REMARKABLE FACTS ABOUT FLORIDA YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW
Added on: 5th Jul 2016
FORT LAUDERDALE IS KNOWN AS THE
VENICE OF AMERICA BECAUSE THE CITY
HAS 185 MILES OF LOCAL WATERWAYS
THE MORIKAMI MUSEUM AND JAPANESE GARDENS
AT DELRAY BEACH IS THE ONLY MUSEUM IN THE
UNITED STATES DEDICATED EXCLUSIVELY TO THE
LIVING CULTURE OF JAPAN
PLANT CITY, THE WINTER STRAWBERRY CAPITAL
OF THE WORLD, HOLDS THE GUINNESS RECORD
FOR THE WORLD’S LARGEST STRAWBERRY
SHORTCAKE. THE 827-SQUARE-FOOT, 6,000-POUND
CAKE WAS MADE ON FEBRUARY 19, 1999, IN
MCCALL PARK
YBOR CITY WAS ONCE KNOWN AS THE CIGAR CAPITAL
OF THE WORLD WITH NEARLY 12,000 TABAQUEROS
(CIGAR-MAKERS) EMPLOYED IN TWO HUNDRED
FACTORIES. YBOR CITY PRODUCED AN ESTIMATED
700 MILLION CIGARS A YEAR AT THE INDUSTRY’S PEAK
GREATER MIAMI IS THE ONLY METROPOLITAN AREA
IN THE UNITED STATES WHOSE BORDERS
ENCOMPASS TWO NATIONAL PARKS. YOU CAN
HIKE THROUGH PRISTINE EVERGLADES NATIONAL
PARK OR RIDE ON A GLASS-BOTTOM BOAT ACROSS
BISCAYNE NATIONAL PARK
IN 1987 THE FLORIDA LEGISLATURE DESIGNATED
THE AMERICAN ALLIGATOR (ALLIGATOR MISSISSIPPIENSIS)
THE OFFICIAL STATE REPTILE. LONG AN UNOFFICIAL
SYMBOL OF THE STATE, THE ALLIGATOR ORIGINALLY
SYMBOLIZED FLORIDA’S EXTENSIVE UNTAMED
WILDERNESS AND SWAMPS
ON MAY 20, 1970, FLORIDA LAWMAKERS PASSED AND
SENT TO THE GOVERNOR A BILL ADOPTING THE
MOONSTONE AS THE OFFICIAL STATE GEM.
IRONICALLY, THE MOONSTONE IS NOT FOUND
NATURALLY IN FLORIDA NOR WAS IT FOUND
ON THE MOON
MIAMI BEACH PHARMACIST BENJAMIN GREEN INVENTED
THE FIRST SUNTAN LOTION IN 1944. HE ACCOMPLISHED
THIS BY COOKING COCOA BUTTER IN A GRANITE
COFFEE POT ON HIS WIFE’S STOVE
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