Hello and welcome to the very first episode of No Such Thing as a Fish Presents the World Cup of Facts

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We're gonna be pitting each country playing in this year's World Cup against each other to find out who the most quite interesting is and we begin with Brazil versus

Croatia

I got a fact about Brazil. You want to hear it? Yeah. Okay, there's an island in Brazil

It's the size of Buckingham Palace Gardens, but it contains more than half a million venomous snakes

Wow, yeah, you want me to go there with you?

That's in favor of Brazil being a better country

Don't go there

Well, I mean doesn't it have the great flora and fauna for instance of of which this is a mostly fauna

But they can't be that as far as I know the most venomous snakes in the world of the top 10 all 10 are in Australia

So they haven't got particularly ruthless venomous snake. Yeah, but I think

The animals in Brazil have got to be top of their list of great things, haven't they? Yeah

Well parrots I have a lot of parrots right because it was the country is named after a Brazil tree

But initially Italian merchants called it the land of parrots due to the number of parrots that were there. Yeah

But yeah, so okay, so they've got parrots what else they got there they have

piranha those little fish that bite you that everyone else calls piranha

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The Kayapo people of Brazil they have a writer passage called Hornet fighting

Where men climb up ladders and assault hornets nests with their bare hands

What is the purpose of it? Why? I think to prove that they're men

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