Jose P. Rizal. a adult male of exceeding endowment and intelligence. is the National Hero of the Philippines. That’s a fact ( and might be the lone fact ) that every Filipino knows about Jose Rizal. One might inquire. “How about his name? ” Well. that might be uneasy because his full name is Jose Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda.

Let’s be honest that if we will be asked by some people about some things related to Rizal without the aid of any mentions. we can merely state less. If that’s make you funny. so here are several interesting facts about Dr. Jose P. Rizal. Most Filipinos don’t know about these trifles about Jose Rizal – verify it yourself if you’re a Filipino.

At age two. Jose Rizal could already compose and read. He wrote his first verse form at the age of 8 entitled ‘Sa Aking Mga Kababata’ ( To My Fellow Youth ) .

Merely like other Filipinos who are thirstily seeking their fortune to win the lottery. Rizal besides joined such type of chancing where he won tierce of the expansive award ( Php 18. 000. 00 ) with ticket figure 9736. He gave a part to his male parent. a friend in Hong Kong and he spent the remainder purchasing agricultural lands in Talisay.

He mastered 22 linguistic communications: Hebrew. Filipino. Ilokano. Bisayan. Subanon. Chinese. Latin. Spanish. Greek. English. French. German. Arabic. Malay. Sanskrit. Dutch. Nipponese. Catalan. Italian. Portugese. Swedish and Russian.

Rizal was excessively little for his age and made him a mark of Pedro’s strong-arming. dissing Pepe in forepart of the other pupils at the school of Maestro Justiniano Cruz. Equipped with his Uncle Miguel’s instructions about the art of wrestle. Rizal challenged Pedro to a fisticuffs. Rizal won and became popular as he proved himself a worthy opposition.

Rizal could demo excessively much irony because of his love for his state. Why and how? Back in Dapitan when he received three visitants in his house in Talisay. he offered the adult female named Donya Manuela with Bagoong. The lady ignored the bagoong stating that they do non eat bagoong in their state because it contains worms. With that. Rizal responded stating that he had been in her state and people at that place eat small birds without taking out bowels.

During his expatriate in Dapitan. he was able to set up a school where he had 21 students who were ne’er asked to pay for tuition but was required by Rizal to work for the community. During the category treatment. when his pupils couldn’t reply his inquiries right. he would jestingly squeeze his pupils.

Rizal is one of the few recognized ‘Renaissance man’ in the universe. A Renaissance adult male is a knowing individual and one who excels in a broad assortment of topics or Fieldss. He was an anthropologist. ethnologist. economic expert. sociologist. pedagogue. designer. applied scientist. sculpturer. painter. dramatist. novelist. historian. journalist. husbandman. playwright. eye doctor. soldierly creative person. and a map maker. among other things.

Three carnal species were named after Rizal ; Draco Rizali. a species of winging firedrake. Rachophorous Rizali. a species of frog and Apogonia Rizali. a beetling species.

Jose Rizal graduated in Ateneo Municipal de Manila as one of the nine pupils in his category declared as ‘sobresaliente’ or ‘outstanding’ . However. he didn’t truly top his category when he was in high school. They were 10 in category and merely 2 of them got low classs. So fundamentally. the remainder earned the same class Rizal did.

Sing that he lived during the latter portion of the nineteenth century where the lone agencies of long distance travel is by ship. he can be considered a really good traveled adult male. He traveled extensively and had been to the United States. Spain. Great Britain. France. Austria. Germany. Belgium. Switzerland. Czech Republic. Italy. Singapore. Borneo. Hong Kong. China and Japan. Not even a millionaire today could afford the legion and extended travels of Jose Rizal during his clip.

Rizal’s most celebrated citation: ‘Ang Hindi magmahal SA sariling wika. daig pa Air National Guard hayop at malansang isda’ . ( He who does non love his ain linguistic communication is worse than an carnal and fetid fish ) .

Memorials in award of Jose Rizal were non merely erected in the Philippines but besides in assorted parts of the universe like Madrid. Spain ; Wilhelmsfeld. Germany ; Jinjiang. Fujian. China ; Chicago. Cherry Hill Township. San Diego. Seattle. U. S. A. ; Mexico City. Mexico ; Lima. Peru ; Litomerice. Czech Republic ; and Toronto. Ontario. Canada.

Did you know that Rizal was addressed by his European lover as the ‘little bad boy’ ? Filipinos are genuinely honorable with themselves stating Rizal was non that fine-looking – and given the fact he was a adult male of medium tallness and little built. However. Jose Rizal had his manner with adult females – it might be his wit. cognition or the manner he present himself. On the series of letters that were discovered to be love messages for Rizal. a Belgian adult female named Suzanne wrote: ‘There will ne’er be any place in which you are so loved as that in Brussels. So. you small bad male child. haste back. ’

( Partially related with Fact # 13 ) There are rumours that Rizal was a man-about-town holding a batch of misss mentioned in his autobiography and until now many believe that he truly had a batch of girlfriends but the truth is that he merely had few existent relationships. The other misss were all merely cracks. and some were merely apparent friends.

His verse form Mi Retiro ( My Retreat ) was written when he was ill and could non work.

A spiritual religious order named the Rizalista – members of Cruzado. claims that Jose Rizal is the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. They believe that the executing in Bagumbayan was merely a stage that he had to digest to be in the presence of God. They besides believe that Rizal is still alive and lives deep in the wood of Mount Makiling.

There are rumours that Rizal’s book entitled El FIlibusterismo was inspired by Alexandre Dumas’ novel The Count of Monte Cristo sing that it was really one of Rizal’s favourite narratives.

Quite unusual for a adult male about to be executed. but his pulsation proved to be normal when the Spanish sawbones general requested to take his pulse minutes before Rizal’s executing. Rizal was so ready and fearless of his destiny.

Because of his celebrated repute as a Casanova. it was believed that he was involved with a beautiful adult female populating someplace in the boundary line of Germany and Austria doing people dispersed statements that Adolf Hitler of Germany and Mao Zedong of China were boies of Jose Rizal.

The dike he built in Dapitan was built utilizing burned shells and bricks that were made from the machine he built. In his missive to his best friend. he said that the dike was built by him and 14 immature male childs ( his pupils ) .

Filipinos believe that the ground why Rizal was truly intelligent is because he was born with a large caput.

Ambeth R. Ocampo. a multi-awarded Filipino historiographer. got a clasp of Rizal’s original Hagiographas which revealed Rizal’s markers and side notes of male organ of different sizes that were drawn all over the book.

Rizal was ne’er truly a accredited physician. He ne’er graduated medical specialty. Technically. he couldn’t truly be called Doctor.

Rizal was ne’er truly a tooth doctor. He merely did some self-studying and ‘pretended’ to be one.

When Rizal came back. Olimpia. his most beautiful. pregnant sister. was his first patient. He assisted her bringing. Olimpia died every bit good as her kid due to profused hemorrhage. And Rizal noted in his journal: ‘She would’ve died
anyway…’ ( Well. that might be a hurting stand-in gag of him. )