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CORN (continued): • There are more than 3,500 uses for corn products. It’s found in hundreds of household products, including laundry detergent, aspirin, antibiotics, marshmallows, chewing gum, and shoe polish. It’s even in your toothpaste and cosQ: What kind of vehicles do Disney metics! In the industrial world, corn is a compocharacters drive? glue, paint, ink, film, nent of rust preventatives, A: and Minnie-vans plastics, even fireworks. • How do you know when sweet corn is ready to pick? It will be ready for harvest about 20 days after the silk first begins to appear. When it’s ready, the silk turns brown, while the husks are still green. The corn needs to be in the “milk” stage. When a kernel is punctured, there will be a milky liquid inside. A clear liquid means it’s not ready, while no liquid means you’ve waited too 1.How many hotels are operated on the long. Disneyland grounds, owned by Disney? • The 2.Name the only Disneyland ride to hang Gleaner Harvester Combine Corporation from the ceiling? introduced the first mechanical corn harvester in 1930 and revolutionized the harvesting of corn. Picking by hand before the machines were available, a farmer might gather about 100 bushels of corn during a nine-hour day. Today’s combines can harvest that same 100 bushels in less than seven minutes, about 900 bushels per hour. • Some folks love corn so much they enter contests for eating it. Dave “Coondog” O’Karma set a record for eating 5.1 pounds (2.3 kg) of corn in seven minutes, while Ed “Cookie” Jarvis holds A second California Disney theme the worldpark, record of eating Adventure, 33½ ears of corn in California 12 minutes. DeAngelo deMoulin has a record of opened in 2001 on the site that had eating one ear in 11.61 seconds.

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This week, Tidbits is bringing you up to date on the facts about that little armored animal, the armadillo. • The word armadillo translates from the SpanDid you hear about the family who got stuck ish for “little armored one.” This animal is most on Peter Pan’s Flight for over 3 hours? closely related to sloths and anteaters, and is Apparently, their vehicle would nevernative to never North land. and South America. The leathery armored shell is made up of plates of bone with a covering of horn that overlap, creating a shield over the shoulders and hips. More armor covers the top of the head, the upper part of the limbs, and the tail. Only the armadillo’s underside has no armor, covered with only fur and soft skin. • The armadillo is born with very soft shells, similar to human fingernails. As they mature, the scales, known as “scutes,” become harder as bone is deposited under the skin. • The nine-banded armadillo is the most common one found in North America, and is named such for the nine breaks in its armor, which allow it O hide. O TBecause D O AtheNtough W Marmored to flexR itsLstiff plates are so inflexible, most species cannot Home of “Mission to Mars,” “Space rollMountain,” and “Finding Nemo Voyage” into a ball as a means of defense. Only the three-banded armadillo can roll into a complete armored ball that can actually be rolled along the ground, and can’t be broken open. • Armadillo shells are so strong, those shooting at the animals have been injured when their 1. ricocheted Disneyland Paris bullets off the shell. A Marietta, Texas man shot three bullets at an armadillo, one of 2. Frontierland which and hit him in the jaw. In an3. ricocheted The Monorail other strange incident, a Georgia man fired shots 4. Space Mountain at an armadillo, one of which bounced off the 5. zipped Fantasyland shell, through the back door of a mobile home and hit his 74-year-old mother-in-law in the back.

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party in the hotel suite of silent film star Known for his work in the Mr. Belvedere Fatty Arbuckle, where at some point she films, actor Clifton Webb is alleged to met up with the actor and suffered some haunt the mausoleum in which he is bursort of trauma. Accounts vary as to what ied. Webb died in 1966 from a heart atactually happened; nonetheless, Arbuckle tack and was interred next to his mother. was accused of manslaughter, While some visitors claim to have seen 1. tried three 3 times and eventually acquitted, leaving the actor walking the halls in a suit, 2. “Peter Pan’s Flight” his career in tatters. Visitors to the cemothers claim to have felt a cold draft and etery have reported sobs coming from smelled the actor’s cologne. Many visiRappe’s grave, perhaps over her inability tors have also heard the actor whispering to defend herself at the trials. and calling out to them.

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