There's a lot to this place other than tennis courts, jacuzzis and bags of shabu. Here's the ten most amazing facts about the Bilibid penitentiary that you probably haven't heard of. 1. The word Bilibid is a Filipino noun which literally means "twine, cord, string, etc. wound around something." 2. The original Bilibid prison was formerly situated in Manila and was then known as "Carcel y Presidio Correccional" established by the Spanish colonial government on 25 June 1865. Back then, it could only accommodate a little over a thousand inmates. 3. When population grew, the Bilibid was transferred to a 551-hectare piece of land in Muntinlupa City, at that time considered to be "remote." It was built in 1936 with a budget of just one million pesos. 4. Throughout the Japanese Occupation during World War 2, the Bilibid was transformed into a Prisoner of War (POW) camp and housed more than 13,000 POWs, the great majority of them Americans....