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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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