BRAZIL | JUNE 12 - JULY 13, 2014
20
quick facts about Brazil
that you may not know
1 The national football (soccer) team of Brazil has won the Fifa
World Cup a record five times.
2 Every Brazilian city has at least one soccer stadium.
3 The best coffee in the world is said to come from Brazil.
4 Caipirinhas are the national drink of Brazilians.
5 Brazil is the only country in South America that speaks
Portuguese
(not Spanish
or Brazilian).
6 Brazil
contains
almost 60
percent of the
Amazon rain
forest.
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7 There are
more species
of monkeys
in Brazil than
anywhere else in the world.
8 The Christ Redeemer Statue in Rio de Janeiro is one of the 7
Wonders of the World.
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9 Brazil covers three time zones.
10 Brazil shares a border with all South American countries
except for Chile and Ecuador.
11 Brazil has 13 cities with over one million residents.
12 Brazil is 100 percent energy independent.
13 Brazil has the most famous and celebrated carnival festival
in the world.
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14 Brazil has the world’s largest beach at 24,606 feet long.
15 It is the longest country in the world from north to south
via land, spanning approximately 2,800 miles.
16 By 2032, Brazil’s economy will overtake Germany’s in size.
17 Brazilian models are generally considered to be some of
the most gorgeous women in the world.
18 The Brazilian bikini wax was invented in New York in 1987
by seven Brazilian-born sisters.
19 Brazil has the ninth highest number of billionaires in the
world.
20 The prisoners of Brazil's Arisvaldo de Campos Pires
maximum security penitentiary wait out their sentences by
knitting, thanks to a partnership with Brazilian fashion designer
Raquel Guimaraes.
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