Basketball along with Spider fighting is very popular in the Philippines.

[ASEAN NOW News]

Here are some cool facts to impress your friends.

 

 

Basketball is the most popular sport in the Philippines. The Philippines Basketball Association is the first and oldest league in Asia and the second oldest in the world after the National Basketball Association in the United States.

 

Filipinos are known to observe an extremely long Christmas season beginning with the playing of carols in attending for most people on the 6th of January with the Feast of the free Kings around four months. In total, this makes it the longest Christmas season in the world 

 

Though cockfighting has long been abolished in many nations it is still very popular in the Philippines, in fact, the country is home to a huge cockfighting competition known as the world slasher cub staged in Manila's Araneta Coliseum.

 

Filipinos love shopping malls or shopping centers and the Philippines is home to three of the ten largest shopping malls in the world.

 

 

Spider fighting in the Philippines is extremely popular with young people who will even store multiple spiders in matchbox stables.

 

 

It has been estimated that Filipinos sent about four hundred million text messages every day adding up to 142 billion texts per year is more than the total number of daily text messages sent in the US and Europe combined as such the Philippines is now known as the text messaging capital of the world.
 

In 1844 the Philippines moved from one side of the International Dateline to the other which had the curious effect of eliminating the 31st of December 1844 from the history of the Philippines.

 

In August of 2016, it was discovered that the Filipino fishermen had found the world's largest natural pearl and had kept it under his bed for ten years entirely unaware of its worth now known as the pearl of Puerto. The pearl weighs in at a staggering thirty-four kilograms. 

 

Marikina City in Luzon is often called the Shoe capital of the Philippines owing to its large shoe industry. The area doubled down on this reputation in 2002 with the construction of the world's largest pair of shoes with over five meters long almost 2.5 meters wide and 2 meters high.

 

 

The people of the Philippines repurposed thousands of army jeeps the US military left behind after the Second World War and turned them into public transportation vehicles called jeepneys.

 

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