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Hello friends, how are you?

Welcome to Mexico!

Sorry, my Spanish is terrible

and my “sombrero” got all crumpled up in
my suitcase, but I look a bit like Mexican.

Mexico—a really interesting
country I was lucky enough to visit.

I asked around and even pestered
the locals to tell me interesting facts.

We traveled to as many
locations as our time allowed

and I think I've really collected some pretty
exciting stuff that you wouldn't even believe.

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And now, are you ready
for your head to go boom?

50 amazing facts about Mexico
that will make your hat fall off.

Everyone knows this country by the
name of Mexico but that is not correct.

It is actually the United Mexican States
or Estados Unidos Mexicanos, in Spanish.

My Spanish is really bad.

Anyway, they have 31 states and it is somehow
enshrined that Mexico is a Latin American country

but actually that is
not quite right either.

Mexico is located
entirely in North America.

However, since people
there speak Spanish

very often they are associated
with Latin American countries.

Its territory is 2,000,000 km²,
which is about 18 times Bulgaria

and its population is
126,000,000 people.

This means that Mexico is on
position Nº 10 in this world indicator.

This makes it the largest Spanish-speaking
country on the entire planet

and the second largest
Catholic country in the world.

Very rarely do we think about
how serious this actually sounds.

The capital, Mexico City, consistently ranks
in the top 3 of the largest cities in the world

with its population
of 20 million.

The city sits at an
average altitude of 2,200 m

but sinks by about 15 cm
every year, due to unstable soils.

It was built on
the Aztec capital

and this automatically makes it
the oldest city in North America.

Inhabitants of Mexico City
apparently love to avail taxi services

because this city holds the
record for the most number of taxis.

Now watch out: On average about 100,000
taxis cross its streets every god’s day

and just for comparison, a city like New York
has only 15,000 taxis, and it’s famous with them.

Mexico City has women-only
buses and subway cars.

The government does
this because of lechers.

Did you know the state of Texas was
actually Mexican territory until 1836?

Then for 8 whole years it was independent,
and known as the Republic of Texas

but was eventually
annexed to the US.

The American company hired to build
the wall between Mexico and the US

to stop illegal immigrants
was fined $5,000,000.

Do you know why?

Because it was the labor of illegal immigrants
from Mexico that was used to build it.

In fact, quite a few
Americans emigrate to Mexico

for one reason or another, and
form the largest minority there.

It is estimated that about 2,000,000 Americans
currently live in their southern neighbor.

The border between Mexico and the US is
actually the busiest border in the entire world.

On average, around 400
million people cross it every year.

There are currently as many
as 42 active volcanoes in Mexico

the most dangerous of which is
Popocatépetl, the fire-breathing mountain.

It is located only 70 km
from the capital Mexico City

and is the second highest
point in the state with its 5426m.

Mexico is also home to
the world's smallest volcano.

Its name is Cuexcomate.

Actually, it's more of
a marketing gimmick

because it represents a long-gone
geyser with a height of about 15 m.

So far there are as many as 30,000
archaeological sites in Mexico. People!

I don't know how many are in
Bulgaria to make a comparison

but consider how rich a heritage
and culture we are talking about.

The following food products, we are painfully
familiar with today, come from Mexico

tomatoes, corn, avocados (chef Manchev's
favourite), and of course, chilli peppers.

Mexico is the second
fastest in gaining weight nation

and I can confirm this:
Indeed, many people are too big.

Who is first in that category? You
can write your guess in the comments.

Those who get it
right win a heart.

Actually, contributing
to obesity, is the fact

that Mexicans are the biggest consumers
of Pepsi and Coca Cola in the entire world.

Adults there drink an average of 169 l of
carbonated beverages per person, each year.

The Caesar salad, that we
know well in Bulgaria, is not Italian

nor is it named after the
great Roman emperor.

In fact, it’s named after Caesar
Cardini, who is a common cook in Tijuana.

Children in Mexico do not receive their Christmas
presents on 24 or 25 December, as we are used to.

They have to wait
until 6 January

when, according to the Bible, the three
wise men visit the baby Jesus with gifts.

That is, when baby Jesus receives his gifts then
the Mexican children also receive their gifts.

One of the most revered holidays, however,
is the Day of the Dead or Dia de los Muertos.

Its celebration begins on October,
31 culminating on November 2.

There is an animation film called Coco
that I highly recommend you to watch

to understand what this
day represents to them.

I warn you though,
it's a bit sad.

The Aztecs, one of the predecessors of the
Mexicans were known for their brutal sacrifices.

Between 80 and 250 thousand people
were sacrificed to the Gods each year.

Archaeologists recently discovered
entire halls of bones and human remains

the largest of which
contained 130,000 skulls.

Just in one hall.

According to some calculations, each year they
sacrificed about one percent of their population.

They performed these cruel
rituals in honor of their God, the Sun

by dumping the bodies from high pyramids and
temples some of which are located in Chichén Itzá.

Did you know that the Maya, one of the
most mysterious civilizations in the world

had a great military tactic: They catapulted
nests of hornets at the enemy army.

This, as you can imagine,
ensured a pretty big advantage.

I tell a lot about the Maya in my
book Top Mysteries Of The World.

Jaguars are among the largest
predators on Mexican jungles.

We were warned that their
population is still quite large

and if we stray from the hiking
trails, we should be very careful.

How do you say “up you
go” in Spanish? Anyway.

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Color television was invented in
Mexico by Guillermo Camarena

who made this discovery at the
age of just 17, during the WW2.

It is believed that the asteroid that hit
the Earth and destroyed the dinosaurs

landed in Mexico some
66 million years ago.

The name of the crater is Chicxulub,
and it has a diameter of 150 km.

It is located on the
Yucatán Peninsula.

The pyramid of Kukulcan in Chichén Itzá is
one of the new seven wonders of the world.

Every year, about 2,000,000 people pay
it a visit, just to catch a glimpse of it

and I can confirm
that it is quite crowded.

Did you know though that it
is like a kind of matryoshka doll

built on top of another smaller pyramid which in
turn is built on top of an even more ancient temple.

The famous cenotes, these holes in the jungle
filled with water were sacred to the Mayans

as they believed that the souls of the dead
passed from there to continue their lives.

To swim in them is purifying,
and the feeling is truly unique.

The deepest cenote
is the Zacaton.

It is 300 m deep which is more or
less the height of the Eiffel Tower.

Yet, parts of its underwater cave
system have not been studied at all.

Mexico's constitution has nine subparagraphs
explaining how to properly play their anthem.

If you purposely mess it up,
or heaven forbid make fun of it

you'll have to write an apology
to the state, in addition to the fine.

When Hernán Cortés
docks in Mexico

the Aztecs welcome him literally as a white
God, and immediately give him hot chocolate.

To them, this is a drink
worthy only of the Gods.

Did you know that the Spaniards
conquered territories more with

the smallpox epidemic they
brought from Europe than with battles.

Of course, the Europeans already had
immunity to it, but the natives did not.

Thus this disease killed more than
5 million people in Central America

and it is believed that
they are much more.

The Aztecs actually believed that
small pox was a curse from their Gods

because they were weaker and
lost the battle with the Christian God.

So they readily accepted
Catholicism and the new God.

However, the story of Mexico does not begin
in 1519 with the invasion of the Spanish.

Remains of ancient cultures of age
8,000 years have been discovered.

The first better known civilizations were
the Olmecs, the Toltecs, then came the Maya.

Alongside Mesopotamia and Egypt, Mexico is
considered one of the cradles of civilization.

They are the richest in cultural
heritage of all the American states.

As I have said many times, the largest pyramid in
the world is not the pyramid of Cheops in Egypt

but the Cholula in Mexico.

I'm so sorry that we couldn't see
it; it was located quite far from us.

The Chihuahua is the
smallest dog breed in the world

and it is actually named after
the largest state in Mexico.

However, the favorite breed
there is the Mexican hairless dog

and yes, it really has no fur except
a little here and there on its head.

Petya and I were able to play
with one for a bit on the beach

and I have to tell you,
they are pretty cute.

One of the richest men in the world is the
Mexican telecommunications tycoon Carlos Slim.

He even owns a Bulgarian mobile
operator. Do you know which one?

As we know Mexico is quite bio diverse plus
the presence of so many volcanoes there

developed a special breed
of rabbit: the volcano rabbit.

Don’t worry, it doesn’t
shoot lava from its mouth

but just lives on the slopes of
the fire-breathing mountains.

It’s super cute.

There's one pretty
serious problem, though.

Mexico is the second most deforested
country after Brazil. Sad but a fact.

Not sure why everyone
thinks Mexicans are super lazy.

In reality they have the longest work
week of any country in the Americas.

Each busy Mexican works an average of 44 hours
a week, which is a tight 9-hour work day.

For Europe, the average
work week is 39.2 h.

Do the math yourself.

Really, people there
work extremely hard.

I haven’t seen such good hotel service,
and I’ve studied hotel management.

Who do you think exports more beer?
Germany? Holland? Belgium? No, it's Mexico.

They are even twice ahead of the
Dutch who are second in that category.

No way you haven’t had
Corona—the beer, not that other stuff.

Actually, did you know that the little lime
you put in the neck of the bottle of Corona

is there to keep the flies away
so they don’t get into the beer.

When you consume it, you are supposed to remove the
lime put it back after, something like a cork plug.

However, the Americans push the
lime inside, and this is how they liked it.

Do you like your beer with lime?

Actually, it's not bad at all and
that's how most are served there.

However, the national
drink is not beer but tequila.

It is made from the heart of the plant called
Centenarian, and is the successor to mescal

which is a bit
smokier and heavier.

By the way, people in Mexico don’t drink tequila
the way we are used to, with salt and lemon.

This is just another
american fiction.

There, they drink it absolutely plain
and cold, in a tall thin-walled glass

with a slice of lime that
can be dropped inside.

At one time in their history, Mexicans only
consumed light alcoholic drinks, like beer and wine

instead of water, because it was teeming
with all sorts of bacteria and disease.

As we know, alcohol kills them, and
yes, water is not drinkable there at all.

Sombreros or those huge Mexican hats were also
made to keep the face and shoulders out of the Sun.

“Sombra” in Spanish means shade.

Mexico remains a very dangerous
country with many cartels operating

and having problems
with each other.

Sometimes, they hire their own armies which
are better equipped than the state one.

In fact, there are about
five major cartels in Mexico

that engage in all the illegal
activities described in the penal code.

However, their main funding comes
from drug exports to the United States.

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