20 Florida Facts That Sound Fake (But Aren't)

Florida sounds made up. It is not. Here are 20 Florida facts that sound completely fake — alligators sharing water with crocodiles, iguanas falling out of trees, a river that is sixty miles wide, and a town run by psychics — but every single one of them is real. Countdown from #20 to #1! Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:34 #20 Golf courses 1:03 #19 St. Augustine 1:37 #18 Key West never freezes 2:05 #17 Lightning Alley 2:34 #16 Tornadoes 3:02 #15 Key deer 3:30 #14 Hemingway's cats 4:00 #13 Manatee springs 4:30 #12 Disney's secret land buy 5:05 #11 The river that flows north 5:33 #10 The Everglades is a river 6:00 #9 The Conch Republic 6:33 #8 Florida's highest point 6:57 #7 Spook Hill 7:28 #6 The day it snowed in Miami 7:54 #5 Coral Castle 8:28 #4 Python invasion 8:59 #3 Falling iguanas 9:25 #2 Psychic capital of the world 9:53 #1 Alligators and crocodiles 10:29 Outro Credits — all visuals are real photos/video, public domain, Creative Commons, or Pexels free license: Florida from space — NASA (public domain); Overseas Highway aerial — Flip Schulke / NARA (public domain) Golf aerial video — via Pexels; golf course orthophoto — USGS (public domain) St. Augustine street — w_lemay, CC BY-SA 2.0; City Gate — Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0 (via Wikimedia Commons) Castillo de San Marcos — NPS (public domain); RuggyBearLA, CC BY 2.0; cannon photo — Kiran891, CC BY-SA 4.0 Southernmost Point buoy — Radomianin, CC BY-SA 4.0; Stefan Kokemüller, CC BY-SA 3.0; Duval Street — w_lemay, CC0 Conch Republic airport sign — Eric Salard, CC BY-SA 2.0 Lightning photo — NOAA (public domain); lightning storm videos — Berkalp Turper via Pexels; storm timelapse — via Pexels Tornado video — Coverr via Pexels Key deer — Judy Gallagher, CC BY 2.0; Ianaré Sévi, CC BY-SA 3.0; Joseph C. Boone, CC BY-SA 3.0; USFWS (public domain) Hemingway House — Andreas Lamecker, CC BY 2.5; HABS / Library of Congress (public domain); cats — Averette, CC BY 3.0; Abujoy, CC BY 3.0; polydactyl paw — Bobjgalindo, CC BY-SA 4.0 Manatees — USFWS (public domain); manatee video — Christopher Moon via Pexels Disney World aerials — USGS (public domain); Cinderella Castle flyover — U.S. Air Force / SrA Dakota C. LeGrand (public domain) St. Johns River — U.S. Forest Service (public domain) Everglades aerial — Marek Ślusarczyk, CC BY 3.0; Everglades sunset — G. Gardner, NPS (public domain) Britton Hill — Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0; Skye Marthaler, CC BY-SA 4.0; Miami skyline — Dori, CC BY-SA 3.0 Spook Hill — Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0 Miami Herald front page, Jan 20, 1977 and Florida Today front page, Jan 19, 1977 — public domain (via Wikimedia Commons); Ocean Drive, Miami Beach — State Library of Florida (public domain) Coral Castle — Christina Rutz, CC BY 2.0; Pennington.beau, CC BY-SA 4.0; Jenda9904, CC BY-SA 4.0; Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0; John Margolies / Library of Congress (public domain) Burmese python — Naturewrite, CC0; python capture — Lori Oberhofer / NPS via USGS (public domain); python video — via Pexels Iguanas — Grendelkhan, CC BY-SA 4.0; Sardaka, CC BY-SA 4.0; iguana video — via Pexels Cassadaga — U.S. DOT / FHWA (public domain); Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0 American crocodile — Charlie Jackson, CC BY 2.0; alligator — Asit K. Ghosh, CC BY-SA 3.0; alligator video — Alex Kad via Pexels; crocodile swim video — via Pexels Music: "Monkeys Spinning Monkeys" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under CC BY 3.0. Follow Quirkipedia for facts that sound fake, but aren't. #Florida #FunFacts #DidYouKnow #Quirkipedia