• Disneyland is home to numerous feral cats which are tolerated as they provide a nifty pest control service
  • The Matterhorn roller coaster at Disneyland has a secret basketball court inside it for Disneyland staff to use
  • From groundbreaking to opening day, Disneyland was built in just 365 days
  • Disneyland does not sell chewing gum
  • The Disneyland monorail, opened in 1959, was the first monorail in the Western Hemisphere
  • Disneyland issues, maintains, and cleans costumes for more than 15,000 cast members, who exchange more than 20,000 garments for cleaning each week during the summer
  • Disney’s family had a private apartment above the firehouse on Main Street, which was connected to the ground level by a fire pole that Walt frequently used in the mornings