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Getting ill may not be as common as you'd expect, but Six Flags does have a specific code for taking care of a mess: 10-38. So it must happen often enough. The code for guest illness is 10-5A. At Disneyland? The code for vomit is "Code V."

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While roller coasters seem like the perfect conditions for causing someone to feel ill, guests don't get overcome by the rides as often as you might expect. According to one former Six Flags employee, speaking as part of a Reddit AMA, "People don't throw up nearly as much as you would expect. Maybe I was just lucky. I worked a majority of my time at a ride called Wonder Woman's Lasso of Truth: a spinning wheel that raises and tilts with the guest against the wall. Couple people threw up. One of my coworkers actually enjoyed cleaning it up… which was weird but I didn't mind!"

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Called Club 33, this semi-secret restaurant and lounge, located above the park's Café Orleans and French Market restaurants offers visitors high-end meals and experiences. The venue is invite-only—with a years-long waitlist—and has an initiation fee of $25,000 to $100,000, with an annual fee of as much as $30,000, according to some reports. If you don't have, oh, a decade to wait, plus a spare 50-large lying around, worry not: Members regularly sell reservations on CraigsList.

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While the masked characters aren't allowed to speak to the kids who are so fascinated by them, princesses do, which creates plenty of situations where they might have to take certain liberties with the truth—or else risk puncturing the fantasy. The folks at Mental Floss spoke with a person playing Mulan who was asked to speak Chinese: "She would respond, 'I bet Mushu if I could go an entire day without speaking Chinese, he'd feed the chickens for me tomorrow.' The same woman also played Silvermist the fairy.

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Like something out of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the plants in Disneyland's Tomorrowland are actually edible. It grew out of the Space Age theme of the part of the park, going back to when it first opened in 1959. It's based on an idea the park's planners called "Agrifuture." As Disneyland's site explains, "The plants in Tomorrowland are meant to be edible! The visionary landscaping doubles as a potential farm, projecting an ecologically astute future, where humanity makes the most of its resources."

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Roller coasters go way back: the earliest rides in which people boarded a vehicle and rolled down sloping hills were introduced at the Russian Imperial Summer Palace in the late 18th Century. According to roller coaster expert Steven J. Urbanowitcz, "The person who devised this avant-garde pleasure was the palace's occupant, Catherine the Great." Though he's sure to add that she got the idea from 16th-century ice slides that were popular in the region during the colder months.

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If only the rest of the world had such wisdom.

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It's a move that would no doubt get a laugh from Captain Jack Sparrow. When Disneyland first opened, the ride's creators were not impressed by the faux skeletons that were available. So they decided to get some real ones, reaching out to the nearby UCLA Medical Center for some actual human remains that proved plenty believable.

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Theme parks have to be careful to protect themselves from any legal action on the part of unhappy or injured guests. Part of this effort means instructing employees not to talk to guests who mention bringing a lawsuit and to simply connect them with security. As one Six Flags employee explained on Reddit: "DON'T TALK ABOUT SUEING [sic] AT ANY POINT IF YOU WANT TO GET SOMETHING. I can't stress this enough, because if you mention 'sue,' 'court,' or 'lawyer,' all employees are trained to stop talking to you and call security."

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It might seem like a brilliant plan: go on a roller coaster, pretend to get whiplash, and sue the amusement park owner for millions. You wouldn't be the first to come up with the idea, though. One Six Flags employee said on Reddit that, "Everyone thinks they can try and fake an injury and try to sue, but they just get themselves nowhere. It happens too often."

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