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7 amazing pinoy trivia guranteed to make say wow!!!
1. The Bagobo tribe in Mindanao file and blacken their teeth for ‘aesthetic’ purposes.
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The Bagobo, one of the largest indigenous groups in the country, require their members who have reached the age of puberty to have their teeth filed and blackened. It is a beautifying procedure they consider as an ultimate rite of passage for every young Bagobo.
To file the teeth, the candidate must place his head against the operator and grip a stick of wood between his teeth. Each tooth is then filed, leaving only the stump.
After the teeth sharpening, what is left is blackened using either a deposit formed through a smoke coming from a charring bamboo or a powder known as tapEl produced by the lamod tree.
During the entire duration of the treatment, the candidate is not allowed toYou do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. to avoid having a teeth with poor color.
2. Fe Del Mundo was admitted in Harvard Medical School because she was extremely smart…and because they didn’t realize she was a woman.
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Fe del Mundo was a woman of many firsts. She founded the first pediatric hospital in the Philippines and also invented an improvised incubator, a cloth-suspended scale, and a radiant warmer made of bamboo that were widely used in rural areas. And yes, she was also the first woman admitted in Harvard Medical School which only allowed female students almost nine years after she got in.
In 1936, Fe Del Mundo earned a You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. offer to enter Harvard University Medical School. However, she was already in a men’s dorm in Boston when Harvard — which would only open its gates to women in 1949 — realized they allowed a female to be part of their all-male school.
Thanks to her impressive scholastic credentials, Fe del Mundo was finally allowed to stay in Harvard and became its first and only female student at that time.
3. The Baclayon Church in Bohol was built using coral stones and egg white!
Completed in 1727, the You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. is considered to be one of the oldest churches in the country.
Baclayon was the first choice of the Spanish Jesuit missionaries to be their seat, but fear of Moro marauders forced them to move to Loboc. It was only in 1717 that Baclayon became a parish, leading to the construction of the church.
The church was built by a total of 200 native laborers who took coral stones from the sea, cut them into blocks, and lifted them using bamboo. To cement the blocks together, they used the white of about 2 million eggs. The church was completed in 1727 and obtained a large bell in 1835.
Unfortunately, the Baclayon Church is one of the heritage sites in Bohol that was destroyed by a You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. that hit the province last year.
4. President Ferdinand Marcos created a safari park in the Philippines where you can see African animals such as giraffes, zebras, and antelopes.
Located in Busuanga in Palawan, the Calauit Island was declared as a game preserve and wildlife sanctuary by the Presidential Proclamation No. 1578 under the Marcos administration.
The sanctuary, which is also the only known savanna in the country, was created by the late dictator as a response to an appeal by the International Union of Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to save endangered animals in Kenya, Africa.
With an area of You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now., the Calauit Island Wildlife Sanctuary is where both African wildlife and endemic Philippine animals live in their natural state with minimum human interference.
It is home to many species of African animals such as zebras, giraffes, waterbucks, gazelles, and impalas as well as Philippine animals like Calamian deer, bearcat, sea turtle, and Palawan peacock pheasant among others.
5. There’s a prison in Palawan where inmates are allowed to work in rice fields and act as tour guides without the need of walls or hundreds of prison guards.
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The Iwahig Prison and Penal Farm in Puerto Princesa, Palawan started during theYou do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now.. Governor Luke Wright was the one who authorized its establishment on November 16, 1904. During its first few years, it faced several instances of attempted escapes, but when Col. John R. White became its superintendent in 1906, the colony started to become a huge success.
Today, inmates are allowed to act as tour guides, manufacture souvenirs, and take various vocational activities such as farming, forestry, and carpentry.
Asked why the prison has no walls and hundreds of guards, the You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now.,“they have nowhere to go, they will only be beset my mosquitoes and fall ill of malaria in the jungle” should they try to escape.
6. There was a plan to establish the first ever dwarf-only colony in the Philippines.
Alejandro Doron Jr. (left) with his family. Photo credit: Kate Hodal
To escape the harassment and discrimination that are part of having a diminutive size, Alejandro Doron Jr. along with 30 other Filipino dwarves announced their plan to establish the country’s first colony for little people.
In an article published in You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. in 2011, Doron said that there was already an investor who donated 16, 000 sq m of land near Manila, although additional funding is still needed to clear the fields and build the houses.
Doron, a 35-year-old bartender who works at The Hobbit House, the country’s only restaurant run entirely by little people, hopes that politicians will help them build their dream colony and even turn it into a tourist spot in the future.
7. Texas, U.S.A. was once referred to as“Nuevas Filipinas” or “New Philippines”.
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According to You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now., both Nueva Filipinas andNuevo Reino de Filipinas were secondary names assigned to an area of Texas located above the Medina River.
Antonio Margil de Jesús first used Nueva Filipinas in a letter to the viceroy dated July 20, 1716. It was also used by missionaries in the area with hopes of gaining royal patronage which the Spain gave to the Philippines a century and a half earlier.
The name regularly appeared on documents during the next forty years, but eventually disappeared towards the end of the 18th century in favor of ‘Texas’.
