What is the Special in Brazil?

In 1958, a rhinoceros was a candidate in the city council elections in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Brazil boasts the seventh largest economy in the world, just behind the UK and just ahead of Russia. Canada is number 11.

Brazil spent US $11 billion for infrastructure improvement in preparation for hosting the 2014 World Cup. However, the U.S. spent only $30 million for the same job in 1994.

Manaus is located in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, but is home to more than 2.5 million people.

Apple's iPhone is almost twice more expensive in Brazil than in the U.S.

Indoor tanning for anyone of any age was banned in 2003 in Brazil, making it the first country to impose such a ban (Using a tanning bed, booth or sunlamp to get a tan is called indoor tanning. Indoor tanning can cause skin cancers.

Brazil has the largest lusophone population in the world. What’s a lusophone?

Rubber made it South America’s richest city in the late 1800s and lured many wealthy Europeans.

One of Henry Ford’s failed ventures (due to poor crop-disease control) was to create rubber plantations and factories in the middle of the Brazilian Amazon jungle.

A lusophone is a Portuguese speaker.  Why lusophone ; because the Roman province of Lusitania covered most of Portugal.

The Teatro Amazonas is one of its most notable buildings, and was opened in 1896.

Brazil once tried to sell an aircraft carrier on eBay.

According to various media reports, a customer at Bar do Bin Laden actually called authorities, indicating that the Al Queda founder was hiding out at the establishment.

The Portuguese spoken in Brazil is evidently most similar to that spoken in the 16th century.

The world’s largest open-air garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, was once found in the Brazilian city of Duque de Caxias. It closed in 2012.

Rio de Janeiro was once the capital of Portugal, making it the only European capital outside of Europe.

There is a group of people in Brazil called the Bororo who all have the same blood type: “O.”

Indigenous people have inhabited Brazil for thousands of years and there are 180 languages spoken.

Brazil is one of the world’s most biodiverse countries, with a total of four million plant and animal species, according to estimates.

The biggest Japanese community outside of Japan is in Brazil.

The country has a city called “Nao-Me-Toque.” It literally means “Don’t Touch Me.”

In 2007, it was reported that were 67 tribes who have never had contact with modern man.

It has more species of monkey than any other nation.

Rio de Janeiro means "January River" and it was called that by mistake. A Portuguese explorer thought the bay was the mouth of a river.

Brazil was a Portuguese colony for over 300 years and gained its independence in 1822.