To bring you a little closer to the city of the sun, we want to tell you some facts that could be unknown to you until now.

Things You May Not Know About Florida
Things You May Not Know About Florida
  1. Greater Miami is the only metropolitan area in the United States to encompass two national parks: Everglades National Park and Biscayne National Park.
  2. Orlando attracts more visitors than any other amusement park in the entire United States.
  3. Cape Canaveral is the United States’ launch pad for spaceflight.
  4. A museum in Sanibel has more than 2 million shells and claims to be the only one in the world dedicated exclusively to mollusks.
  5. Safety Harbor is home to the historic Espiritu Santo Spring, named by Spanish navigator Hernando de Soto in 1539, who sought the coveted Fountain of Youth. This spring is known worldwide for its healing powers.
  6. Clearwater is the city with the highest lightning strike rate per capita in the entire United States.
  7. The famous Gatorade hydrating drink owes its name to the University of Florida Gators, where the drink was first developed.
  8. Miami Beach pharmacist Benjamin Green invented the first tanning cream in 1944, he achieved it by cooking cocoa butter in a pot of granite coffee, on his wife’s stove.
  9.  The Saint John River is one of the few whose current flows north instead of south.
  10.  The largest lake in Florida is Lake Okeechobee.
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  11.  On May 20, 1970, Florida legislators passed and sent to the governor a bill adopting moonstone as the state’s gem. Ironically, this stone is not found naturally in Florida… nor on the moon.
  12.  In 1987 the Florida legislature named the American crocodile as the official reptile of the state. It originally symbolized Florida’s vast desert and swamps.
  13.  Miami installed the first special ATM for skaters.
  14.  DeFuniak Springs is home to the only two naturally round lakes in the world.
  15.  Fort Lauderdale is known as the Venice of America because of the more than 180 waterways it has.
  16.  Cayo Largo is known as the diving capital of the world.
  17.  In 1989 the construction of the Dame Point Bridge was completed, becoming the largest cable-supported bridge in the United States, the third in the world and the longest concrete bridge in the Western Hemisphere.
  18.  The Florida Museum of Hispanic and Latin American Art in Coral Gables is the first and only museum in the United States dedicated to the preservation, dissemination and promotion of Hispanic and Latin American art.
  19.  Florida is the only state to have two rivers with the same name. There’s the Withlacoochee in north central and the other in central Florida. The only thing they have in common is the name.
  20.  Titusville, known as the Space City, is located on the west coast of the Indian River just across from the John F. Kennedy Space Center.