The Top 5 Interesting Facts of Brazil

Top Five Interesting Facts About Brazil

Today's blog will also have the some interesting facts about the Country Brazil. Brazil is Known as the richest country in the water resources and second is Nepal. Also the country is known for the footballer. But there is a lot more than just legendary football players through this blog i will give some of the interesting fact that some will know but not all. 

The five most interesting facts that i have found and researched about this country Brazil which is The world's Fifth largest country by both landmarks and population. This is one of the small facts and here are the top 5 facts for readers-

1. Sao Paulo- Elected Rhinoceros the city council 

This things wasn't happened in any country in the world but Brazil did it. In 1959, a 5 year old Rhinoceros named Kakaako won seat with nearly a hundred thousand votes. This fact remains an interesting one and some criticized for this election some supported. 

2. Brazilian Prisoners- Read and Cycle

This is the another facts that the Brazilian Prisoner Read and cycle inside the Jail. Some of the Brazilian Prisoners due to over crowded Prisons in Brazil has implemented programs like redemption through reading which allows convicts to shave off weeks from their sentences through reading classic literary works and writing critical reports on them. Another program was to peddling on stationary bikes that generated electricity to power local street lamps.

3. Dolphins and Fisherman Relations

You will be amazed by listening to this that the Dolphins and Fisherman Works together in Southern Brazil to catch the fishes. The Dolphins are helping the fisherman in Southern Brazil since 1874 without any formal instructions. The Dolphin signal nearby Fisherman with head and tail slaps on delay a sweet spot for them to last their nets. This phenomenon remains mystery, nobody knows why they help to Fisherman??

4. Rio de Janeiro- Capital of Portugal 

The Rio de Janeiro was the once the capital of Portugal long before it was announced as the first South American city to host the Olympics. Rio has quite unusual identity crisis as the national and state capital due to the Napoleonic wars. In that period of time, Portugal's new capital was established and the historical milestone made Rio the first European Capital to ever exist outside of Europe.

5. Sao Paulo- Ad Free City

This city is Ad free. But we know sometimes ad also annoying part but are generally something we tolerate but Brazil's most populated city Sao Paulo doesn't have Ad. On September 2006, the City Mayor Hobart Oka Saab passed the clean city law which outlaws all forms of outdoor advertising including posters and stores banners. Nearly about 15,000 banners were removed after the laws have been enacted.

There are many interesting facts about this Country but the most interesting that i found were listed above and i hope you will also be surprised by reading these facts about Brazil and You will be amazed.