- ...that Lake Titicaca (pictured), located on the border of Bolivia and Peru, is the highest commercially navigable lake in the world?
- ...that Abimael Guzmán, the founder of the guerrilla organization Shining Path, was sentenced to life imprisonment on counts of terrorism and treason?
- ...that Andrés de Santa Cruz was successively president of Peru, president of Bolivia and Supreme Protector of the Peru–Bolivian Confederation?
- ...that Francisco Pizarro led the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire and founded the city of Lima, the modern day capital of Peru?
- ...that after thirteen rounds of negotiations the United States and Peru signed the Peru–United States Trade Promotion Agreement in April 2006?