18 Things You Didn’t Know About Mexico

Larrylambert
3 min readFeb 6, 2023

We’ll look beyond the stereotypes.

Photo by Dennis Schrader on Unsplash

What do you know anout Mexico? When we hear ‘Mexico” many of us probably think “border crisis” and “where Ted Cruz goes when it gets cold,” but there’s a lot more to it than that. We’ll take a look at the history and culture of Mexico. Plus, whatever interesting tidbitsI find.

1: The Aztecs sacrificed 250,000 a year to appease the sun god.

A similar plan is under consideration in congress to shore up social security. Ok, I just threw that in to see if you were paying attention.

2: In both size and population, Mexico City is larger than New York City.

However, New York City has more unemployed actors. Or so I suspect.

3: Mexico City is shrinking 10 inches every year.

Probably because so many people are standing in it. Come on guys, spread out!

4: Enjoy color TV? Thank Mexico.

Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena, who invented the chromoscopic adaptor for color TVs was from Mexico. The first color TV transmission was in 1946. Camarena was also the inventor of the flux capacitor. Hold on, being told that last…

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Larrylambert

You probably don't know my name, but have likely seen my work. I've written for numerous syndicated cartoon strips and my gags have appeared in national pubs.