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13 Loopy Facts About Theme Parks Around The World

By:: Andrea Meno

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13 Loopy Facts About Theme Parks Around The World

Sure, Disney World is an ultra-famous destination -- but Walt originally intended it to be just an add-on to the utopian town he was building. Here’s the full story, plus 12 others:

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A medieval French theme park started training rooks to pick up garbage. EFFEEEED Puy du Fou is totally medieval-themed, and it attempted to train rooks to carry trash to a special box -- the rooks would get bird food in return NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Gizmodo

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Japan has an Anne of Green Gables theme park that used to be super-popular. I The park got tens of thousands of visitors a day in the '90s, and has replicas of Prince Edward Island landmarks including the Green Gables house. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: cbc.ca

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The world's fastest roller coaster is much faster than most cars ever could be. It's in Ferrari World (of course) in Abu Dhabi, and it can go to 149.1 mph in less than five seconds (and it generates 1.7 Gs of G-force). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Trip Savvy

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Danish theme park BonBon-Land has a farting dog rollercoaster. People ride in a car shaped like a farting dog, move past a giant dog with its leg over a pile of poop, and go through a tunnel filled with dog fart noises. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Mental Floss

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The world's oldest amusement park has been operating since 1583. BARKIN rband Raba efter Bakken opened as one of medieval Europe's many pleasure gardens with fireworks, dancing, games, etc. and, unlike the others, it never shut down. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Guinness World Records

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They tried making a theme park about sex in China, but it got shut down. Love Land was supposed to have how-to workshops and sexual history exhibits, but Chinese officials closed the park before it could even open. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Traveller.com.au

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Source: PRI

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In Japan, there's a theme park that simulates bucolic Dutch life. (illustration) Huis ten Bosch (named after a real community) in Nagasaki is a small, idyllic Dutch village with 1:1 replicas of famous Dutch buildings. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Iamexpat.nl

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China has a theme park ride dedicated to the experience of death and rebirth. (illustration) In Samadhi: 4D Experience of Death, you start in a morgue, get cremated by hot air, and finally move to an image of a womb before emerging through it. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Local10.com

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Disney World was actually just a small part of Walt Disney's Florida plans. His priority was building Epcot as a utopian living blueprint where solutions to city problems worldwide could be continually developed. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Business Insider

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Lithuania has a truly harrowing socialist-era theme park (of sorts, anyway). 306 PHTWLIEECKA9 CTPE AKOBAO AURW3W9 (illustration)/ 1984: Survival Drama in a Soviet Bunker is a three-hour experience that lives up to its name. At least one person faints every time (the record is 5 people). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Disney World totally changed its disability policy (in response to abuse). It used to allow disabled people to go to the front of lines but disabled tour guides would take abled guests with them (charging hundreds of $ for it). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: NBC

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Six Flags Over Texas used to have a (fairly violent) Confederate section. That section had Confederate soldiers moving through the crowds, looking for Union spies - when found, the spies would get executed by firing squad. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Dallas News

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