Here are some of the Philippines Facts:
Do you know the Following?
1.Cebu is the first Philippine City.
2. Maria Teresa Calderon - World champion speed reader that being listed in the Guiness Book of World Records.
3. Coconuts - the Philippines is considered to be the largest producer of coconuts and our farmers discovered lambanog through coconut.
4. Gemma Cruz was the first Filipina to win an international beauty title - Miss International in the year 1964.
5. Dan Inosanto - from Mike Robandido - Pinoy who taught Bruce Lee how to use arnis de mano.
6. The second oldest philippine printing press next to Manila can be found in Pila Laguna. The first book printed was named Vocabulario Delengua Tagala - the Philippines first Filipino - Spanish dictionary which was printed in 1613, 25 years older than the first book printed in the United States.
7. Philippine Airlines took to the skies on March 15, 1941, using a Beech Model 18 aircraft amid the specter of a global war. It became Asia's first airline.
8. The Philippines is home to some of the world's most exotic birds. One of the most endangered species is the exotic Kalangay or the Philippine cockatoo (Cacatua haematuropygia), which belongs to Psittacidae or the family of parrots. Some cockatoos can live up to 50 years. They are known for mimicking human voices. Most of them measure 33 centimeters in length and weigh 0.29 kilogram.
9. The world's second deepest spot underwater is in the Philippines. This spot, about 34,440 feet (10,497 meters) below the sea level, is known as the Philippine Deep or the Mindanao Trench. The Philippine Deep is in the floor of the Philippine Sea. The German ship Emden first plumbed the trench in 1927. The world's deepest part of the ocean is the Marianas Trench, which is over 11,000 meters below the seal level.
10. The symbolic name for the Philippines, Juan dela Cruz, is not a Filipino invention? It was coined by R. McCulloch-Dick, a Scottish-born journalist working for the Manila Times in the early 1900s, after discovering it was the most common name in blotters
Those are the few of the many facts that inhibit the Philippines.
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