Choose Philippines!! Interesting facts: The flag of the Philippines – the only flag in the world, where colors can be reversed: in wartime, the upper band is red, the bottom – of the blue, and in times of peace – on the contrary. The country was named by Spanish explorer Ruy Lopez de Villalobos. It was named “Philippines” in honor of King Philip II of Spain. The country is the “texting capital of the world,” as 350 to 400 million text messages (SMS) are sent daily by 35 million cellular phone users – more than that of the United States and Europe combined. There are 175 languages and dialects in the Philippines, and 171 of these are actively used in the country. The Philippines is divided into three island groups, 17 regions, 80 provinces, 138 cities, and 1,496 municipalities. In the period from 1521 to 1898 years, the Philippines was a Spanish colony. After, the archipelago became the property of the United States The Philippines was the first country in South-East Asia, which gained independence after the Second World War, in 1946. here are the world’s deepest ocean trenches, at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Mindanao Trench, which is near the Philippines, reaches a depth of six and a half miles. Despite popular belief, karaoke was invented in the Philippines, but not in Japan. Karaoke invented by Roberto Del Rosario, calling it “Sing along with the system”. And the name “karaoke” came later, translated from the Japanese it means “singing without accompaniment.” The most rare and expensive shell in the world «Conus Gloriamaris» – one of the 12,000 species of seashells found in the Philippines. In addition, of the 500 known coral species in the world, about 488 have been found on the archipelago Tribes Tianjin and Integ, living in the mountainous areas of the northern Philippines, kissing each other in a special way. They advance lips together and quickly inhaled. Filipino doctor Abelardo Aguilar discovered the antibiotic “erythromycin“. A video camera with a single chip was first created by Marc Loinaz – a Filipino inventor from New Jersey, USA. The first International Grandmaster from Asia was Eugenio Torre, who won the Chess Olympiad, held in 1974 in Nice (France). The fluorescent lamp was invented by Agapito Flores Filipino scientists from the island of Cebu.
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