles of water every year. They also consume 10 million hamburgers, 6 million hot dogs, 9 million pounds of French fries, 3.3 million chocolate-covered Mickey Mouse ice cream bars, 324,000 pounds of popcorn, and more than a million pounds of watermelon.
More than 700,000 pounds of prepared but unused food is donated each year through the Disney Harvest program to feed the homeless of Central Florida.
At the United Kingdom's Rose & Crown Pub & Dining Room in the World Showcase, a specially designed ale warmer can heat your Guinness to 55 degrees, the temperature favored by the British.
The number of stones in Cinderella Castle in the Magic Kingdom is … ZERO. The whole shell of the building is fiberglass.
Disney's Wedding Pavilion was designed to give brides and grooms an unparalleled view of Cinderella Castle while they are standing at the altar for their own magic moment.
To equal the amount of laundry that Walt Disney World Laundry employees wash and dry in a single day, you would have to do one load every day for 52 years. Every day, cast members there launder an average of 285,000 pounds of clothing and dry clean up to 32,000 garments.
Disney's biggest them park is the Animal Kingdom at Walt Disney World. It encompasses 403 acres. Sixty dump trucks of dirt were delivered to the Animal Kingdom construction site every day for two years straight, totaling 4.4 million cubic yards of dirt.
There’s also a million square feet of rockwork in Disney’s Animal Kingdom—twice the volume of rockwork in the Mount Rushmore sculptures and enough to create a monolith 10 feet square by 2 miles high.
Keeping the 1,000 animals in the Animal Kingdom happy takes about four tons of food every day; that would be a 4.5-year supply for the average person.
The Animal Kingdom's centerpiece is The Tree of Life, which stands 14 stories high, is 50 feet wide at its trunk, and has more than 103,000 transparent leaves that are five shades of green and actually blow in the wind.
Ten artists and three Imagineers worked full-time for 18 months to create the 325 animal carvings on The Tree of Life—and they were racing the clock every day. Sculptors had just 6-10 hours to create each finished image before the plaster hardened.
Animal Kingdom is not only an outstanding theme park, it is also a site of scientific research and discovery that contributes to animal conservation and biodiversity. Since the park opened, more than 150 species have reproduced there. The first was a kudu, a large African antelope. Animal Kingdom was also the birthplace of 17 Micronesian Kingfisher chicks, whose birth increased the global population of the species by 20 percent, and two black rhino calves, two of only 200 currently held in zoos worldwide. Animal Kingdom scientists also discovered two new elephant vocalizations never before reported.
Disney veterinarians work hard to keep the animals in the Animal Kingdom park healthy. Animal Kingdom veterinarians perform more than 600 wellness checks annually. They've also performed surgery on a tarantula, fitted a fish with an artificial eye, and removed a golf ball from a rescued snake that helped himself to an unauthorized snack at a Disney golf course.
Nearly 12 percent of Walt Disney World property (roughly 4,000 acres)—an area equivalent to nearly 3,000 football fields—is devoted to gardens and landscapes maintained by the Disney horticulture staff.
Keeping Walt Disney World green and blooming is a demanding job. Each year, the Disney horticulture staff plants 3 million bedding plants and annuals, and maintains millions of other plants, including more than 4 million shrubs, 13,000 rose bushes and more than 200 topiary.
The Disney horticulture staff also travels 450,000 mowing miles each year to maintain 2,000 acres of turf—the equivalent of 18 trips around the Earth at the equator.
Who does all of that planting, trimming and mowing? A diverse group of more than 600 horticulture professionals—gardeners, arborists, irrigation specialists and pest-management specialists—work together to keep Disney World looking beautiful.
Disney releases an army of 10.5 million beneficial insects each year to help control plant pests. One adult predatory beetle can eat up to 500 white fly eggs in a single day.
At The Land pavilion, the Disney staff grows more than 30 tons of fruits and vegetables, which are harvested and served in Walt Disney World restaurants. One of the most distinctive plans in The Land is a "tomato tree—the only one of its kind in the United States—which has produced a world-record harvest of more than 32,000 tomatoes from a single vine.
Chefs at Disney theme parks and resorts use more than 89 varieties of cheese.
It took nearly 3,000 designers and 4,000 construction workers to build the first phase of Epcot. In building the park, workers excavated 54 million cubic feet of dirt.
Earth, the visual and thematic centerpiece of Epcot, weighs 16 million pounds—more than three times as much as a space shuttle fully fueled and ready for launch.
The outer "skin" of Spaceship Earth is made up of 11,324 aluminum and plastic-alloy triangles. Also, rainwater never falls off the sphere; it is channeled into the ball and funneled away.
It took more than 650 Walt Disney Imagineers more than 350,000 hours—the equivalent of 40 years—to develop Mission: SPACE. But they did it in five years, not 40.
Since 1971, the total number of miles logged by Walt Disney World monorail trains would equal more than 30 trips to the moon and back.
The Walt Disney World Lost and Found is a busy and fascinating place. Every day, an average of 210 pairs of sunglasses are turned in and, since 1971, an estimated 1.65 million pairs of glasses have been recovered if not always reclaimed. Each year, Lost and Found cast members collect more than 6,000 cell phones, 3,500 digital cameras, 18,000 hats, and 7,500 autograph books.
According to longtime Lost and Found staffers, the most unusual items turned in over the years have been a glass eye, a prosthetic leg and a potty trainer. Each was reclaimed, but not by the same person.
The recipe for the artificial seawater at The Seas with Nemo & Friends pavilion in Epcot—one of the largest man-made ocean environments in the world at 5.7 million gallons—called for 27 truckloads of sodium chloride (common table salt). The "sea" is home to 3,000 fish and other marine creatures. If you emptied that water into one-gallon jugs and laid them side-by-side, they would stretch from Orlando to New Orleans, a distance of about 540 miles.

[Joannelet]

Thanks for the facts! The wedding pavilion windw is actually a magnifying glass so when the bride is walking down the aisle it gets closer and closer. My BIL was married there and I was so happy to be in the wedding party to experience walking down the aisle!
The Animal Kingdom cast do many great things with saving elephants in Africa too. Elephants ar afraid of bees and farmers were killing elephants for entering their property. To keep them out AK animal specialists went out and built beehives on the edges of the farm properties.
Elephants aren't scared of the bee but they dislike the buzzing noise they make and get really upset by it!
They do a lot of great things for animals all over the world!

[Gator]

I really have to applaud the fact that you typed all that up. I would've quit at the Mickey&Minnie outfits fact.

[minnie04]

Gator, I would love to take the credit for typing, but I just copied and pasted it to the site. It was on my home page and I thought others would like to know something’s, that maybe they didn’t know about Disney

hope you enjoyed it !!

[Butters]

Very interesting stuff... Thanks for sharing!

[Dyanna]

Its great to read up on all the facts. Just one missing however...how many pounds of turkey legs are consumed each year?

[Main Street Jim]

May I add some stuff to this thread? Got some interesting stuff about the trains, among other attractions

[Mousemates]

Main Street Jim May I add some stuff to this thread? Got some interesting stuff about the trains, among other attractions

while its not my thread..i, for one, would like to see what you've got.

[PAYROLL PRINCESS]

I used to work for a commercial laundry (hospital linens) and one of our managers and his wife were going to Disney World. He said he would love to see their laundry operations. I called and was able to make it happen for him. Believe it or not, that was the highlight of his trip!

Thanks for all the interesting facts.

And Jim, I for one would love to hear what you can add. You have lots of good stuff from the years you worked there.

[vizsla]

Thanks for the facts.

[figgie]

Oh my, what a job to check all of those facts out! Trivia people are amazing!

[Wolf]

Super amazing facts!! Thanks for posting!

[pdrlkr]

Thanks for sharing!