Portal:Brazil/Did you know
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...that the most visited museum in Brazil is the Imperial Museum, located in the town of Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro?
...that the name Rio de Janeiro means "river of January" and is an allusion to the fact that the Portuguese first entered the Guanabara Bay, where the city now is, on January 1, 1501 and thought that it was a river?
...that in Brazil (and other nations) Santos Dumont, not the Wright brothers, is regarded as the inventor of the modern airplane?
...that in the 18th century Ouro Preto, in Minas Gerais was the largest city in all the American continent because of its diamond and gold trade?
...that Brazil was the first country in the world to have fully electronic elections?
...that, although Brazil is officially the fifth largest country in the world, its territory is larger than the continental United States (the fourth largest), as well as the added areas of the continental US, Hawaii and 2/3 of the state of Alaska?
...that the city of São Paulo is the only city in the world to have a control tower exclusively dedicated to monitoring helicopter traffic?
