Disneyland’s Anti-Mouse Policy

by Zoë Pollock

David Pescovitz marvels at one of amusement park's many wild secrets:

Each night at Disneyland, after the sunburned families and exhausted cast members have made their way home, the park fills up again — this time, with hundreds of feral cats. Park officials love the felines because they help control the mouse population. … When they're not prowling the grounds, these corporate fat cats spend their days lounging at one of the park's five permanent feeding stations.

Mental Floss has seven other juicy tidbits, including the fact that Walt Disney himself outlawed facial hair "to make sure [employees] looked as different from the stereotypical image of a creepy carnival worker as possible."