1. Rio de Janeiro has 56 miles of beaches
Flickr/Alex Schwab
2. Corcovado, the mountain on which Christ the Redeemer sits, is over double the height of the Shard
Flickr/Rodrigo Soldon
3. A person from Rio de Janeiro is known as a Carioca
Flickr/Leandro Neumann Ciuffo
4. Christ the Redeemer is considered as one of the modern Seven Wonders of the World
Flickr/Mike Vondran
5. Copacabana beach hosted the world’s largest rock concert when the Rolling Stones played to over 1.5 million people there in February 2006
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfuFSHUeExc
6. Rio de Janeiro will be the first South American city to host the Olympics
Flickr/Jorge from Brazil
7. Rio de Janeiro is the most visited city in the Southern Hemisphere
Flickr/Mike Vondran
8. The first explorers arrived on 1 January and assumed it was the mouth of the great river so called it River of January or Rio de Janeiro
Flickr/Brian Snelson
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