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This is how many square miles Mexico is.
760,000, making it the 13th largest country in the world by size.
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The Holy Trinity of Mexican cuisine consists of these three things.
Beans, corn and chili peppers.
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Mexico City is built directly on the ruins of Tenochtitlan, an ancient Aztec city that was constructed in this unorthodox place.
On an island in the center of a lake, which the Spanish filled when they built Mexico City.
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Mexico is home to the second largest one of these in the world.
Coral Reef
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This is the hottest planet in our solar system.
Venus, with a surface temperature of roughly 850 degrees
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Mexico is home to this percent of the worlds biodiversity.
10-12%, earning it the title of a megadiverse country, one of 17 in the world.
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Despite its name, this type of salad originated in Mexico.
Ceasar salad.
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These three plants were domesticated for the first time in Mexico.
Corn, tomatos and beans
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Mexico City has the second most amount of this in the world, coming in second only to London.
Museums, with 170 official ones within the city limits.
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The Carolina Reaper pepper is at this level of the Scoville units.
1.6 million+, compared to a jalapeño which is around 4,000
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This is the name of the tallest mountain in Mexico, additionally the third tallest in North America.
Pico de Orizaba
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The word taco began as a term for these, not the food item.
The small charges of gunpowder wrapped in paper that was used to mine silver in the early 18th century.
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Despite the Aztec civilization being regarded as the first major group in Mesoamerica, the Olmec people came before them and are known for these still existing art pieces.
Giant stone heads
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Mexico brought this staple desert to Europe.
Chocolate
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A lighting strike can heat up to this insane temperature.
53,000 degrees, which is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.
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Mexico has the most different types of these in the world.
Reptiles, with over 707 distinct species.
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Flour tortillas are not as popular as their corn counterpart, potentially due to this.
The flour tortillas came from the Spanish, while the corn tortillas were here from the Aztecs long before.
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The Olmec people were credited to being the first civilization to use this now vital substance.
Rubber, with the name Olmec even being the Nahuatl word for "Rubber People"
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Due to where it was built, Mexico City is sinking at this rate per year.
20 inches
400
The band Red Hot Chili Peppers have received this many Grammy awards.
3
500
This species of porpoise is named the vaquita, which is spanish for this.
Little Cow
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The dish chapulines is made out of this.
Grasshoppers
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The worlds largest tamale was made in Mexico and measured up to this length.
160 feet long
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The famous Day of the Dead symbols were created for this reason.
Satire, used to make fun of the wealthy Europeans that stayed in Mexico after the revolution as they played up their heritage.
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In the show Arrested Development, the cornballer that kept burning the Bluth family got up to this temperature.
375 degrees