Summer has rolled on in!
It's time for more Disney Facts, and I promise I will continue to update this book regularly, but I still need time to focus on my other books too ;)
But that doesn't mean I don't love you guys. And thanks for over 16,000 reads!
Fact #1051
Ariana Grande performed her song "Problems" live for the first time at the 2014 Radio Disney Music Awards.
Fact #1052
The clock under Sleeping Beauty's castle at Disneyland is stopped 11:53, which was the time that Walt Disney presented the parks opening day speech.
Fact #1053
Prince Eric is supposed to be 20 years old in the film, but his voice actor is only 16 years old.
Fact #1054
Mulan in Mandarin means flower.
Fact #1055
Beauty and The Beast was more hand drawn than computer animated during production.
Fact #1056
Dopey is the only one among the dwarfs that doesn't have a beard.
Fact #1057
Animators studied the movements of seals to capture the graceful underwater movements of Ariel.
Fact #1058
Eve from WALL-E was co-designed by the designer of the iPod.
Fact #1059
Rapunzel and Aurora are the only Disney Princesses with both parents.
Fact #1060
Two men (Timon and Pumbaa) raised Simba and he turned out fine.
Fact #1061
Princess Aurora was also raised by three women.
Fact #1062
Fantasyland's concert hall assigns music performances based on puns.
Fact #1063
Some Spoonbills in the Oasis section of Animal Kingdom are given fake eggs to sit on. This helps prevent over population because it tricks the birds into thinking they've fulfilled their reproductive obligation.
Fact #1064
Small pipes shoot the trash through the utilidors under the Magic Kingdom at 60 mph.
Fact #1065
There are more than 20,000 different colors of paint used in Walt Disney World.
Fact #1066
Behind Cinderella's castle, is a fountain with Cinderella. If you bend down and look at the fountain, the crown on the back wall appears to crown Cinderella.
Fact #1067
Inside the walls of the walk-through of the castle are several mosaics. On the mosaic wall farthest from the entrance are the two stepsisters, Anastasia and Drusilla. The mosaic shows one of them with a red face and the other with a green face. Red with Rage and Green with envy!
Fact #1068
When you go to board the doom buggies at the Haunted Mansion, notice the last bat head before you board has no features on it, it is smooth from all the hands rubbing over it through the years.
Fact #1069
Like Hidden Mickeys? Disney World also has Hidden Donalds!
Fact #1070
The "hands" on the clock in The Haunted Mansion are actually fingers.
Facts #1071
2nd ring in the pavement is a "fairy ring" formed by paving stones just beyond the well. This marks the spot where a huge oak tree once stood. If you stand in the middle of the fairy ring on the night of a full moon and call out "Leota" three times, she will come briefly to one of the upper windows of the mansion with her candle.
Fact #1072
There is a Hidden Tinker Bell in a pane of broken glass over the coffin.
Fact #1073
During the ride in The Haunted Mansion, look for the duelists who lean out of the paintings in the Grand Ballroom and shoot at each other.
Fact #1074
Only two of the figures in Its A Small World represent the United States. The cowboy and the Eskimo.
Fact #1075
There are no bathrooms located in Liberty Square, in keeping with the time period of that area.
Fact #1076
The large bell in Liberty Sqaure is made from the same mold as the Liberty Bell.
Fact #1077
On Peter Pan's Flight, in the nursery, over by Nana, there are some building blocks spelling out "DISNEY" and "P PAN."
Fact #1078
On Space Mountain, one of the asteroids is actually a chocolate chip cookie.
Fact #1079
On Splash Mountain, the little critter, in the cave-like room just before the last drop.. He comes upside down out of the ceiling and says "Go FSU!" An imagineer that graduated from Florida State put it there.
Fact #1080
Near the Speedway on the way into Tomorrowland, there is a high streetlamp with three large round hooded lights. It was designed to cast a hidden Mickey on the ground twice a day when the sun is in the right place.
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I hope you all enjoyed these facts as much as I did! :D
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