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4 unusual facts about Pila


Battle of Kłecko

Polish army, which camped along northern bank of the Notec river, concentrated on May 3 in Pila.

Pila, Laguna

This also served as a location for the reality show, The Amazing Race Asia 2 and the ABS-CBN daytime drama hit series Be Careful With My Heart.

Rosa Morató

Morató won her first international steeplechase medal at the 2010 Ibero-American Championships in San Fernando, Cádiz, where she defeated Zulema Fuentes-Pila to win the gold medal in a championship record.

Zulema Fuentes-Pila

She was named for the Spanish 2007 European Indoor Championships team together with two sisters, Margarita and Iris.


Fasciolopsiasis

The parasite infects an amphibic snail (Segmentina nitidella, Segmentina hemisphaerula, Hippeutis schmackerie, Gyraulus, Lymnaea, Pila, Planorbis (Indoplanorbis)) after being released by infected feces; from this intermediate host, metacercaria infest on aquatic plants like water spinach, which are eaten raw by pigs and humans.

Hospital Metropolitano Dr. Pila

Prior to founding Hospital Dr. Pila, he had worked as a municipal government physician at Ponce's Tricoche Municipal Hospital and at Hospital San Lucas both in Ponce.

Koszalin Voivodeship

– a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1950–75, created from eastern part of Szczecin Voivodeship, superseded by the voivodeships of Koszalin (2), Slupsk and Pila.

Pilum

Standard tactics called for Roman soldiers to throw one of them (both if time permitted) at the enemy, just before charging to engage with the gladius, however Alexander Zhmodikov has argued that the Roman infantry could use pila at any stage in the fighting.


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