Beirut, Lebanon 🇱🇧🌤🌲.QUICK FACTS ABOUT LEBANON:.1. Lebanon has 18... (Beirut, Lebanon)
October 22, 2017 by jadmassabni
Beirut, Lebanon 🇱🇧🌤🌲
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QUICK FACTS ABOUT LEBANON:
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1. Lebanon has 18 religious communities
2. It has 40 daily newspapers
3. It has 42 universities
4. It has over 100 banks
5. 70% of the students are in private schoolsÂ
6. There’s 1 doctor per 10 people in Lebanon (Vs 1/100 in EU)
7. The name LEBANON appears 70 times in the Old Testament
8. The name CEDAR appears 75 times too in the Old Testament
9. Beirut was destroyed and rebuilt 7 times 
10. There are 4.5 Million Lebanese in Lebanon
11. There are around 18 Million Lebanese abroad.Â
12. In 2009, Sky Bar was voted number 1 nightclub in the world by NY Times
13. Beirut was named “World Book Capital” in 2009
14. Byblos is the oldest continuously living city in the world
15. The country’s name is known to be the oldest in the world and has remained unchanged for over 4000 years
16. Lebanon is the only Arab and Asian country that has absolutely no desert
17. There are 15 rivers in Lebanon (all coming from its own mountains)
18. Alphabet was created in Byblos
19. The only remaining temple of Jupiter is in Baalbek, Lebanon
20. According to Christianity, Jesus Christ made his 1st miracle in Lebanon, in Qana (The miracle of turning water into wine)
21. The Phoenicians built the 1st boat & were the first to sail ever
22. Some say that Phoenicians reached America long before Christopher Columbus did
23. Lebanese are trilingual (speaks Arabic, French & English)
24. The creators of Tom & Jerry are originally Lebanese (Joseph Barbara & William Hanna)
25. King Solomon’s temple was built with Lebanon’s cedars
26. Lebanon is the first Arab country that had a constitution
27. “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country”. Most people associate this quote to a speech given by President John Kennedy in 1961. In fact, it came from one of Gibran Khalil Gibran’s books.
28. The creator of the iPod is originally Lebanese. (Tony Fadel)
29. The Lebanese Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah was the first one who was working on creating electricity from sunlight
30. One few people know: Keanu Reeves was born in Beirut!!
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