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5. Super safari

Kilimanjaro Safari

The Kilimanjaro Safari at Disney's Animal Kingdom wouldn't be too much fun if you didn't get to see many animals on your journey, so Disney put some creature comforts in place to ensure that the beasts love to come out and play. You're likely to see a lion or two on Pride Rock, and that's because chilled air is piped through tiny holes on the ledge to entice the animals to hang out and pose for photos. Food is also hidden in trees, as well as behind logs and rocks, so animals will come up close to the safari vehicles. At the end of the night, the animals don't keep roaming the safari, though. They must sleep in their pens, and to get them in there, their trainers conditioned each species to respond to a certain sound. When they hear it, they go to them, like magic.

6. The eyes have it

Cinderella Castle

The intricate murals in Cinderella Castle are made up of hundreds of thousands of pieces of cut glass in over 500 colors, but many fans rush on by the murals to head to their favorite attractions. The next time you find yourself in the archway, however, you may want to pay special attention to Cinderella's wicked stepsisters. One has eyes that are literally green with envy and the other's are red with anger as they watch Cinderella try on the glass slipper. You'll also find sterling silver and 14-karat gold adorning many of the tiles, and some of them are as tiny as the head of a tack.

7. Modular living

Contemporary Resort

The rooms at two of Disney's most popular hotels weren't built in a traditional way. Instead of being constructed from the ground up, the frames for the Disney's Contemporary and Polynesian resorts were built on site but the rooms were built off-site and were slid into the hotel by crane, kind of like dresser drawers. Some people believe that this was so the rooms could be easily slid back out and refurbished in the future, but that's not the case.   

8. Loved and lost

Lost and found

If you've ever lost something at a Disney park, you're nowhere near alone. Every day, about 200 pairs of sunglasses are turned into the Lost and Found, and that adds up to nearly 2 million since 1971! Each year, more than 18,000 hats, 7,500 autograph books, 6,000 cell phones and 3,500 digital cameras are also turned in. And what were the most unusual items ever found? A full-size color television, a prosthetic leg, a glass eye and a potty trainer. (The leg, eye and potty trainer were claimed by their owners; the TV is thought to have come from a camper in a park's parking lot.)

Did you find these Disney details surprising? Or do you know more? Leave your comments below!

 
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The flags on mainstreet are not props. They are 45 star flags which was the official US flag from 1896 - 1907. Walt Disney wanted mainstreet to appear like it was at the turn of the century. Including the 45 star flag.

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