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- Mexico City is built on a lake
- Mexico introduced chocolate to the world
- Salma Hayek is the first Mexican movie star to reach success in the U.S. since Dolores Del R? in the twenties
- The language spoken is Spanish
- The currency is the peso Mexicano
- In the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, the Aztecs used the poinsettia leaves to dye fabric for clothing and the sap for medicinal purposes, including to help control fevers
- Dr. Joel Roberts Poinsett, an amateur botanist and first United States ambassador to Mexico, introduced the plant that became known as the poinsettia to this country
- Mexico has 31 states
- Mexico City is sinking at a rate of 6 to 8 inches a year because it's built on top of an underground reservoir. Wells are drawing out more and more water for the city's growing population of more than 15 million people
- Mexico City is the oldest capital city in the Americas
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