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Come along with Tidbits as we visit Disney World! A NEW WONDER WORLD • In 1955, Walt Disney opened Disneyland in Anaheim, California. It was a success, but Walt noticed that fewer than 5% of visitors came from east of the Mississippi River which is where 75% of the population lived. Four years after Disneyland opened, Walt Disney decided that what he really needed was a bigger, better version of Disneyland in the eastern U.S.: Disney World. • Florida was already known as a vacation hot spot. There was plenty of cheap vacant swamp land located in the middle of the state where it was sheltered from the worst of the hurricanes. There was a good airport in Orlando and the local highway system was well-developed. It was far enough away from the shores to avoid competition with the beaches. The weather was good year-round. • In 1963 the Disney Company started buying up vacant land in the Orlando area in secret, using dummy corporations such as the M.T. Lott Investment Corp. to avoid price-gouging. Over 43 square miles were purchased for just $5 million dollars. That’s about the size of the city of San Francisco. It’s twice the size of Manhattan. Disney wanted to have plenty of room to expand. (continued on next page)

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DISNEY WORLD (cont’d) • Walt Disney died on December 15, 1966, before construction began. His brother Roy Disney took over the project. The Magic Kingdom opened for business in 1971. That was followed by Epcot Center in 1982, Disney’s Hollywood Studios in 1989, and Disney’s Animal Kingdom in 1998. Today, Walt Disney World is the most visited vacation resort in the world, with an average annual attendance of over 52 million. • Roy Disney died at age 78 in 1971, less than three months after the property opened. AMAZING CONSTRUCTION • There’s a system of tunnels underneath the Magic Kingdom called Utilidors (for “utility corridors”) where all the secret and unsightly stuff happens: supplies brought in, trash taken out, props are stored, costumes are cleaned, etc. Although the Utilidor appears to be underground, that’s an illusion. The land was too swampy to build underground, so it’s actually the first floor of the compound, and the entire resort is built on top. When visitors are standing in front of Cinderella Castle, they may feel like they are standing at ground level, but they are actually on the 3rd floor of a gigantic building. • The daily fireworks display at the Magic Kingdom costs about $33,000 to put on, making Disney the largest consumer of fireworks in the world. • When you take a walk down Main Street and look at Cinderella’s castle, you might notice that the “bricks” get smaller the higher up the castle goes. It’s called “forced perspective.” The castle looks a little taller than it would if all the bricks were the same size. • Main Street in the Magical Kingdom is designed using forced perspective. When guest arrive in the morning, Main Street looks extremely long as it stretches towards Cinderella’s Castle. Once guests reach the castle and turn around to leave the park, Main Street looks very short as it heads towards the exit. (continued on next page)

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KEEPING SMALL PETS SAFE FROM COYOTES DEAR PAW’S CORNER: Yesterday we had a very scary incident in our backyard. I let our Llasa Apso, “Cherie,” run free, knowing that she wouldn’t wander into the woods as long as I was on the back porch, watching her. I was reading the newspaper when Cherie started barking. Looking up, I saw two coyotes at the edge of the woods, slowly approaching her. I ran toward them, waving my arms and yelling like a crazy person. The coyotes took one look at me and disappeared into the woods. I picked up Did you hear about the family who got stuck Cherie and brought her inside. Sheon Peter Pan’s Flight for over 3 hours? wasn’t hurt, but the situation could have Apparently, their vehicle would neverquickly turned tragic if I hadn’t looked up in time. never land. For now, I’m keeping her indoors and only letting her out on a leash to relieve herself. Is there anything else I can do? -- Bob in Leominster, Massachusetts DEAR BOB: Keeping Cherie on a leash for the short term is a good idea, and I’m very glad you were supervising her backyard exploration. Contact the local animal control agency to report the coyotes’ behavior. Long term, you may want to put up fencing -- at least 6 feet high and 1 foot below ground -- to deter the coyRwell LO O T D O Alights. NWM otes, as as motion-activated Home of “Mission to Mars,” “Space Make sure to keep trash securely covered and, if possible,Mountain,” and “Finding Nemo Voyage” indoors. Don’t feed pets outside, because coyotes may investigate the food smell. Clear brush from your property and keep hedges trimmed. On the plus side, you may never see more than two full-grown coyotes in your area -- they are very territo1. Disneyland Paris rial. If they become problematic, though, your munici2. pality mayFrontierland need to step in and remove or eliminate the 3. The Monorail coyotes. 4. Space Mountain 5. Send your Fantasyland questions, tips or comments to ask pawscorner.com. (c) 2018 King Features Synd., Inc.

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• The water on the Jungle Cruise is dyed green in order to make it appear much deeper than it actually is. It also disguises the tracks that the boats travel on, as well as hiding trash. • The telegraph message at the train station is tapping out Walt Disney’s speech at Disneyland’s opening in Morse code. • When in queue for Pirates of the Caribbean, note that the two skeletons playing chess have died playing because the chess game is at a stalemate that nobody can win. • While standing in line at Splash Mountain, guests may notice bird houses in the trees. If they pay careful attention, they may eavesdrop on the birds inside those bird houses and listen to them bickering. • The Magic Carpets of Aladdin features a camel that spits water at passing guests. An employee sits near the camel pressing the button whenever a guest is in range. (continued on next page)

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• The colored concrete walkways in the Magic Kingdom seem to correspond to each section but are actually colored because Kodak and Disney found that light reflecting off colored concrete creates more vivid photographs. • The brownish winding path in Liberty Square is meant to represent raw sewage that flowed down the streets of Colonial America, since indoor plumbing wasn’t yet invented. • Throughout the resort there are thousands of “hidden Mickeys” worked into the designs: upholstery, artwork, wallpaper, flowerbeds, tile, and so on have subtle silhouettes of Mickey hidden in them. There’s one hidden Mickey you can only see once a year: Inside the Little Mermaid ride at Fantasyland, workers drilled three holes in the ceiling that become the perfect Mickey at noon on November 18, which is Mickey’s birthday. If you’re at that spot, the sun will shine through those holes and create a three-circle Mickey image on the wall. There is a streetlamp in Tomorrowland with three round hooded lights. At a certain times of the day it will cast a Mickey shadow on the ground. • The Disney Transportation System is the third largest bus system in Florida with over 290 buses.

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over once. 4. Transfer pork chops to cutting board; let rest 5 minutes. 5. Spoon mango sauce over pork. Garnish with green onion and cilantro. Serves 4. * Each serving: About 385 calories , 15g total fat (4g saturated), 80mg cholesterol, 4g dietary fiber, 27g protein. For thousands of triple-tested recipes, visit our Web site at www.goodhousekeeping.com/recipes/. (c) 2018 Hearst Communications, Inc. All rights reserved

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• The country whose residents eat out the least is Russia. Russians eat out an average of 0.3 meals per month. Residents of Hong Kong eat out the most at 8.7 meals per month. • The most popular day to eat out in the U.S. is Saturday. Second is Friday, third is Sunday. Monday is the slowest day for restaurants. • The busiest day of the year for restaurants is Mother’s Day, followed by Valentine’s Day. • Italian food is the most popular ethnic cuisine in the U.S., followed by Mexican, then Chinese. • The oldest American restaurant still in service today is Boston’s Union Oyster House, founded in 1826. The oldest tavern in America is the White Horse Tavern in Newport, Rhode Island, opened in 1673. • The oldest fast food restaurant chain is White Castle, founded in 1921. • The grill marks on fast food burgers aren’t always from a real grill - they’re often put on by the factory that they’re shipped from. • Soft drink prices in restaurants are marked up by 1,150% in restaurants. • The world’s largest restaurant is in Damascus, Syria. Bawabet Dimashq Restaurant, which means Damascus Gate Restaurant, has 6,014 seats. During peak operation, 1,800 staff are employed. It opened in 2002. • The world’s unhealthiest burger can be found at the Heart Attack Grill, Las Vegas. The Quadruple Bypass Burger has been certified by Guinness World Records to be the Most Calorific Burger, with a total of 9,982 calories. The recommended daily intake for the average adult male is 2,500 calories. • The world’s most expensive burger can be found in Fleur de Lys at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas. The $5,000 “Fleurburger 5000” is loaded with items such as foie gras, black truffles, and a black truffle brioche bun.

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• It annoyed William Spencer that every morning when he went to pick up the newspaper from his front porch, he’d find it had blown all over his yard in Alliance, Ohio. The windier it was, the farther the newspaper would fly. It was 1923 and Spencer decided something should be done. • Spencer knew that the shipyard of the Goodyear Rubber Company in Akron had heaps of discarded inner tubes lying around. He brought home a bunch of those inner tubes, and cut them into strips. The wrist-size stretchy strips of rubber were perfect for wrapping around a rolled-up newspaper, making it easier to throw onto a front porch and harder to blow away in the wind. • He took his idea to the Akron Beacon Journal, and the local newspaper bought a bunch of Spencer’s inner tube strips. The rubber band was born. Spencer started selling his rubber bands to office supply, paper goods, and twine stores across the region, building his business up. • He opened the world’s first rubber band factory in Alliance, Ohio, and then opened a second one in Hot Springs, Arkansas in 1944. In 1957, he patented the Alliance rubber band, which ultimately set the world rubber band standard. • Today, Alliance Rubber is the number one rubber band manufacturer in the world, churning out more than 14 million pounds of rubber bands per year. Their annual output would stretch to the Moon and back ten times. • The biggest consumer of rubber bands is the U.S. Postal Service which uses them to sort and group mail. Second place goes to the newspaper industry, followed by the floral industry and the food industry, which uses them to bunch things like asparagus and broccoli. (continued next page)

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