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Watch BYUtv on Wednesday at 9pm ET/7pm MT for the classic Kurt Russell film Now You See Him, Now You Don't, a hilarious comedy about a chemistry student (Russell) who invents a spray that makes its users invisible. It's the second film in Disney's "Dexter Riley trilogy" -- you can watch the final film in the trilogy, The Strongest Man in the World, on Thursday at 9pm ET/7pm MT on BYUtv.
Walt Disney's films and theme parks are so numerous and so iconic that it's no surprise that plenty of interesting trivia and juicy facts are found in their archives. An interesting fact about Walt Disney himself: the last thing he wrote before he died in 1966 was the name of actor Kurt Russell, the meaning of which remains a mystery, even to Russell!
With the help of the internet, we uncovered six more fascinating Disney theme park facts. Take a look:
- Disney currently manages 11 theme parks, spread across California, Florida, France, Japan and Hong Kong (with one more coming to Shanghai in 2016). Over 100 million people visit Disney theme parks each year!
- The small town of Marceline, Missouri, where Walt Disney lived for four years as a boy, inspired the Main Street, U.S.A. section of Disney parks.
- How many stones were used to build Cinderella's Castle at Florida's Magic Kingdom? Trick question! No stones were used, seeing as the entire building is made of fiberglass.
- Florida's Animal Kingdom is the largest of all Disney theme parks, clocking in at 403 acres.
- The Morocco pavilion at Florida's Epcot park was created with the help and sponsorship of the Moroccan government. The King of Morocco even sent native artists to help with the pavilion's mosaics.
- If the "Earffel Tower" at France's Walt Disney Studios Park was topped by a real hat, it would be a size 342 3/4.
(Sources: Huffington Post, Wikipedia)
