Brazil has their own version of Miss America. Miss Bumbum Brazil pageant is an annual competition for the best butt in the country.
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If NYC were its own country, and the NYPD was its army, it would be the twentieth-best-funded army in the world, just behind Greece and just ahead of North Korea.
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Rio de Janeiro was once capital of Portugal, making it the only European capital outside of Europe.
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More books are written, published and sold per person per year in Iceland than anywhere else on the planet. One in ten Icelanders will become a published author in their lifetime.
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In France, there's a place called Y.
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Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur means "Muddy River"
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France's capital Paris means "the working people".
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