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- ...that Cuban physician Carlos Finlay (pictured) was the first to theorize in 1881 that a mosquito was the way by which yellow fever was transmitted?
- ...that there was, on average, one aircraft hijacking incident every eleven days in 1969 involving flights from United States being forcibly redirected to Cuba?
- ... that Kid Chocolate became Cuba's first world boxing champion in 1931. On his retirement in 1938, he had a record of 135 wins, 9 losses and 6 draws? And that he was later recognized by the International Boxing Hall Of Fame?
- ...that the Godfrey-Milliken Bill, was a Private Member's Bill introduced in the Canadian parliament by MPs Peter Milliken and John Godfrey to parody and attack the Helms-Burton Act devised by the United States, which aimed to tighten the United States embargo against Cuba?
- ...that Cubana de Aviación's Tropicana Special flights, which began in 1956, ferried club customers from Miami to the Tropicana Club in Havana and returned them to Florida at 4am the following morning?
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