Wednesday, June 16, 2010

This is Puerto Rico!

Not bad for a little U.S. territorial island..
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> Walmart in Carolina, Puerto Rico, broke the selling records of all
> Walmart stores.
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> Puerto Rico is the country with the most cars per square mile in the
> world: 146 vehicles per street mile and 4,300 vehicles per square mile.
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> Plaza Las Americas mall in San Juan is the most profitable mall per
> square foot in the world.
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> The highest grossing Borders book store in US territory is located in
> Plaza Las Americas Mall, in Puerto Rico.
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> Busiest Toys "R" Us in the world is also in Plaza Las Americas,
Puerto Rico.
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> The highest grossing Sears store in the World is in Puerto Rico.
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> The highest selling Kmart in the US is in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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> The Radio Shack store in Plaza Las Americas mall is the busiest
> and highest grossing Radio Shack in the world.
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> The largest JC Penney store in the world (a full 4 stories) is
> located at Plaza Las Americas mall, in Puerto Rico.
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> The Port of San Juan is the fourth busiest seaport in the Western
> Hemisphere.
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> San Juan is the oldest city in US territory (Older than the city of
> St. Augustine, FL) and was founded in 1508 by Juan Ponce de Leon.
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> PiƱa Colada was "born" in PR in 1954.
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> The legal drinking age is 18.
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> Puerto Rico has won the Miss Universe pageant a record five times.
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> Puerto Rico has the only rain forest in the US- El Yunque.
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> The place in the world with more pharmaceutical companies per square
> mile is Puerto Rico.
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> There are about 1,100 people per square mile, a ratio higher than
> within any of the 50 states in the United States.
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> Puerto Rico's population density per square miles is among the
> world's highest - only Bangladesh, The Maldives, Barbados, Taiwan, South
> Korea and the city-states of Hong Kong and Singapore are more
> crowded.
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> Puerto Rico is the third country in the world with more physicians in
> proportion to its population.
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> The Camuy river in Puerto Rico is among the top three longest
> underground rivers in the world.
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> Puerto Rico has one of the highest rates of alcohol consumption in
> the world.
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> The longest pool in the world is located in a hotel in Dorado, PR.
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> It is estimated that there is more Nickel in the mountains of Puerto
> Rico than the whole United States, including Alaska and Hawaii.
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> There are more Puerto Ricans living in the rest of the United States
> than in the island of Puerto Rico itself.
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> La Fortaleza in San Juan is the oldest executive mansion in the New
> World.
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> The state of Florida was discovered by Puerto Rico's first governor,
> Don Juan Ponce de Leon.
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> The first shot fired by the United States in World War I was in
> Puerto Rico by Lt. Teofilo Marxuach.
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> 86% of the rum drinking in the U.S. is from Puerto Rico.
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> Puerto Rico has one of the world's highest productivity ratios.
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> The world's highest concentrations of bioluminescent waters are in
> Puerto Rico.
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> Coffee grown and brewed in Puerto Rico is the official coffee of the
> Vatican.
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> Puerto Rico ranks 6th in the world when it comes to college
> graduates.
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> Puerto Ricans are the only people in the world who regularly applaud
> when a plane lands and when it reaches the gate.
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> Puerto Rico has more Gas Stations, Churches, Cars, Roads, and
> Walgreens per square mile than any other country in the world.
>
> World biggest and largest radio telescope is in Puerto Rico.
> [Arecibo, PR]
>
> Telemundo, the second largest Spanish language television station in
> the United States, was founded in Puerto Rico.
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> Puerto Rico has more rivers per square mile than any other place in
> the world.
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> The second radio station to be inaugurated in the US was in PR.
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> The longest running TV program was in Puerto Rico.
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> The first Emmy went to a Puerto Rican... Jose Ferrer.
> He also got the Academy award for the same role.
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> Rita Moreno got those too and one for Best Actress in a Broadway
> show. No one else has matched that.
>
> The most outstanding soldier in Europe at the end of the Second WW
> was chosen from the Puerto Rican 66th Infantry.
>
> One of the three still living WWI veterans is a Puerto Rican.
>
> NOT TOO BAD FOR A 100 X 35 MILES ISLAN

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