Brazil
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Who wouldn't want to learn more about such a lovely warm and religious country. If you are thinking about doing some travelling some of these fun facts may be of help in your decision. Perhaps you will put Brazil on your travel itinerary. Brazil does have the worlds widest road. The Monumental Axis can hold 160 cars driving side by side. That is a boat load of cars!

    -Brazil is larger than Japan, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Indonesia and South Africa

 

    -they produce the worlds best coffee

 

    -largest country in South America

 

    -shares borders with every country except Chile and Ecuador

 

    -longest beach at 7500km

 

    -the worlds second largest river the Amazon is found in Brazil

 

    -one of the largest Roman Catholic countries

 

    -the most species of monkeys

 

    -has the largest stadium called the Maracana

 

    -Brazilians love to play soccer

The 1963 Pan American Games were held in Brazil. Not only that but the greatest football player ever Edson Arantes dos Nascimento, known as "Pele".  They acel in many sports. They won 13 Olympic Medals between 1920 and 1972.

    largest rain forest in the world

    thier currency has both horizontal and vertical pictures

Okay, so you wouldn't think Argentina would have the driest place on earth, but it does. The Atacama Desert has almost no vegetation and it has never rained!

Although Spanish is the official language of most South American countries that is not the norm in Brazil. It is actually Portugese that is the official language since they established a colony in 1549  Brazil is also the highest populated with 186, 112, 794 people on the last count.

Unfortunately, the country is being ravaged by AIDS. It is not highly publicized because of bias.

Brazil leads in the reduction of gas and emissions. In Brazil 4 million cars already run on gasohol instead of petrol. Gasohol is made from the natural resource sugarcane.

Brazil is home to many transexuals and it has become a big problem with the masses and government. So to solve the problem they will be putting in separate washrooms with "T" on the doors alongside the usual "W" for womens and "M" for males.

One of the world's superfoods the Acai berry is grown in Brazil. It has become popular over the years and now if readily available in health food stores and other such shops. The Brazilians have used this berry for 300 years to stay healthy and young.  It is also a great dietary food.

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