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Florida: Home of Gatorade and Sun Lotion
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Tags: Florida, gatorade, state, facts, St Johns River, sun tan lotion, Orlando, Cape Canaveral
Acquired by the US on February 22 several centuries ago, this state has given the US many great things, including Gatorade, suntan lotion, and mechanical refrigeration! Read on to find out more about the Sunshine State.
| | Saint Augustine is the oldest European settlement in North America. |
| | Orlando attracts more visitors than any other amusement park destination in the United States. |
| | Cape Canaveral is America's launch pad for space flights. |
| | Florida is not the southernmost state in the United States. Hawaii is farther south. |
| | A museum in Sanibel owns 2 million shells and claims to be the world's only museum devoted solely to mollusks. |
| | Niceville is home to the famous Boggy Bayou Mullet Festival celebrated the third weekend in October. |
| | The United States city with the highest rate of lightning strikes per capita is Clearwater. |
| | Gatorade was named for the University of Florida Gators where the drink was first developed. |
| | Miami Beach pharmacist Benjamin Green invented the first suntan cream in 1944. He accomplished this development by cooking cocoa butter in a granite coffee pot on his wife's stove. |
| | Key West has the highest average temperature in the United States. |
| | The Saint John's River is one of the few rivers that flows north instead of south. |
| | Miami installed the first bank automated teller machine especially for rollerbladers. |
| | The longest river sailboat race in the world is the Annual Mug Race, which runs 42 miles from Palatka to Jacksonville along the St. Johns River. |
| | Dr. John Gorrie of Apalachicola invented mechanical refrigeration in 1851. |
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