I found this in the Orlando Sentinal online and thought it would be appreciated here:
-Disney World bought about 150,000 gallons of paint -- enough to cover nearly 7,500 average sized homes – in 2004
-Estimated daytime population in 2003: 200,000
-Number of buses: 263
-Number of miles buses travel annually: nearly 18 million
-If you were to stack all of the buttons used by the Costuming Plant Seam Team in one year, you would have a stack 96 times taller than the height of Cinderella's Castle.
-Number of trees, shrubs and flowers: more than 7 million
-Daily water usage: 15 million gallons
-2,000 acres of turf. At three mowings a week, that adds up to 450,000 mower miles per year, or 18 trips around the Earth at the equator.
-Largest working wardrobe in the world with more than 1.5 million operational garments in use and over 7,000 different garment types. In addition there are over 2 million pieces of entertainment costumes. Each day the costuming plant processes between 27,000 and 31,000 garments.
-More than 50 million soft drinks sold annually.
-10 million hamburgers, 7 million hot dogs, 9 million pounds of french fries and 300,000 pounds of popcorn sold annually.
-Uses 194,871 miles of toilet tissue
-Uses 24,409 miles of paper towels
-Uses 319,353 lbs. of chocolate
-Uses 1.2 million pounds of watermelon
-Uses 741,150 pounds of sugar
-Uses 1.8 million pounds of flour
-Uses 245,000 pounds of fruit filling
-Uses 38,000 pounds of white icing glaze
-Uses 2.9 million pounds of eggs
-Uses 606,000 pounds of bananas
-Uses 510,000 of grapes
-Serves more than 1.5 million soft pretzels
-Serves more than 639,000 pounds of macaroni and cheese
-Orders more than 3.8 million ballpoint pens annually
-Orders more than 337,000 pencils annually
-Uses nearly 148 million sheets of recycled copier paper annually
-Uses 730,102 gallons of bleach annually
-$1.7 million worms are ordered each year to feed animals at Disney's Animal Kingdom.
-214,000 bandages were provided to guests during the year 2004
-In 2004, Walt Disney World recycled 18,322,000 pounds of paper products.
There is also a link to a trivia game called "Disney By The Numbers." You have to be a registered member to play.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/busi...ry?coll=orl-home-headlines&ctrack=2&cset=true
-Disney World bought about 150,000 gallons of paint -- enough to cover nearly 7,500 average sized homes – in 2004
-Estimated daytime population in 2003: 200,000
-Number of buses: 263
-Number of miles buses travel annually: nearly 18 million
-If you were to stack all of the buttons used by the Costuming Plant Seam Team in one year, you would have a stack 96 times taller than the height of Cinderella's Castle.
-Number of trees, shrubs and flowers: more than 7 million
-Daily water usage: 15 million gallons
-2,000 acres of turf. At three mowings a week, that adds up to 450,000 mower miles per year, or 18 trips around the Earth at the equator.
-Largest working wardrobe in the world with more than 1.5 million operational garments in use and over 7,000 different garment types. In addition there are over 2 million pieces of entertainment costumes. Each day the costuming plant processes between 27,000 and 31,000 garments.
-More than 50 million soft drinks sold annually.
-10 million hamburgers, 7 million hot dogs, 9 million pounds of french fries and 300,000 pounds of popcorn sold annually.
-Uses 194,871 miles of toilet tissue
-Uses 24,409 miles of paper towels
-Uses 319,353 lbs. of chocolate
-Uses 1.2 million pounds of watermelon
-Uses 741,150 pounds of sugar
-Uses 1.8 million pounds of flour
-Uses 245,000 pounds of fruit filling
-Uses 38,000 pounds of white icing glaze
-Uses 2.9 million pounds of eggs
-Uses 606,000 pounds of bananas
-Uses 510,000 of grapes
-Serves more than 1.5 million soft pretzels
-Serves more than 639,000 pounds of macaroni and cheese
-Orders more than 3.8 million ballpoint pens annually
-Orders more than 337,000 pencils annually
-Uses nearly 148 million sheets of recycled copier paper annually
-Uses 730,102 gallons of bleach annually
-$1.7 million worms are ordered each year to feed animals at Disney's Animal Kingdom.
-214,000 bandages were provided to guests during the year 2004
-In 2004, Walt Disney World recycled 18,322,000 pounds of paper products.
There is also a link to a trivia game called "Disney By The Numbers." You have to be a registered member to play.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/busi...ry?coll=orl-home-headlines&ctrack=2&cset=true
Fascinating statistics - but who takes the time to work them all out ? :lol:
