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Some interesting facts on Phillippiness
1. Over 900 species of orchids grow in the Philippines.
2. The Philippines is the only UN nation in which divorce is generally illegal.
3. The Philippines accounts for roughly 43 percent of the planet's gin consumption.
4. Manila was named after the white flowers that grow on mangrove trees.
5. In 2014 Time magazine ranked Makati, a city in the Manila metropolitan area as the selfie capital of the world.
6. Manila's Chinatown dates back to the 16th century, making it the oldest Chinatown in the world.
7. There are roughly a hundred and seventy individual languages spoken in the Philippines.
8. The Philippines is the world's largest supplier of nurses with about a quarter of all overseas nurses from the country.
9. On the 4th of May 2006, 3738 women in Manila set the world record for the most women simultaneously breastfeeding.
10. The antibiotic r Ephraim Ison, an important antibiotic widely used to treat chest infection was discovered by a Filipino physician named Abelardo Aguilar in 1949.
11. Philippine's highly Catholic society makes it one of only two predominantly Christian nations in Southeast Asia.
12. The University of Santo Tomas in Manila was founded by Dominican monks in 1611, which makes it older than America's Harvard University which was not founded until 1636.
13. In terms of the student population, the University of Santo Tomas is also the world's largest Catholic University in a single campus.
14. Canlaon City located on the Philippine island of Negros is home to the wonder tree of Canlaon, a massive tree that is estimated to be around 1330 years old.
15. Owing to the shortage of tomatoes during the second world war the Philippines has a ketchup alternative made with bananas and it is dyed to match ketchup traditional color.
16. According to the national mapping and resource information authority, the Philippines consists of 7,841 islands out of which only 2,000 are inhabited and nearly 5,000 are still entirely unnamed.
17. The Philippines is one of only a handful of mega bio-diverse countries in the world owing to its fabulously extensive range of flora and fauna. Including numerous endemic species which are organisms found nowhere else on earth. Such species include more than 170 different types of birds and 100 types of mammals.
18. The Philippines continues to struggle with political violence even in the 21st century. In fact, there have been over 1,200 political assassinations in the Philippines since 2001.
19. On the 15th of June 1991, the eruption of Mount Pinatubo volcano caused average global temperatures to drop by half a degree Celsius.
20. The volcano ejected 10 billion metric tons of magma and in addition, roughly 20 million tons of sulfur dioxide was ejected into the atmosphere over several months. This cloud of toxic gas spread all over the planet.
21. In the Philippine island province of Camiguin, there are five main towns and more than 10 volcanoes, the largest concentration of volcanoes per square kilometer in the world.
22. The Philippines typically experience five earthquakes of moderate magnitude every year, seven earthquakes of major magnitude every 10 years, and one large magnitude earthquake also every 10 years.
23. 8.2-kilometer long underground river on the island of Palawan in the Philippines was the longest in the world until divers discovered a subterranean stream in Mexico that measures roughly 10 kilometers in length.
24. The Philippine Trench located to the east of the Mindanao Island in the Pacific Ocean is the third deepest spot under the world's oceans after the Mariana Trench and the Tonga trench it stretches down around six and a half miles deep.
25. The rice terrace of the Philippine Cordilleras are UNESCO World Heritage Site and are reportedly around 2,000 years old and the terraces are staggeringly beautiful and are often referred to as the eighth wonder of the world.
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1. Over 900 species of orchids grow in the Philippines.
2. The Philippines is the only UN nation in which divorce is generally illegal.
3. The Philippines accounts for roughly 43 percent of the planet's gin consumption.
4. Manila was named after the white flowers that grow on mangrove trees.
5. In 2014 Time magazine ranked Makati, a city in the Manila metropolitan area as the selfie capital of the world.
6. Manila's Chinatown dates back to the 16th century, making it the oldest Chinatown in the world.
7. There are roughly a hundred and seventy individual languages spoken in the Philippines.
8. The Philippines is the world's largest supplier of nurses with about a quarter of all overseas nurses from the country.
9. On the 4th of May 2006, 3738 women in Manila set the world record for the most women simultaneously breastfeeding.
10. The antibiotic r Ephraim Ison, an important antibiotic widely used to treat chest infection was discovered by a Filipino physician named Abelardo Aguilar in 1949.
11. Philippine's highly Catholic society makes it one of only two predominantly Christian nations in Southeast Asia.
12. The University of Santo Tomas in Manila was founded by Dominican monks in 1611, which makes it older than America's Harvard University which was not founded until 1636.
13. In terms of the student population, the University of Santo Tomas is also the world's largest Catholic University in a single campus.
14. Canlaon City located on the Philippine island of Negros is home to the wonder tree of Canlaon, a massive tree that is estimated to be around 1330 years old.
15. Owing to the shortage of tomatoes during the second world war the Philippines has a ketchup alternative made with bananas and it is dyed to match ketchup traditional color.
16. According to the national mapping and resource information authority, the Philippines consists of 7,841 islands out of which only 2,000 are inhabited and nearly 5,000 are still entirely unnamed.
17. The Philippines is one of only a handful of mega bio-diverse countries in the world owing to its fabulously extensive range of flora and fauna. Including numerous endemic species which are organisms found nowhere else on earth. Such species include more than 170 different types of birds and 100 types of mammals.
18. The Philippines continues to struggle with political violence even in the 21st century. In fact, there have been over 1,200 political assassinations in the Philippines since 2001.
19. On the 15th of June 1991, the eruption of Mount Pinatubo volcano caused average global temperatures to drop by half a degree Celsius.
20. The volcano ejected 10 billion metric tons of magma and in addition, roughly 20 million tons of sulfur dioxide was ejected into the atmosphere over several months. This cloud of toxic gas spread all over the planet.
21. In the Philippine island province of Camiguin, there are five main towns and more than 10 volcanoes, the largest concentration of volcanoes per square kilometer in the world.
22. The Philippines typically experience five earthquakes of moderate magnitude every year, seven earthquakes of major magnitude every 10 years, and one large magnitude earthquake also every 10 years.
23. 8.2-kilometer long underground river on the island of Palawan in the Philippines was the longest in the world until divers discovered a subterranean stream in Mexico that measures roughly 10 kilometers in length.
24. The Philippine Trench located to the east of the Mindanao Island in the Pacific Ocean is the third deepest spot under the world's oceans after the Mariana Trench and the Tonga trench it stretches down around six and a half miles deep.
25. The rice terrace of the Philippine Cordilleras are UNESCO World Heritage Site and are reportedly around 2,000 years old and the terraces are staggeringly beautiful and are often referred to as the eighth wonder of the world.
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Source & for more info:
https://www.benchok.com/2019/06/amazing-facts-Philippines.html
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