🇯🇲📚 Jamaica – Facts You Didn’t Know Jamaica isn’t just beaches and reggae — it’s full of record-setting history. Measuring 146 miles long, the island lies 90 miles south of Cuba and 600 miles from Florida. Locals speak Jamaican Patois, a vibrant Creole with its own grammar and melody. Formed 25 million years ago, Jamaica gained independence in 1962, but even before that it had electricity, running water, and the Western Hemisphere’s first railroad. From the largest butterfly species in the re