Portal:Puerto Rico/Did you know entries/31

... that one of Café Rico's products, "San Carlos Selection", was the official coffee of Vatican City?^[1]^[2]
... that the old lighthouse at Isla de Mona was designed by Gustave Eiffel?^[3]
... that the world-famous drink, the Piña Colada was invented in a house on Fortaleza Street in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico and that its main ingredient Coco López was invented by Ramón López Irizarry?
... that San Juan is the largest home-based cruise port in the world?
... that Puerto Rico is not an independent country,^[4] but is rather a territory of the United States?
... that Puerto Rico has never been an independent country?^[4]
... that there are more Puerto Ricans living in the rest of the United States than in the island of Puerto Rico itself?
... that travel within the United States includes Puerto Rico, and no U.S. passport is necessary?
... that by mutual agreement with Congress, Puerto Rico is an independent taxation authority, and therefore Puerto Rico residents do not pay federal income taxes? Puerto Ricans living on the island instead pay income taxes to the local taxation authority.^[5]
... that as of 2003, twenty-five percent of all pharmaceutical products manufactured in the United States were shipped from Puerto Rico, and sixteen of the top twenty best selling prescription drugs in the United States were produced on the island?^[6]