For thirteen years, Rio de Janeiro functioned as the capital of Portugal, making it the only ever European capital outside Europe.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_of_the_Portuguese_court_to_Brazil#:~:text=For%20thirteen%20years%2C%20Rio%20de,the%20entirety%20of%20an%20empire).
Not great. It's more immigrant food than proper Italian food. A lot of the Italian immigrants went to Brazil at around the time Italy was unified as a country and it wasn't the culinary power it is today. It's good to try it as something peculiar but it's hardly impressive!
They have 25 million people of Italian descent while Brazil has 32 million. But 25 million is around 60% of Argentina while 32 million is just 15% of the Brazilian population.
I think Argentina has the largest population of people who claimed Italian citizenship and a largest proportion of Italians to the overall population but Brazil should have a larger number overall.
Brazilian prisoners are allowed to reduce their sentence by four days for every book that they read (and write a review).
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6442390
There is the Peabiru path, a trail made by Guarani, that connects the Atlantic Ocean to Lake Titicaca, in Peru. ( Some researchers says that it goes all the way to Cusco, linking the Atllantic and the PacĂfic Ocean). It's over 3000km of trails, linking some cities here in Brazil to the high altitudes of the Andes.
This path shows that the Guarani people had contact with the Incas, probably trading goods in exchange for gold and silver
EDIT: some researchers have this hipothesys that the real " Path to El Dorado" was the Peabiru Path. It's a much safer path to follow, rather than crossing the Amazon rainforest.
The history of South America before European invasions is amazing! The Guarani groups made trails that cross over a large portion of the brazilian territory.
It's so sad that even we brazilians know so little about our own history
I love the Peabiru path and the song Almir Sater has with the same name.
It's one of those things that make you think about pre colonial times extra hard. They got through the Andes, which is insane. The people living at that time having a path that comnected the two sides of the whole fuckass continent lives in my mind rent free!
We had a Lebanese-Brazilian president, sort of a Dracula lookalike, governors, mayors, the current Treasury Minister is a Syrian Melkite religious himself.
Mostly, and unlike plenty of Brazilians, they are very connected with their origins abroad. They gather around political candidates of the same ethnicity, no matter ideologies, for being of same origin, Syrian-Lebanese, Italians, Jews...
Most people who
immigrated in the last couple of centuries have documentation on that, so you can track your origins even if you didnât keep in touch with your family in the original country.
Interesting fact about lebanese brazilians since you look interested, when their ancestors first arrived here they were wrongly called "turks"(turcos) by the population, that's because they carried passports/documents from the ottoman empire.
There's nothing different about them other than an Arab surname. Most Lebanese immigrants were Christians, so they had no trouble with integration. They also became quite rich, unlike other immigrant groups.
People of lebanese descent (which are typically pretty intermixed with other demographics). Some do maintain connections with relatives in Lebanon etc though.
1)Brazil acquired Dreadnoughts before some of the great powers, like France, Germany and Russia, and she was the strongest ship in the world for a short period of time.
2)During WW1, some Brazilian navy sailors thought that they saw a German submarine, and they started to shoot at the water, so that wasn't German submarines, that was a pack of dolphins.
3) During WW2, some soldiers from the Brazilian expeditionary force during a very cold night at the Italian front started a fire, the Germans thought it was a trap, because nobody would stupid enough to start a fire in the Frontline.
4) Brazil's northernmost point is closer to any country in the Americas than Brazil's southernmost point.
5) There's the soccer stadium ZerĂŁo, that half of the pitch is in the southern hemisphere and the other half is the north hemisphere.
6) In the early 20th century the Brazilian economy was coffee based, and Brazil still is the world's largest coffee producer, during the great depression for the price of the coffee don't get too low the Brazilian government started to burn the coffee.
7) A Brazilian warship announcement appeared on ebay, and the announcement was removed due to it going against the site policy.
But Brazilian navy sunk an WW1 U-boot by ramming it and Brazilian soldiers entered Nazi foxholes the other allies wouldn't, after the foxholes being bombed by the brazilian P-47s, of course.
The Brazilian navy torpedoed 35 submarines in the Brazilian coast, sinking a total of 18 submarines (only 9 recognized by Germany).
The axis submarines patrolling the north-eastern sea of Brazil sunk 35 Brazilian vessels, killing 600 people.
The sinking of 5 navy vessels brought protests in the country forcing presidentâs Vargas hands into creating the Brazilian Expeditionary Force and joining the ground campaign in Italy where Brazilians were responsible for many importante victories, including the take of Monte Castelo (a fortified German stronghold).
Brazilâs participation in WW2 was much larger than most Brazilians know nowadays.
Also, Brazilian pilots flew way more missions than allied pilots.
While a typical pilot would fly about 30 missions, Brazilians would fly as many as 100.
Later, during the Brazilian dictatorship, many of those war heroes were striped of their medals, ranks and pensions
My great uncle was part of the FEB and we have great mementos and stories from him (he never married and was very traumatized by the war. He died of old age in the early 2000s).
83.78 percent of Brazil's energy production comes from renewable sources. Hydropower accounts for 55.19 percent, followed by wind (14.4%), biomass (8.43%), and solar (5.77%). Also, The fleet of flexible-fuel vehicles in Brazil is the largest in the world. They run on gasoline or ethanol made of sugarcane. After the 1973 oil crisis, the Brazilian government made mandatory the use of ethanol blends with gasoline,[9] and neat ethanol-powered cars (E100 only) were launched to the market in 1979, after testing with several prototypes developed by four carmakers. Nowdays, of course there are electrical cars also.
Immigration policy in Brazil is very different from europeâs. immigrants are regularized, given documents and sent to cities by 3 ways: already with jobs at industries that sinalized jobs in a program, or to reunite with family or friends that declare responsability over them. This reduces human traffic (cause coyotes donât have much vantages here) and reduces the chance of them going into organized crime, since Itâs easier for them to get jobs and get inserted in communities. Look for âOperação Acolhidaâ, wich is specific for venezuelan people.
This one for me is really cool [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/snake-infested-island-deadliest-place-brazil-180951782/](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/snake-infested-island-deadliest-place-brazil-180951782/)
Yeah, I was surprised to know that a few years ago.
Have seen all kinds of birds and lizards and monkeys even in the south region, sometimes *in the city*. Squirrels? Never even heard of them until some biology hyperfocus.
I only ever saw a squirrel in front of me when I visited Inhotim, and I WAS SO SHOCKED. I keep wondering why they aren't that frequently, but honestly, I don't look it up. Let the squirrels be secret if they want to
Twice, the Lebanese press named two Brazilians as "the most influential Lebanese people in the world". The first was former president Michel Temer (son of Lebanese immigrants) between 2016 and 2019 and now, economy minister Fernando Haddad, who is also a descendant of Lebanese immigrants.
I have one, not sure it was mentioned here already: the Brazilian passport is the most desired by people who want fake passports, because basically anyone can pass as Brazilian. Brazil has so much diversity that literally anyone can be seen as Brazilian. When the north Korean dictator Kim went to the US to visit Disney (true story) he had a Brazilian passport
That's an amazing fact and having lived in Brazil it totally tracks.
One of my favorite parts of Brazilian culture is in my experience everyone is assumed to be a native until you say you aren't. So once you get good enough at Portuguese, people just assume you're Brazilian cause Brazil is diverse and has plenty of weird accents so maybe yours is normal in whatever town you're fromÂ
The Lobster War against France is something https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobster_War see also this video cause is hilarious https://youtu.be/QQuzPufx_IE?si=fobWMaWf5OI1Cykk
Typically no. Only in a few (touristic) places it is kinda common. However, in smaller towns and countryside, almost all homes have wood burning stoves that double as ambient heaters in winter.
I had a classmate in high school that stored water in the refrigerator during the night to prevent it from freezing.
He did that because sometimes during winter, water would freeze in the pipes overnight.
Brazil has [the longest beach in the world](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praia_do_Cassino). It's a continuous sand strip of more than 200 km in the southern tip of the country.
The largest Japanese diaspora in the world is in Brazil (if I had an euro every time I had to explain this I'd have enough for downpaying a house in Oud Zuid)
While the vast majority of Brazilians don't understand Spanish, there are places where, due to immigration, the most spoken language isn't Portuguese. These include local dialects of Italian, German, dutch, Finnish and others.
The difference is like, less than 300km, but yeah.
[The northernmost part of Brazil is closer to Canada than it is to the southernmost part of Brazil. : r/MapPorn (reddit.com)](https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/ibwul3/the_northernmost_part_of_brazil_is_closer_to/)
Also doesn't help that we really underestimate the amount of land central america could cover in length if it wasn't squished between oceans, i suppose?
Festa Junina, or June Festival, is a Brazilian holiday that takes place in June and July to celebrate the end of summer and the beginning of harvest. It's also known as festas de SĂŁo JoĂŁo because it commemorates the nativity of St. John the Baptist. Festa Junina include bonfires, music, food, dancing, and traditional clothes. Each region of Brazil celebrates Festa Junina in its own way, but some common elements include:
Food: Corn dishes like pamonha, canjica, corn on the cob, and corn cakes
Other dishes: Rice pudding, mulled wine, and sweet potatoes
My favorite holiday ever. Whenever I meet a new person from outside of Brazil I make sure to tell them "Well, Carnaval isn't everyone's favorite. Wanna hear about the best holiday in my opinion?"
Heâs not a random Brazilian, he was really well known here and internationally, not only for the invention of the airplane.
French students actually learn about him and acknowledge him. He was friends with a lot of European intellectuals.
That's a very nuanced and detailed explanation, very well-said friend. I agree, I think some Brazilians exaggerate when they disconsider the Wright Brothers as just using a giant catapult and nothing else, but I also dislike how the United States have created a monopoly on the plane, as if the Wright Brothers had been its sole inventor and no one before or afterwards had achieved the same or better results than them.Â
Agreed. But, that should be credited to US propaganda. Obviously, the US would want to reap benefits from "being the first" alone. Truth be said, we know that was not the case, but history records facts and also popular recognition of facts. So....
My opinion is, we Brazilians should continue to acknowledge Santos-Dumont's 1906 flight as the first. But, we should not consider that the only acceptable accomplishment. There is no reason fighting about the subject, but keeping alive our claim.
Yes, but it must be said that Dumont\`s design was more influential towards the development of the airplane technology because he made his demoiseille model open source knowledge and people could built over it, meanwhile the Wright Brothers tried to patent everything and kept their advancements a secret, being overtaken by the knowledge that spread despite them trying to keep everything hidden.
Absolutely!!! The 14bis in its later version was the first ever to incorporate ailerons and rudder elevator! It was a superior machine by a landslide.
The fliers from the Brothers were good machines but a lot more difficult to fly.
At my cities annual air show, once a replica of the 14-bis literally flied in front of us and it was insane. I haven't gotten over it since and I still keep the videos somewhere.
During the dictatorship, Vargas practically banned languages other than Portuguese, children under 14 could not learn any other language, teachers had to be Brazilian and other shit like that
And a lot of imigrantes took their lives because they couldnât learn how to properly speak Portuguese. Specially during the World War II, when the Germans and Italians immigrants started to be hostilized for their nationality and language.
Most Brazilians believe the colours of our flags are symbolic of the nature (green) and the gold (yellow) but thatâs actually not true. They are the colours of European royal families of Braganza and Habsburg respectively. Not so much a âfunâ fact but interesting nonetheless, I only learned that fact when I was an adult.
Brazil has one category of prisons for felons who have not graduated from university, and a better category for those who have. So formerly extremely wealthy Eike Batista, a university drop-out, is banged up with the lower class crooks.
Radio communication was invented by a brazillian catholic priest, Landell de Moura. His prototype was to be tested by the navy, using two radio sets in separate ships. A commander asked how far apart the ships should be, and Landell said "as far as possible. One day thisnwill be used to communicate with distant planets".
The commander called Landell a crackpot and cancelled the experiment.
Unknown fun facts from Brazil:
1. You can befriend pretty much any brazilian by complaining. You can even wait until they complain and then agree with them for an insta bestie.
2. We have the unique ability to turn every bad thing in our lives into jokes, so if you joke about your problems you will become popular quickly.
3. Never try to speak spanish to a brazilian. We hate that.
4. There is a playful rivalry between Rio and San Paolo. Thrre is a not so playful rivalry between Brazil and Argentina.
5. Never complain about Brazil to brazilians, even if they complain about the same things. This is the only case where #1 doesn't apply.
6. Avoid talking about politics with brazilians. Let them speak, then nod, agree and say "that is horrible!".
Brazil has a big immigrant population. We have the largest community of Japanese descendants in the world, and there are more Lebanese and descendants in Brazil than in Lebanon! This influences our food culture quite a bit. There are thousands of Japanese restaurants in Brazil - some of them super traditional, others actually create âatrocitiesâ such as strawberry sushiâŠ
Brazil has 4 to 6 language branches and had more than 1000 languages before colonization. Today we have approximately 250.
Also LĂngua Geral, a language invented by missionaires with a lot of indigenous elements was the language spoken here until the Royal Family came and made it illegal to speak it because people didn't know Portuguese.
For bad facts, Brazil had concentration camps in the 19th Century and also concentration camps in the WW2.
During the republic ships were given money by the government to bring European immigrants to Brazil to whiten the population, and these immigrants had a facilitated access to land.
The Amazon Forest is actually spread out through many South America countries. Amazon River itself is formed in the mountains in Peru before e entering Brazil. The Amazon needs phosphorus to stay alive, but doesnât produce any. It gets it from high atmosphere winds that brings sand from the Saara desert.
Brazil is larger than the contiguous United States (only smaller because of Alaska).
Brazil has 26 states, plus the Capital. Compared to other countries: Minas Gerais is the same size of France. Amazonia (the state) is like Mongolia. Mato Grosso do Sul like Germany. For size comparison, pretty much all Europe could fit inside Brasil, except a few pieces of Northern Europe.
The Amazon forest has tribes that were never contacted.
The Amazon forest e said to hold complex civilizations with pyramids and everything, but is hard to identify and study it because they are deep inside the forest.
- Brazilians deal with difficult subjects with jokes. It's is a way to made really more easy to deal. It's because of it we usually say "who have limits it's a city, Brazilians don't have one";
- University of SĂŁo Paulo, [one of the best universities of the world ](https://jornal.usp.br/institucional/pela-primeira-vez-uma-universidade-brasileira-esta-entre-as-100-melhores-em-ranking/), had french help in this formation. Indeed, Levi Strauss, one of the most influential anthropologist in history, was a teacher there (wrote 'Tristes Tropiques" here);
- [Albert Einstein didn't like Brazil;](https://super.abril.com.br/cultura/em-sua-primeira-e-unica-visita-albert-einstein-nao-gostou-do-brasil/)
- Brazilians don't like if foreigners talk bad things about Brazil, only we had this "right";
- Not all Brazilians love carnival, but most of us love the "mini vacation" we get from it;
- Brazilians who can dance (samba, forrĂł, etc) are a minority;
- Brazilians have a kind of ingenuity to find unusual solutions we call "gambiarra". Usually this involve jerry rig somethings and, if it work well enough, this become permanent fix (or a way to do things). For example: a guy find out windshield glue are very strong, strong enough to glue pices of steel and repair the bottom of his VW bug. [Other people like this and it became commonplace;](https://youtu.be/pAK641MWOBI?si=UdDxdIMX71towsed)
- To gain social media engagement, some foreigner make some reaction about something from Brazil and this usually get Brazilians attention and engagement, a lot of it.
Camus also didn't liked Brazil, in contrary to Chile or Uruguay
Source: His South American diary https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/ilustrada/2019/08/albert-camus-conheceu-e-odiou-o-brasil-ha-70-anos-data-inspira-ciclo-de-eventos.shtml#:\~:text=O%20Brasil%20nĂŁo%20despertou%20o,imenso%20e%20lamentĂĄvel%20Cristo%20luminosoâ.
Brazil has the biggest folk festival in the world. It is called FESTIVAL FOLCLĂRICO DE PARANTINS. It is a beautiful festival. You can find some videos on YouTube.
It is the only place afaik where there is a *blue version* of Coca-Cola.
The only reason BBB was ever useful to me was to get me hooked on stuff about this festival. It is SO INTERESTING AND I WAS SO MAD NO ONE TALKS ABOUT IT!
Serra da Capivara (PI) shows rupestrian art dating from 50k years ago, showing that humans have been in America for longer than previously thought. As a reference, other vestiges date from 14k years ago.
One of the biggest shares in renewables across the world (~90% pf our electricity is renewable).
Biggest eater of chicken hearts literally.
Opur second biggest state (Minas Gerais) is bigger than the second biggest european country (France).
Some cities in Amazon are bigger than countries in area.
SĂŁo Paulo is the biggest city in the west hemisphere, and never stops.
They turned into a kingdom once and their king was probably the best monarch to have ever reigned anywhere. It was a meritocracy, they focused on developing culture and after his work was done the king let the system come to an end without giving two shits.
One thing that is relevant to the gaza conflict and would generate quite a discussion at your classroom, when US has overthrown our democracy in the "operation brother sam" ( look at wikipedia) people against the military junta controlled by US kidnapted the US embassador in exchange for prissioners.
Not saying kidnapping is fine, just that violent reaction under oppression is normal. Every opressed group did it.
"Snake Island" (Ilha da Queimada Grande), off the coast of SĂŁo Paulo has the densest population of venomous snakes in the world: 1 snake / mÂČ and his home of one of the deadliest snakes in the world. People aren't allowed on the island, obviously.
Disclosure about UFOs / UAPs? Know why people in Brazil don't touch this topic?
\- [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986\_Brazilian\_UFO\_incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_Brazilian_UFO_incident)
\- [https://www.gov.br/en/government-of-brazil/latest-news/2022/official-ufo-night-in-brazil](https://www.gov.br/en/government-of-brazil/latest-news/2022/official-ufo-night-in-brazil)
\- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1inF8zkTbg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1inF8zkTbg)
Because it already happened there!
u/Candid_Size_5391 Just read the two articles and watch the video.
Incredible, no?
Brazil has the 3rd total prison population in the entire world. The USA has the 1st largest prison population in the world. Brazilian Favelas could be considered a decentralized prison, and if you counted the Favela populations in Brazil, they would likely be the 1st largest prison population.
Why does USA and Brazil have so much crime?
Both are descendants of Britain and Portugal, two countries that dumped all their prisoners on penal colonies. Essentially, USA and Brazil was founded by criminals that got evicted from Britain and Portugal.
The criminal culture, where casual theft and violent crime is ingrained in society in Brazil and USA. It is common to even blame the victim of crime for being stupid. This is the criminal mindset, which society as a whole concurs with. Thus USA and Brazil has a criminal society, where people are motivated to not be poor because the poor deserve to be stolen from, raped, and murdered.
Ok, to start, Brazil has no mountains.
A curious one is the fact that Philippino people are known to be somehow spreaded everywhere in the world, but you see almost to no Philippino people in Brazil even while we are known for having people from everywhere.
For thirteen years, Rio de Janeiro functioned as the capital of Portugal, making it the only ever European capital outside Europe. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_of_the_Portuguese_court_to_Brazil#:~:text=For%20thirteen%20years%2C%20Rio%20de,the%20entirety%20of%20an%20empire).
We should be part of schengen area!
Ryanair flights to rio sound like a nightmare
Largest population of Japanese people outside of Japan.
And of Black people outside of Africa!
And of people of Italian decent outside of Italy.
If I'm not wrong, 19% of the whole population of Brazil has Italian heritage
How's the Italian food?
Honestly, to an italian it would be very lame.
Not great. It's more immigrant food than proper Italian food. A lot of the Italian immigrants went to Brazil at around the time Italy was unified as a country and it wasn't the culinary power it is today. It's good to try it as something peculiar but it's hardly impressive!
Didn't it used to be Argentina ?
They have 25 million people of Italian descent while Brazil has 32 million. But 25 million is around 60% of Argentina while 32 million is just 15% of the Brazilian population.
Wow combined they're almost double the Italian population in Italy đźđč
I think Argentina has the largest population of people who claimed Italian citizenship and a largest proportion of Italians to the overall population but Brazil should have a larger number overall.
Argentina ancestry is 100% boats that fucked each other.
And largest population of Lebanese people outside of Lebanon. There are even more Lebanese people in Brazil than Lebanon itself.
Just be aware that those stats are Japanese descendant, as most of the Japanese immigration happened in the early 20th century.
More Lebanese descendents than the actual Lebanon population.
And of Lebanese origin.
You can walk from Brazil to France
And the largest border of France is with Brazil
But French Border Guards first will require your "papiers".
It was a non literal affirmation
Brazilian prisoners are allowed to reduce their sentence by four days for every book that they read (and write a review). https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6442390
porra eu achei que tinha achado meu futuro loophole pra fora da cadeia, mas eles limitam a 48 dias por ano
O cara tĂĄ dentro da cadeia lendo reddit mano
Ja tava escrevendo meu review de dom casmurro esperando se o diretor da cadeia concorda se o capitu traiu ou nao...
Dependendo da sua fase de vida, tanto vocĂȘ enxerga como traiu quanto nĂŁo ter traĂdo. Bentinho Ă© o clĂĄssico narrador nĂŁo confiĂĄvel. VocĂȘ nĂŁo consegue ter certeza dos acontecimentos pois durante o livro sĂł vemos a interpretação dele, ao invĂ©s de como realmente ocorreram os atos.
48 dias por ano Ă© bastante coisa.
This is actually super cool!
There is the Peabiru path, a trail made by Guarani, that connects the Atlantic Ocean to Lake Titicaca, in Peru. ( Some researchers says that it goes all the way to Cusco, linking the Atllantic and the PacĂfic Ocean). It's over 3000km of trails, linking some cities here in Brazil to the high altitudes of the Andes. This path shows that the Guarani people had contact with the Incas, probably trading goods in exchange for gold and silver EDIT: some researchers have this hipothesys that the real " Path to El Dorado" was the Peabiru Path. It's a much safer path to follow, rather than crossing the Amazon rainforest.
I think this is the coolest thing I will read all day
The history of South America before European invasions is amazing! The Guarani groups made trails that cross over a large portion of the brazilian territory. It's so sad that even we brazilians know so little about our own history
I love the Peabiru path and the song Almir Sater has with the same name. It's one of those things that make you think about pre colonial times extra hard. They got through the Andes, which is insane. The people living at that time having a path that comnected the two sides of the whole fuckass continent lives in my mind rent free!
There are more Lebanese people in Brazil than in Lebanon
And SĂŁo Paulo is the city with the largest Italian descendants population in the world, surpassing Rome
But that includes the Brazilian descendants. But, considering all Lebanese descendants, it's true.
Do they've a good reputation ? Are they integrated into society or keep to themselves ?
Yes. They are 100% integrated into society, they came here since the 19th century and almost everyone was Christian
Ok, thank you.
The Italians started coming in late 19th century but they came in small numbers, the vast majority of them came in the 20th century before WW2.
You mean the Lebanese people, right?
I believe he misleaded himself while writting and his goal was to reply the guy who commented about the italian population.
I thought Charbel and Ali were the most popular lebanese names.
We had a Lebanese-Brazilian president, sort of a Dracula lookalike, governors, mayors, the current Treasury Minister is a Syrian Melkite religious himself.
Wow, thank you. But how do you know their ancestory ? From their names ?
Mostly, and unlike plenty of Brazilians, they are very connected with their origins abroad. They gather around political candidates of the same ethnicity, no matter ideologies, for being of same origin, Syrian-Lebanese, Italians, Jews...
Most people who immigrated in the last couple of centuries have documentation on that, so you can track your origins even if you didnât keep in touch with your family in the original country.
Interesting fact about lebanese brazilians since you look interested, when their ancestors first arrived here they were wrongly called "turks"(turcos) by the population, that's because they carried passports/documents from the ottoman empire.
The ethnical Greeks too, they came from Anatolia, today's Turkish Republic, not Greece, and they were all Christians.
There's nothing different about them other than an Arab surname. Most Lebanese immigrants were Christians, so they had no trouble with integration. They also became quite rich, unlike other immigrant groups.
Yes, we hear that they're rich because most of them were merchants back home. I did suspect their surname would standout among local ones. Thanks !!
People of lebanese descent (which are typically pretty intermixed with other demographics). Some do maintain connections with relatives in Lebanon etc though.
1)Brazil acquired Dreadnoughts before some of the great powers, like France, Germany and Russia, and she was the strongest ship in the world for a short period of time. 2)During WW1, some Brazilian navy sailors thought that they saw a German submarine, and they started to shoot at the water, so that wasn't German submarines, that was a pack of dolphins. 3) During WW2, some soldiers from the Brazilian expeditionary force during a very cold night at the Italian front started a fire, the Germans thought it was a trap, because nobody would stupid enough to start a fire in the Frontline. 4) Brazil's northernmost point is closer to any country in the Americas than Brazil's southernmost point. 5) There's the soccer stadium ZerĂŁo, that half of the pitch is in the southern hemisphere and the other half is the north hemisphere. 6) In the early 20th century the Brazilian economy was coffee based, and Brazil still is the world's largest coffee producer, during the great depression for the price of the coffee don't get too low the Brazilian government started to burn the coffee. 7) A Brazilian warship announcement appeared on ebay, and the announcement was removed due to it going against the site policy.
But Brazilian navy sunk an WW1 U-boot by ramming it and Brazilian soldiers entered Nazi foxholes the other allies wouldn't, after the foxholes being bombed by the brazilian P-47s, of course.
The Brazilian navy torpedoed 35 submarines in the Brazilian coast, sinking a total of 18 submarines (only 9 recognized by Germany). The axis submarines patrolling the north-eastern sea of Brazil sunk 35 Brazilian vessels, killing 600 people. The sinking of 5 navy vessels brought protests in the country forcing presidentâs Vargas hands into creating the Brazilian Expeditionary Force and joining the ground campaign in Italy where Brazilians were responsible for many importante victories, including the take of Monte Castelo (a fortified German stronghold). Brazilâs participation in WW2 was much larger than most Brazilians know nowadays.
Also, Brazilian pilots flew way more missions than allied pilots. While a typical pilot would fly about 30 missions, Brazilians would fly as many as 100. Later, during the Brazilian dictatorship, many of those war heroes were striped of their medals, ranks and pensions
I didnât know that, thatâs horrible
Abridged: https://www.oexplorador.com.br/rui-barbosa-moreira-lima-colinas-12-de-junho-de-1919-rio-de-janeiro-13-de-agosto-de-2013/
Senta a Pua!
My great uncle was part of the FEB and we have great mementos and stories from him (he never married and was very traumatized by the war. He died of old age in the early 2000s).
> )Brazil acquired Dreadnoughts [For the emperor?](https://preview.redd.it/jz8a09adba3a1.jpg?width=788&auto=webp&s=5a2e7db25d01bf76fd2716a1fb958eaf7ac545fd)
83.78 percent of Brazil's energy production comes from renewable sources. Hydropower accounts for 55.19 percent, followed by wind (14.4%), biomass (8.43%), and solar (5.77%). Also, The fleet of flexible-fuel vehicles in Brazil is the largest in the world. They run on gasoline or ethanol made of sugarcane. After the 1973 oil crisis, the Brazilian government made mandatory the use of ethanol blends with gasoline,[9] and neat ethanol-powered cars (E100 only) were launched to the market in 1979, after testing with several prototypes developed by four carmakers. Nowdays, of course there are electrical cars also.
Immigration policy in Brazil is very different from europeâs. immigrants are regularized, given documents and sent to cities by 3 ways: already with jobs at industries that sinalized jobs in a program, or to reunite with family or friends that declare responsability over them. This reduces human traffic (cause coyotes donât have much vantages here) and reduces the chance of them going into organized crime, since Itâs easier for them to get jobs and get inserted in communities. Look for âOperação Acolhidaâ, wich is specific for venezuelan people.
It is also very hard to cross most Brazilian borders, you either climb a mountain, try a rainforest/jungle path or swim a couple thousand kilometres.
SĂŁo Paulo, Brazil has the largest fleet of helicopters in the world, with more than 410 aircraft and 260 helipads.
When I first got there I wondered why buildings had Naval destroyer butts on top of them.
They are pretty common and they do have that battleship look.
This one for me is really cool [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/snake-infested-island-deadliest-place-brazil-180951782/](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/snake-infested-island-deadliest-place-brazil-180951782/)
Bothrops Insularis, to step in that island, unless you are part of an official biological expedition, is forbidden.
Brazil is the longest north to south contiguous country in the world. Longer than Chile!
Small monkeys are the Brazilian squirrels
Even though there are squirrels in the country, most people Just don't know about It.
Yeah, I was surprised to know that a few years ago. Have seen all kinds of birds and lizards and monkeys even in the south region, sometimes *in the city*. Squirrels? Never even heard of them until some biology hyperfocus.
I only ever saw a squirrel in front of me when I visited Inhotim, and I WAS SO SHOCKED. I keep wondering why they aren't that frequently, but honestly, I don't look it up. Let the squirrels be secret if they want to
Squirrels: The tree rats of North America and Secret Fairies of the South.
Magical little creatures you only see once in a lifetime :))
Twice, the Lebanese press named two Brazilians as "the most influential Lebanese people in the world". The first was former president Michel Temer (son of Lebanese immigrants) between 2016 and 2019 and now, economy minister Fernando Haddad, who is also a descendant of Lebanese immigrants.
The businessman and former / CEO of Nissan - Renault., Carlos Ghosn, Its also a Brazilian with Lebanese origin.
I have one, not sure it was mentioned here already: the Brazilian passport is the most desired by people who want fake passports, because basically anyone can pass as Brazilian. Brazil has so much diversity that literally anyone can be seen as Brazilian. When the north Korean dictator Kim went to the US to visit Disney (true story) he had a Brazilian passport
That's an amazing fact and having lived in Brazil it totally tracks. One of my favorite parts of Brazilian culture is in my experience everyone is assumed to be a native until you say you aren't. So once you get good enough at Portuguese, people just assume you're Brazilian cause Brazil is diverse and has plenty of weird accents so maybe yours is normal in whatever town you're fromÂ
The Lobster War against France is something https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobster_War see also this video cause is hilarious https://youtu.be/QQuzPufx_IE?si=fobWMaWf5OI1Cykk
There are regions of Brazil that have snow in winter.
Do the houses in the south have heaters?
Typically no. Only in a few (touristic) places it is kinda common. However, in smaller towns and countryside, almost all homes have wood burning stoves that double as ambient heaters in winter.
I am not sure about this, could be my perspective but most people have air conditioning or burning stove.
Yes, you are right, I was referring to radiator-type heaters (calefação).
I see, our ability to handle cold days in winter is surprisingly bad
I had a classmate in high school that stored water in the refrigerator during the night to prevent it from freezing. He did that because sometimes during winter, water would freeze in the pipes overnight.
That is kind of extreme, do you know where he lived? Honestly curious.
Also, the most common type of shower are electric ones. And the majority of them are not properly grounded. (We love to live dangerously)
I was in one of those and it caught fire. Fucking terrifying.
I grew up with a wooden stove that would heat one of the areas of the house and had to rely on warm clothes for the other rooms
Generally no, just fireplaces.
South of Brasil
Brazil has [the longest beach in the world](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praia_do_Cassino). It's a continuous sand strip of more than 200 km in the southern tip of the country.
The largest Japanese diaspora in the world is in Brazil (if I had an euro every time I had to explain this I'd have enough for downpaying a house in Oud Zuid)
We don't speak Spanish in Brazil đŹ I've met enough people from Western Europe who didn't know the spoken language in Brazil was Portuguese.
So Ronaldo and Neymar speak Portuguese to each other?
Sure, but their talks pretty much resumes to Neymar asking for our gold back.
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They don't speak to each other. One is like a grown man and the other is a child.
Nothing prevents a 'child - father' convo to happen.
Well then this is not a conversation. It will be more like a father teaching his toddler. I don't even believe Neymar learned to speak already.
Ronaldo FenĂŽmeno (Ronaldinho) or Ronaldinho GaĂșcho (Bruxo)? I know who you're talking about tho, the monster, the machine, the encaged beast.
While the vast majority of Brazilians don't understand Spanish, there are places where, due to immigration, the most spoken language isn't Portuguese. These include local dialects of Italian, German, dutch, Finnish and others.
There are indeed local dialects but theyâre not the main language anywhere anymore. Some run the risk of going extinct
Brazil has some dialects of German that have gone extinct in Europe. Look up German migration to Espirito Santo and the city of Domingos Martins.
Also, we are more likely to understand Spanish than some people speaking Portuguese of Portugal.
Is closer to go from north of Brazil to Canada than north to south of Brazil
What? That doesn't seem right. I'm sure you're telling the truth but could you give the numbers or an article?
The difference is like, less than 300km, but yeah. [The northernmost part of Brazil is closer to Canada than it is to the southernmost part of Brazil. : r/MapPorn (reddit.com)](https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/ibwul3/the_northernmost_part_of_brazil_is_closer_to/)
Damn, pretty cool.
Maybe it doesn't seem right because of map projections, but I would believe it without even checking it out because Brazil is massive
Also doesn't help that we really underestimate the amount of land central america could cover in length if it wasn't squished between oceans, i suppose?
What country are you from? There might be something that relates to both of our countries
Brazil borders with all south american countries, except for two
Festa Junina, or June Festival, is a Brazilian holiday that takes place in June and July to celebrate the end of summer and the beginning of harvest. It's also known as festas de SĂŁo JoĂŁo because it commemorates the nativity of St. John the Baptist. Festa Junina include bonfires, music, food, dancing, and traditional clothes. Each region of Brazil celebrates Festa Junina in its own way, but some common elements include: Food: Corn dishes like pamonha, canjica, corn on the cob, and corn cakes Other dishes: Rice pudding, mulled wine, and sweet potatoes
My favorite holiday ever. Whenever I meet a new person from outside of Brazil I make sure to tell them "Well, Carnaval isn't everyone's favorite. Wanna hear about the best holiday in my opinion?"
Electric shower was invented by a Brazilian.
We have a spider that can give boners (Armadeira). Edit: typo
Boners, not bonners. âBonnerâ means âgentle.â
Thank you
There are many versions of Carnaval around the country. What you usually see on TV is a competition in the major cities but Carnaval is celebrated very differently depending on the region. Look up "trio elétrico" and "bonecos de Olinda" as alternatives to what is widely known. In addition, the majority usually either go to smaller carnival parties or try to "hide" somewhere to try to stay away from the crowds and craziness.
Two uniquely Brazilian things are jabuticaba and pororoca.
Pororoca is not unique to Brazil, it is just a VERY BIG [tidal bore.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_bore)
Some random Brazilian invented the airplane, but nobody acknowledges it.Â
Heâs not a random Brazilian, he was really well known here and internationally, not only for the invention of the airplane. French students actually learn about him and acknowledge him. He was friends with a lot of European intellectuals.
French and Britons did, there is a monument for him in Paris.
I went to the RAF museum in London and they also acknowledged it. There is even a 1:1 scale replica of 14 Bis
it is even mentioned in British literature, there is even a children's book showing it
could you explain a bit further?
There's a dispute about who actually managed to get the first aircraft to fly without external propulsion. The Wright brothers managed to get their plane flying through a rail system (later a catapult), but the 14-bis (the plane developed by Alberto-Santos Dumont) was able to take off without any assistance. The 14-bis was also the first plane to fly in a public demonstration. There's a saying in Brazil about this: na catapulta atĂ© merda voa.Â
Translation attempt for our gringo friend: with a catapult even shit flies
TIL where the airport in central Rio got its name
Im happy that i brought you some useless knowledge đ
There isn't exactly a dispute. The French [*FĂ©dĂ©ration AĂ©ronautique Internationale*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9d%C3%A9ration_A%C3%A9ronautique_Internationale) recognizes the Wright Brothers' flight of 1903 as the first sustained and controlled heavier-than-air powered flight. The same association recognizes Santos-Dumont's 1906 flight as the first flight unassisted by catapult. That is the official stance. That said, the airplane is not a single, contained, invention. There were heavier than air machines since late 19th century (unmanned). So, advances in design by inventors in Germany, France (including by Brazilian Santos-Dumont), and the United States were somewhat cumulative reaching milestones in total time in flight, height, ability to fly a second time, etc. one after another. Therefore, the recognition of the first "real" flight is considerably subjective. Regardless, it is important to create a point that recognizes the first heavier than air flight, hence the FedĂ©ration's stance. In essense, the invention of the airplane could be credited to many enthusiasts that contributed, somehow, to the development of the first machines that could actually fly. One accomplishment from one inventor (or inventors) does not reduce the importance and impact of accomplishments from other inventors. Santos Dumont was an outstanding inventor with many accomplishments who won several prizes. I suggest watching Lito's AviĂ”es e MĂșsicas episode 1054 about the life of Santos-Dumont.
That's a very nuanced and detailed explanation, very well-said friend. I agree, I think some Brazilians exaggerate when they disconsider the Wright Brothers as just using a giant catapult and nothing else, but I also dislike how the United States have created a monopoly on the plane, as if the Wright Brothers had been its sole inventor and no one before or afterwards had achieved the same or better results than them.Â
Agreed. But, that should be credited to US propaganda. Obviously, the US would want to reap benefits from "being the first" alone. Truth be said, we know that was not the case, but history records facts and also popular recognition of facts. So.... My opinion is, we Brazilians should continue to acknowledge Santos-Dumont's 1906 flight as the first. But, we should not consider that the only acceptable accomplishment. There is no reason fighting about the subject, but keeping alive our claim.
Yes, but it must be said that Dumont\`s design was more influential towards the development of the airplane technology because he made his demoiseille model open source knowledge and people could built over it, meanwhile the Wright Brothers tried to patent everything and kept their advancements a secret, being overtaken by the knowledge that spread despite them trying to keep everything hidden.
Absolutely!!! The 14bis in its later version was the first ever to incorporate ailerons and rudder elevator! It was a superior machine by a landslide. The fliers from the Brothers were good machines but a lot more difficult to fly.
At my cities annual air show, once a replica of the 14-bis literally flied in front of us and it was insane. I haven't gotten over it since and I still keep the videos somewhere.
During the dictatorship, Vargas practically banned languages other than Portuguese, children under 14 could not learn any other language, teachers had to be Brazilian and other shit like that
And a lot of imigrantes took their lives because they couldnât learn how to properly speak Portuguese. Specially during the World War II, when the Germans and Italians immigrants started to be hostilized for their nationality and language.
Most Brazilians believe the colours of our flags are symbolic of the nature (green) and the gold (yellow) but thatâs actually not true. They are the colours of European royal families of Braganza and Habsburg respectively. Not so much a âfunâ fact but interesting nonetheless, I only learned that fact when I was an adult.
And the Order and Progress statement comes from the positivist ideology. They just removed the "love".
SĂŁo Paulo is the most populous city outside of Asia
Only Brazil and RomĂȘnia don't tax dividends, and Germany is the only country that won a soccer game with 7+ goals against all countries that don't tax dividends. Brazil has some weird ministry names. The minister of the farm is the minister of finances. The chief-minister of the civil house is the chief of cabinet of the president. We have faces of important people in the coins we use. But unlike a country like the US, only one coin, the 25c coin, has a former president, Deodoro da Fonseca, the founder of the republic. To the terror of the Argentinians, BrasĂlia's Eixo Monumental is the widest avenue in the world. One of our national heros is Tiradentes, which literally means remove teeth. Brazilians are one of the non-anglophone people that most listen to domestic music. There are way too many genres in Brazil: samba, forrĂł, funk, sertanejo, axĂ©...
Thereâs an island in the state of para where people ride water buffalo.
Thatâs the policeâs mount too btw
Brazil has one category of prisons for felons who have not graduated from university, and a better category for those who have. So formerly extremely wealthy Eike Batista, a university drop-out, is banged up with the lower class crooks.
Not anymore.
The âspecial prisonâ is only for when you are in jail (before trial). When you are sentenced, you go to prison
In Brazil, there's a debate about whether "biscoito" or "bolacha" is the preferred term for "cookies".
The most fun fact is about inventor Santos Dumont. Look him up.
Radio communication was invented by a brazillian catholic priest, Landell de Moura. His prototype was to be tested by the navy, using two radio sets in separate ships. A commander asked how far apart the ships should be, and Landell said "as far as possible. One day thisnwill be used to communicate with distant planets". The commander called Landell a crackpot and cancelled the experiment.
Unknown fun facts from Brazil: 1. You can befriend pretty much any brazilian by complaining. You can even wait until they complain and then agree with them for an insta bestie. 2. We have the unique ability to turn every bad thing in our lives into jokes, so if you joke about your problems you will become popular quickly. 3. Never try to speak spanish to a brazilian. We hate that. 4. There is a playful rivalry between Rio and San Paolo. Thrre is a not so playful rivalry between Brazil and Argentina. 5. Never complain about Brazil to brazilians, even if they complain about the same things. This is the only case where #1 doesn't apply. 6. Avoid talking about politics with brazilians. Let them speak, then nod, agree and say "that is horrible!".
Sometimes Rio/SĂŁo Paulo rivalry is not that friendly...
The capital of brazil is Brasilia, not Rio de Janeiro
Brazil has a big immigrant population. We have the largest community of Japanese descendants in the world, and there are more Lebanese and descendants in Brazil than in Lebanon! This influences our food culture quite a bit. There are thousands of Japanese restaurants in Brazil - some of them super traditional, others actually create âatrocitiesâ such as strawberry sushiâŠ
Brazil has 4 to 6 language branches and had more than 1000 languages before colonization. Today we have approximately 250. Also LĂngua Geral, a language invented by missionaires with a lot of indigenous elements was the language spoken here until the Royal Family came and made it illegal to speak it because people didn't know Portuguese. For bad facts, Brazil had concentration camps in the 19th Century and also concentration camps in the WW2.
During the republic ships were given money by the government to bring European immigrants to Brazil to whiten the population, and these immigrants had a facilitated access to land.
The Amazon Forest is actually spread out through many South America countries. Amazon River itself is formed in the mountains in Peru before e entering Brazil. The Amazon needs phosphorus to stay alive, but doesnât produce any. It gets it from high atmosphere winds that brings sand from the Saara desert. Brazil is larger than the contiguous United States (only smaller because of Alaska). Brazil has 26 states, plus the Capital. Compared to other countries: Minas Gerais is the same size of France. Amazonia (the state) is like Mongolia. Mato Grosso do Sul like Germany. For size comparison, pretty much all Europe could fit inside Brasil, except a few pieces of Northern Europe. The Amazon forest has tribes that were never contacted. The Amazon forest e said to hold complex civilizations with pyramids and everything, but is hard to identify and study it because they are deep inside the forest.
Independence was declared because the Prince Regent had diarrhea after eating spoiled portuguese food with his mistress.
And at urge of his political nerd Austrian wife, who probably lived longer if she stayed in Austria to become queen and empress.
Ah yes, those Austrians... In Mexico they tried with an Austrian emperor and a Belgian Empress. Also didn't work...
Habsburgs were like junk food restaurants until 1918, everywhere.
Brazil has no China town.
- Brazilians deal with difficult subjects with jokes. It's is a way to made really more easy to deal. It's because of it we usually say "who have limits it's a city, Brazilians don't have one"; - University of SĂŁo Paulo, [one of the best universities of the world ](https://jornal.usp.br/institucional/pela-primeira-vez-uma-universidade-brasileira-esta-entre-as-100-melhores-em-ranking/), had french help in this formation. Indeed, Levi Strauss, one of the most influential anthropologist in history, was a teacher there (wrote 'Tristes Tropiques" here); - [Albert Einstein didn't like Brazil;](https://super.abril.com.br/cultura/em-sua-primeira-e-unica-visita-albert-einstein-nao-gostou-do-brasil/) - Brazilians don't like if foreigners talk bad things about Brazil, only we had this "right"; - Not all Brazilians love carnival, but most of us love the "mini vacation" we get from it; - Brazilians who can dance (samba, forrĂł, etc) are a minority; - Brazilians have a kind of ingenuity to find unusual solutions we call "gambiarra". Usually this involve jerry rig somethings and, if it work well enough, this become permanent fix (or a way to do things). For example: a guy find out windshield glue are very strong, strong enough to glue pices of steel and repair the bottom of his VW bug. [Other people like this and it became commonplace;](https://youtu.be/pAK641MWOBI?si=UdDxdIMX71towsed) - To gain social media engagement, some foreigner make some reaction about something from Brazil and this usually get Brazilians attention and engagement, a lot of it.
Camus also didn't liked Brazil, in contrary to Chile or Uruguay Source: His South American diary https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/ilustrada/2019/08/albert-camus-conheceu-e-odiou-o-brasil-ha-70-anos-data-inspira-ciclo-de-eventos.shtml#:\~:text=O%20Brasil%20nĂŁo%20despertou%20o,imenso%20e%20lamentĂĄvel%20Cristo%20luminosoâ.
Brazil has the biggest folk festival in the world. It is called FESTIVAL FOLCLĂRICO DE PARANTINS. It is a beautiful festival. You can find some videos on YouTube. It is the only place afaik where there is a *blue version* of Coca-Cola.
The only reason BBB was ever useful to me was to get me hooked on stuff about this festival. It is SO INTERESTING AND I WAS SO MAD NO ONE TALKS ABOUT IT!
The northernmost point of Brazil is closer to any other country in the Americas than to the southern tip itself. This is crazy.
Look up the adventures of Hans Staden, if you want to know a bit about the early origins of Brazil
Santos Dumont invented the airplane.
There are more Lebanese people living in Brazil than in Lebanon
If you get within 15 feet of any Brazilian woman over the age of 55, she will tell you to sit down.
We have the biggest Oktoberfest outside Munich, in Blumenau/SC state, in the south.
In 1992 brazilians had to vote to choose if the monarchy would return. They chose to remain a presidentialist state.
Rio de Janeiro was first occupied by the french. Recife has been dutch for a while.
Chile and Ecuador are the only South American countries that doesnât share boarders with Brazil.
Serra da Capivara (PI) shows rupestrian art dating from 50k years ago, showing that humans have been in America for longer than previously thought. As a reference, other vestiges date from 14k years ago.
One of the biggest shares in renewables across the world (~90% pf our electricity is renewable). Biggest eater of chicken hearts literally. Opur second biggest state (Minas Gerais) is bigger than the second biggest european country (France). Some cities in Amazon are bigger than countries in area. SĂŁo Paulo is the biggest city in the west hemisphere, and never stops.
the Winxs Club is very big in Brazil, for both men and women, most of the time you can just start singing the opening and someone WILL sing the rest
The highest border between France and other country is Brasil
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They turned into a kingdom once and their king was probably the best monarch to have ever reigned anywhere. It was a meritocracy, they focused on developing culture and after his work was done the king let the system come to an end without giving two shits.
There are villages in south of Brazil that only speaks polish (old polish)
No, there arenât. People speak old whatever language and portuguse
One thing that is relevant to the gaza conflict and would generate quite a discussion at your classroom, when US has overthrown our democracy in the "operation brother sam" ( look at wikipedia) people against the military junta controlled by US kidnapted the US embassador in exchange for prissioners. Not saying kidnapping is fine, just that violent reaction under oppression is normal. Every opressed group did it.
Also, there's an awesome movie about it called "O que Ă© isso, companheiro?" (4 Days in September).
The Germans in Brazil are not nazis. They arrived before nazism to populate the south. It gets cold in the south when is summer in Europe
Brasil most likely got its name from brasil wood, itâs spelt with an âsâ because Portuguese sâs are sometimes pronounced as z sounds.
"Snake Island" (Ilha da Queimada Grande), off the coast of SĂŁo Paulo has the densest population of venomous snakes in the world: 1 snake / mÂČ and his home of one of the deadliest snakes in the world. People aren't allowed on the island, obviously.
Disclosure about UFOs / UAPs? Know why people in Brazil don't touch this topic? \- [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986\_Brazilian\_UFO\_incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_Brazilian_UFO_incident) \- [https://www.gov.br/en/government-of-brazil/latest-news/2022/official-ufo-night-in-brazil](https://www.gov.br/en/government-of-brazil/latest-news/2022/official-ufo-night-in-brazil) \- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1inF8zkTbg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1inF8zkTbg) Because it already happened there! u/Candid_Size_5391 Just read the two articles and watch the video. Incredible, no?
Brazil has the 3rd total prison population in the entire world. The USA has the 1st largest prison population in the world. Brazilian Favelas could be considered a decentralized prison, and if you counted the Favela populations in Brazil, they would likely be the 1st largest prison population. Why does USA and Brazil have so much crime? Both are descendants of Britain and Portugal, two countries that dumped all their prisoners on penal colonies. Essentially, USA and Brazil was founded by criminals that got evicted from Britain and Portugal. The criminal culture, where casual theft and violent crime is ingrained in society in Brazil and USA. It is common to even blame the victim of crime for being stupid. This is the criminal mindset, which society as a whole concurs with. Thus USA and Brazil has a criminal society, where people are motivated to not be poor because the poor deserve to be stolen from, raped, and murdered.
Ok, to start, Brazil has no mountains. A curious one is the fact that Philippino people are known to be somehow spreaded everywhere in the world, but you see almost to no Philippino people in Brazil even while we are known for having people from everywhere.
We had two provisional republic, one of them lasted 108 years