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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:

While Rio de Janeiro breathe the Olympic Games, it seems that not every resident of Rio has been taken by the spirit of the Olympics. One example was the Brazilian Juliana Lima, who gave a testimony in her account of Facebook and eventually became the target of criticism, jokes and compliments. According to the post of Juliana, a foreigner with a shirt printed with the US flag, approached her asking, in English, how to arrive at the Botafogo subway station. She  continued the dialogue in Portuguese and he asked if she couldn't speak English. Juliana replied that "dominated" the language, but the correct was speak in Portuguese, because they were in Rio de Janeiro. Quickly, Juliana's post became a phenomenon in Facebook (and, of course, in Twitter). The main criticism for the girl's reaction was the fact that English is usually the exhaust for any tourist anywhere in the world where there isn't known the local language. Even the Brazilians when vis...

Deputy car parked in bike lane The bike paths are gaining more space in the streets of São Paulo and at the same time, the irregular use of exclusive lanes for bikes is also growing. Ride around the city and find parked cars and motorcycles or traveling by red bands is common scene. In addition to conscientization, one of the reasons is the not application of fine to the offenders. Biker is caught traveling on bike path Recently, a cyclist photographed a car used by State Representative Milton Vieira (PSD) parked in a bike lane in downtown São Paulo. Image was shared by thousands of people on Twitter and Facebook. After the repercussion, Milton Vieira made a video to apologize, said it was cyclist and blamed his chauffeur.  This isn't the first case. In 2014 a driver photographed an official car of the town hall traveling over a stretch of bike path and a few minutes later, the same car was traveling by an exclusive bus lane. Another ...