Florida news: New football team. Crazy tweets. Falling space debris
It's time for another news quiz on all things Florida.
After House Republicans cast a record-setting 15 votes to elect Kevin McCarthy as speaker, newly elected GOP Congressman Cory Mills tweeted: "It wasn't pretty, but we got there". He later deleted the tweet.
Orlando's newest XFL team, the Guardians, takes the field next month. All of the following football teams in Orlando were actual football team in one point except the Breakers.
Manny Diaz resigned as Florida Democrats' leader after his party got walloped in the recent elections. Goodfellas (1990), Jurassic Park (1993), Jerry Maguire (1996), Shrek (2001) was the last time a Democrat unseat a statewide Republican.
It was 32 years ago that Democrat Lawton Chiles ousted Republican Gov. Bob Martinez.
7 out of 700 military veterans applied to become a teacher in Florida. The state officials had said 480 had applied. Military.com contacted every school district to find out the actual number.
A piece of space debris was plummeting towards earth this week. NASA estimated that no one would be hurt.
There is a new football team in Florida.
Orlando Magic are 15-26 this season. Last month the team beat Golden State on the road for the first time since 2012.
Florida has had more people charged with crimes in connection with the Capitol riot than any other state. Floridians accounted for more than 10% of all those arrested.
Ousted Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro fled to Florida. He's staying at the home of a former professional athlete, a reality-show chef, mixed-martial-arts fighter and a Telenovela actress.
Madison Cawthorn was disgraced and disgracing Congressman from North Carolina. He was kicked out of office for his political activities. Now he's living in southwest Florida.
