Did you know? 

  • Puerto Rico has won 5 times the Miss Universe beauty pageant crown (1970,1985,1993,2001,2006) . The five Ms. Puerto Rico Universe are: Marisol Malaret, Debora Cathy Deu, Dayanara Torres ,Denise Quiñones and Zuleyka Rodriguez..
  • Puerto Rico's olympic team has won a total of 6 medals in the World Olympics including a silver medal won by Luis Francisco Ortiz (1984 Los Angeles)
  • Puerto Rico has more than 40 champions in the sport of Boxing, including the first world champion: Sixto Escobar and the youngest boxer to ever win a world championship: Wilfredo Benitez (1976)
  • Puerto Rico has a larger population in the western hemisphere than Jamaica, Bahamas, Panamá, Costa Rica, Belice, French Guyana, Guyana, Suriname, Uruguay and the same or more population than 30 of the 50 states of the US. More population than 10 of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada.
  • WKAQ Radio, an AM radio station in San Juan was the second station to broadcast in latin america and the fifth in the world.
  • In 1858, Samuel Morse sets up the first telegraph in Latin America, was located in Arroyo.
  • Puerto Rico is the country with more radio stations and TV stations per square mile in the world.
  • Puerto Rico's basketball olympic team wins 92-73 defeating the USA olympic team, the "Dream Team", at the 2004 Olympic games in Athens ,Greece.
  • The 'Puerto Rico Trench' is the deepest point of the Atlantic Ocean and the second deepest in the world.
  • Rita Moreno, a Puerto Rican actress living in New York City, is the first person in the world to win an Oscar, a Grammy,a Tony Award and an Emmy Award.
  • Puerto Rico's coat of arms is the oldest in Latin America.
  • The place in the world with more pharmaceutical companies per square mile is Puerto Rico
  • San Juan is the second oldest city in the americas.
  • The first scientific experiment in the americas was done in the late 1500's. An eclipse under the Puerto Rican sky.
  • Playa Quique Bravo in Rincón is one of the top beaches in the world for surfing and wind-surfing
  • The biggest beach festival in the caribbean zone is celebrated in Manati during the summer.
  • A Puerto Rican helped in the writing of the irish constitution when the Irish Free State was established, Dr. Albizu Campos.
  • The Puerto Rican flag and the Cuban flag are identical but with inverted colors. Both were designed at the same time by Cuban and Puerto Rican patriots exiled in New York City  during the winter of 1892.
  • Famous Puerto Rican baseball players include Roberto Clemente , Hiram Gabriel Bithorn and Ivan Rodriguez among others.
  • The only place in the world where the option 'None of the Above'  has won an election was in Puerto Rico, during the 1998 referendum that option got over 50% of the votes. 
  • Today's Puerto Rican flag was actually illegal in Puerto Rico during the first decades of the US dominion over the Island.
  • There are are more persons of Puerto Rican descent in the Greater New York City area than in Puerto Rico's capital city San Juan.
  • The largest radio telescope in the world is located in Arecibo, Puerto Rico.
  • The bat sound effects in the Batman Movies were recorded at Las Cuevas de Camuy in Puerto Rico.
  • The Coqui frog exists only in Puerto Rico and is considered a Puerto Rican Symbol, but recently they have invaded the Hawaian Islands, where they are considered (ironically) a pest.
  • During the decades of US Dominion, the name of Puerto Rico used to be Porto Rico, because of how it is pronounced in English.
  • American Troops drink and the late Pope John Paul II drank Puerto Rican Coffee.
  • Puerto Rican coffee is considered the best coffee in the World, but for political reasons it has not been exported much.
  • The central town of Jayuya was almost entirely destroyed by air raids when the US Army went there to extinguish the Revolt of 1950, the latest attempt for Puerto Rican Independence.