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...that Argentina is in a period of fiscal austerity?
...that painter and sculptor Roberto Aizenberg has been called the "best-known" orthodox surrealist in Argentina?
...that beef is a common element in the works of the New Realist painter Carlos Alonso?
...that the Argentinian anarchist movement was the strongest anarchist movement in South America?
...that Paraguayan actor Arnaldo André used to slap telenovela actresses who worked with him?
...that Enrique Angelelli was an Argentine Catholic bishop killed during the Dirty War?
...that in the mid-nineteenth century the Argentine Confederation successfully resisted a five-year naval blockade (pictured) by France and the United Kingdom?
...that Bernabé Aráoz (pictured), the only President of the short-lived Republic of Tucumán, was executed by firing squad?

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...that all five of the medalists for Argentina at the inaugural Paralympic Games were swimmers?
...that at the 1964 Summer Paralympics, Argentina won 37 medals, including 6 golds
...that Argentina stayed neutral during most of World War II, and declared war on the Axis powers on March 27, 1945?
...that more than a million tourists visit the wine-producing regions in Argentina annually?
...that even before the Argentine–Chilean naval arms race, the Chilean Navy was stronger than the United States Navy?
...that Buenos Aires seceded from the Argentine Confederation from 1852 to 1861?
...that Argentine nationalism sees José de San Martín, Juan Manuel de Rosas and Juan Perón as a line of historical continuity?
...that the anarcho-syndicalist Argentine Workers' Federation (pictured) was the country's first national labor confederation?

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...that mate tea served in a traditional gourd cup should never be stirred with the straw; as doing so is considered poor etiquette in Argentine tea culture?
...that Hernando Arias de Saavedra was the first native-born governor of a New World colony and issued the order leading to the modern-day partition of Argentina and Paraguay?
...that actress Andrea Pietra suggested the inclusion of Paola Barrientos in the cast of Graduados?
...that Nazario Benavídez (pictured), for many years governor of San Juan Province, Argentina, was later imprisoned and murdered?
...that although José Rivera Indarte wrote the Blood tables against Juan Manuel de Rosas, he had previously been his supporter?
...that Virginia Bolten was deported from Argentina to Uruguay in 1902 because of her anarchist activities?
...that the title story from The Book of Sand by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges describes a book with an infinite number of pages?
...that the Boudougate led to the attempted impeachment of Argentine Vice President Amado Boudou?

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...that at least seven members of the Scottish Argentine Brown family have played international football for Argentina?
...that, in 2000, Argentinian singer Rodrigo sold out 13 consecutive shows at the Luna Park arena to promote his quadruple-platinum album A 2000?
...that record producer Cachorro López co-wrote "Color Esperanza", a song performed in Argentina back to back with the national anthem?
...that with a total weight of over 100 tonnes (example of fragment pictured), Campo del Cielo is the heaviest meteorite ever found on Earth?
...that the Argentine The Cámpora political youth organization is named after president Héctor José Cámpora?
...that the Argentine Declaration of Independence was proclaimed by the Congress of Tucumán at the Casa de Tucumán (pictured)?
...that one of the causes of the May Revolution could have been that Napoleon crowned his own brother Joseph Bonaparte as the new Spanish King?
...that Graciela Chichilnisky, who proposed the Kyoto Protocol's market for carbon credit trading, obtained her PhDs in mathematics and economics without ever having been an undergraduate?

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...that the cabin of the Heli-Sport CH-7 (pictured) was designed by the creator of the Lamborghini Countach, while the helicopter's frame is the work of Argentine inventor Augusto Cicaré?
...that Clandestine Childhood was Argentina's submission for the 2013 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film?
...that a fossil of Concavodonta described in 1843 has been lost?
...that members of the extinct bivalve genus Hemiconcavodonta are unique in the subfamily Concavodontinae in that their teeth point in two directions?
...that the short story "The Congress" by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges was published in a deluxe edition with the letters made of gold?
...that when first described, the extinct bird Cruschedula was thought to be a "dry-land" penguin?
...that the extinct Argentine bivalve Cuyopsis symmetricus was named for the symmetry of its rectangular shells?
...that Eduardo Delgado has recorded the full works of Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera?

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...that Guido di Tella was an Argentine businessman, academic and diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Relations between 1991 and 1999?
...that Argentine Manuel Dorrego (pictured) studied federalism in the United States during his exile in Baltimore?
...that a Peronist hymn was sung during the 1975 civil wedding of future Argentine presidents Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández?
...that the last song on El Mundo Cabe en Una Canción is a tribute to singer-songwriter Fito Páez's hometown?
...that the fossil bivalve Emiliodonta shared its name with a coccolithophore for about a decade?
...that the extinct horsetail Equisetum thermale grew in Jurassic hot springs?
...that a comic book about Eva Perón was aborted during production because of political censorship to other works by the authors, and published posthumously instead?
...that Argentine president Juan Perón expelled the terrorist organization Montoneros from the Plaza de Mayo during the 1974 celebrations of the International Workers' Day?

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...that Juan Manuel de Rosas killed 3,200 indigenous people during the First Conquest of the Desert?
...that during the Argentine Decembrist revolution, José María Paz was captured when his horse was entangled with bolas?
...that slavery of indigenous people in modern Bolivia was temporarily abolished during the First Upper Peru campaign?
...that the Flag of Macha (pictured) is considered to be the first physical flag of Argentina?
...that Benjamin Fondane, known as a Symbolist poet in Romania, a Jewish existentialist thinker in France and an avant-garde filmmaker in Argentina, was killed at Auschwitz in late 1944?
...that in the mid-nineteenth century Argentina successfully resisted a two-year naval blockade by France?
...that Miguel Angel Galluzzi's Ducati Monster is credited with both reviving the retro standard motorcycle and creating a new naked bike niche?
...that Manuel Gálvez promoted Juan Manuel de Rosas as an archetype of Argentine values?

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...that the decision to make Fabiana García Lago's character in the telenovela Sos mi vida a Paraguayan immigrant came after she tried the Guaraní language accent during the first day of filming?
...that Javier González Fraga (pictured) was appointed as vice president candidate for the Ricardo Alfonsín ticket for the 2011 Argentine general election?
...that Argentine TV journalist Andy Kusnetzoff was considered a possible main actor for the comedy Graduados?
...that in 1987 the dismembered hands of former Argentine President Juan Perón were stolen from his tomb and held for ransom?
...that members of the extinct bivalve genus Hemiconcavodonta are unique in the subfamily Concavodontinae in that their teeth point in two directions?
...that after his term as President of Argentina, Bartolomé Mitre wrote a biography of José de San Martín: Historia de San Martín y de la emancipación sudamericana?
...that the historiography of Juan Manuel de Rosas influenced much of the whole historiography of Argentina?
...that there were attempts to ban yerba mate in early 17th-century South America?

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...that Hospital Borda's Radio La Colifata is the world's first radio station broadcast from inside a psychiatric hospital?
...that Hospital Tobar García is the only facility in the federated capital of Buenos Aires that specializes in mental illness in children and adolescents?
...that while huemulite was discovered in 1959, it was not described until 1966?
...that Manuel Belgrano, José de San Martín and Martín Miguel de Güemes proposed that Argentina be a constitutional monarchy ruled by an Inca?
...that the Argentinian Labour Party, which played a major role in ensuring Juan Perón's 1946 election victory, was modelled after the British Labour Party?
...that Argentine actress Mirtha Legrand worked in La Dueña after 46 years without acting in television?
...that José de San Martín (pictured), national hero of Argentina, died on August 17 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France?
...that José Gil de Castro made the first portrait of José de San Martín?

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...that Argentine President Juan Perón took refuge in the Libertador Building in Buenos Aires before he was deposed and exiled in a coup d'état in 1955?
...that the Argentine philologist María Rosa Lida de Malkiel was an Arthurian-Hispanist pioneer?
...that Argentine general Lucio Norberto Mansilla died during the 1871 epidemic of yellow fever in Buenos Aires?
...that a massive general strike organized by the Argentinian F.O.I.C. meat-packers union secured the release of its jailed leadership in September 1943?
...that Mario Menéndez, who was the governor of the Falkland Islands, surrendered to the United Kingdom during the 1982 Falklands War?
...that milonguero-style tango is danced with a close embrace?
...that the battleship ARA Moreno (pictured) was the subject of multiple disputes between Argentina and the United States?
...that internet entrepreneur Silvina Moschini believes Wikipedia should allow advertising as a way of funding improved academic content?

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...that U2 wrote the song "Mothers of the Disappeared" about the Madres de Plaza de Mayo, whose children disappeared during the Dirty War?
...that Nahuel Huapi National Park (pictured) is named after Nahuel Huapi Lake, with Nahuel and Huapi meaning "tiger" and "island" in the Mapuche language?
...that the 1957 non-fiction novel Operación Masacre by Rodolfo Walsh was published seven years before Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, which is frequently cited as creating the genre?
...that Papel Prensa produced 170,000 tons of newsprint for 170 dailies in 2009, accounting for 75% of the newsprint market in Argentina?
...that Juan Esteban Pedernera was interim President of Argentina in 1861, following the death of Santiago Derqui?
...that the Argentine investigative journalism TV program Periodismo para todos is censored in several Argentine provinces?
...that Marcelo Piñeyro's second film, Wild Horses, was the second-highest-attended film in Argentina during 1995, and was screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City?
...that authorities believe convicted fraudster Edward Porta escaped from the U.S. Penitentiary in Lee County, Virginia, apparently by walking out of its minimum security area?

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...that during the Puna de Atacama dispute the U.S. minister in Buenos Aires and two delegates from Chile and Argentina drew the northern portion of the border between Chile and Argentina?
...that Argentine painter Benito Quinquela Martín, who painted Dia de Sol, was adopted at the age of 6 from an orphanage where he was abandoned as a baby on March 21, 1890?
...that a radio ad in Argentina for 'Los Andes Restaurant', which first aired in 1922, is the oldest known radio commercial in history?
...that several peaks of the Andean Cordillera de la Ramada, including the highest, Mercedario, were first climbed by a Polish expedition of 1934?
...that the controversial Argentine governor Juan Manuel de Rosas, who died in Southampton in 1877, was repatriated over a century later?
...that José de San Martín and Carlos María de Alvear helped depose Argentina's First Triumvirate?
...that the Viceroyalty of La Plata (pictured) —covering Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay—was the last viceroyalty created by Spain?
...that when the new Argentine dreadnought Rivadavia arrived in Buenos Aires on 19 February 1915, over 47,000 people, including President Victorino de la Plaza, came out to see the ship?

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...that Argentine celebrity Calu Rivero was the first actress from Catamarca Province to appear in national television, thus being named Illustrious Citizen of her hometown Recreo?
...that art critic Jorge Romero Brest was the director of Argentina's National Museum of Fine Arts from 1955 to 1963?
...that the Rufous Hornero (pictured), a common species in the ovenbird family, is the national bird of Argentina?
...that Sancti Spiritu, the first European settlement in modern Argentina, was destroyed by natives two years later?
...that the Argentine "San Lorenzo march" was played when the Germans entered Paris during World War II, then again by U.S. forces when they liberated the city?
...that adventurer Emilio Scotto had only US$306 when he left Buenos Aires in 1985 on his record-breaking 10-year motorcycle journey?
...that Buenos Aires besieged and captured Montevideo during the Second Banda Oriental campaign?
...that on September 13, 2012, nearly 200,000 Argentines protested against the policies of the president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (pictured)?

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...that the title story from Shakespeare's Memory by writer Jorge Luis Borges is about a man who is given the memory of William Shakespeare?
...that Griselda Siciliani (pictured) won the Argentine Clarín Award and Martín Fierro Award as new female artist in 2005?
...that the Brazilian government's order for dreadnought battleships led to a South American naval arms race?
...that when Britain took the dispute over the sovereignty of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands to the International Court of Justice in 1955, Argentina declined to cooperate?
...that Argentine-Korean actor Chang Kim Sung made a parody of the "Gangnam Style" in the TV series Graduados?
...that Jorge Luis Borges wrote his short story "There Are More Things" as a memorial to H. P. Lovecraft?
...that the Beagle Channel in Tierra del Fuego National Park in Argentina is named after the British ship Beagle (pictured), which sailed with the explorer Charles Darwin in 1833–34?
...that trade unions in Argentina have traditionally played a strong role in the politics of the nation, with approximately 40% of workers in the formal economy being unionized?

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...that small shells of Trigonoconcha are triangular?
...that the Argentine superhero live-action TV series Los únicos is influenced by the X-Men film series, Heroes and Sky High
...that the Uruguayan Invasion was a musical phenomenon of the 1960s distinctly similar to the British Invasion, with rock bands from Uruguay rapidly gaining popularity in Argentina?
...that Viedma Glacier (pictured) is part of the huge Southern Patagonian Ice Field, the third largest expanse of continental ice after Greenland and Antarctica?
...that the conspirators for the 1810 Argentine Independence movement's May Revolution had their secret gatherings at Hipólito Vieytes′s soap factory in Buenos Aires?
...that the Argentine city of Villa Gesell (pictured) was built after the afforestation of a dune field?
...that the Ordovician age bivalve Villicumia has overlapping teeth seen in few other bivalves?
...that Manuel Belgrano handed the command of the Army of the North to José de San Martín in 1814?

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...that Argentine actor Gastón Soffritti worked in Graduados to leave the teen drama genre?
...that Mario Poli replaced Jorge Bergoglio as Archbishop of Buenos Aires when the latter was elected as Pope Francis?
...that Elvira Rawson de Dellepiane is remembered as the "mother of women's rights in Argentina"?
...that the Indio Comahue Monument (pictured), commemorating the native inhabitants of the Comahue region of Argentina, was built in 1964 for the first National Comahue Fair?
...that José Maria Larocca spent reported millions on the horse Okidoki for the 2012 Summer Olympics, but the horse died two years before the event?
...that Operation Independence, which aimed to crush the Guevarist guerilla ERP, was the first large-scale operation in the Argentine Dirty War?
...that Portland, Oregon–based evangelical minister Luis Palau collaborated with government leaders, and 500 Christian pastors, to rally volunteers to address homelessness?
...that actor Víctor Laplace played Argentine president Juan Perón in the film Puerta de Hierro, el exilio de Perón?

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...that South American Coati males were originally considered a separate species from females due to different social habits?
...that the Argentine branch of the Anonymous group helped the organization of the 18A cacerolazo?
...that actor Marco Antonio Caponi, a native of the Mendoza Province, played a Mendocine character in Herederos de una venganza?
...that actor Roberto Carnaghi has appeared in 44 films, had major roles in Shakespeare's plays, worked in advertising and TV comedy, and performed in telenovelas?
...that actress Griselda Siciliani broke her arm during the filming of Farsantes?
...that Pol-Ka rushed the production of the Sos mi hombre telenovela because of the low rating of their previous productions?
...that the dramatic moments of the telenovela Solamente Vos are interrupted with videoclips made by the characters and invited musicians?
...that actress Mónica Ayos (pictured) was hired for the Mexican telenovela Triunfo del Amor during her vacations in the country?

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...that actor Luciano Castro worked with Natalia Oreiro in Amanda O, a telenovela distributed directly by internet?
...that El puntero received the Golden Martín Fierro Award?
...that the miniseries Para vestir santos featured a lesbian main character, at the time of the sanction of same-sex marriage in Argentina?
...that some candidates in the 2013 legislative election ended their political campaigns after a gas explosion in Rosario?
...that thrash metal guitarist Antonio Romano (pictured) was considered a potential guitarist for V8?
...that drummer Claudio Strunz owned Hermética's rehearsal room, before joining the band?
...that 105 people were injured during a train crash on October 19, 2013?
...that actress Katja Alemann attended the inauguration of the Cemento nightclub costumed as a Valkyrie?

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... that although the 1996 reunion of V8 was not advertised, it was recorded in the live album Homenaje?
... that Hermética's EP Intérpretes includes a thrash metal cover version of the tango "Cambalache"?
... that the telenovela Mis amigos de siempre features actors Osvaldo Laport and Soledad Silveyra as a couple, as in the older telenovela Campeones de la vida?
...that vice president Amado Boudou lives in the luxury apartment complex Madero Center (pictured)?
...that Eduardo Arnold wrote an unpublished book about the early life of president Néstor Kirchner?
...that Spanish singer Álex Ubago sang the opening theme of the telenovela Somos familia, and toured in Argentina during the premiere?
...that the Argentine telenovela Sres. Papis will include scenes shot at the 2014 FIFA World Cup?
...that Argentine actresses Mercedes Morán and Mercedes Scápola, who are mother and daughter, play as mother and daughter in the telenovela Guapas?

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...that Argentine actor Alfredo Alcón (pictured) read Richard III by William Shakespeare at the age of 11?
...that most non-Peronist political parties in Argentina have united in the political coalition Broad Front UNEN?
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