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Interesting Facts about Philippines

Trivia, oddities, and curious tidbits about Philippines.

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25 curious facts about Philippines.

When a child loses a tooth they hide their tooth in a special place and make a wish. A year later, if they can still find the tooth, they can make another wish.
The deepest spot in the ocean is the Mariana Trench. It is 36,202 feet deep.
The Philippines was named after the Spanish crown prince Philip, later Philip II.
The white, star-shaped sampaguita flower, often sold by street vendors or wound into necklaces given to visitors, is the Philippines' national flower.

With a wing span of two metres, the country's national bird is the haribon eagle-popularly known as the monkey-eating eagle, though the name literally means &@8220;king of birds.&@8221; Indigenous to Mindanao Island, the eagle is the world's second-largest in its species and is capable of catching a monkey for its prey.
Corazon Aquino was the first woman president of the Philippines
United States President William Howard Taft acted as the first Governor General of the Philippines from 1901-1904.
A popular mode of public transportation in the Philippines is the jeepney, a small truck covered with paintings, flags, flowers and fancy bodywork. Originally created from leftover American jeeps, jeepneys are now made by factories and then colourfully decorated by their owners.
The Negritos are the Philippine's oldest ethnic group. Consisting of several distinct subgroups, the Negritos generally live as nomadic hunters and gatherers, though they may also settle and farm. The majority live in the forested mountains on Luzon.
The Filipinos have made complete use of the coconut tree's potential. Aside from turning the fruit into copra (dried coconut flesh) and oil, people use the tree's leaves to make hats, balls, and structures like sheds. Coconut trunks can be used for small bridges, and empty shells for scoops, ladles and moulds. Today, coconut trees are being used in construction.