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• Puerto Rico has won the Miss Universe beauty pageant crown 5 times (1970,1985,1993,2001,2006) . The five Puerto
  Rican Miss Universe are: Marisol Malaret, Debora Cathy Deu, Dayanara Torres, Denise Quiñones and Zuleyka Rodriguez..
• Puerto Rico's olympic team has won a total of 6 medals in the World Olympics including a silver medal won by Luis Francisco Ortiz (1984 Los Angeles)
• Puerto Rico has more than 40 champions in the sport of Boxing, including the first world champion: Sixto Escobar and the youngest boxer to ever win a world championship: Wilfredo Benitez (1976)
• Puerto Rico has a larger population than Jamaica, Bahamas, Panamá, Costa Rica, Belize, French Guyana, Guyana, Suriname, Uruguay and has an equal or greater population than 30 of the 50 states of the US. It has a greater population than 10 of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada.
• WKAQ Radio, an AM radio station in San Juan was the second station to broadcast in latin america and the fifth in the world.
• In 1858, Samuel Morse sets up the first telegraph in Latin America, was located in Arroyo.
• Puerto Rico is the country with more radio stations and TV stations per square mile in the world.
• Puerto Rico's basketball olympic team wins 92-73 defeating the USA olympic team, the "Dream Team", at the 2004 Olympic games in Athens ,Greece.
• The 'Puerto Rico Trench' is the deepest point of the Atlantic Ocean and the second deepest in the world.
• Rita Moreno, a Puerto Rican actress living in New York City, is the first person in the world to win an Oscar, a Grammy,a Tony Award and an Emmy Award.
• Puerto Rico's coat of arms is the oldest in Latin America.
• Puerto Rico has  more pharmaceutical companies per square mile than anywhere else in the world.
• San Juan is the second oldest city in the americas.
• The first scientific experiment in the americas was done in the late 1500's. An eclipse under the Puerto Rican sky.
• Playa Quique Bravo in Rincón is one of the top beaches in the world for surfing and wind-surfing
• The biggest beach festival in the caribbean zone is celebrated in Manati during the summer.
• A Puerto Rican helped in the writing of the irish constitution when the Irish Free State was established, Dr. Albizu Campos.
• The Puerto Rican flag and the Cuban flag are identical but with inverted colors. Both were designed at the same time by Cuban and Puerto Rican patriots exiled in New York City  during the winter of 1892.
• Famous Puerto Rican baseball players include Roberto Clemente , Hiram Gabriel Bithorn and Ivan Rodriguez among others.
• The only place in the world where the option 'None of the Above'  has won an election was in Puerto Rico, during the 1998 referendum that option got over 50% of the votes. 
• Today's Puerto Rican flag was actually illegal in Puerto Rico during the first decades of the US dominion over the Island.
• There are are more persons of Puerto Rican descent in the Greater New York City area than in Puerto Rico's capital city San Juan.
  The largest radio telescope in the world is located in Arecibo, Puerto Rico.
• The bat sound effects in the Batman Movies were recorded at Las Cuevas de Camuy in Puerto Rico.
• The Coqui frog is native to Puerto Rico and is considered a Puerto Rican Symbol, but recently they have invaded the Hawaian Islands, where they are considered (ironically) a pest.
  During the decades of US Dominion, the name of Puerto Rico used to be Porto Rico, because of how it is pronounced in English.
  American Troops drink and the late Pope John Paul II drank Puerto Rican Coffee.
• During the 18th and 19th centuries, Puerto Rican coffee was exported to Europe and was the finest in the world.  Puerto Rican coffee was exclusively served at the Vatican.
  Puerto Rican coffee is considered one of the best coffees in the World, but for political reasons it has not been exported much.
  The central town of Jayuya was almost entirely destroyed by air raids when the US Army went there to extinguish the Revolt of 1950, the latest attempt for Puerto Rican Independence.
  The Univeristy of Puerto Rico graduates more doctors and medical specialists per capita than does the United States.
• El Recinto Universitario de Mayaguez has approximately 300 engineers working for NASA.  Corporations from all over the United States actively recruit its graduates.
• The hammock and  the cooking  "grill" were first invented and used in Puerto Rico by the Taino Indians.
• Puerto Rico has some of the  few remaining bioluminescent bays left in the world.
• Puerto Rico's economy does not rely soley on tourism for its economy.  Tourism accounts for only 7% of the GNP.
• Puerto Ricans are ethnically diverse.  Aside from the Spanish, Taino Indians and Africans, there has been immigration in the past centuries by Corsicans, Irish,  Scots, Chinese, Germans, French,  Arabs,  U.S. expatriots and others.
• In just a matter of a few decades, in the 20th century,  Puerto Rico went from an agricultural to an industrialized and highly urbanized society.
• Puerto Ricans can be found in all 50 states.
• The Rio Camuy Cave system in Puerto Rico is the third largest cave system formed by water in the world.
• El Yunque (The Caribbean National Forrest) is the only tropical rain forrest in the U.S. national park system.
• The pina colada was invented in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• Puerto Rico produces and exports more rum than any other couhtry in the world.
• Salsa music was invented by Puerto Ricans and Cubans in New York City and was exported to the island.
• The San Juan Metro area has an excess of 1.3 million people and has completed the first phase of a mass transit rail system. One in three Puerto Ricans lives within the Metro San Juan area.