8/20/08

* Art Linkletter introduced the original Mouseketeers when Disneyland in California opened in 1955.
* There is a basketball court in the top third of the Matterhorn at Disneyland.
* The tunnels under Disney World in Florida allow actors to come up in the appropriate themed areas of the park, but they aren't really underground. The utility corridors ("utilidors") were built on ground level, and the park was built on top of them.
* Walt Disney kept an apartment above the fire station on Main Street USA in Disneyland. His favorite snack was grilled cheese.

8/01/08

* Concrete to build Hoover Dam was laid in 6-inch sheets. There's enough of it to build a highway from New York City to San Francisco.
* The Statue of Liberty is in New Jersey waters, but an agreement in 1834 made anything below the water property of New Jersey and anything above the water property of New York. So it's technically still on New York City soil. Her mailing address is New Jersey, but taxes on anything bought in the gift shop are paid to New York. The island is patrolled by the federal government.

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