1. There is a LOTR themed restaurant in Manila called “The Hobbit House” staffed entirely by little people
![Manila_Central_Post_office_by_the_Pasig_river](https://i0.wp.com/tfetimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Manila_Central_Post_office_by_the_Pasig_river.jpg?resize=640%2C427&ssl=1)
2. Sinatra’s ‘My Way’ has been banned in some Manila karaoke bars as out of tune renditions have caused up to six different murders
![Manila_Aerial](https://i0.wp.com/tfetimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Manila_Aerial.jpg?resize=640%2C427&ssl=1)
3. While attending a forum in Manila in 1996, Bill Clinton had his motorcade rerouted in order to avoid crossing a bridge that had been rigged with explosives, a plot masterminded by Osama Bin Laden.
![MG_8236_Cathedral-Basilica_of_the_Immaculate_Conception_and_informally_as_Manila_Cathedral](https://i0.wp.com/tfetimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/MG_8236_Cathedral-Basilica_of_the_Immaculate_Conception_and_informally_as_Manila_Cathedral.jpg?resize=640%2C427&ssl=1)
4. While Claire Danes was promoting her film “Brokedown Palace”, she remarked that the city of Manila was a “ghastly and weird city” that “smelled of cockroaches, with rats all over”. As a result, she has been banned by the Philippines government from ever re-entering the country.
![Metro_manila_rp](https://i0.wp.com/tfetimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Metro_manila_rp.jpg?resize=640%2C344&ssl=1)
5. Philippines is building gas pipelines between Batangas & Manila and Bataan & Cavite, and naming them BatMan and BatCave
![manila-1151059_960_720](https://i0.wp.com/tfetimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/manila-1151059_960_720.jpg?resize=640%2C480&ssl=1)
6. 3 of the 9 largest malls in the world can be found on one street (SM Megamall, SM North EDSA, and Mall of Asia are along EDSA, Metro Manila, Philippines)
![manila](https://i0.wp.com/tfetimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/14994155063_eba0f38583_b.jpg?resize=640%2C373&ssl=1)
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