1. N'Sync, The Backstreet Boys, and Matchbox 20 all came together in Orlando, Florida.
2. The 2015 season marks the first time an Orlando team will participate in Major League Soccer. Get excited!
3. The University of Central Florida (UCF) is the second largest higher education institution in the country, behind Arizona State University.
4. Orlando's known for new restaurants opening up practically each week. You can eat a meal at every single restaurant, three times a day, for an entire year, and you'll still need to spend over five years to eat at every other restaurant in Orlando.
5. There's so much to do in Orlando that it's been estimated in a study that the average traveler would have to spend a full 67 days in the city to experience all of it.
6. Richard Nixon was notorious for stating famously that he was "not a crook." He said it on November 17, 1973, in Disney's Contemporary Resort.
7. The city of Orlando was honored and proud to demolish its old city hall not only to build a new one, but to utilize the actual scene of that demolition for the major motion picture "Lethal Weapon 3."
8. Speaking of movies, "My Girl," "The Waterboy," and "Monster" are among the movies filmed in Orlando along with "Lethal Weapon 3."
9. Orlando's Citrus Bowl hosted five of the World Cup's 1994 soccer matches, plus the first and second soccer rounds of the 1996 Olympic games.
10. There was a competition to name the newly minted NBA team back in 1986. Finalists were chosen as the "Heat," the "Tropics," the "Juice," and the "Magic." You can guess which name won the contest.
11. Orlando was the birthplace of the first pilot to make a trip across the Atlantic Ocean via hot air balloon, back in 1978—86 year-old Joseph Kittinger II.
12. In 1950 Orlando's Orange County had 80,000 acres of oranges. Today the county comes in at a sad 19th in the whole state of Florida in orange production.
13. Pilots at Orlando International Airport love their Disney. There are five approach procedures they all follow, called CWRLD ONE, COSTR ONE, PIGLT ONE, MINEE TWO and GOOFY FIVE.
14. Orlando is home to Rollins College, the oldest college in the state founded back in 1885. It hasn't lost a step since then, because it still ranks in the top 10 percent of all colleges in the U.S.
15. Famous beat poet Jack Kerouac at one time lived in the College Park neighborhood of Orlando, when his seminal work "On the Road" was published in 1957.
16. Orlando wasn't always part of what is now known as Orange County. The same county went by a different but equally appropriate name before Florida became a state: Mosquito County.
17. The Senator was one of the world's oldest and largest cypress trees, located right in Orlando. It stood 118 feet tall. Tragically, a fire brought the bark beast down in 2012.
18. Orlando wasn't always known as Orlando. A settler by the name of Aaron Jernigan was the first to make the land his home in the mid-1800s, and gave it his own name: Jernigan.
19. There still is a bit of a debate as to where the name Orlando came from. Some say it belonged to a soldier during the Second Seminole War, and others say it belonged to a man on his way to Tamps who died and was buried in the area.
20. Orlando has an (un)official symbol: The fountain at Lake Eola. Did you know that the lake actually has a sinkhole? It's 80 feet deep.
21. Despite all that tourism, Coupon.com ranked Orlando as the country's second "Most Frugal City."
22. Orlando isn't just known for hurricanes. Thanks to spring storms in the region, Orlando has experienced its fair share of tornadoes, two of the worst in its history being in 1998 and 2007.
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23. The Orange County Convention Center has the largest modeling and simulation conference in the world.
24. Love Longhorn Steakhouse and Olive Garden? Orlando's responsible for getting both of those restaurants going. The parent company for those chains, Darden Restaurants, is based right in town.
25. Orlando is also home to the Tupperware and AAA companies.
26. Orlando is located at the very center of Florida, geographically speaking—at the crossroads of Interstate 4 and State Road 408.
27. Believe it or not, before is became known for Disney World, Orlando’s land was utilized for cattle ranching.
28. Only Las Vegas beats out Orlando for the highest number of hotel rooms in one city.
29. By the end of 2014 Orlando is expected to receive more than 60 million visitors, breaking all previous records.
30. The unemployment rate in metro Orlando is below that of both the rest of Florida and the rest of the country.
31. Sure, Orlando doesn’t have a monopoly on waterparks, but the idea wouldn’t have even existed if it wasn't for Orlando's Wet N' Wild waterpark, which opened in 1977 and still runs to this day. It was the first waterpark in the world. It's also one of the only waterparks able to stay open 365 days a year.
32. Semoran Boulevard (SR 436) isn’t named after some Native American tribe or exotic Orlando plant. The street runs between Seminole and Orange County. Get it? SEMinole and ORANge.
33. Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art in Winter Park houses the largest collection of Tiffany glasses in the entire world.
34. The Walt Disney World Resort is so big that two of New York City's Manhattans could fit in it. All of California's city of San Francisco can fit right in the resort as well.
35. Marriott chose the city of Orlando for their biggest hotel ever. The 2,000-room Orlando World Center Marriott Resort and Convention Center is pretty impressive.
36. Orlando's first highway was actually paved in brick. It was called "Colonial Drive."
37. Orlando has the largest public library in the state with a reported 290,000 square feet of space. That's a lot of books.
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