For an upcoming team meeting, I need an interesting fact on Argentina that even would surprise Argentines?

The interesting fact should not be to specific as I want to suprise the Argentine members of my team.

There are more sheep than people living in Argentina.

*** This one will surprise them?
Who transported What, to Where for the firts time ever?
Who: Charles Tollier (french)
What: 30 Tons of fresh red meat
Where: from Buenos Aires, Argentina to France
How: With Mechanical Refrigeration
In: a boat called: "Frigorifique"
WHEN? "1880"

Some more:

a- 3 Nobel Prizes in the Medical Sciences

b- Developer of the Dactiloscopic Imprints for foresenic identification (Juan Vucetich)

c- South-most city of the world: Usuahia

d- Cerro Aconcagua is the highest mountain in the Americas. It is located in the Andes mountain range, in the Argentine province of Mendoza, near the border with Chile. It lies 112 km (70 mi) west by north of the city of Mendoza. Aconcagua is the highest peak in the Western Hemisphere and in the Southern Hemisphere, as well as the highest outside of Asia. It is one of the Seven Summits.

e- Surface:
8th nin the world 鈥?Argentina: 2.736.690 km2

f- Largest cities:
3rd in the world - Buenos Aires, Argentina: 11,92 millons

g- Rio Parana's delta is the 2nd of the world after the Amazons!
lenght: 275 kil贸meters (175 miles)
width 50 kil贸meters (30 miles)

h- On "foot-bal'' (soccer)
Player that missed THREE penalties in ONE game?
Martin Palermo in Colombia, Copa America 1999

i- Which goal-keeper made more goals in a game?
Jose Luis Chilavert (from Paraguay) 54 goals in official games. He played in Argentina several years.

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Maybe you can ask paraguayans.

Carlos Menem is the only elected Argentine President to serve his full term in the past 55 years.

I doubt Buenos Aires is the 3rd largest in the world. It is bigger than Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo, New york, London Sao Paulo or Mexico City? I've been to all and Buenos Aires isn't half the size of any of them. Wikipedia has it at 9.2 Million, which is less than any of them