- The name of the dog from "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas" is Max.
- Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy.
- Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated for some time.
- Mr. Rogers of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood was an ordained minister.
- 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.
- In Disney's "Fantasia", the Sorcerer's name is "Yensid"
- Walt Disney had wooden teeth.
- Walt Disney's autograph bears no resemblance to the famous Disney logo.
- It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces. (Is this really true?)
- The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan"
- Pinocchio was made of pine.
- Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eyes".
- Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
- Disneyland has the fourth largest navy in the world.
- Tony the Tiger turned 42 in 1997; the Jolly Green Giant turned 69.
- Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
- Cleo and Caesar were the early stage names of Cher and Sonny Bono.
- Cinderella is known as Tuhkimo in Finland.
- Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
- Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T.
- The story of "Alice in Wonderland" was first told by author Lewis Carroll to four friends while rowing up the Thames from Oxford to Glascow for a mid-summer picnic. One of the party was nine-year-old Alice Liddell (the model for the fictional Alice).
- In the Wizard of Oz Dorothy's last name is Gail. It is shown on the mail box.
- The name for Oz in the Wizard of Oz was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
- The movie playing at the drive-in at the beginning of "The Flintstones" was the The Monster.
- Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean McBricker.
- Kermit the Frog is left handed.
- On the cartoon show "The Jetsons", Jane is 33 years old and her daughter Judy is 15.
- The first Marvel Comics super hero was the Human Torch.
- The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver". Wally and Beaver had a baby alligator which they kept in the toilet.
- Beaver Cleaver's locker number was #9.
- Hugh Beaumont, "Ward Cleaver" of Leave It To Beaver, was an ordained minister.
- Howdy Doody had 48 freckles.
- Felix the Cat is the first cartoon character to ever have been made into a balloon for a parade.
- In an episode of The Simpsons, Sideshow Bob's Criminal Number is 24601, the same as the Criminal number of Jean Valjean in Les Miserables.
- Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
- The hacky-sack was invented in Turkey.
- The Slinky was invented by an airplane mechanic; he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use of one of the springs.
- If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat it measures 87 feet long.
- Cheryl Ladd (of Charlie's Angels fame) played the voice, both talking and singing, of Josie in the 70s Saturday morning cartoon "Josie and the Pussycats."
- School busses in the United States are Chrome Yellow and used to be Omaha Orange.
- Most of the little school houses in the U.S. of yesteryear were painted red because red was the least expensive paint color.
- The hundred billionth crayon made by Crayola was Periwinkle Blue.
- Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.
- Some 16,000,000,000 prizes have been given away in boxes of Cracker Jacks since the company started the practice in 1912.
- The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life"
- Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice."
- Mr. Snuffleupagus�s first name was Aloysius.
- Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son.
- Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
- On Sesame Street, Bert's goldfish were named Lyle and Talbot, presumably after the actor Lyle Talbot.
- If the Spaceship Earth ride at EPCOT was a golf ball, to be the proportional size to hit it, you'd be two miles tall.
(All of the above trivia is originally from here.)
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