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TIL that when "Feed the Birds" was being played at Walt Disney's 100th Birthday celebrations in 2001 by Richard Sherman, a small bird landed on the piano on which he was playing. It was Walt's favourite song and Richard swears that it must have been Walt coming to listen once again.

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