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Interesting Facts about Brazil

Trivia, oddities, and curious tidbits about Brazil.

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13 curious facts about Brazil.

When a child loses a tooth the mother tells me to throw my tooth outside and say “Lovely birds, dear birda, take away this tooth of mine and bring another one to me.” The birds only take clean teeth so they must brush their teeth every day.
When a child loses a tooth they may throw their tooth out of the window onto the roof and say “St. John, St. John, take this rotten tooth and give me a healthy one.”
The first European expedition to explore the length of the Amazon took place in 1541.
There are 12 million abandonados, children without parents or homes, in Brazil.

The city of São Paulo has the world's largest Japanese community outside of Japan.
The Brazilian soccer team is the first team to win the World Cup four times: 1958, 1962, 1970 and 1994. Brazil has more professional soccer teams than any other country in the world.
The greatest soccer player who ever lived is Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known as Pele, a Brazilian, who scored more than 1200 goals during his career and led his team to three World Cup championships. He made his international soccer debut at the age of 16. At 17 he played for Brazil in the World Cup Soccer Final, scoring two goals in the 4-2 win over Sweden.
Some of Brazil's main cities have night schools for the poor which teach, feed and provide medical care for children.
In Brazil, the Government Indian Agency documented 175 different Native languages and dialects.
During Carnival, each samba school parades through the downtown streets showing off its own costumes, dances and rhythm sections. The samba schools compete against each other and prizes are awarded for the best song, costume and dance.