El Yunque in Puerto Rico is one of many tropical rainforests in the US Parks System.

Most of the beers sold vary from 7 to 10 ounce bottles or cans. Puerto Ricans prefer their beers extremly cold so the portions are small in order to be consumed before the beer has time to warm up.

Have you ever thrown yourself in a Hammock? If you have, congratulations! You have partaken of a Taino innovation.

Puerto Rico was taken by the U.S. as spoils of war following the defeat of Spain in the Spanish-American war of 1798.

Apart from the literary luminaries of the Nuyorican poets cafe, Jesus Colon and Miguel Piñero among them, Puerto Rico is the birthplace of golfer ChiChi Rodriguez, baseball Hall of Fame member Roberto Clemente, actor Raul Julia, musicians Jose Feliciano and Tito Puente, and quadruple threat Rita Moreno, the first woman to win an Oscar (for "West Side Story,) a Grammy, an Emmy, and a Tony award.

The second oldest man in the world, 113-year-old Emiliano Mercado del Toro, is a resident of San Juan. He took the title in January of 2005, and before May 29 of 2004, the world's oldest living person was 114-year-old Ramona Trinidad Iglesias Jordan. She lived in Puerto Rico as well.

San Juan is the oldest city in US territory, founded in 1521 by Ponce de Leon.

The first shot fired by the United States in World War I was in Puerto Rico and not in Europe. It was fired by Lt. Teofilo Marxuach when an armed German supply ship tried to force it's way out of the bay.

Puerto Rican dancers choreographed John Travolta’s moves in Saturday Night Fever.

Puerto Rico has 2 of 7 bioluminescent bays in the world.

Gothic churches are rare in the New World, but Puerto Rico has two: Porta Coeli, built in 1606 in San German, and San Jose, built in the 1530's in Old San Juan.