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Florida State Fair by the numbers
By Times Staff Writer
Published February 6, 2005
Make it a day on the midway:
Follow your nose to 200 food vendors.
Shoot for the big prize at 67 game stalls.
Feel your way through two petting zoos.
Flip upside down, right side up, and around and around on 84 rides.
Break that diet:
Fairgoers eat about 4 1/2 tons of hot dogs. Laid end to end, that's enough to stretch from here to Orlando and back.
About a dozen items of food on a stick are sold at the fair. This year's hot addition - meatballs on a stick.
Chill out with 16 semitrailer truckloads of ice - the yearly average used by vendors and staff.
Why not move in:
About one-half million people visit the fair each year.
Nearly 1,000 vendors and staff live on the grounds during the 12-day fair.
Roughly 5,000 animals are shown at the fair.
Count on this:
The amount of toilet paper stockpiled for the fair would stretch about 275 miles.
The Giant Wheel features 6,000 lights.
Eighteen portable power plants bring enough electricity to the fair to run a small city.
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