10. Keeping up appearances

More than 1,000 different costumes are maintained for use in the theme parks and hotels. The total inventory consists of around 800,000 pieces, with the costume division stocking 500,000 yards of material in 900 different fabrics. In the summer, more than 20,000 garments are exchanged for cleaning every week, while around 150,000 individual pieces and 300,000 buttons are replaced every year. It's not just Cast Members that dress up: costumes are also maintained for more than 650audio-animatronic figures.

9. Heading underwater

The Disneyland Resort employs around 50 certified scuba divers. Their job? To maintain equipment on attractions such as World of Color, Fantasmic! and the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage.

8. Keeping things tidy

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Disneyland custodians use 1,000 brooms, 500 dust pans and 3,000 mops every year to keep the parks clean. On a typical day, 30 tons of trash are collected - with 12 million pounds being collected each year.

7. Recyling the trash

Not all of that trash goes into landfill. Every year, around 4.1 million pounds of cardboard, 1.3 million pounds of green waste, 370,000 pounds of office paper, 361,260 pounds of glass bottles, 274,280 pounds of plastic bottles and 17,240 pounds of aluminum cans are recycled.

6. Feeding the masses

Feeding 24 million guests in a year is a major task. Each year, guests consume approximately 3 million hamburgers, 6.5 million portions of french fries, 1.6 million servings of popcorn, 3.2 million ice creams and 2.8 million churros. These are washed down by 1.9 million gallons of soft drinks. A single outlet, Refreshment Corner on Main Street, USA, sells enough hot dogs in one year to circle the park 36 times. The nearby Gibson Girl Ice Cream Parlor sells enough ice cream every year to build a full-size replica of the park's Matterhorn mountain.

5. Marching for miles

The Disneyland Band has marched a combined 3,500 miles during more than 90,000 performances since 1955. The group can play anything from a repertoire of more than 400 musical numbers.

4. It's easy to get drunk...

The Napa Rose restaurant at Disney's Grand Californian Hotel & Spa holds some 16,000 bottles of wine in its cellar. The restaurant's wine list inclues more than 450 wines, of which 80 percent are Californian.

3. A lick of paint

More than 5,000 gallons of paint are used to maintain the appearance of Disneyland's buildings every year. More than 100,000 light bulbs are in use, including 11,000 "rim lights" on Main Street, USA.

2. Time to celebrate

Every year, the Disneyland Hotel pastry kitchen bakes and decorates around 250 wedding cakes, as well as 3,000 cakes for birthdays, anniversaries and other occasions.

1. It helped create a city

When Disneyland opened in 1955, Anaheim boasted a grand total of five hotels and two motels, offering 87 rooms between them. The city had 34 restaurants. Nowadays, thanks to the Disneyalnd crowds, it boasts around 150 hotels with more than 18,000 rooms, as well as more than 450 restaurants.