Fun Disney Fact of the Day

Hope all of you had a fun and happy holiday season!

Just getting things moving around here again, and saw this cool post of pictures over at Imaginerding about Splash Mountain. 

Which got me to thinking about my backstage trip behind Splash into the netherworld of The Magic Kingdom…  and have you ever wondered why you didn’t smell like bleach or your clothes end up with little white spots on it after getting totally soaked on this fun ride?

Well, the fact is that at least on this ride Disney DOES NOT use chlorine (aka concentrated form of the watered stuff you and I get in bleach).  Instead they mostly use bromine, which has been used in many industrial situations like this one where chlorine would just be too nasty.

Oh, and if you really want to geek out here is on old water discharge application for the Disneyland resort that shows where ALL of the water discharge points are throughout the resort (or at least where they were)!