10 important, but often ignored facts about Brazil

1. Brazil has the 2nd largest number of airports in the world (4093).
2. Brazil is still the country with the largest number of Catholics in the world.
3. Brazil is the 2nd country with the highest plastic surgery rate.
4. More than 1,000 languages were spoken in Brazil before the discovery. Today, only 180 still survive and only 11 are spoken by more than 5,000 people.
5. Brazil imported 4.8 million slaves from Africa, almost half of all slaves throughout the Americas.
6. Brazil has the fastest growing fleet of helicopters in the world. Sao Paulo boasts the world’s largest private helicopter fleet with more than 400 helicopters making 1,500 take-offs and landings a day.
7. There was no bloodshed during the Proclamation of the Republic, on 15 November 1889.
8. The Brazilian flag flown in the Square of the Three Powers in Brasilia is the largest flag flown in the world.
9. The oldest tree in Brazil is a jequitibá-rosa with 3020 years that is in Vassununga State Park in Santa Rita do Passa Quatro - SP.
10. And… We speak Portuguese, from Brazil which is not the same as the one spoken in Portugal; not Spanish; not Brazilian.

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