This list comprises of fun facts for Walt Disney World.  These facts are always fun to tell other people you’re standing in line with or impress (scare) your family with how much knowledge you have of Walt Disney World.

These facts are all compiled by Debbie H. from the Dis Boards.  She maintains a Word document that is over 150 pages long with all kinds of fun facts.  I will be posting the bulk of that information on the blog over the coming weeks.

Walt Disney World Fun Facts - General Information

(1) Go into any Park store–the CMs have stickers behind the desk. Ask them for the “I Made Magic Today” sticker. They will give you 10 Mickey stickers and 1 “I Made Magic Today” sticker. Your job is to pass out the 10 Mickey heads to people that aren’t looking so happy and make them smile w/the sticker or people that are having a great time and telling them it’s because they are so HAPPY. At the end of the 10 stickers, you end up w/your sticker, and you know that every time you look at that sticker YOU MADE MAGIC!!!

(2) Ask the bus drivers if they have any of the tradable bus cards!

(3)  WDW has over 2,000 acres of grass to mow! That’s 18 miles around the Earth’s equator! (…and Disney mows THREE times a week!)

(4) In some attractions, there are VIP lounges. If there are celebrities visiting WDW (or politicians, etc.), they can be taken into the VIP lounges. There are drinks and snacks available in the lounge, photo albums of different celebrities and people who have been in the lounge, and they get taken on to the front of the line when they are ready to ride. (If you look at Spaceship Earth from the back, there is a building attached to it with some window looking things. That’s the lounge in SE!)

(5) IF YOU ASK FOR A LARGE CUP OF ICE WATER THEY WILL GIVE IT TO YOU AT NO COST, AND YOU CAN GET AS MANY AS YOU WANT AT A TIME. (Get two when you get food or when you need something wet and cold. Drink one right way and use one to carry around so you can stay hydrated longer.) Disney won’t tell you this, but they won’t turn down your request.

(6) When leaving MK at closing time, hop on the Resort monorail and skip the massive lines heading to the TTC via the direct Monorail. The resort monorail stops at TTC but is not express. It is more relaxing as you can usually get a car to yourself and can sit. Also, no standing in line on tired feet waiting and waiting, and once you get to the TTC, it is usually between arrivals of the express monorail and there is a lull in the crowds trying to get to the trams. (Additional note: Have one person in your party drive to the Park you are going to [if you are a Resort Guest] and park for free. The rest of your party can ride the bus, boat, etc. [for the fun part of it]. Then, at the end of the night, no waiting in long lines on tired feet. Just hop in your car and go back to your resort!)

(7)  If you have a special needs child with a disorder that falls under the autistic spectrum or is hypersensitive, you can get a note from their doctor and take it to guest services. They will give you a special assistance card. When you get to an attraction, show it to the CM working there. It doesn’t mean that you don’t have to wait in line, but they will try to take you into a quieter area for your wait. You can get a sample note from www.allearsnet.com.

(8) A bottle strap that you buy at the parks for cokes/water bottles works great for carrying around Pal Mickey. (Put it around his neck.)

(9) Disney World bought about 150,000 gallons of paint — enough to cover nearly 7,500 average sized homes in 2004.

(10) If you were to stack all of the buttons used by the Costuming Plant Seam Team in one year, you would have a stack 96 times taller than the height of Cinderella’s Castle.

(11) Number of trees, shrubs and flowers: more than 7 million!

(12) Daily water usage: 15 million gallons!

(13) Largest working wardrobe in the world with more than 1.5 million operational garments in use and over 7,000 different garment types. In addition, there are over 2 million pieces of entertainment costumes. Each day, the costuming plant processes between 27,000 and 31,000 garments.

(14) More than 50 million soft drinks sold annually.

(15) 10 million hamburgers, 7 million hot dogs, 9 million pounds of french fries, and 300,000 pounds of popcorn sold annually.

(16) Uses 194,871 miles of toilet tissue, 24,409 miles of paper towels, uses 319,353 lbs. of chocolate, 1.2 million pounds of watermelon, 741,150 pounds of sugar, 1.8 million pounds of flour, 245,000 pounds of fruit filling, 38,000 pounds of white icing glaze, 2.9 million pounds of eggs, 606,000 pounds of bananas, and 510,000 of grapes.

(17) Serves more than 1.5 million soft pretzels, more than 639,000 pounds of macaroni and cheese, and more than 3.8 million ballpoint pens annually.

(18) Uses more than 337,000 pencils annually, nearly 148 million sheets of recycled copier paper annually, and 730,102 gallons of bleach annually.

(19)  214,000 bandages were provided to guests during the year 2004.

(20) In 2004, Walt Disney World recycled 18,322,000 pounds of paper products.

(21) WDW uses human waste as fertilizer! They treat the waste on-property and put it to good use.

(22) In the morning (usually from around 8am-12pm) when the lines are really long to get on the monorail from TTC to MK, take the boat! The TTC boat offers wonderful views and a great breeze in about the same amount of time that the monorail would have taken to get you to MK. A great added bonus: If you get on the TTC boat at those times, Chip, Dale, and Pluto love to hang out on it! Perfect opportunity for your kids to see their first characters at DW-before they even enter the park! Not too many people on the boat either, so there are great opportunities for pictures with the characters.

(23) If you are the first family of the day to request the photo that they take of you on the ride, they will give it to you free!!

(24)  Disney merchandise that is exclusive to Disney World has a gold castle logo on the package somewhere.

(25) Ever notice there isn’t a lot of gum stuck on rides, trees, waiting areas in WDW? That’s because they don’t sell it, just for this reason.

(26) There are more than 20,000 different colors of paint used in Walt Disney World