Enjoy these fun facts about Demo Homeowners Association, Naples and the surrounding area!

• Over 10,000 varieties of wine grapes exist in the world today.
• United States has the highest minimum drinking age in the entire world.
• Until 1883, hemp was the world’s largest agricultural crop, from which the majority of fabric, soap, paper, medicines, and oils were produced.
• The British, after losing the American Revolution, negotiated with Spain and exchanged Florida for the Bahamas and Gibraltar.
• Saint John’s River is among the few rivers that flow north.
• Rollins College, which is the oldest college in Florida, was established in 1885 in Winter Park by New England Congregationalists.
• A chocolate bar only contains 12 mg of cholesterol which is very low when compare to 30 mg of cholesterol in a one ounce piece of cheddar cheese!
• The string on boxes of animal crackers was originally placed there so the container could be hung from a Christmas tree.
• Miami Beach pharmacist Benjamin Green invented the first suntan cream in 1944.
• The phrase “cool as a cucumber” originates in Florida. On a hot Florida day, the pulp of a cucumber can be up to 10 degrees cooler than the surrounding air.
• Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. President to be born in a hospital.
• Oddly enough, the word “mafia” is never mentioned in the film version of The Godfather.
• The nose print of a dog is like the fingerprint of a person: no two are alike. Get a good relief and you can identify your dog by the mark it leaves behind!
• Cleopatra had a special lipstick made for her, consisting of crushed ants and deep red carmine beetles.
• Ben Franklin’s formal education ended at ten years old.
• In 1991 Wayne Allwine, the voice of Mickey Mouse, married Russi Taylor—the voice of Minnie.
• The Green Bay Packers got their name in 1919 after the Indian Packing Company gave the team $500 to buy equipment.
• In 1965, a Senate subcommittee predicted that by 2000, Americans would be working 20 hours a week and taking over seven weeks of vacation each year.
• The USA PATRIOT Act is an acronym that stands for “Uniting & Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept & Obstruct Terrorism.”
• Gasoline was once sold in small bottles as a cure for lice.
• The title of the Paul Simon song “Mother and Child Reunion” came from a chicken-and-egg dish that appeared on a Chinese restaurant menu in NYC.
• In 19th-century Britain, opium for babies was marketed under the name “Quietness.”
• In colonial America, lobster wasn’t exactly a delicacy. It was so cheap and plentiful it was often served to prisoners.
• Ben & Jerry learned how to make ice cream by taking a $5 correspondence course offered by Penn State. (They decided to split one course.)
• The constitutional right to free speech often is misunderstood as applying to all speech, anywhere, but rights to free speech aren’t unlimited. The First Amendment deals with government limiting free speech, but it doesn’t apply to private organizations or businesses.