26Brevard County Area Code
The area code for Brevard County in Florida which is home to the Kennedy Space Center is 321. This code was given deliberately in reference to the countdown heard before every space launch.
27. The strongest magnet ever built resides at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. It is 22-feet tall, weighs 34 tons and has a strength of 45 Tesla.
28. The city of Boca Raton in Florida doesn’t translate to “Rat’s Mouth.” An investigation of old Spanish maritime dictionaries shows, “a shallow inlet of sharp-pointed rocks which scrape a ship’s cables.”
29. Florida is second to Alaska for the highest number of breeding pairs of Bald Eagles in the US. Hawaii is the only state where you can’t find Bald Eagles.
30. Panama City, Florida was named after the original Panama City (Panama) basically as a scam to "spur more real estate in the county."
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31Moonstone Gemstone
Despite being Florida's official state gemstone, moonstone does not naturally occur in Florida.
32. 100% of Florida’s orange trees are infected with a deadly fungus and face extinction.
33. Florida Everglades is the only place on earth where crocodiles and alligators co-exist.
34. Florida Highway Patrol has a semi-truck as a patrol vehicle and occasionally makes traffic stops.
35. Brightline is a Florida-based rail service which currently operates between Miami and West Palm Beach. It is also the nation’s deadliest railroad with more than 40 people being killed at its rail crossings in its first 2 years of operation.
