Portal:Brazil/Did you know/3

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• ...that the Brazil's 1838 Balaiada uprising was named after the job of one of its leaders, a basketmaker?
• ...that Lytocaryum weddellianum, an endangered species of palm trees endemic to Brazil, may be saved from extinction as it has become a common potted plant in Europe?
• ...that France Antarctique, a short-lived French colony, was not in Antarctica but in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil?