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Spain gave birth to Madelman, an action figure first launched in 1968, what about you?

I live on the east coast of Spain. Winter is rainy and the temperature never goes under 0ºC. The coldest recent temperature I remember was around 10ºC, but with very high humidity. Last time we had snow was in 2010, when a very light coat covered the streets for a couple of days. This was a once in a 50 years thing. Madrid had a proper snowfall in recent years, but it was also rare for them. Due to climate change we have floods, like the one that hit Valencia in 2024. My area had a flood just before covid that destroyed two bridges and paralized the local train line.

The Prestige oil spill occurred off the coast of Galicia, Spain, in November 2002, caused by the sinking of the 26-year-old, structurally deficient oil tanker MV Prestige, carrying 77,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil. During a storm, it burst a tank on 13 November, and French, Spanish, and Portuguese governments refused to allow the ship to dock. The vessel subsequently sank on 19 November, about 210 kilometres (130 mi) from the coast of Galicia. It is estimated that it spilled 60,000 tonnes or a volume of 67,000 m3 (17.8 million US gal) of heavy fuel oil.