You Know All About Disney World, But Here Are 15 Of Florida's Best Kept Secrets
There's a lot more to the sunshine state than Disney World and retirement homes.
It's 15,409 square miles bigger than England, but a lot of it is swampland.
"Senator" was the name of a 3,500 year old palm tree in Longwood, Florida until a meth addict climbed up the tree and ended up burning it down.
You're not allowed to scatter ashes at Walt Disney World, but people still try to do it. Typically on the Haunted Mansion ride. Workers are on the lookout for suspicious piles of dust and will come in and clean it up.
NASA discovered that Rwanda was the true lighting capital. Nine people every year are killed by lightning strikes in Florida.
The Florida Manatee Sanctuary Act ensures that anyone caught disturbing the endangered animals can be fined up to $500 and sentenced up to 60 days in jail.
The state song is called “Swanee River (Old Folks at Home)” and the retirement industry is the second most profitable in the state behind tourism.
In the 1960s, NASA built a rocket testing facility in Homestead, Florida, but left it intact after the project ended.
He called it "La Florida," or the flowery place.
Boa constrictors, non-native plants, pythons and eight-inch-long snails can be found there.