Fun Unknown Disney World Facts

By Author: Steve Robinson
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Many people are aware that there are a plentitude of cheap travel options to Orlando, including cheap airplane tickets and cheap vacation packages available to Disney World in Orlando Florida as well as many discount hotel rooms to choose from.

The following are interesting facts that most guests to the “Happiest Place on Earth” are unaware of:

• The entire Disney World resort is huge, similar in size to a big city. It consists of 40 square miles and is the size of San Francisco.

• Disney World employs 62,000 people, which makes it the single largest site employer in America.

• Over 200 pairs of sunglasses are turned into the Lost and Found department daily at Disney World.

• Giant turkey legs, which were first introduced to the part in the 90s, have become so popular that over 1.6 million turkey drumsticks are sold at the resort every year.

• Disney World is sustainable in that over 30 tons of fruit and vegetables are grown each year at EPCOT’s Land Pavilion and enjoyed in the resort’s restaurants and cafes.

• Its Liberty Oak, which sits in Liberty Square ...
... in the Magic Kingdom, has given birth to over 500 young oak trees via its harvested acorns.

• There is a hotel suite in Cinderella’s Castle that can sleep up to six and sports a flat screen TV disguised as a magic mirror. Reservations are not accepted for this suite. Overnight guests are winners chosen at random by the park each day.

• Ticket prices have grown dramatically from when Magic Kingdom first opened in 1971 ($3.50 for an adult) to $89 today.

• Caption Eo was a 3D science fiction film which starred Michael Jackson and was shown at the Disney Parks in the 80s and 90s. The director was Francis Ford Coppola and producer was George Lucas. Disney World started showing this movie again after Jackson’s 2010 death.

• Fifteen miles south of Disney World is the Disney Wilderness Preserve which consists of 12,000 acres of wetland that were purchased in the 90s. Disney pays for restoration and wildlife monitoring as an offset to the lands impacted by the development of Disney World.

• Walt Disney envisioned Disney World to be not only a fun theme park, but also to include an experimental prototype community of tomorrow (EPCOT) that would be a real working futuristic city, utilizing the latest available technology. He wanted people to actually live in this community.

• Walt Disney died in 1966. Disney World opened in 1971 and EPCOT eventually become another theme park incorporated into the larger resort in 1982.
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