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When World Disney World Canceled the Persian Resort in 1973, the Shah of Iran Offered to Pay for It
Walt Disney World Is Built Inside Its Own ‘County’: The Reedy Creek Improvement District
Walt Disney World Is the Largest Single-Site Employer in the World
You Can’t Buy Chewing Gum at Any of Disney’s Parks
Oddities
There Is an Incredible Hotel Room inside Magic Kingdom’s Cinderella Castle
Some of
Spaceship Earth
’s Most Famous Animatronics Were Once U.S. Presidents
The Flags on Main Street U.S.A. Are Props
There’s a Basketball Court Inside Disneyland’s Matterhorn Bobsleds
Every Building at Walt Disney World Is Under 200 Feet Tall
History
Why Are Walt Disney World’s Swan and Dolphin Hotels So out of Place?
Aerosmith Wasn’t Disney’s First Choice for the Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster
Disneyland’s
Pirates of the Caribbean
Featured Real Human Skeletons
There Was Once an Airport at Walt Disney World
The Beatles Broke Up at Walt Disney World
Scrapped
Walt Disney World Has Tried Twice, and Failed Twice, to Build a Venetian Resort
Germany at Epcot’s World Showcase Nearly Had Its Own
Rhine River Cruise
Ride
In the 1960s, Disney Tried to Build a Major Amusement Park in St. Louis, Missouri
Walt Disney World Planned an ‘Asian Resort’ That Was Nixed by the 1973 Oil Crisis
Epcot’s World Showcase Scrapped Plans for Iran, Israel, and Russia Pavilions
Factoids
Space Mountain’s Launch Was Attended by Real Astronauts
Disney World Has Hidden Hundreds of Lightning Rods in its Florida Parks
Disney’s Cast Members Always Point with Two Fingers
The
Carousel of Progress
Is America’s Longest-Running Stage Show
Walt Disney World Has the Planet’s Ultimate Lost and Found
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