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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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