When in a different state from the one you live in, your phone is practically always roaming. The country is divided into 31 states, plus the Federal District.Įach state has its own laws, regulations, and police, similar to the United States of America. Mexico’s real name is the United States of Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos). The post is meant to show people that Mexico is worth visiting and different than often portrayed by the media and movies. I also published a book on Mexican public policies that you can get here. My opinions might be subjective because obviously, I haven’t managed to visit or live in every single place in Mexico, so bear in mind that maybe things are different in parts of Mexico where I haven’t been. Here are 25 interesting things about Mexico – a country that I definitely recommend to both visit and live in.ĭisclosure: I wasn’t just a tourist in Mexico – I’ve lived in different parts of Mexico for over 6 years (->you can find out what was I doing in About Me). As a result, they’re scared to go to Mexico, but not many people actually know what is Mexico known for. Their opinion is based on stereotypes and bad press. However, the majority of people don’t know the facts about Mexico, its culture, and its people. It was designed for a calculator, and in that time nobody imagined where it would lead.In the minds of most people, Mexico is usually seen as a beach resort destination or a corrupt narco-state run by drug lords. The first microprocessor created by Intel was the 4004.The original name of windows was Interface Manager.The first 1GB hard disk drive was announced in 1980 which weighed about 550 pounds, and had a price tag of $40, 000.HP, Microsoft and Apple have one very interesting thing in common – they were all started in a garage.The password for the computer controls of nuclear tipped missiles of the U.S was 00000000 for eight years.If there was a computer as powerful as the human brain, it would be able to do 38 thousand trillion operations per second and hold more than 3580 terabytes of memory.There are more than 5000 new computer viruses released every month.Doug Engelbart invented the first computer mouse in around 1964 which was made of wood.TYPEWRITER is the longest word that you can write using the letters only on one row of the keyboard of your computer.The first electronic computer ENIAC weighed more than 27 tons and took up 1800 square feet.

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