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How much do you know about the Everglades? It is one of America's murkiest treasured in more ways than one. Home to abundant wildlife; verdant grasses and cypress trees; gator lovers and air boats. The Everglades were first inhabited by the Seminoles thousands of years ago, and time has buried their secrets. Since 1947, according to National Geographic, the wetland has been a national park and a nature reserve, and that isolation has obscured even more. The land was first named Pa-hay-Okee by its original inhabitants. According to the National Park Service, the name "Everglades" comes from "forever" and the old English word for a "grassy open place." It is the third largest National Park in the United States, but it is smaller than it was before Florida became more developed. The secret and the bizarre about those swamplands are gone, but there are so many more in the gator-filled waters of the modern national park. We've uncovered some of the weirdest and intriguing facts about the truly incredible Everglades National Park.