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The Most Useless Trivial Thing you Know


Lany Freelove Cassandra

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Brasil is the only country in America that speaks Portuguese. Because of the naval expeditions, Portuguese is the official language of various african countries, and some other in Oceania (can't remember which ones).

The even cooler trivia on the root of this is that Spain and Portugal divided the world amongst them with the help of the Catholic Church in the Treaty of Tordesillas (?) in the 15th century. They basically drew one line dividing Brazil from the rest of Latin America and another one somewhere in the Pacific or so. Therefore Spain got most of the Americas, Portugal got, besides Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Goa, Macao. I would have to look up where the Philippines went to (but this thread is only for stuff I know without looking it up), but the line was probably between mainland Asia and the Philippines and they went to Spain.

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