- Mexicans put chili in everything, even kid’s popsicles.
2. Mexico has the largest spanish speaking population in the world yet 67 indigenous languages are still spoken in smaller communities.
3. Mexico had the first vineyards, the second university and the first press in America.
4. The zócalo (México City’s main square) is the world’s largest public square in the world.
5. The Chapultepec castle is the only royalty built and inhabitated castle in mainland North America.
6. Mexico has the highest Coca Cola consuption per capita in the world. Mexican Coca Cola has a superior taste than the American one because it is made with actual sugar instead of corn syrup.
7. Mexican cuisine is an immaterial world heritage built upon indigenous, spanish, muslim and chinese influnence. Ingredients like tomatoes, chocolate, vanilla, corn, beans, pumpkins and dozens of edible plants originated in Mexico.
8. The meteorite that extinted dinosaurs landed in Mexico, in the Yucatan peninsula.
9. Mexico city was buit upon Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec empire which in turn was build upon a lake.
10. The Chapultepec park is twice as big as the Central Park in New York.