european carousels spin clockwise. american carousels spin counter-clockwise.

in 2010, julijonas urbonas of the royal college of art in london designed a roller coaster that would keep its passengers at 10 g's of acceleration for a prolonged period, causing their deaths by cerebral anoxia (lack of oxygen to the brain).

disney cast members who dress as mickey, donald, and other characters only won the right to wear clean underwear in 2001, after 2 months of negotiation with theme park management.

because regular underwear would show through their costumes, character employees were forced to wear tights, bike shorts and jock straps under their costumes that had been worn by other employees, without ever being washed. disney consented to allow employees to take home and wash their costume underwear after some character employees contracted lice and scabies.