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Chile: Only Latin American Country With 2 Literature Nobels, Thanks To Mistral And Neruda
Chile is Latin America's only country with two Literature Nobels: Gabriela Mistral (1945) and Pablo Neruda (1971), despite just 3% of the region's population.
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Chile Jumped 22 Spots to Become Latin America's Only Top 10 in Digital Government
Chile jumped from 32nd to 10th in the OECD's global digital government ranking, one hundredth of a point behind France. 8 in 10 people use ClaveÚnica.
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The World's Strawberry Is Actually Chilean: Science Confirmed It
Nearly every strawberry sold worldwide today is genetically Chilean: it traces to 5 plants shipped from Chile in 1714, confirmed by 2021 genome science.
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