10 important, but often ignored facts about Brazil
- Brazil has the 2nd largest number of airports in the world (4093).
- Brazil is still the country with the largest number of Catholics in the world.
- Brazil is the 2nd country with the highest plastic surgery rate.
- 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.
- Brazil imported 4.8 million slaves from Africa, almost half of all slaves throughout the Americas.
- 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.
- There was no bloodshed during the Proclamation of the Republic, on 15 November 1889.
- The Brazilian flag flown in the Square of the Three Powers in Brasilia is the largest flag flown in the world.
- 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.
- 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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