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Brazilian Postal Service encourages sending letters to Pope to reduce financial crisis

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On June 12, the official website of the Brazilian Postal Service published the report " Letters can be sent to Pope Francisco ". The publication cites the commemoration of Pope's Day, which will be held on June 29, and asks the Brazilians to send letters to the pope. In the website, the company informs the Pope's address in the Vatican and offers (for payment in local currency), the international services that can be used, such as aerograms and telegrams. If Brazilian Catholics start to send millions of letters annually, the company expects to raise enough money to pay its debts. By sending 1 letter to the pope, each Catholic can help the Postal Service double the volume of letters, considering 2016 data. Although the 2010 IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistic) Census registered 12.2% reduction in the number of Catholics, Brazil remains the largest Catholic nation in the world. According to these dates, 64% of the population make up this rel

Brazilian city distributes giant backpacks to students and becomes a joke

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The city of Jequié, Bahia, became famous in social networks after distributing giant backpacks to the students. There are almost 18,000 students from public schools in the city, who received backpacks of the same size: both elementary school children and high school adolescents. After the delivery of the school kits in Jequié, in a short time the big backpacks viralized on the internet as a meme. It all started with a picture of children with almost the size of the bag. The bags are so large that a student entered inside his backpack and published a photograph, giving rise to jokes with Brazilian social programs. "The children have already secured a backpack to live in. My Home, My Bag!" wrote a Twitter user. View a tweet about the case: other: other:

Burger King launches grilled hot dogs in Brazilian stores

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After the USA, Brazil became the 2nd country in the world, where the fast food chain Burger King started to market hot dogs. Since May 7, the Burger King stores offers the classic hot dog (bread, sausage, ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise and straw potato) and an enhanced version with bacon and cheddar. The hot dog definitely goes to the official menu after being sold in the country by a trial period. In 2016, some stores in the interior of the São Paulo state, already sold the product (Campinas was the first city to sales the hot dogs of Burger King). The new product has a suggested price of BRL 7.90. The combo, which in addition to hot dogs comes with french fries (or onion rings) and soda in the free recharge system, costs BRL 22.90. According to the marketing department of the company, prices may vary according to the region where stay the store (on the periphery you will save more). Unlike the hot dogs already marketed by local fast food chains, the sausage used in the recipe w

Man is arrested robbing bidets

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A man knowed as Paulo Gusmão (and popularly known as Pagulha) was arrested doing a strange crime. After creating a taxi-bicycle system and setting up a strip club stocked with non-alcoholic beer, he persist in the dream of becoming a wealthy businessman. On May 18, he was caught stealing 20 bidets from a building materials deposit in the city of Santo André, more precisely in the neighborhood of Jd. Oratório. According to Pagulha, the objective was to set up a "car wash" for the prostitutes of Dom Pedro II Avenue, but he was without capital to start the new venture.

Students intoxicates teacher with rat poison in Bahia

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Which teacher never gained a gift or even a snack from your student? The gesture simple and affectionate almost resulted in the death of teacher Ednalva Souza, victim of a poisoning. The suspects are three boys between the ages of 7 and 8, their students. Ednalva is a teacher of the 2nd year of primary education at Educandário Santana Amorim, at Aiene Miranda street, in the Floresta Negra neighborhood, where the event happened last Friday. One witness reported that, Ednalva received a stuffed biscuit containing chumbinho, a Brazilian poison used to kill rats. She was taken to the Roberto Santos Hospital, where she has already been discharged. According to the communication office of the Health Department of the State of Bahia, the teacher was admitted to the unit with signs of poisoning. But the dose was considered small, it went through a stomach wash and was released the same day.