Template:Wikiportal:Puerto Rico/Did you know
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- ...that Telemundo, the second largest Spanish language television station in the United States, was founded by Angel Ramos in Puerto Rico?
- ...that the Commander of the Cuban Liberation Army, General Juan Rius Rivera, was a Puerto Rican who also participated in the Grito de Lares revolt?
- ...that the 65th Infantry Regiment (pictured) was recognized as a World War II liberating unit by the U.S. Army's Center of Military History and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1994?
- ...that in 1596, Sir Francis Drake, the famed British Admiral who defeated the Spanish Armada, was defeated twice in his attempts to take San Juan and that he died of dysentry while attacking the island?
- ...that the old lighthouse at Isla de Mona was designed by Gustave Eiffel?
- ...that the world famous drink, the Piña Colada was invented in Puerto Rico and that its' main ingredient Coco Lopez was invented by Ramon Lopez Irizarry?
