ENTERTAINING FACTS ABOUT BRAZIL
Added on: 5th Oct 2016
BRAZIL BOASTS THE LARGEST POPULATION OF
CATHOLICS IN THE WORLD AT SIXTY-SIX PERCENT
OF ITS POPULATION, ABOUT 130 MILLION OF THE
COUNTRY’S TOTAL POPULATION
BRAZIL HAS BEEN THE WORLD’S LARGEST EXPORTER
OF COFFEE FOR 150 YEARS. IT SUPPLIED AROUND
EIGHTY PERCENT OF THE WORLD’S COFFEE IN THE
1920’S BUT THAT FIGURE HAS CURRENTLY
FALLEN TO AROUND A THIRD
BELIEVE IT OR NOT BUT OSAMA BIN LADEN THEMED
BARS ARE QUITE POPULAR IN BRAZIL. FOR THE RECORD,
THERE’S ONE NAMED BAR DO BIN LADEN IN
SAO PAULO, RUN BY AN OSAMA LOOK ALIKE AND
CAVERNA DO BIN LADEN, OR BIN LADEN’S CAVE, WHICH
CAN BE FOUND A FEW MILES OUTSIDE RIO DE JANEIRO
BACK IN 1959 THE CITY COUNCIL ELECTION IN SAO PAULO
HAD A SURPRISE WINNER, CACARECO, A FIVE YEAR
OLD FEMALE RHINOCEROS FROM THE LOCAL ZOO.
NOT ONLY DID SHE WIN BUT SHE DID SO BY A
LANDSLIDE, GARNERING 100,000 VOTES (FIFTEEN
PERCENT OF THE TOTAL). THIS WAS ONE OF THE
HIGHEST TOTALS FOR A LOCAL CANDIDATE IN
BRAZIL'S HISTORY TO DATE
ON JANUARY 27, 1763, THE COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION
IN PORTUGUESE AMERICA WAS MOVED FROM
SALVADOR TO RIO DE JANEIRO. THE CITY REMAINED
PRIMARILY A COLONIAL CAPITAL UNTIL 1808 WHEN
THE PORTUGUESE ROYAL FAMILY AND MOST OF THE
ASSOCIATED LISBON NOBLES, FLEEING FROM
NAPOLEON’S INVASION OF PORTUGAL, MOVED TO
RIO DE JANEIRO. THIS MAKES RIO DE JANEIRO THE
ONLY EUROPEAN CAPITAL IN HISTORY THAT WAS
LOCATED OUTSIDE EUROPE
BRAZIL WAS THE ONLY INDEPENDENT SOUTH
AMERICAN COUNTRY TO SEND GROUND TROOPS
TO FIGHT IN WORLD WAR II, WITH OVER 25,000 SOLDIERS
BRAZIL DISTRIBUTES BREAST MILK AROUND THE
COUNTRY TO BABIES WHOSE MOTHERS CAN’T
PROVIDE IT FOR THEM
BRAZILIAN PRISONERS CAN REDUCE THEIR SENTENCE
BY FOUR DAYS FOR EVERY BOOK THEY READ AND
WRITE A REPORT ON. IN OTHER WORDS, BRAZIL’S
PENITENTIARY SYSTEM IS TRYING HARD TO
EDUCATE ITS PRISONERS
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