Rio de Janeiro was once capital of Portugal, making it the only European capital outside of Europe.
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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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Japan's capital Tokyo means "Eastern Capital".
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The flag of the Philippines is flown with the red stripe up in times of war and blue stripe up in times of peace.
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Sociologists have found the worse the economy, the longer the women's skirts are and the better economy, the shorter the skirt.
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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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Singapore means "Lion city".
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