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...that the French car Simca Vedette (pictured) was first marketed as a Ford and later manufactured as a Chrysler in Brazil?
...that Polyandrococos, a genus of palm trees endemic to Brazil, is so named partly because of its hairy tomentum?
...that only about 10% of Brazil's water resources is located in the Southeast Region, the agricultural and industrial heartland of the country, where 73% of the population resides?

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