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...that the old lighthouse at Isla de Mona was designed by Gustave Eiffel?
...that the bronze statue of Juan Ponce de León in the center of the Plaza de San Juan was made from British cannons captured during Sir Ralph Abercromby's attack in 1797?
...that Colonel Hector Andres Negroni, was the first Puerto Rican graduate of the United States Air Force Academy?
...that the world’s highest concentrations of Bioluminescent waters are in Puerto Rico?
...That Amri Hernandez-Pellerano is a scientist who designed the power systems electronics for the WMAP mission. WMAP is a NASA Explorer mission satellite which measures the temperature of the cosmic background radiation over the full sky with unprecedented accuracy?
...that the dentist who discovered the bacteria that causes dental caries was Dr. Fernando E. Rodriguez Vargas, a native of Adjuntas?
...that the reggaeton was invented in Puerto Rico and has since then spread to other places around the world?
...that Puerto Rico ranks third in the world with the most boxing champions in history, after the United States and Mexico?

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