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24 Startlingly Dark Secrets About The Disney Company

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Disney likes to pretend it's all cute rodents, wholesome superheroes, happy princesses, and family-friendly amusements parks. But underneath that veneer of fun and joy exists something darker. Or that was our theory, so we asked our readers to do some digging.

Here's what they dug up:

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Entry by PParker

Disney made military training videos and war propaganda during WWII. Animators used their signature silly gags and cutesy art style to make things lik

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Entry by Chan Teik Onn

Walt Disney World's River County was once responsible for the death of a boy in 1980, who died after contracting a brain-eating amoeba while swimming

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Entry by JarOCats

TWO EX-NAZIS DESIGNED ICONIC DISNEY PARK LANDMARKS WALT DISNEY TAPPED EX- Ss ENGINEER WERHNER VON BRAUN TO HELP DESIGN DISNEYLAND'S ROCKET TO THE Moon

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Entry by TheClam

Walt Disney himself helped to design a Mickey Mouse gas mask Though few remain, you can find several on display in Various museums in the United State

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Entry by scandata

In 1974, 18 year-old Debbie Stone became the first Disney Employee to die on the job. Following a performance of America Sings, a ride with a rotati

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Entry by PollyDarton

A single day's admission to Disney's Magic Kingdom, during peak attendance will cost a family of 2 adults and 2 children a minimum of 500. (No flight,

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Entry by PParker

Disney once planned to sell Ratatouille-themed wine. It didn't end well. CHARDONNAY BOURCOCNE RATATOUILLE The plans were cancelled at the last minute

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Entry by CornishPlasty

THE BEATLES OFFICIALLY ENDED ON DISNEY PROPERTY. IN 1974, ON VACATION AT DISNEY'S POLYNESIAN VILLAGE RESORT, JOHN LENNON SIGNED THE CONTRACT THAT DISS

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Entry by JarOCats

EXCEPT FOR THE BIG FLAG IN TOWN SQUARE, THE AMERICAN FLAGS THROUGHOUT DISNEYLAND'S MAIN STREET U.S.A. ARE FAKE, WITH THE WRONG NUMBER OF STARS AND/O S

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Entry by JarOCats

UNTIL 2001, LAUNDERING OF FCOMPANY-ISSUED UNDERWEAR WAS so SUB-PAR, DISNEY PARK EMPLOYEES WERE GIVEN STINKY, STAINED UNDIES AS WELL AS PUBIC LICE AND

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Entry by JarOCats

CRACKED.COM THE SECOND OF TWO FATALITIES ITHE FIRST WAS IN 1964) Disneyland's ON MATTERHORN BOBSLEDS RIDE WAS THAT OF A 48-YEAR-OLD WOMAN WHO FLEW OUT

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Entry by Busteq

After wasting 30 million dollars and causing an incredible amount of environmental damage... Disney had to completely abandon a fully built resort in

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Entry by S Peter Davis

DISNEY CRACKED ALMOST COMPLETELY DICTATES U.s. COPYRIGHT LAW! THe COMPANY HAS JUCCESSFULLY LOBBIED CONGRESS MULTOPLE TOMES TO EXTEND THE TIME LIMIT ON

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Entry by Fermosalua3

Disney widely popularized the myth that lemmings deliberately commit mass suicide in its nature documentary White Wilderness. FROL INE 7op or THE WpRd

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Entry by PookieJones

There's a derelict water park, River Country, inside Disney's resort in Florida. Seph Lawless had to scale a twenty feet high, blacked-out fence to ta

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Entry by JarOCats

BAD: YOU'RE IN THE LEAD CAR ON DISNEYLAND'S BIG THUNDER MOUNTAIN RAILROAD WHEN-IT DERAILS. WORSE: ONE OF YOUR FELLOW PASSENGERS IS KILLED. EVEN WORSE:

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Entry by Chan Teik Onn

Walt Disney World has a severe alligator infestation. The numberof alligators caught within the premises of the resort increases every year, mainly be

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Entry by JarOCats

IT WASN'T UNTIL 2015 THAT DISNEY STARTED INSTALLING METAL DETECTORS AT ALL OF ITS THEME PARKS... ..A WEEK AFTER A MAN TRIED TO ENTER DISNEY WORLD WITH

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Entry by BRWombat

For rmer U.S. President RICHARD NIXON'S most famous speech, containing the line I AM NOT A CROOK THE UNITED RESIENT SAL happened at WALT DISNEY WORL

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Entry by Chan Teik Onn

Wauf DisNey ANIMATION STUDIOS In 2017, Disney settled a $100 million lawsuit for making secret anti- poaching deals with its competitors. Anti-poachin

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Entry by Fermosalua3

A day after the infamous Kristallnacht, when thousands of Jews were brutalized, WAlT Disrey was the only one of Hollywood's big names who agreed to me

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You've probably heard of Disney's sweatshops. You might not have heard that some of them were within the USA. In Laguna Hills, California, a Disney co

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Entry by Fermosalua3

HDAOT WALT Disney 7'o had a very cooperative relationship with the F.B.I. during Hoover's administration. S'8 FBI INFORMANT 5's 5'2 4'8 He accused se

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Entry by BRWombat

As you might expect. the U.S. MILITARY is the largest purchaser of EXPLOSIVES In the United States. THE SECOND-LARGEST? Walt The DISNEY Company

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