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1. ...an early story by Jules Verne, the science fiction and travel author, was set in Mexico?
2. ..the introduction of sheep to Mexico had serious environmental consequences?
3. ...the deepest water-filled sinkhole in the world is in Tamaulipas?
4. ...Sinaloa has the most beautiful women in Mexico?
5. ...steamboats once regularly plied the waters of Lake Chapala?
6. ...Oaxaca is the most culturally diverse state in Mexico?
7. ...November 7, 2007, marks the centenary of the death of Jesús García, the "Hero of Nacozari"?
8. ...an unusual Mayan pyramid in Tabasco suggests possible links to the Romans?
9. ...Mexico once tried hard to prevent Americans from migrating to Texas?
10. ...Mexico has more than thirty UNESCO-designated Biosphere Reserves?
11. ...that the world's first aerial bombing of a warship was during the Battle of Topolobampo?
12. ...what the Spanish Conquistadors thought was gold was often only an alloy called tumbaga?
13. ...a miraculous birth and a miraculous re-birth featured in the life and work of the first Archbishop of Oaxaca?
14. ...that organic farming has helped some indigenous peoples in Mexico to reinvent themselves?
15. ...a young couple who became famous artists were pioneers in the San Miguel de Allende foreign community?
16. ...blacks outnumbered Spaniards in Mexico until after 1810?
17. ...a charwoman-actress once captivated Mexican high society in her alter ego as Don Carlos Balmori?
18. ...Mexico's equivalent of the Domesday book was compiled in the sixteenth century?
19. ...a popular Mexican children's chorus features cockroaches and pot smoking?
20. ...Father Alonso Ponce and Friar Antonio de Ciudad Real were probably Mexico's first ever tourists?
21. ...Mexico has more World Heritage sites than any other country in the Americas?
22. ...some tequila is priced at 225,000 dollars a bottle?
23. ...most "bark paper" comes from wild fig trees?
24. ...five places in Mexico are on the list of the world's 100 most endangered heritage sites?
25. ...Cinco de Mayo (May 5th) is celebrated much more widely in the U.S. than in Mexico?
26. ...different traffic whistles mean very different things?
27. ...one of the oldest printing presses still in operation anywhere in the world is in Tacámbaro, Michoacán?
28. ...one of the most interesting nineteenth century books about Mexico was written by a Frenchman?
29. ...the American White Pelican is Mexico's largest bird, while its relative the Brown Pelican is one of the most fun to watch?
30. ...tequila dates from the sixteenth century?
31. ...comprehensive guide books to Mexico have existed for more than 120 years?
32. ...the oldest winery in the Americas is in Parras de la Fuente?
33. ...scientists first explored El Pico de Orizaba, Mexico's highest peak, as long ago as 1838?
34. ...a young Belgian botanist established a business exporting Mexican cacti to Europe back in the 1840s?
35. ...this year is the centenary of the birth of Mexican artist Juan O'Gorman?
36. ...thousands of dinosaur bones have been found in northern Mexico?
37. ...Lake Chapala is under attack (again) from the beautiful and exotic water hyacinth?
38. ...Voladores and Vanilla vie for attention at the Vanilla Festival in Veracruz?
39. ...the song "Bésame mucho" (Kiss me a lot) was written by a young Mexican woman who had never been kissed?
40. ... ...Mexico's national flower is the humble dahlia?
41. ...January's weather serves as a forecast for the year?
42. ...tlacuaches (opossums) are short-lived but smarter than most people imagine...
43. ... Mexico was a very different place fifty years ago?
44. ...some national symbols are not what they appear to be?
45. ...Mayan architects may be responsible for the world's oldest sound recording?
46. ...Mexican kapok trees once helped the U.S. war effort?
47. ...dancers performing the Quetzal Dance wear headdresses up to five feet across?
48. ...an indigenous community in Michoacán won the 2004 United Nations Development Program Equator Prize?
49. ...an enchanted lake in Veracruz rises every dry season, but falls again during the rainy season?
50. ...pre-Columbian astronomers agreed how to "fix" the calendar at a congress held in Xochicalco in 765 A.D.?
51. ...the world’s smallest volcano is in Puebla?
52. ...thousands of Mexican secondary school students receive all their classes by TV?
53. ...archaeologists have found fifteen-hundred-year-old kitchens?
54. ...the world’s first patent for a color TV was granted to a Mexican inventor?
55. ...Mexico has more World Heritage sites than any other country in the Americas?
56. ...Mexico has many "Est"raordinary places...?
57. ...the famous poem, "The Bells of San Blas", was written by someone who had never ever visited the town?
58. ...there is a village in Mexico with the unlikely name of Honey?
59. ...agaves can be thought of as Mexico's "7-Elevens"
60. ...the world’s largest natural crystals (of selenite, said to enhance sex drive) have been discovered in caverns in Chihuahua?
61. ...an entire island has been constructed, not by Bob the Builder, but by Richie the Recycler?
62. ...the birth control pill came from Mexican yams?
63. ...studies of the Mexican wave may suggest how to control unruly mobs?
64. ...a small church in Michoacán has been called the "Sistine Chapel of the Americas"?
65. ... Mexico has more than one geographic center?
66. ...El Arbol de Tule, the biggest tree in the world? (Santa Maria del Tule, Oaxaca, Mexico)
67. ... many museums have the map of one of Mexico’s most famous battlefields upside down?
68. ... rubber balls wouldn't bounce very high if it wasn't for some Mexican ingenuity?
69. ...baseball is not the oldest ballgame in the Americas?
70. ... the oldest indigenous American domesticated dog breed is native to Mexico?
71. ... Mexican who tried to revolutionize the world of classical music was once nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics?
72. ... as many as 62 indigenous languages are still spoken in Mexico?
73. ... several famous Mexican artists had serious physical disabilities?
74. ... Mexico is home to more than 50 species of hummingbirds?
75. ... the first Whitbread Round-The-World Yacht Race was won by a Mexican?
76. ... that 3000 people died during a cholera epidemic in Guadalajara in 1833?
77. ... even "Microwaves" (with a view!) are signposted along Mexican Highways? . . .
78. ... more Mexican Guinness Records . . .
79. ... Puerto Vallarta is 'soon' to become an Island?
80. ... Mexico features several times in the Guinness Book of World Records?
81. ... there wouldn't be many Irish people in the United States if it wasn't for a Mexican fungus?
82. ... cats have 7 lives, Tuesday the 13th, and April Fool's Day on December 28th
83. ... at one time Alaska was part of Mexico
84. Mexican Jumping Beans - "Frijoles Saltarines"
85. Tobacco - Xigar
86. Arteplumaria
87. Pyramid Power
88. Amalla - A Sacred Game
89. Henequén - Sisal
90. Nochebuena
91. Peanuts
92. Pineapples & Papayas
93. Vanilla
94. Chocolate.
95. Chewing Gum and Mr Wrigley.

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