Monday, October 30, 2006

Did You Know?

- You can thank Mexico for introducing the world to chocolate!
- About 25% of the world's Spanish speaking people live in Mexico!
- One New Year's tradition is to eat 12 grapes as the clock strikes 12, one for each month of the coming year.
- Over 100 million tortillas are eaten in Mexico PER DAY!
- Over 1/3 of the population is 14 years old or younger
- Cats have 7 lives, the "unlucky" day is Tuesday the 13th, and they do April Fool's type pranks on December 28th!
- There are about 62 indigineous languages that are still spoken.
- Mexico used to claim it's territory all the way up to & including Alaska.

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