30% of Argentina’s population lives in Buenos Aires. |
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Argentina is the 3rd largest beef producer in the world. |
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It is the 5th largest wine producer in the world. |
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It has one of the highest movie watching rates in the world. |
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Although Argentina means `Land of Silver` there is actually very little silver. |
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The first crminal fingerprint identification in Argentina in 1892. |
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More than 20% of the votes in the 2001 elections in Argentina were invalid. |
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At the age of 23, Aristotle Onassis who went on to become the richest man in the world was working as a humble dishwasher in a Buenos Aires restaurant. |
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The world`s first animated films were made and released in Argentina by a man named Quirino Cristiani in 1917. |
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There is a duck in Argentian that was named `The Argentinian Vampire Duck` This duck has the habit of picking of lice from other ducks and Christian missionaries apparently thought that was some form of vampirism! Those crazy missionaries! |
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In some parts of Argentina they speak Welsh |
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Found in Argentina the ornate horned frog can eat an entire mouse with one swallow. |
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