Did you know:

1) Magic Kingdom (107 acres), EPCOT (300 acres), *and* Disney's Hollywood Studios (89 acres) can *all* fit inside Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park (over 500 acres) - at the same time? Magic King alone can fit inside the "footprint" for the Kilimanjaro Safaris attraction.

2) Magic Kingdom's "Wishes" and EPCOT's "Illuminations: Reflections of Earth" fireworks are launched by compressed air? The computer-controlled system uses differing air pressures to launch the pyrotechnics at varying heights.

3) The Walt Disney World Railroad uses real steam trains? The locomotives and tenders were originally built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, PA between 1916 and 1928. They operated hauling sugar cane in the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico before being sent to a scrap pile, where they were discovered by Disney "scouts" in 1968.

4) On Seven Seas Lagoon, near the Polynesian Resort, there used to be a surf/wave machine? The machine operated for a very short period of time (less than six months) very early on in Walt Disney World Resort history (late 1971-early 1972). The machine was turned off for good after determining that it caused too much "beach erosion".

5) that the original Walt Disney World Preview Center still exists today? Along Hotel Plaza Boulevard, near Downtown Disney, is the American Amateur Athletic Union headquarters (about halfway between Downtown Disney and the SR 535/CrossRoads intersection). This building, opened in February of 1970, housed the original Preview Center that guests traveling along Interstate 4 could visit before their stay at the "new" vacation destination.