We have reached 700 Disney facts! *APPLAUSE* *TAKES A BOW* *ROSE PEDALS FALL EVERWHERE* Thank you, thank you! This book would be nothing without all of the support you guys have been giving me. From now on, not only will this book contain Disney facts and myths, but will also contain crazy and insane Disney stories! Whether it be from the staffs point of view or the guests, the crazier the better! I hope you all enjoy!

Fact #691

Since 1971, the Disney Monorail has covered enough ground to make 20 return trips to the moon!

Fact #692

Disney Parks have 2 groups of their own special forces. One group tasked to find drug users and the other to find those flashing breasts / giving fingers to the cameras.

Fact #693

Disney World has a staff of about 62,000 actors, crew, servicemen, etc. That is almost double the population of neighborhoods such as West Hollywood, Los Angeles.

Fact #694

Only about 35% of Walt Disney World's 27,000 acres has been developed. (More fun on the way! :D)

Fact #695

There have been lost and found reports of a glass eye, a potty trainer, and a prosthetic leg.

Fact #696

Disney’s Animal Kingdom, which covers 403 acres.

Fact #697

Main Street, USA is inspired by the hometown of Walt Disney located in Marceline Missouri.

Fact #698

The first area you enter in California Adventure was designed to look like Los Angelos in the 1920's.

Fact #699

(Story from employee)

I worked at Club Disney for the brief time it was open. We had codes we used on the radio headsets that were coordinated with character names. For instance, code Baloo meant there was blood that needed to be cleaned up immediately.

One day, I’m taking a stroll around the club to check on things when I spot a small boy about two years old taking a massive dump right in the middle of the play area. He sees me, starts to cry, and runs away with no clothing on the lower half of his body. I get on the radio and can’t think of what to say as we hadn’t discussed a code for “human feces in the play area and naked kid running around.” So I just called, “I have a code Pooh situation in the play area and Piglet’s on the loose.

Fact #700 (YAY!)

(Story from employee)

I used to be a cast member at the Disney store in my local mall. We were required to greet everyone within 10 seconds of them entering the store.There used to be a game online that kids would play about getting to the back of the store, grabbing a stuffed animal from the” plush mountain” and get back up front before getting greeted. I saw this one teenager run across the store and dove head first in the mountain of stuffed animals… only to quickly find out that they were on risers. He was taken away on a stretcher but ended up being fine. And yes, I greeted him while he was in mid air so he lost the game.

Fact #701

(Story from employee)

I was sitting with a group of guys by where Mickey and Minnie get dressed. When they came out, the guys started cat-calling Minnie. The guy that was Mickey said, in a perfect Mickey voice, “If you look at my girlfriend again I’m gonna pop ya!”

Fact #702

(Story from employee)

I was in line at Disney Land California with a group of Japanese teenage tourists were ahead of me in line. I speak Japanese, so I could understand that they were making fun of Americans. They were mostly saying things to the effect of “On TV they seem so cool, but all of these Americans are so fat and ugly.” They were laughing and even occasionally pointing at people. I was just staying quiet but then one of the cast members who evidently also spoke Japanese walked up to them and told them in perfect Japanese “You guys should really be careful, most Americans can speak Japanese.” They all froze up and looked around at people, many of whom were giving them dirty looks. I nodded at them like I was backing him up, and they were horrified. They all left the line promptly afterward.

Fact #703

A co-worker at Disney World once helped escort Michael Jackson through some employee only areas to avoid the crowds surrounding him.

Fact #704

In 2003, Tom Cruise came on Space Mountain with his then-girlfriend Penelope Cruz and her family.

Fact #705

Disney World employs 62,000 people, making it the largest single-site employer in the country.

Fact #706

More than 30 tons of fruits and vegetables are grown each year at EPCOT's Land Pavilion and used in the resort's restaurants and cafes.

Fact #707

Captain Eo, the 3D science fiction film starring Michael Jackson that was shown at Disney Parks in the 80s and 90s, was directed by none other than Francis Ford Coppola, and produced by George Lucas. The movie returned to Disney World after Jackson's 2010 death.

Fact #708

15 miles south of Disney World is the Disney Wilderness Preserve, which is a 12,000 acre wetlands mitigation project that Disney company bought it in the 90s. Disney provides funds for restoration and wildlife monitoring in order to offset the lands impacted by the development of Walt Disney World.

Fact #709

Unfortunately, because Robin Williams ad-libbed so many of his lines, the script for Aladdin was turned down for a Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award nomination.

Fact #710

Disneyland’s original Tinker Bell was a 71-year-old Hungarian circus performer named Tiny Kline. The first to fly off the top of the Matterhorn on a zip line, she previously worked as a stunt aerialist, hanging from a flying airplane by her teeth.

Fact #711

Many of the faces of the pirates in Pirates of the Caribbean are modeled on those of the “Imagineers” who created the ride. One of them is even modelled after Walt Disney.

Fact #712

Ron Ziegler, Richard Nixon’s press secretary during the Watergate scandal, once worked as a skipper on the Jungle Cruise ride.

Fact #713

Children’s Fairyland in Oakland was one of the major inspirations for Disneyland. Walt Disney even hired Fairyland’s first director, Dorothy Manes, to work at his park.

Fact #714

Disneyland was built in just 365 days.

Fact #715

Frank Sinatra showed up on opening day and took a spin around Autopia.

Fact #716

Late at night on rides such as Pirates of the Caribbean and It’s a Small World, amorous couples regularly try to make the Happiest Place on Earth even a little happier. They’re apparently unaware that virtually every inch of every ride is observed by security cameras or hidden employees. Sometimes they’re startled by a warning from a loudspeaker; occasionally they’re greeted at the exit by applauding employees.

Fact #717

At the end of the Star Tours ride, just as your Starspeeder is about to crash into a fuel truck, a man in the control booth ducks down, then stands up and picks up the phone. The man is George Lucas.

Fact #718

Attractions that never made it off the drawing board: Lilliputian Land, a Monstro the Whale water slide and, according to Mouse Tales, a “child-sized medieval torture chamber.”

Fact #719

Tomorrowland was originally meant to represent the futuristic year of 1986, when Halley’s comet was due to make its next appearance.

Fact #720

A married couple from Boynton Beach, Fla., Alex and Donna Voutsinas, realized years later that they were coincidentally photographed together at Disney as children.

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I all hope you enjoyed these facts and stories as much as I did!